The City of Houston’s Transgender Task Force met at the TG Center on November 22 to identify strategies for addressing the the cause of the high HIV infection rates at its roots. The next City Task Force meeting will be held on November 12 from 7 to 9 PM at the TG Center.
More Info:
The City of [...]
What follows is a recient email that went out to folks who were likly to find themselves facilitating a meeting. If you feel that you would like to facilitate a meeting at the TG Center, please come to this training.
Hello!
If you are getting this email, it is because you are either a current group facilitator [...]
The TG Archive has acquired 4 new additions to it’s reference library. They are:
“Transgender Organ Grinder” by Julian Semilian and Will Alexander, 2002
Julian Semilian’s poetry engenders itself in the crawl-spaces between
language and proto-language, between his two languages, Romanian and English, between what might be translated and what never will, between poetries in an alert critical state. – Andrei [...]
The TG Archive has acquired 12 new additions to it’s reference library. They are:
“Orlando” by Virginia Woolf. Inscribed on inside by hand: “Susan – Sweet, gentle woman - You’ve touched me. Happy Birthday. Love, Barbara 1977“
Virginia Woolf described “Orlando” as “an escapade, half-laughing, half-serious; with great splashes of exaggeration, ” but many think Woolf’s escapade is one of the most [...]
The TG Archive has acquired an original 1968 Persian newspaper titled, “Noir Et Blanc” (Black And White) in which the case for “you are your chromosomes” is made. While this line of reasoning has been thoroughly discredited as being the defacto means by which sex is deduced, this article describes the then cutting-edge technology of [...]
The TG Archive has acquired an original 1957 LP of Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano from a dealer in Prairie Village, Kansas.
Acquired on 10/24/2008: Original 1957 Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano LP – Front Cover.
Billy Lee Tipton (born as Dorothy Lucille Tipton, (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz pianist and saxophonist. [...]
Magnus Hirschfeld
During the infamous “Night of the Long Knives,” Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science was raided and destroyed by Nazis. Writings on sexology were burnt. Both clients and sexologists were persecuted. Hirschfield, the father of modern-day sex reassignment surgery (both MTF & FTM SRS) and gender studies died two years later in exile. The Institute was the first [...]
The City of Houston held a cultural training session at the Transgender Center in Houston, Texas on October 20th, 2008.
Several panelists spoke to a packed house on cultural diversity issues. Approximately 60 individuals came out to learn more about diversity focusing on HIV risk-reduction in GLBT populations. Many of the attendees were from faith-based, community-based and university-based organizations.
Attendees taking their [...]
What follows is a recient email that went out too folks who were likly to find themselves facilitating a meeting. If you feel that you would like to facilitate a meeting at the TG Center, please come to this training.
Hello!
If you are getting this email, it is because you are either a current group facilitator [...]
Recent Comments