Trans awards to return
The controversial Tranny Awards are back this year for a second running, with nominations now open.
The inaugural 2006 awards created a stir in the community, with no person or group sacred. This year’s categories for nomination look no different.
Sure to surprise and entertain, Trans Melbourne Gender Project spokesperson Gabriel Thomson said the awards this time around are looking at the more positive.
-œThe awards are a joke with a serious edge, he told Southern Star.
-œThe last awards were really just for the community to vent and let off a little steam. Now we’re thinking it should be a little more serious and try to balance some of the negative with the positive.
Thomson said this year organisers had removed the category -œBest Example of Simultaneous Racism, Sexism and Transphobia from A -˜GLBTIQ’ Perspective after receiving complaints.
According to the website the awards will celebrate the -œjoys and difficulties of trans/queer existence with a -œdash of glamour, an ounce of piss-taking, and the serious need to out the crappy transphobic institutions that make our lives hell.
As controversial as ever, the site says the awards challenge conservative elements of the GLBTI community.
-œWe challenge the conservatism of the pink champagne circuit, where the same -˜community leaders’ parade around, year after dull year, Thomson said.
-œWe challenge the skewed representations of the queer media, for whom the latest Anthony Callea single is more important than trans and queer people living with poverty, discrimination and violence.
-œWe challenge the fallacy that there is a GLBTQI community in which we are all equal.
info: The awards will be held at Dante’s in Fitzroy on December 13. Nominations are now open online. Details: www.genderproject.net.au/trannys/
oh, bobby. how refreshingly and exceptionally well-informed you are.
i feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know that, as a trans man, my masculinity is so respected by the likes of you. likewise, i’m pleased to see you recognise the well-known tendency of trans people (transvestites, if you’d rather) to keep loud moths as pets.
thanks for the article! just one thing – gabriel should be referred to using masculine pronouns (he/him). if you could fix that up it would be great.
Small edit: Gabriel Thomson prefers masculine pronouns, thanks. (in ref to 4th para)
Who really cares what they think, these people are a bunch of straight men who decide that it’s time to be woman..
How offensive to all those woman who fight male patriachy to have to put up with a bunch of loud mothed tranvestites!