Calpernia Addams is also a professional tranny. However, unlike the other pros, who are successful at something other than their trannydom, Ms. Addam’s only claim to fame is apparently her transsexuality. Like Donna Rose, from her drag queen days in Nashville to her Transamerican Love Story on the GLBT LOGO cable channel, her life is defined by it…now and forever. Paired with Andrea James, Ms. Addams is very good at self promotion…Deep Stealth Productions harks the wares perpetually.
Calpernia bills herself as a “memoirist” (she wrote her autobiography), armed forces veteran (for the first Gulf War), activist (GLBT issues) and actress, (an assortment of efforts, all of which are GLBT oriented…one her YouTube videos, Bad Questions, has over 900,000 views, though to put that “fan base” more in perspective, the comments on the clip say way more about her than the film, check the clip and the comments out HERE). The long and short of her, no pun intended, is that she was a drag queen (In typical form, Ms. Addams prefers to call herself a “showgirl”…a rose, by any other name is still a rose) who, while preop, fell in love with a soldier, Barry Winchell. After the two’s affair became common knowledge, Winchell was subsequently, and most tragically, murdered by two of his fellow cohorts in a heinous hate crime. And, Calpernia’s light began to shine…brightly. On her website, she states that:
“To say that I decided to launch my media career by participating in coverage of Barry’s death is just plain wrong, and nowadays I only assume that when someone makes these implications that they are specifically trying to be hurtful to me.”
Nevertheless, no one but the Nashville area GLBT had ever heard of Calpernia Addams, the author, singer, actress, and “showgirl”, before the death of Barry Winchell. Showgirl, or drag queen, or author, or actress, or singer, or opportunist, Calpernia Addams has never been newsworthy primarily because her realm has lain within the GLBT…until now.
As I’m sure most of you know, Calpernia Addams has recently been afforded a blog at the Psychology Today site. You can read the first post HERE.
Once again, classic transsexuals will have a dyed-in-the-wool transgender out front. Another “out and proud” professional tranny will be expounding on the world according to the GLBT.
Simply splendid.
Another train wreck.
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I presume your use of “tranny” pretty much indicates that you have difficulties accpting that people are people, most particularly that {trannies” are people?
Well, like anuses ….
So, what might you have thought of Rudy Guiliani’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination? Grabbing for higheer office than a big-city mayor on the deaths of a few thousand people?
Or Ronald Reagan’s entire political career based on being a super-annuated B-movie actor?
What about Pat Robertson’s and Jerry Falwell’s taking advantage of successful ministerial positions and television send-in-money shows to become arbitors of political correctness?
I think if you check your “facts” you’ll find that the making of “Soldier Girl” and some of the “fame” derived from it wasn’t due to Ms. Addams’ “hawking” herself,
Andy Jackson was a fairly unknown miltary man until he “won” a battle after the signing of a peace treaty had been concluded. The he became president.
What exactly would be a moral reason in your mind that someone would take advantage of publicity thrown their way to make a living?
Perhaps having a little visited blog at WordPress that gets a visitor because the writer chose to try to smear someone whose name was recognizable?
Sorry, dear. I’ve read Matt Drdge and you are no Matt Drudge.
Best to you.
Guiliani? I think your take on Rudy is pretty accurate. He appears to be the consummate politician; the electorate pegged him as such and he failed.
Reagan? You’re even more accurate. He just happened to have come along to take credit for the collapse of a USSR that would have self-destructed anyway.
Robertson and Falwell? I didn’t and don’t care for either of them. Once again, your assertions are correct as far as I’m concerned.
”check the ‘facts’” I didn’t say that the making of Soldier’s Girl was due to Ms. Addams “hawking” herself. I did imply that some feel she capitalized on the issue to promote herself.
moral reason…take advantage of publicity It is much easier to address the inverse of your question. If someone profited from committing a violent crime, to me, that would be an immoral act. The court system seems to agree. It is quite common for judges to prohibit criminals from profiting from the crime they were convicted of.
Now, relative to your presumption, you assume wrong. I attempted to transition twice (at 19 and 31) before finally succeeding roughly ten years ago and am post-op. I have no difficulty at all accepting that people are people or that ”trannies” are people. I do have great difficulty with those who perpetuate the myth that classic transsexuals are somehow associated or related in any way with the GLB and I abhor the GLBT in general. When the Stonewall Riots occurred in 1969, the “turning point of the modern gay rights movement”, there were some states that already recognized the legitimacy of post-operative transsexuals – in my case, Louisiana in 1968 – and allowed one to change their birth certificate…and they did that without any help whatsoever from the GLB. In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, the modern gay rights movement and particularly the GLBT construct has done nothing but delegitimize classic transsexuals ever since; the GLB issues are not the issues of classic transsexuals…we do not need the GLB and never did. I don’t sanction professional trannies that are unable or unwilling to make the jump from transsexual to just female (or male) speaking for me as though we are all the same with GLBT being every other word out of their mouth. Classic transsexuals need to stand on our own.
I reference everything I say with a link to the source, in this case, to the subject’s own web site.
If you don’t like my blog, don’t read it, I could care less.
Spreading venom over the Internet is a self destructive and futile endeavor. I do detect a lot of anger and self loathing in your post. I suggest you try some of this .. it’s cot free and non-fattening …
http://video.server.dhamma.org/video/intro/vintro.htm
Holy Mother of Virginia Prince, Zepar…not self loathing! Say it isn’t true.
(You gotta love the transgender and their use of self loathing…and homophobic…and transphobic…and internalized hatred…it’s their ultimate insult. The fact that many simply think that entire movement is ridiculous doesn’t seem to dawn on them.)
Susan, it is called “projection” in the psych field…..you assume everyone who disagrees with you in some fashion does so for the same reasons you identify within yourself.
Taken to politics, Karl Rove perfected around the same time the current crop of trans-activists did, a form of political projection in which you brand your opponent with whatever you are doing to them…..
Good blog.