Candice if you want to know.

i did my nails yay

2011-11-04T08:50:00.001-07:00

Nothing makes u feel more girly then having super pretty nails

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More from Halloween 2011

2011-11-02T09:31:00.000-07:00

this halloween was a blast although the only thing is i didnt get to see my babe most of the night because she was throwing a big halloween party here in sacramento that i attended. i had fun getting ready got my eye brows waxed and did my nails and shaved, gosh i love the feeling of being completly smooth and sliding on a pretty little outfit over my soft body. as you can see in my pics i chose to be little red riding hood it was a very flattering costume and with tape in all the right places i even had some pretty good cleavage going that night (check out the pics :-)). of course like every halloween there is a lot of guys hitting on me and one pretty presistant and just to get him away i had to tell him i am a guy and that he may be barking up the wrong tree lol. i love the attention as a girl when people look and see and think about how hot you are both guys and girls even if they know i am a guy but they still cant beleive it. so anyways it was a great night and here are some more pics form the event my wife is the one dressed in the white shirt and slacks she was jo calderone (lady gagas male alter ego)

Halloween was a blast

2011-11-01T08:44:00.001-07:00

More to come later but i thought u would like to see what i was for Halloween

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Dresses i want

2011-09-08T09:17:00.000-07:00

I love shopping for new dresses. especially when i find cute and sassy ones like this. i work right upstairs from the jessica mcclintock store and in there window they have these dresses that i wont so bad... what do you guys think? do you think they would look good.

celebrity look a like

2011-09-07T09:27:00.000-07:00

i dont know if this is a far fetch or not, but i have been told i look like Selena Gomez. what do you think.

i cant wait halloween is coming soon

2011-09-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

i dont know what i should be this year so many options out there. i have been snow white, alice form alice in wonderland, and a french maid the question is what will i be this year. i am thinking possibly a sexy girl scout, maybe a school girl, little red riding hood. will you guys let me know what you think i want to know your feedback of what you think i should be. put in your own ideas as well i would love to hear them

Feeling Girly?

2011-09-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

if you are feeling girly give into it and enjoy. dont rebel against yourself just to make others happy. yes in times you may not feel exceptionally girly but in the moments that you do embrace it and love it. paint your nails or do your eye brows play with new hair styles or new make up techniques. i know this next one may be shocking to you but pee sitting down

enjoying a nice day out

2011-08-31T13:30:00.000-07:00

i woke up this morning and as i was laying in bed, thought to myself i think i want to spend the day in the new dress my wife got for me and all dolled up. ( i have been wanting to practice some new things with make up) so i did. i took a shower shaved my legs and as you guys probably know everything else that needs to be shaved :-). had a fun time putting on my make up which went pretty easy, that doesn't always happen. and put on my prettiest panties and bra set and slid my dress on. after putting on my heels i looked in the mirror and remembered y i enjoy being Candice so much. after i got ready for my day i decided to go and grab some lunch and a coffee and drive around and enjoy the sun. all in all it has been a great day off i even turned some heads.

if you wake up wanting to do something just do it yo may not have tomorrow.

and don't forget you were born this way

Here are some pics of my today

sometimes the simpliest things make u feel good

2011-07-30T14:16:00.001-07:00

I was just thinking even the smallest things like shopping for little accessories to go with outfits or underwear to wear under your outfits always makes me feel good and excited to go out again... Remember never to put that part of u to far into the corner and that u should live your true self out loud.

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its crazy

2011-07-05T20:02:00.001-07:00

Looking back on old pics and remembering those days and loving the fact i had someone to always share it with

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been going out more recently

2011-07-03T11:49:00.001-07:00

Its been such a good feeling to be out and about again. it did feel like there was something missing. And here are some new pics as well

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pretty recent pics

2011-03-18T22:38:00.001-07:00

Thought you guys would like to see some pretty recent pics

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Halloween

2010-11-23T19:08:00.000-08:00

Halloween was som much fun i went as a french maid and i thought you guys would like to see a few pics. o ya this was the first time i hung out with my twin sister as candice... she was dressed as cat women.

Easy A and my thoughts

2010-09-19T22:21:00.000-07:00

A great movie taking place amongst those crazy years of high school that ever girl goes through with a great take on being singled out and 86ed from the social excepted norm.

It seems as I sit through these movies of female teenage angst all I do is try and relate to the characters as much as I can. Being as though I went through my high school years as a varsity baseball player / prom king and every other social stereo typical senerio you could think of for a high school male one would think that it would be hard for me to relate or want to relate to the many female characters and roles that run rampent amongst these movies. but underneith the exterior that I radiated during those "amazing high school years" :-). was that girl that I always wanted to let out.

As I sit here and think back of the countless times of being envys of the girl walking in front of me in the hallways with the amazing outfit composed of a short little mini skirt and a great pair of shoes that showed off her legs so well, instead of just thinking about "banging them" words a teenage boy would use. I wish I would have had the chance to live out those high school experiances in a different way, instead of a crown a tiera instead of a pair of converse a nice pair of black stilletos. anyways I shouldn't complain being as though I get to experiance being a women now, will as close as I can experiance being a women. to you girls out there still trapped behind that 5 oclock shadow remember life is short live it the way you want to live it, in any form of life one has struggles that for some its being branded a whore for some its knowing your body isnt representing you the way you want it to. Carpe Diem

Lea Michele and Glee

2010-06-17T17:04:00.000-07:00

i love the show Glee but more i like Lea Michele. she is cute. i think i am going to style my wig like her hair

When i first started out i cant beleive its been four years

2010-06-11T08:34:00.000-07:00

here is a pic of when i first tryed to start finding my self as candice. Whats funny about that is my name I picked for myself at first was Jessica lol. ya I dont think I make a very good jessica neither did my fiance Chelsea so we desided together to change my name to Candice. anyways here is a pic from four years ago.

