Los Angeles Trans Woman of Color Killed on Skid Row

By: Cleis Abeni A 32-year-old transgender woman of color was shot and killed Wednesday at approximately 1:20 p.m. within the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, according to local news station KABC-TV. Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Times that the shooting took place in the 500 block…

An All-Transgender Modeling Agency Is Coming To Los Angeles

By Jamie Feldman | July 28th, 2015 Transgender supermodel Andreja Pejic may soon be getting a whole modeling agency’s worth of competition. Thailand’s leading Apple Model Management announced it will open an all-transgender modeling agency in Los Angeles this summer. Filmmaker Cecilio Asuncion, whose 2012 documentary “What’s The T?” followed the lives of five transgender women, will head up the…