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There’s a really great charity auction going on right now, with proceeds to benefit Outfest:

Bid now for the EXCLUSIVE opportunity to tour the award-winning Pixar Animation Studios!

These studios are NOT open to the public, but the winning bidder can bring up to five guests for this experience in Emeryville, California!

Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy Award-winning computer animation studio with the technical, creative and production capabilities to create a new generation of animated feature films, merchandise and other related products. Pixar’s objective is to combine proprietary technology and world-class creative talent to develop computer-animated feature films with memorable characters and heartwarming stories that appeal to audiences of all ages.

http://www.pixar.com

Bid now!

http://www.charityfolks.com/cfauctions/auction_bid.asp?auctionid=13967&catname=Celebrity+&+Hollywood&mcid=18204

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Here’s the flyer for an upcoming event I’m hosting: a screening of one of my favorite trans-themed films of all time! We’ll also be showing a quick clip of Queens at Heart, one of Outfest’s film restoration projects this year.

Please share this flyer with anyone who might be interested!

Wednesday, November 19 6:30pm Absolut pre-reception 7:30pm screening

MA VIE EN ROSE

Dir. Alain Berliner, 1997, France/Belgium/UK, 88 min.

Ludo, a sensitive child assigned as a boy at birth, does not identify as a boy and hopes for a miraculous transformation into a girl. Ludo’s family soon realizes this isn’t a role-playing fantasy. Conflicts with teachers, neighbors, friends, and each other culminate in a moving, hopeful ending.

We’ll be having a cocktail reception before the film, so come a little early, enjoy some delicious Absolut drinks (or water for you teetotalers), and enjoy a really lovely film that’s even better on the big screen! Two important films in our community’s history, and a party! What’s not to love?

American Cinematheque at The Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028

$7 Outfest members

$10 non-members

Tickets available at the door or via http://www.fandango.com

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Come down to Arena tonight for the Miss Bienestar 2008 pageant! I will be there rockin’ my new Dolce & Gabbana glasses sent by my supercool fan Tracey! I’ll post some pics tomorrow.

On October 20, the Arena Club in Hollywood will welcome the most beautiful and talented transgender women in the Los Angeles area. Like years before, the beauty pageant will culminate with the crowning of a new leader within the transgender Latina community.

http://www.bienestar.org/Calendar/Details.asp?eventID=91

MISS BIENESTAR 2008

Mon, October 20

8 PM - 11:59 PM

at Arena Night Club

6655 Santa Monica Blvd.

Hollywood, CA 90038

Price/Precio $10 Reg/$50 VIP/$175 Mesa VIP

Age/Edad 18+

Contact/Contacto

BIENESTAR Hollywood 323-660-9680

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Loyal reader Michael sent me some nice gifts, including these cool buttons!

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More photos soon, but we had a great ‘Remember Me In Red’ fundraising event last night at a beautiful home in the Hollywood hills. They could still use your help, though, so if you want to support a great film about and starring Latina trans women, check out their site and donate:

http://www.remembermeinred.com/donate.html

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Hundreds of trans people donating thousands of dollars! This feels like another huge year of momentum for our community!

The Transgender Community and Allies Support Obama:

http://www.actblue.com/page/trans

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I’ll be hosting a special screening of Ma Vie En Rose on November 19, and we’ll also be showing a quick clip of Queens at Heart, one of Outfest’s film restoration projects this year!

If you haven’t seen this, it’s my favorite film about gender-variant children, funny and sad and delightful and fabulous all in one!

Wednesday, November 19 6:30pm Absolut pre-reception 7:30pm screening

MA VIE EN ROSE

Dir. Alain Berliner, 1997, France/Belgium/UK, 88 min.

Ludo, a sensitive child assigned as a boy at birth, does not identify as a boy and hopes for a miraculous transformation into a girl. Ludo’s family soon realizes this isn’t a role-playing fantasy. Conflicts with teachers, neighbors, friends, and each other culminate in a moving, hopeful ending.

We’ll be having a cocktail reception before the film, so come a little early, enjoy some delicious Absolut drinks (or water for you teetotalers), and enjoy a really lovely film that’s even better on the big screen! Two important films in our community’s history, and a party! What’s not to love?

American Cinematheque at The Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028

$7 Outfest members

$10 non-members

Tickets available at the door or via http://www.fandango.com

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Filmmaker Hector Ceballos is working on a new film and is looking for people who can support the project. It’s called Remember Me in Red. He writes:

I am fundraising for my thesis project which is about a transgender woman named Alma Flora who dies and the conflict that occurs before her burial. Her best friend Fidelia arranges a tribute to her friend’s life as a woman, but when the family arrives unexpectedly from Mexico they make the choice to bury Alma Flora as a man. My lead is Mariana Marroquin. Maria Roman of Trantasia fame is playing Alma Flora.

If you’d like to support the project, there’s a fundraiser on the 18th. Email Hector for details

http://www.remembermeinred.com/

Hector Ceballos

Director

323-547-4167

Hope to see you there, and if you can’t make it, I hope you’ll join me in supporting this film!

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The GLAAD blog has a great writeup of the transgender community’s contributions to the Obama campaign, by Mik Kinkead, GLAAD’s Transgender Advocacy Fellow.

Thanks to Helen Boyd and Caprice Bellefleur for all the work they did on this, as well as our allies at Stonewall Democrats and Obama Pride! From the Obama Pride website:

Obama Pride is honored by the enthusiastic support of so many in the transgender community and we congratulate all the participants…for their huge success!

Let’s keep the momentum going! As Hellen Boyd said, let’s make the trans community go “from being politically invisible to politically viable.”

Full article:

Transgender Voters Gain Visibility in Politics

The Transgender Community and Allies Support Obama:

http://www.actblue.com/page/trans

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Trans for Obama Month is chugging along! We passed 300 donors this week and are closing in on $14,000 raised! Amazing!

Let’s keep it going! Please consider making your voice heard!

http://www.actblue.com/page/trans

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