Out and enjoyed it so much

2010-05-24T08:07:00.000-07:00

Chelsea and I desided to go out this last wednesday. But it had been a rather long time since we enjoyed a day and and a night together as candice. So i got ready early so we could go out before night fell apon us. We enjoyed an early dinner at Hamburger Patties which is in a part of town thats not super trans friendly but everyone even the families I ran into at the resturant and outside the resturant seemed ok if they even new i was a guy... lol. Chelsea snapped a few pictures of me on the phone while we were at dinner and I will post those tonight sometime, after that we headed to the bar and met up with some friends enjoyed some drinks and headed home shortly after that. For all you boys out there who are first starting out finding them selves as women. Try going out with out drinking to take the edge off you will be surprised how enjoyable it is. I know how it is when you have a few drinks in you its a little easier to walk out those door and in to the world as a women but sometimes its hard to get the full enjoyment out of the day. take in the day completly and remember you are lucky to be able to experiance your true self. you cant be the person you want to be until you find your true north.

xoxo Candice

Goth Club

2010-05-19T16:52:00.000-07:00

new fun dress and a big black bow in my hair. it was a fun night

hi people

2010-05-06T14:42:00.000-07:00

its been a long time dont think i am gone candice is still alive and kicking just been super busy with a promotion and working all the time. i have made some time for Candice just not as much as i would like hopfully time will open up more frequently in the near future. i hope i see you people out soon have a great day or night lol

Candice :-)

Our article in More Magazine UK

2010-01-26T22:33:00.000-08:00

Here is the article of my relationship with chelsea from her perspective i hope you enjoy. Also this is the first time i am posting a picture of my boy self on my blog...

New pics 01-13-10

2010-01-13T17:47:00.001-08:00

I hope u like them

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Pics from my phone more pics coming Soon

2010-01-11T10:34:00.001-08:00

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The longest I have gone without going out in years

2010-01-11T10:30:00.000-08:00

Wow it's been since Halloween since I have weant out as Candice that's two months given life has to happen such as x Mas thanxsgiving the new year but two months with out Candice definatly effected me and Chelsea. It wasn't until this weekend we found the time to go out and cut loose and let me tell u it was greatly needed we had some good drinks and some good conversation we Even squeezed in a nice little moment of dancing at the club and in tradition finished the night at hot rods over all it was a pretty low key night but I wouldn't have traded it for anything in the world. Being two pretty girls out for a night on the town with my babe was amazing.

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Halloween

2009-12-08T12:30:00.000-08:00

was amazing we had a blast dancing and looking sexy. it was pretty crazy i have never been around so many people as candice and i dont think very many people knew i was born a guy it was a really good feeling. i cant beleive how many guys hit on me when i was there it definatly made me feel pretty. also this was the first time i met my fiances dad as candice and he couldnt have been more supportive. sorry for this post being so late i havent gon out for a while so i havent been on latly. until next time xoxox Candice

pics from halloween sorry there so late

2009-12-08T12:25:00.000-08:00

New Wig and Old and New Friends

2009-09-07T17:50:00.000-07:00

Last week my girlfriend and I noticed a couple sitting a couple feet away from us, what we noticed was this couple was much like us being that they both liked to wear dresses... this weekend i was not dressed up but still felt the need to go and talk to them because lets face it there isnt that many of us out there. we invited Necole and Vicki out this last weekend to dragalicious (a local drag show in sacramento) along with our friend jessica. we ended up not really watching the show just all talking and it was really nice listening to stories that we both related to and our significant others related to as well. after we all had more then a couple drinks we all started to relax and really enjoyed the nice environment and each others company. o ya we had to save our friend from a guy that wanted to get in her pants and was a little to presistant "he was really having trouble understanding we didnt want him around. So thank you Vicki, Necole, Andrea, Jessica, andy and chelsea for a great night out.

I promised a Pic of my new Wig so here it is... what do you think

2009-09-07T17:47:00.000-07:00

Dragalicious and hot rods

2009-08-17T10:42:00.001-07:00

Last night Chelsea and I decided it would be alot of fun to go out and watch the local drag show which spurred the two hour process of getting ready for a night out on the town, lucky the getting ready process was made a little easier because I just got brand new razors to shave with (it may be random to tell u that but I am sure u understand what a new razor feels like compared to an old one). We made it to the show early enough to have a few cocktails before it started just to get primed for the festivities ahead. I have never considered myself a drag queen or a crossdresser or any of the
many other terms out there to describe people that don't care to abide by the restraints of the gender norms but last night all I could think was how great the queens looked and performed and how fun it would be to do a show maybe even if it was only one time. This is the first time I had thought that mainly because i have always thought that drag queens had these huge personas that filt more like a mockery of women instead of creating a positive image of women which i filt I could never do. Anyways I do feel that if I could get the confidence up to do a show it would really improve my persona as a women.

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A new wig

2009-07-21T12:44:00.001-07:00

Chelsea and me just ordered a new wig and we are so excited to get it. With this wig we will be able to style it different ways. We can flat iron it or blow dry or curl it. Now u would think this is the best part about the wig but the other great thing is my girlfriends mom moon is paying for part of it for my birthday and my sister carrie also wanted to pay for part of it... Wow never in a million years did I think that would happen I am surrounded by so many people who support and care about me. Anyways here is a couple pics of the wig and remember I am getting it in a dark brown color.

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It had been three weeks

2009-07-18T10:27:00.001-07:00

Just like the title says... It had been three weeks or so since the last time I went out. Wow such a long time to not be Candice, will anyways getting back to last night. It started out decently enjoying a glass of wine and watching some tv with my girlfriend before getting ready to go out. Now we try to get ready at slightly different times so we don't get in each others way because we can get a little catty if one of us is hogging the mirror. We were finally ready to go at a about nine o clock and ready to go to one of our favorite clubs faces. We park and start walking to the club a couple guys make some comments about how nice we look and we just smile and keep walking. Once in we grabbed a couple drinks and settled in we got hot walking around the club so we decided to go outside this is were it gets interesting. As we sit there we get approached by a pretty good looking guy who was about 23 he introduces himself and started talking so I pretty much think that he knows I am a guy so I am just talking and having a good time when he really starts asking me questions and flirting with me he asked me if I was gay and I said well it's a little more confusing then that (the fact that I am dressed like a woman and am in a relationship with Chelsea but I am a man lol) and then I asked him and he said that he wasn't gay that's when I was like ummm in my head I was like I am a guy lol. He kept hinting and sayin that me and him should hang out sometime and I just kept playing it off like I didn't hear what he said. This whole time Chelsea my girlfriend is kinda laughing under her breath. After that we walked and got something to eat and made it home at about midnight because I had to open the next morning.

