“Candy” Is The First Transsexual Fashion Magazine
Posted by: Leonora Epstein
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style
11:20AM, Friday November 13th 2009
The fashion industry may have a long-standing tendency to exclude certain groups and cultures, but more and more we’re seeing this change as people begin challenging the status quo. Now the transsexual community is getting a voice with a new style publication. Billed as “the first transversal fashion magazine,” Candy has just debuted its premiere issue in a limited-edition circulation of only 1,000 copies. The indie publication doesn’t reveal too much through its main online information source, a Facebook fan page, but its official statement explains that the mag is “completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations ... CANDY is a magazine for everybody. A space for individual freedom, and a publication that pushes people to take on the persona of what they always wanted to be.”
Check out the amazing behind-the-scenes video of the cover shoot of some seriously made-up drag queens, after the jump! Now we’re dying to know more. Where can we get our hands on a copy? [Candy‘s Facebook Page]
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Lavanderism
wrote on November 13 2009 @ 12:29 pm: [report]
This could be interesting.
There are things I cannot admit to the people in my everyday life and one of those things is that I appreciate a well made-up Transvestite.
<3
MariaMaria
wrote on November 14 2009 @ 03:02 am: [report]
Thats an amazing photograph. Really beautiful. And good marketing strategy, releasing only 1,000 copies. Good job Candy!
ginasf
wrote on November 17 2009 @ 11:34 am: [report]
Um, Leonora, next time you write about issues like this, you may want to review your terminology. Transsexuals do not equal transvestites (and the term transvestite has been mostly replaced by the more current term “cross-dressers.”) Transsexuals = people whose brain sex (internal total gender identity) doesn’t match their physical birth sex. Crossdressers = people who situationally gender express (such as clothing) as another gender but still maintain their (usually male) identity which is congruent with their bodies. This magazine seems to totally be about drag queens, which is what some gay men do for theatrical fun (they still identify as gay men). All the people mentioned in their premiere issue are all about drag. Ironically, Candy Darling, who this publication seems to be named after, was a pre-op transsexual woman, NOT a drag queen. Dear, the transsexual community is no more connected to drag than you are. If I want to know about fashion, I read Marie Claire, not a rag with a bunch of gay men making themselves up for a photo shoot.
Battybattybats
wrote on December 8 2009 @ 11:05 pm: [report]
ginasf,
Despite bigots in all subsets of the community trying their best to erase history and draw artificial lines of discrimination between them Drag, Crossdressing (still often referred to as transvestism without stigma in the U.K.) and transsexuals are all connected. By at the least a shared oppression, shared fight for civil rights and shared history, with all fighting side by side in the Compton Cafeteria and Stonewall civil rights riots.
Many and in my experience most crossdressers have a bi-Gender Identity rather than a male one. Including most Gay and Lesbian and Bisexual crossdressers I know. For many of them Drag is not theatrical but simply another word for crossdressing.
The Sex and Gender Diverse (S&GD;) community is still throwing off the biases (often tacitly encouraged or demanded by medical gatekeepers and other groups) against different parts of its own community as well as old excuses of justification for doing what we do and being who we are.
I hope this magaine does well and manages to show the diversity and common connections between all facets of the Sex and Gender Diverse community.