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Sunday, April 17, 2011

TRANSVESTITES – CHICKS WITH DICKS

Some can fool the most discriminating eye…they are that good.

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In the United States transgender and transvestites have not exactly been widely accepted. We have always as a culture treated this as an aberration, an anomaly that has the shameful implications of HOMOSEXUALITY and ABOMINATION because our Puritan heritage.

Notwithstanding, the culture has dabbled in the past decades with cross-dressing and it has been widely accepted. One example of this, and one of the earlier ones was Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dressed as women portraying the characters of women musicians traveling with an all female band. Their predicament was that they had to do it in order to get away from the gangsters.

Then we saw later on during the heyday of “The Flip Wilson Comedy Show” the appearance of a very funny character of his making: GERALDINE. Flip Wilson had so much success with this character that some of the lines that Geraldine uttered on the show became part of the everyday vernacular like “THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT”.

We had much later that wonderful comedian and actor Dana Carter in “Saturday Night Live” bring to life the prudish and hilarious character “THE CHURCH LADY” This too brought into the vernacular several lines from the show like “VERY CONVENIENT”.

There have been others that have successfully portrayed women in films like Dustin Hoffman in “TOOTSIE” and the movie ran away to the top of popularity.

When a few years later, the genius of Robin Williams is put to use in a serious film that just about floored everyone: “MRS. DOUBTFIRE”.

There were others that followed and some achieved limited success, perhaps because of the nature of the theme, like John Travolta in EDNA TURNBLAD IN HAIRSPRAY,

A history of actors in drag -- We look back at memorable performances from Charlie Chaplin, Dustin Hoffman, Tim Curry, and others

By Tanner Stransky | Dec 08, 2006

For almost as long as there have been men and women, there have been men dressing as women. The Greeks kicked it off, donning womanly masks when the theater was deemed too unseemly for the real thing

1914-15 Just as he picked up a hat and cane for his Little Tramp period, silent-film comic Charlie Chaplin went femme in The Masquerader, A Busy Day, and A Woman.

1948-55 Milton Berle's self-titled, vaudeville-style show made him TV's first star. Uncle Miltie would also be proud to be remembered as the original Nip/Tuck.

1959 On the lam from the Mob, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis hid in an all-girl band in Some Like It Hot — but these ''ladies'' were no match for Marilyn Monroe!

1970-74 Flip Wilson's sassy Geraldine paved the way for dress-donning African-American men like Eddie Murphy (The Nutty Professor) and Martin Lawrence (Martin).

1975 Tim Curry's Dr. Frank-N-Furter was the ''sweet transvestite'' of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which launched a lifetime of midnight drag-alongs.

1982 Dustin Hoffman got the girl — and an Oscar nomination — by becoming Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie. Stuff that in your nylons, Tom Hanks (Bosom Buddies)!

1982 A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman? Only Julie Andrews could pull it off with such grace and style in Victor/Victoria.

1990s RuPaul rose from NYC's clubs to become a world-class drag-queen supermodel, introducing straight men everywhere to the term ''You better work!''

1994-1995 Cross-dressers went cross-country, spreading outrageous, life-affirming messages in 1994's Aussie-set Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and 1995's To Wong Foo...

2005-Present Oprah-approved Tyler Perry brings Madea, a gun-toting, wisdom-dispensing old woman — think Mrs. Doubtfire, only edgier — to the big screen.

2007 The movie's director may say he's ''not in drag,'' but Travolta had best be campy in Hairspray or we'll be aching for a return to Divine in the 1988 original and Harvey Fierstein (2002-04) on Broadway!

And this brings us to the present where we see the super tall, statuesque Rue Paul achieving the pinnacle of success with his own show about drag and competition. It is refreshing to see how a man with more balls than Genghis Kahn can pull off such a role.

However, other cultures are far more accepting and the society they live in is not as repressive and judgmental. Such is the case of Thailand, perhaps the most visible and more popular of these places with their LADYBOYS (katoeys) where the gender lines are so blurred that these cross-dressers can fool even the most discriminating eye.

Their acceptance has extended to having very popular, world-wide reaching beauty pageants like Miss Tiffany Universe Transsexual Beauty Pageant

Miss Tiffany Universe has grown from a local contest and recently become an international phenomenon. Organized yearly in Pattaya, one of the world’s most infamous cities of hedonism, Miss Tiffany Universe Beauty Pageant is the nation’s biggest transvestite beauty contest. This year the final round of Miss Tiffany will be held at the Tiffany Show Theater, Pattaya II Road and will be broadcast on national television on 15th May from 8.30 pm – 00.30 am.

This wonderful acceptance has even been carried to more traditional areas such as aThai airline recruiting transgender flight attendants

By Jutarat Skulpichetrat

BANGKOK | Thu Feb 10, 2011

BANGKOK (Reuters Life!) - A new Thai airline is hiring transsexual ladyboys as flight attendants, aiming at a unique identity to set itself apart from competitors as it sets out for the skies.

Known as "katoeys" or "ladyboys," transgenders and transsexuals have greater visibility in Thailand than in many other nations, holding mainstream jobs in a variety of fields. They are especially common in cosmetics shops or health stores, which almost always have a ladyboy shop assistant.

PC Air, a charter airline set to start operations on Asian routes in April, originally planned only to hire male and female flight attendants. But it changed its mind after receiving more than 100 job applications from transvestites and transsexuals.

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T AN OBSERVATION: Take note you intransigent Evangelical radicals – The sky over Thailand is still as blue, sometimes they even get rain clouds but it hasn’t fallen. The earthquake and tsunami that Japan just endured should have been for Thailand if one is to go by Evangelical criteria.

The people of Thailand remain as amicable, noble and relatively happy and they are not judgmental or prudish. What you are in Thailand is what you are and it is not subject to scrutiny.