I think I want this dress

2009-07-13T12:10:00.001-07:00

I think it would look decent with a black cardigen

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: A fun and fabulous polka dot strapless dress featuring a lightly flared skirt with a ruffled hem, a front pintucked waist, and a smocked upper back. Finished with a wide removable waist tie. Hidden side zipper closure, unlined.
- 26'' approx length from bust to hem

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So just some random thoughts

2009-07-13T10:42:00.000-07:00

It's been a little to long since the last time I had a chance to be all dolled up. I beleive it's been close to three weeks or more. It's when it's been this long that u realize how much being trans is a part of your life. How important it is to
Out wordly express your feminine beauty and life style. Other then that I am pretty much always the same whether I am in a dress or jeans except I maybe a little more concerned on how I look as Candice. I am hoping to get a new wig soon which I hope will stouk the fire of going out. Also I will be going out as Candice in Minneapolis early august because me and chelsea will be there visiting her friends and family

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So i am just now blogging about Pride last month Sorry

2009-07-10T17:40:00.000-07:00

Pride was amazing i knew that most of the day i was going to spend as Candice out in the day light enjoying the great weather. the weather was so nice that me and my girlfriend walked to the festival, i cant lie and say i wasn't nervous walking through a un tg friendly zone in day light because i was but once we got to the festival and Chelsea insured me that i looked fantastic i finally able to have a good time. we enjoyed garlic fries and chicken strips and some really good performances and of course the beer gardens, the only thing that kind of surprised me was the sacramento tg group that was there werent very friendly to me it was very dissappointing but the sacramento gems really made me feel good to be trans "you girls are amazing." i have to say that my favorite part of the day was exactly that spending the day as candice with my great girlfriend chelsea she always makes me feel so much like a women

So I have been going to the gym and if u are trans then u know my issues

2009-07-08T16:56:00.001-07:00

Being trans and going to the gym has to be one of the crazest mind games ever. You go to the gym trying to get healthy and being trans you tell yourself "I am going to concentrate on cardio and leaning my muscles so I am not so bulky" but as u work out u seem to just continue to gain size and start looking more masculine. It sucks because u just can't help it because of the amount of testosterone we have in our body as being biological males and not on female horomones. If u go through this you are not alone and if u have any pointers please let me know. I hate being dissappointed when I leave a gym just not because I am less healthy but because my shoulders are to big for my new dress

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I came out to my boss...

2009-06-18T10:39:00.001-07:00

So me and my girlfriend went and had some drinks with my boss. After about three drinks and feeling a little buzzed our conversation started down the path of exceptance of alternate life styles. So I laid it on him, I showed him a pic of me as a girl and he said I was beautiful and that he was happy that I was able to be the person I feel I am and that I let him into that part of my life. It couldn't have gone any better than that. The night ended when he gave me a hug and said thank you

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2009-06-08T17:15:00.000-07:00

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KRXQ Sacramento Radio Hosts Encourage Violence Against Transgender Children

Even by the flexible moral, ethical, and professional standards of American talk radio, the May 28th segment of KRXQ 98.5 FM Sacramento's Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning radio talk show makes for a sickening half-hour of ugliness and cruelty. For once, the focus was not LGBT adults, but minors. The hosts, Rob Williams and Arnie States, devoted the segment in question to a vicious diatribe against transgender children, some as young as five, focusing in particular on the case of one Omaha family raising a gender dysphoric child, and their decision to support her transition from male to female.

Williams and States took turns referring to gender dysphoric children as "idiots" and "freaks," who were just out "for attention" and had "a mental disorder that just needs to somehow be gotten out of them," either by verbal abuse on the part of the parents, or even shock therapy.

"Allowing transgenders to exist, pretty soon it becomes normal to fall in love with the animals," they said.

For his part, States bragged that if his own son were to ever dare put on a pair of high heels, States would beat his son with one of his own shoes. He urged parents whose own little boys expressed a desire to wear a dress to verbally abuse and degrade them as a viable response. "Because you know what? Boys don't wear high heel shoes. And in my house, they definitely don't wear high heels.

"I'm going to go, 'You know what? You're a little idiot! You little dumbass!'" States sneered, adding later, "I look forward to when [the transgender children] go out into society and society beats them down. And they wind up in therapy."

Or dead.

In light of the well-publicized suicides this year of the two boys who took their own lives because of bullying and harassment for "acting gay" (which, in the argot of modern North American teenagers, often refers to acting in a way considered unmasculine by their peers) the stunning lack of moral sensibility on the part of States and Williams is breathtaking. But it also points to the increasingly degraded landscape of talk radio.

The causal link between Bill O'Reilly's obsessive baiting of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller on FOX and Tiller's murder on Sunday, May 31st as he was ushering in his Kansas City church, is currently being explored, an exploration particularly relevant in the case of Rob, Arnie, and Dawn in the Morning, and the potential violent fallout from their inexplicably rage-filled invective against not only transgender children, but even boys who err on the feminine side of standard adolescent behavior, behavior States and Williams consider unnatural because "men are hunters and women are gatherers."

I shudder to imagine the response of the late Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover's mother if she'd had the misfortune to hear the KRXQ broadcast.

"They were always saying [to Carl] 'You're gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl'," Sideaner L. Walker told the press in April, speaking of the dead son she had to cut down from the support beam he hung himself from after months of taunts from his peers---taunts that likely bore more than a passing resemblance to the invective used by States and Williams on their May 28th broadcast.

"I'm not open-minded once I look into sumpin'" one of the two men grunted at the beginning of the segment, their voices interchangeable. "I have every right to call you a freak and judge you on that. It makes me sick. 'Mommy, I'm a girl trapped in a boy's body,'" he simpered, mimicking an effeminate little boy. "I want to wear a dwess."

They berated co-host Dawn Rossi, who seemed genuinely horrified by the rising crescendo of ugliness towards the children and their parents from States and Williams.

"You're actually defending allowing people to become freaks?" they seethed. "A boy who wants to wear a dress is a freak. A nut." Comparing transgender children to "fat bastard kids on Maury," States and Williams urged advocates of transgender children to "stop hiding behind research and laws," whose authority they wholeheartedly reject. Braying with the certitude of the jubilantly ignorant, States and Williams revealed to listeners that "transgenders [sic] did not exist four decades ago," apparently unaware of the historical fact that transgender individuals have existed in every culture throughout recorded history, including in native American cultures where the "two spirited" were revered as teachers, healers, and shamans.

By no objective standard are dumbed-down, Wal-Mart versions of O'Reilly like States and Williams journalists. Nor are they really experts on anything other than plunging the overflowing toilets of their listeners' psyches and selling the sewage back to them, repackaged as "insight," "common sense" and "plain talk" from fake-macho blowhards hiding behind radio microphones.

One doesn't need a primer on transgender or transsexual history in order to appreciate the awesome brutality of the KRXQ shock-jocks' diatribe. All one needs is to know a child, any child. They're small, they're vulnerable, and their world is populated with gods whose divinity is derived solely from their adulthood and perceived authority.

States and Williams chose to use that authority to attack a segment of the childhood population who are more vulnerable than almost any other. Transgender children are at a point in their lives when they feel their own bodies are the enemy, and alien to them. Many of them go to bed praying that when they wake up their bodies and their inner gender will be aligned.

"If the kid ever gets to be eighteen," States snarled, "and says 'I still feel like a woman!' you say, 'Get out! Go be a freak! And understand, SON, that society will never accept you because we still have some moral judgment."

As disturbing as it has become to an increasingly enlightened segment of the mainstream American population to hear LGBT adults vilified and degraded in the media as the discussion over gay marriage and Don't Ask, Don't Tell reaches a boiling point, no one with even a passing acquaintanceship with decency could have been prepared for KRXQ's May 28th pageant of brutality towards transgender children.

Who are, after all, children, first and foremost. Trusting, innocent, and vulnerable, they ought to be beyond the reach of the violent, hate-mongering adult rhetoric that is taken for granted in American talk radio. One needs no particular sympathy for transgender people to understand the prodigious boundary transgression of promoting contempt and disgust towards children,anyone's children, on a radio show.

This should give serious pause to adults of every political, economic, and social background, whatever their stand on LGBT issues. It should be of particular concern to KRXQ's advertisers and their customers.

My little godson Michael is the light of my life. His father was a hockey player and his mother is a legendary beauty. He embodies the best of those two people to absolute perfection. It's been educational to watch his awareness of his own masculine gender assert itself in the last few years. His gender identity wasn't "learned," it came to him already hardwired, in the same way studies continue to show that a transgender child's gender is hardwired. And whatever else his struggles may be in later life, I personally doubt that gender identity is going to be one of them.

But his gentleness and his vulnerability brings my protectiveness into hyper-focus. And if he wanted to wear a dress, or told me he was a girl, my instinct as an adult would be to protect him and try to understand him.

I can only imagine the perfect horror of having someone like States as a father. But if anyone ever called my godson a "sick little freak," or a "nut," or a "freak of nature," or beat him with a shoe for being himself, I could not, and would not, be held accountable for my reaction, or my inevitable response.

I know which end of the shoe I would be on if I ever met another adult who took the official Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning child-rearing advice to heart after hearing it on KRXQ 98.5 FM Sacramento.

Pics From Second Sat Like I Promised

2009-03-17T21:50:00.000-07:00

Second Saturday in march

2009-03-17T14:08:00.001-07:00

Me and my girlfriend went out this last second Saturday in Sacramento and I couldn't believe how many people were out enjoying the beutiful night. Now in the past I might have not even gone out knowing that downtown would have had so many people out and about but deffinatly am not the same candice I was almost a year ago.

Earlier on sat we went shopping and I bought the cutest little super short black silk dress(pics coming soon) so I knew I was only going to be pretty that night but I was going to be hot.

When we were walking around downtown it was windy and my silk dress kept blowing up other then that it was really nice to feel so pretty around town with so many people around... That night I filt as hot as any girl would

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Last Night

2009-02-14T14:26:00.000-08:00

My girlfriend Chelsea, Lindsay, Mike and me all went out last night to the Mercantile, Faces and Hot Rods it was a pretty good night there was a couple if instances with this really drunk guy trying to touch my boobs and was messing with Lindsay and Chelsea as well but the security guard stopped him. anyways it was a good nite i had bought some new make up and it worked perfectly and had fun with some friends

more Black and Whites

2009-02-09T18:59:00.000-08:00

Jude Law like you have never seen before

2009-02-08T15:09:00.000-08:00

E! News Now - Jude Looks Like a Lady

Black and White

2009-02-08T14:46:00.000-08:00

Pictures from getting ready on Saturday 02-07-08

2009-02-08T14:12:00.000-08:00

MOVIES

A trend of transgender movies

A feast of transgender and intersex films are highlighted at the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival

By Chris Garcia
AMERICAN-STATESMAN FILM WRITER
Friday, August 29, 2008

Do nine transgender and intersex films make a trend? They do if they're all playing during the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Wednesday through Sept. 7.

Films about transgender characters are not as rare as you might think. A raft of contemporary features — 'The Crying Game,' 'Boys Don't Cry,' 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' 'Transamerica,' to name a few — dealt seriously with the issue. At least two entire film festivals — in Seattle and the Netherlands — are devoted to transgender-themed movies.

And now this bounty at Austin's running-strong gay and lesbian film celebration, movies that walk the tricky line between gender identification, be it physical, psychological, or both. All films screen at the Alamo Ritz. Find more information about each title at www.agliff.org.

'Manuela y Manuel' (5 p.m. Wednesday) — The star of this Puerto Rican feature is the transgender Manuela, a drag-queen performer who finds herself in a heap of difficulties, including having to pose as the father of her best friend's child.

'Trinidad' (8 p.m. Thursday) — An intimate look at three transgender women's lives in the rural burgh of Trinidad, Colo., the unofficial 'sex change capital of the world.' By Austin filmmakers PJ Raval and Jay Hodges.

'Like a Virgin' (8 p.m. Sept. 5 on two screens) — This mainstream South Korean hit blends pathos and comedy to etch a portrait of a fat, Madonna-adoring teenager who's trying to save money for a sex-change operation. Hilarity and heartache follow.

'XXY' (3 p.m. Sept. 7) — Born with an extra chromosome, Alex is an intersex teenager who was raised female in this popular coming-of-age drama from Argentina. Parents, romance, plastic surgery ... And you thought your teen years were tough.

These shorts are part of the Gender Queer Shorts program at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 7:

'Tranny McGuyver' — A trio of rookie cops creates a circus of winky satire.

'Clouded' —A young boy's journey to self-discovery hits dramatic familial hurdles.

'Simply Love' — A woman in Austria looks for a former lover, who is now a woman. Love really is blind in this 50-minute documentary.

'Diva'— Paris isn't always so lovely, as Vincent, in a blinding magenta dress, learns painfully.

'I, I and We' — Surreal identity games on the New York subway. — Chris Garcia

Obama administration reveals plans to advance gay agenda

2009-01-21T22:33:00.000-08:00

Washington DC, Nov 23, 2008 / 07:48 pm (CNA).- Citing what they call America’s “promise of equality,” the Obama administration plans to push for homosexual rights by including protections of sexual orientation, “gender identity” and “gender expression” as civil rights. His office proposes expanding hate crimes statues and the adoption rights of homosexuals while supporting full civil unions for “LGBT couples” to give them “legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples.”

The proposals are announced under the Civil Rights section of their agenda presented at Change.gov, the web site of the Obama campaign’s self-described “Office of the President-elect.”

A section titled “Support for the LGBT Community” outlines the agenda for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered activists and quotes remarks Obama made on June 1, 2007.

“While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do,” Obama said, referring to riots which followed a police raid on a New York City gay bar.

“Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect."

According to the web site, President-elect Obama and vice-president-elect Joe Biden will support expand crimes legislation such as the Matthew Shepard Act. They also back the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which they claim will “prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.”

“While an increasing number of employers have extended benefits to their employees' domestic partners, discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace occurs with no federal legal remedy,” the web site states, referring to similar legislation sponsored by Obama in the Illinois state legislature.

Regarding civil unions and same-sex marriage, the site says “Barack Obama supports full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples.”

Advocating the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, the agenda plans to “enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally-recognized unions.”

The site also references Obama’s Senate vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2006 which, in the site’s words, “would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman and prevented judicial extension of marriage-like rights to same-sex or other unmarried couples.”

On the subject of adoption rights, the Change.gov web site states: “Barack Obama believes that we must ensure adoption rights for all couples and individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation. He thinks that a child will benefit from a healthy and loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.”

The Obama agenda further advocates the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell” policy barring open homosexuals from serving in the military.

Its AIDS prevention policies also pledge to enact a “comprehensive” national strategy including contraceptive sex education and “combating infection within our prison population through education and contraception.”

i am not sure if i should call it coming out anymore

2009-01-19T20:01:00.000-08:00

So i have come to an amazing realization, that i am not sure if i am still coming out to people or if i am just being myself and people i know just happen to see me. in this last month i have "come out" to Andy my girlfriends brother my friend Jason who i have known for years and my friend anneka who i have known since i was in junior high. i am fortunate that most people have been amazingly except able of me. but i guess i am not coming out just being myself.

o wait i have to tell you about a really funny incident that happen to me a couple weeks ago. Me and a couple of my friends frequent the same straight club almost every week and i have always noticed that one of the security guards was a fellow baseball player from high school. he had never noticed me because i look so different lol. in my thoughts i always figured that if he did notice it would be really hard for him to except, well back to the story. we walk up and i am wearing a brand new beautiful silk dress and feeling super pretty thats when i notice that the usuall guard that checks IDS at the door wasnt there and it was Richard my ex fellow baseball team mate. as i get closer to him my heart races faster and faster as i reach for my id that says the name of a guy he use to hang with in high school. i finally reach him and he say hi and ask how i was doing i said fine... he still didnt know he knew me and thats when he asked for my id i gave it to him he looked at it then looked at me and looked at it again and then he said.......... dude how have you been i said good and he smiled and put on my wrist band. i think thats when i realized that being me is amazing.

P.S. here are some new pics

Lady J pop Group

2009-01-06T22:17:00.000-08:00

Lady (group)

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Lady 레이디
Origin	South Korea
Genre(s)	K-pop
Years active	2005–2007
Members
Sinae (신애) Sahara (사하라) Binu (비누) Yuna (유나)

Lady (Hangul: 레이디) was a Korean pop group, noted as the first transgender group from that country.^[1] The band consisted of Sinae, Sahara, Binu and Yuna. According to the official story, they were the best out of hundreds who tried out to be part of this band. Although only three were supposed to be in the group, a fourth was added at the last minute.

Their formation was inspired by the emergence of Harisu, a Korean singer and actress, who is also transgendered. Sinae has previously appeared in commercials with a female dance group as well as a music video by Cho PD, and Sahara is a 2003 beauty pageant winner in Thailand and a former jeans model.

Lady released their first album in 2005, consisting of only a few tracks, with many of them being remixes of their first two singles, "Attention" and "Ladies Night". There was much attention given to them by the press, given their unique status as a transgendered band in a conservative country.^[2] However, they were able to perform on Korean music shows only a handful of times, while their music and videos were not well-received. In order to drum up more publicity, they released a photobook featuring nude shots of all the Lady members; ^[3] this also failed to catapult them into stardom, however.

Lady officially disbanded in early 2007.^[4]

life has been good and i am moving out!!!

2009-01-06T21:28:00.000-08:00

I am moving downtown with my girlfriend, which is amazing! we will finally have a place of our own.

ok ok definitely a part of me is excited because i know that i am going to be able to be Candice more freely and easily. but also because i am moving out with a great girl and i cant think of anything bad that could come of it.

Also i though i would share with you the beautiful new dress i bought the other day from Express. check it out i hope you think it is hot. i love it.

Its Been a While but this is whats going on

2009-01-03T23:37:00.000-08:00

So i first want to say that i have slowly been progressing my going out as Candice, i was going out about once a week now i am pretty close to going out three times a week except for the holidays which showing up for X-mas dinner in a dress probably isn't the best thing to do to my grandmother anyways.

i have been having a lot of thoughts about society lately and i am not sure if its just me or the environment i live in, but i feel like the majority of the people in my life are very open to the idea of who i am its nice. although i have run into the the not so open minded people.

Recent and Random Thoughts and Pics

2008-11-20T22:37:00.000-08:00

So this last couple of weeks have been pretty amazing. it seems every week i am that much closer to finding out how i truly can be comfortable in my own skin. Every day makes it easier to be me and be proud to be me. Every day its easier to tell people about Candice and show them the true me.

I ran into a friend i had in school we were never really that close but when we reconnected it was nice because i wanted her to know about me. when i told her she loved it.

This last weekend i spent everyday as a women and that was amazing i have to admit i only hope i can spend more days then that in the near future.

Last week i bought the cutest black dress from H&M i don't think i could have found a better one to fit my body. you can see them in the pictures above. i have never got so many compliments on how i was dressed and how great i looked... finally i feel beautiful...

halloween 08

2008-10-31T15:59:00.000-07:00

So this was the first Halloween i spent as Candice... can you say amazing!!! the night went great of course we had great drinks and a lot of dancing but us girls all entered a costume contest and Chelsea and Heather won and i came in second place. after wards we got a couple of boca bergurs at Hot Rods and then headed home... o ya it was nice also because we met so many new people

Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet-

2008-10-14T12:21:00.000-07:00

The band playing was called Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet-, and they are a Japanese Goth Metal Visual Kei band. Zhanyi tells me: “Visual Kei is a Japanese term given to bands who wear visually stunning costumes. For the most part the bands’ costume and make-up are on the feminine side.” Feminine side? When he showed me this video, I thought everyone in the band except the lead singer was a girl.

I had NO IDEA this world existed, and it’s pretty mesmerizing. These guys are a giant bag of contradictions. It’s like GWAR meets Labyrinth meets The Tudors meets Anime. Here’s a clip from the show. Warning: lots of coy finger pointing alternating with head-banging ahead.

According to Zhanyi, visual kei bands have a common answer to the question “Why do you dress like a girl?” Simple: The chicks dig it.

Making new and developing old

2008-10-14T01:14:00.000-07:00

This last weekend I spent Two days back to back as Candice, although shaving two days in a row sucked lol I had a great time. Friday was just another night of dancing, but Saturday was amazing. Chelsea and I met up with a group of transgendered girls and we hung out for hours, I had never filt so excepted in a public environment. I had some great conversations and some great drinks and possibly developed some good friendships

another thing that was really nice was seeing other couples like me and Chelsea ie; Jessica and Michelle, and Bianca and Sarah.

each day i feel more confident about the person i am "i don't hurt myself or others with my life style choice" i am just a nice respectful polite person named Candice.

Garbage's androgyny

2008-10-05T23:22:00.000-07:00

When everything is going wrong
And you can't see the point in going on
Nothing in life is set in stone
There's nothing that can't be turned around

Nobody wants to be alone
Everybody wants to love someone
Out of the tree go pick a plum
Why can't we all just get along?

Boys.. Boys in the girls room
Girls.. Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys.. Boys in the parlour
Girls.. They're getting harder
I'll free your mind and your androgyny

No sweeter a taste that you could find
Than fruit hanging ripe upon the vine
There's never been an oyster so divine
A river deep that never runs dry

The birds and bees they hum along
Like treasures they twinkle in the sun
Get on board and have some fun
Take what you need to turn you on

Boys.. Boys in the girls room
Girls.. Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys.. Boys in the parlour
Girls.. They're getting harder
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I’ll free your…

Boys.. Behind closed doors and under stars
Girls.. It doesn't matter where you are
Boys.. Collecting jewels that catch your eye
Girls.. Don't let a soulmate pass you by

Boys in the girls room
Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys in the parlour
They're getting harder
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind

Boys in the girls room
Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys.. Boys in the parlour
Girls.. They're getting harder

I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I’ll free your…

Boys..
Girls..
Boys..
Girls..

Transgender girl found in american river in sacramento california

2008-09-26T20:07:00.000-07:00

Transwoman found dead in American River

An unidentified transwoman was found dead in the American River on Sunday, September 21st, 2008, less than a mile from the Highway 160 Bridge.

Coroner officials have identified the person, whose last known address was in North Highlands, using fingerprints, but have not released the identity pending notification of next of kin.

Initial investigation indicates no foul play was involved, but authorities are awaiting autopsy results to determine a cause of death.

The Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center is sending out emails, warning people to be careful in the area.

The Sacramento transgender community is "tight knit," according to David Nylund, Ph.D, the director of clinical services for the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center.

"It's a larger community then people realize," explained Nylund, who said the center sees more than one new transgender client a week and has a "well-attended" weekly adult transgender support group of between 20-30 people.

Nylund had scheduled a case conference meeting with the center's five other therapists to review records to determine if any of the center's clients might match the physical description of the person found.

Lester Neblett, executive director of the community center, said that the Sacramento Police Department had been in contact with the center Monday.

"The Sacramento LGBT community is deeply concerned for this person, her friends, and family," said Neblett. "The most important thing that can happen now is to determine the cause of death."

"This is the age transgender people are most at risk for violence," stated Nylund, who also is an associate professor of social work at California State University, Sacramento. "These individuals are more likely to be mistaken for young women" and the discovery that they have male genitalia can lead to violent acts against them, he explained.

"There is no doubt we need to do more to reach out to young people and to let them know they are not alone in their coming out process," said Neblett. "It can be a lonely, frightening time. We simply need to let the schools, professionals, churches, and community leaders know the center is here to provide support."

isis was voted off

2008-09-26T19:58:00.001-07:00

first off we have to give her and tyra a huge thank you for doing what they did for the community. and even though isis was voted off i genuinly feel that it was solely based off the fact that she was not up to being americas next top model. she is amazing and beautiful and so is tyra...

Soooo they finally know... My Sisters yayyyyy.

2008-09-25T21:55:00.000-07:00

Sooooo i told my sisters wow what a weight off my shoulders i feel even better now then i thought i was going to... at first i dont think they new how to take it but they have done a bunch of research and we have talked a lot and i think they finally understand the person i am. the main thing they were worried about was the posibility of loosing there brother and i had to reassure them that wasnt going to happen. i hope that soon we can all hang out. i love my sisters with ALL MY HEART Cassandra and Carrie you guys are my best friends thank you thank you thank you for letting me be me

The same place a brand new me

2008-09-22T16:26:00.000-07:00

So me and my friends use to frequent a local club here in Sacramento, basically we were there every week. we stopped going and i had only been to that club before as my male self, yesterday we filt like it would be a good idea to go back since it had been so long... the only thing that is different this time around is that i am going as the girl i always wanted to be. i dont think anyone even knew i wasn't a genetic girl even when me and my friend phil were sitting at the bar an old frined of ours came up and didnt realize who i was until i finally told him and at that time he still didnt want to beleive me, but finally he did and told me how beautiful i am and that he was happy to see me happy... it was such a good night it was a night that reasurrued who i am

coming to a realization that sooner or later everyone will know

2008-09-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

when something is a big part of who you are you stop wanting to hide it from people... i feel i have finally came to the conclusion that i really don't care who finds out i am transgendered actually i want people to know because this is who i am. the other night while i was at the mercantile having some drinks with some friends we thought how great it would be to come out to everyone at the same time so we are trying to get some type of show to do a special on us... that might be pretty extreme hopefully i can go through with it.

Rainbow Festival

2008-08-30T09:21:00.000-07:00

Like i posted in my last blog i went out on friday with all of my friends do to the fact that Sylvia our friend from Canada "aaaaa" was in town. the club was so packed and drinks were ridiculously expensive so we decided to get stamped from the club and walk over to a local bar down the street named the mercantile (the best drinks in sacramento L and 20th and is transgendered Friendly) that's what i call the best of both worlds. we all grabbed a Vodka Cran and Sylvia had a Rum and Coke and after we finished our drinks we walked back to the club to enjoy some music and dancing.

I always like when there is a big event going on at the club because it seems as if more girls come out that normally wouldn't. anywayz i over came a mile stone last night. one of our friends Ric was down the street at the Marrs Complex at a place called Azul for one of his friends 21st Birthday, and even though Sacramento downtown is pretty excepting of different life styles walking out of the safety zones for a transgendered girl is always a little nerve racking, at least i thought it would be... when they asked me if it was cool if we walked over there to say hi at first i was like i don't know... then i was like OK if i want to be this person then others have to except me. and it helped that Sylvia told me i looked beautiful. so we walked down the street and i must say i think i am pretty convincing as a women because i didn't get any strange looks even from the group of teenager skateboarders that were hangin out side of azul.

I don't think i can say this enough... Life is Good when you can be yourself around good people

Last nite

2008-08-27T10:08:00.000-07:00

Last night me and Chelsea had a nice time just relaxing and watching TV and Taking Pics of me in my New dress. and when heather got off work another one of our friends we decided it would be fun to go to "hipstick" lol i mean lipstick for some drinks and maybe some dancing. other then that this coming friday a friend is coming in from Canada and we are all going to go out for a nice night out Downtown, hopfully ending with a boca burger at Hot Rods. my friend form Canada Knows about Candice just hasnt seen her in person. i always feel a little weird talking about myself as candice in the third perosn because i feel she is me... i just wanted to add that last little thing... if you want to see more pics they are posted on my myspace

so it finally happend

2008-08-20T14:17:00.000-07:00

I have been working towards a promotion at my job for a little while and it finally happened its like the first time in my life I can take a deep breath in and relax. It seems that i don't really have to much to complain about right now, every avenue of my life has improved tenfold and i cant help but to smile............... life is good

Faces 23rd anniverary 08-15-08

2008-08-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

So the day started out pretty good I slept in and relaxed until I took a shower and got ready to go to the mall to pick out a new outfit for going out to faces night clubs 23rd b-day. as you can see in the picture. the night went great I had no nervous qualms from the time I started getting ready until the time we got home I flit relaxed and ready to have a good time. we got to the club and had a few drinks (vodka) of course from my favorite bartender, after getting a nice buzz going we thought it would be a good idea to hit the dance floor and we danced and it was so hot we had to get air so we went to the patio. I ran into a couple of my friends even one that new i dressed but had never seen me like that and she said how beautiful i am as Candice which is always nice to hear. after that a couple of my friends texts me and wanted to meet for a late night dinner after partying. so we went to hot rods. all in all it was a great night

Transgender Contestant to Compete on Top Model

2008-08-13T19:08:00.001-07:00

One of the 14 girls who will compete on the new season of America's Next Top Model – which returns to The CW on September 3 – is transgender.

"My cards were dealt differently," Isis, a 22-year-old former receptionist, tells Us Weekly exclusively in its new issue, on newsstands now.

Hailing from Prince George's County, Maryland, Isis identifies herself as "a woman born physically male."

Will she be a role model?

"I like to help people, but I'm here to follow my dreams," she tells Us.

The inclusion of Isis is being hailed by GLAAD president Neil Giuliano as "an unprecedented opportunity for a community that is underrepresented on television.

"We applaud Tyra Banks and The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible," Giuliano said.

This is Chelsea saying how it happens and how she feel's

2008-08-13T01:52:00.000-07:00

alright, i was asked to write my own entry being as i am a pretty big part of candice's life... so here it is :)

just shy of six months ago, i met one of the most amazing people i have ever met. i wasn't looking for anyone, but immediately felt connected to this wonderful boy. not only was he gorgeous, he was the sweetest thing ever. like a month into what i had already realized was going to be a very important relationship in my life, he asked me if i was good at keeping secrets... me thinking nothing of it, said "it depends on the secret" obviously that wasn't the right answer, we re-visited the topic like a week later... i was asked the same question again, and this time i answered more appropriately.... i said "yes". i was then shown a picture... a picture of this beautiful boy whom i already knew i was falling for, dressed as a girl. and the first thing that came out of my mouth was "thats hot" followed by more things like "do you do your own make-up, you are hotter then me, thats not fair" i guess they weren't the typical questions, because he was taken aback by it. asking me if i wanted to know anything, if i was shocked, etc. and the truth was that i wasn't. and i didn't know why, but i really wasn't. i texted him later, telling him again that i thought it was hot... we discussed it, and decided we would explore this side of him together....

the first time he dressed for me, i was nervous... i kept waiting for the shock, waiting to be weirded out by it. when i saw him, in person as candice, i couldn't deny how pretty he looked. and i still wasn't weirded out.

i took it all in, as much as i could. i was and am legitly attracted to him as candice. and i fully believe that if it were anyone else, i wouldn't be. but he's special, and i have racked my brain for hours trying to figure out why i feel the way i do... but there is no answer.

i decided to play it cool, be alright about it, and not think about it too much, because when i thought about it, i got confused, it was easier to just go with the flow. he told me he wanted to go out dressed, and there was no question in my mind that i wanted to be that person to go with him... after that night, which was huge for him, but also huge for me... i knew that i couldn't deny thinking about it or anything.... it was part of him, and i cared so much about him that i was going to do everything i could to be supportive and be everything he needed.

it came easy to me, because like i said, i like him as candice too. i enjoy having fun with candice, going out with her, taking pictures,picking out outfits for her, and doing her make-up. i have been told that people like me are rare, and to me that seems crazy. i love this boy, so why wouldn't i love everything about him. i have no reason to judge him, or anything else, when he does so much good for me.

my acceptance of him and of candice, has done nothing but wonders for our relationship. and now, the way i see it.. is that i am the luckiest girl ever, because i get the best of both worlds... i get a boyfriend and a girlfriend.... and really who doesn't want that??

What has been and whats soon to come for me... i hope...

2008-08-11T01:51:00.000-07:00

From wearing my sisters clothing occasionally as a kid and teenager. To dressing alone in my bedroom. To dressing with my ex-girlfriend in the bedroom wishing to get past those doors one day, thinking it would never really happen, then to abandoning Candice after breaking up with my ex thinking i would never find some one who would even kinda except me. then to finding Chelsea and building up to finally stepping out of the house and then to the local clubs and surrounding restaurants. this is where my dilemma lies... the next step. i want to start spending complete days or multiple day straight as Candice from waking up and getting ready for the day to paying bills and running errands maybe even one day going to work... i guess just wanting to be me

the girl

2008-08-11T00:46:00.000-07:00

so the person who has single handily made a huge impact on my life is a girl by the name of Chelsea. she is wonderful and caring and thing i am beautiful anyway i am. after about a month of hanging out i knew i wanted here to know everything about me, that being (that i like to be a girl). so one day i told her i had a secret and i wanted to tell her and i left it at that. after beating around the bush for about a week i asked her if she wanted to join me for some coffee at a little cafe in downtown Sacramento and she did. i had my computer there with all the pics of me as Candice so when i told her that i cant tell her my secret i just had to show her, i showed her a pic of me as Candice and the first thing she said was how hot she thought it was... right there i thought i was going to die form excitement i didn't even have words to describe how i filt. after that since i think i was waiting for so long to meet some one who understood all of me it was like a snow ball with how quick that side of me developed when i found someone to truly except me... and probably because this is who i really want to be. ever since then we go shopping and pic out outfits and shoes together and talk and have a great life as Chelsea and Candice and Chelsea and Cameron. more to come about this women and our relationship.

Dresses...

2008-08-09T13:22:00.000-07:00

The people who matter

2008-08-09T12:50:00.000-07:00

basically these are the first people i came out to and didn't judge me. these poeple will always have a special place in my heart.

Going out is it always going to be nerve racking at first

2008-08-09T12:33:00.000-07:00

i love going out i swear its the only time i truly get to relax and relieve stress in my life... but let me tell you those first three steps out of the house or out of the car towards the club is always so nerve racking... i guess the best way to put it is the storm before the calm lol. and then when you see someone you know that doesn't know that your not exactly who they thought you are its always a little funny and a little scared. but i am sure with time those nerve will go away...

Books i think you well love

2008-08-09T12:24:00.000-07:00

LeRoy rose to considerable notoriety as the teenaged author of last year's Sarah, a novel about a gender-confused kid whose mother is a truckers' prostitute. In his latest work, a rawly written, riveting series of 10 interlocked stories that read fluidly as a novel, LeRoy returns to the themes of guilt and sin in the first-person voice of a boy so viciously abused by his caretakers that he is left with barely a sense of his own identity. Jeremiah is a child nobody wants, and he passes swiftly from foster parents to his angry and vindictive teenaged mother, Sarah, to his fanatically Evangelical grandparents. Sarah, herself badly wounded by her punishing, Bible-obsessed parents, gave birth to the boy when she was only 14; she returns at 18 to claim him. "Nobody takes what's mine," spouts the foul-mouthed, pill-popping, paranoid young woman. It's soon clear that Sarah cares nothing for her son, who becomes an unwelcome tagalong on her transient cross-country misadventures in hooking louche sugar daddies, stripping, turning tricks for truckers and cooking up explosive "crystal" in one boyfriend's cellar. The boy, who begins to crave Sarah's punishment as a way of keeping his life in balance, is frequently whipped for bed-wetting and is raped by her unsavory boyfriends; his denial of his sexuality becomes a pathetic attempt to identify with his tormentor. LeRoy depicts his ill-begotten characters as tenderly as Jean Genet, and delineates their acts of sadism and self-mutilation as unsparingly as A.M. Homes. Yet the stories resist spiraling into mere sensationalism. While Sarah becomes almost cartoonish in her savagery, the characters of the trucker child prostitute Milkshake and the lumbering biker Buddy are poignantly understated. Jeremiah, conflicted, emotionally bled but never self-pitying or defeated, elicits a gratifying sympathy. LeRoy's work is a startling achievement in his accelerating mastery of the literary form. (June)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

First posting meeeeeeeeee

2008-08-09T12:05:00.000-07:00

So this might be a long one but here I go. I was raised in a very close family of five, my two sisters me and my mom and dad. We grew up in a very small apartment where i shared a room with my sisters. Me and my family have always been very open with each other which probably contributes to the person i am today. That's just a brief history of when i was young. With in this last 2 years i have finally started coming into my own and who i want to be... which some one used a phrase that made me laugh but i think it describes it the best... (the best of both worlds). 2 years ago i thought that i was never going to be excepted for who i am but i kept trying to make efforts to be who i want to be and then a couple months ago i realized that this world isn't for a complete loss but their are actually good people in this world who except me for who i am... so thank you guys i cant say that enough.