As most people are aware the LEEDS L.G.B.T. scene lost a great worker ambassador and vice chair of the LEEDS PRIDE committee recently much has been written already and the huge show of good wishes and sympathy seen across the city shows how much was thought of DARRELL HIRST. 

On Saturday his funeral took place at the LEEDS PARISH CHURCH and DARRELL INSISTED no one wears black, well i honestly have never seen such a wonderful funeral service the congregation laughing at his antics on DVD, the parish church choir receiving a standing ovation after singing Proud Mary. Christianity definitely met the 21st century I suggest we invite them to perform at Leeds pride 2011.

TRANS WORLD NEWS

LIZZIE Cundy is going from WAG to drag. Her pal, Hollywood wildman Mickey Rourke, asked Lizzie to appear in his next film as a transvestite.

Mickey, 58, is starring in a biopic of gay Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas, 36.

Lizzie, 42, said: “I don’t know whether to be flattered or insulted. It does sound rather odd.”

One day someone may get an actual T GIRL to play a T-GIRL!

NEW STATESMANS FRANK SKINNER QUOTE " Years ago, I went to Sweden with Eddie Izzard to do gigs. He was a transvestite but he hadn't yet talked about it on stage. He said: "Let's make a pact -- I'll talk about being a transvestite and you talk about Catholicism." I said: "No, because people in the modern world are much more accepting of transvestism than any kind of religious belief." Knowing about science and being an atheist is what's cool now”

FANCY A CAREER IN RETAIL IN THE U.S.A.?

The world's biggest supermarket chain, W**mart, is being sued by some of its female employees because of sexual discrimination and "gender bending"!

It seems that W**mart prefers 1st: hetero males; 2nd: gay men, 3rd: transvestites 4th: lesbians, 5th: And right at the bottom of the pile, hetero women whilst searching for candidates for promotion.

Several mums who have spent their working lives at the giant supermarket feel they are being passed over firstly by less experienced hetero/gay men, lesbians and even transvestites.

Enough is enough and now the women are suing them, one of the women involved gave the following interview to Jaggedone's CIA (cockroach infiltration army) reporters, Marks Woolies-Spencers, here his report:

"We are being discriminated against because W**mart don't like heterosexual women, they prefer any type of man, gays, transvestites or even lesbians because they can't have babies and then demand time off, now we're going to sue the crap out of them!" 

W**mart deny any form of "gender bending" discriminations, but do admit to enjoying all spicy varieties of life as long as they can't get pregnant!

The actor Alan Cumming has been explaining the lengths he had to go to in order to prepare for his roles as a transvestite called Desrae, in the UK TV series The Runaway. It's not just the dresses and makeup, there's a whole other world of pain out there.

Speaking on the Fern Britton show on Channel 4, he said: "I think it's probably quite a good thing for every man to have to do that at one point, just to see what girls go through."

"I decided to go with this [cream] called Veet, or Nair. You put it on and it dissolves your hair off. Disgusting. It smells like a rancid, radioactive pool. It makes all the hair just disappear, like a torture thing."

And this from the man who had to endure hours in the make-up chair in order to play blue-faced Nightcrawler in X-Men 2.

He went on: "And then you've got to keep loofah-ing all the time otherwise you get ingrown hairs. You saw my bum, so I had to do it everywhere. Desrae is smooth as a baby's bum. That was bad." 

"Even things like the clothing was very restrictive and uncomfortable and I had acrylic nails painted on."

Brilliantly, there was some respite from the makeover madness, in the form of a brief televisual dip into his own family tree, as Alan explained: "In the middle of filming, I came back to Britain to do that Who Do You Think You Are? show for the BBC. When I see the show, it's so funny because I have no body hair at all and I'm actually quite hairy, but I was there like a plucked chicken."

Normally we'd be trying to think of something witty to say here, but if you don't mind...might just have...to...lie down for a bit...

Ladies, is he making too much of a fuss? Tell us here.

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TV REVIEW THE RUNAWAY

Sky 1 brings Martina Cole’s gritty crime novel The Runaway to the screen, with the  a six-part drama, which will star a liberal smattering of British talent including Alan Cumming, Joanna Vanderham and volatile relative new-comer Jack O’ Connell. And lucky devil that I am, I’ve got my hands on the first two episodes for an early review.

If you haven’t yet come across any of the pre-release marketing, the official Sky synopsis goes like this:

East London kids Cathy Connor (Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (O’Connell) dream of a brighter future. But their hopes are shattered when Cathy is sent into care and then compelled to run away and forced to survive on the streets of Soho. Befriended by colourful transvestite Desrae (Cumming), Cathy grows up in the heart of London’s underworld, while Eamonn is drawn into a life of crime and ultimately flees to New York. As London’s red light district sinks into the sleaze of the 70s, and the IRA, police corruption and industrial strikes dominate the nation’s mood, Cathy and Eamonn are drawn back together, only to discover that their past is not far behind. Burn Gorman (Torchwood), Kierston Wareing (The Take), Max Irons (Dorian Gray) and Mark Womack (Liverpool 1) also star in this unmissable six-part drama.

More showbiz news

In a recent interview with the Telegraph, Tony-winner Alan Cumming went on the record about his current and hopefully future projects. Cumming shared: "I want to do a production of Macbeth where I play Macbeth one night and Lady Macbeth the next - and the girl who plays Lady Macbeth will change around too. I think it's a way at looking at gender, what defines a man."

Currently starring as a transvestite in 'The Runaway' he commented on the project: "One of the reasons I wanted to do The Runaway was I'd just started playing Eli Gold and so I was playing this repressed man in a suit. All of a sudden I got an offer to play a transvestite in this operatic gangster series. And I just thought it would be the opposite end of the spectrum."

MEET THE ANCESTORS!!

It has taken five thousand years, but it appears a caveman has finally been able to come clean on his sexual orientation.

According to archaeologists, the way the "gay caveman" was buried suggests he was considered more effeminate than other male peers, the Daily Mail reports.

The skeleton of the early homo-sapien was recently unearthed during excavations in the Czech Republic, and is believed to date back to between 2900 and 2500 BC.

Experts say during that period, men were traditionally buried lying on their right side, with the head pointing towards the west, alongside weapons, hammers and flint knives.

In this case, the man was on his left side, his head facing west, and surrounded with household jugs, not weapons — usually symbolism reserved for women.

The team carrying out the dig said because of the layout of the grave, it was likely to indicate the person was a transvestite or "third gender", which is sometimes associated in Western Culture with being gay.

The late Stone Age man was also buried with an oval, egg-shaped container, usually associated with female burials.

"From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," said lead researcher Kamila Remisova Vesinova.

"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transvestite. What we see here does not add up to traditional Corded Ware cultural norms."

Another member of the archaeological team, Katerina Semradova, added: " We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic."

LEEDS PRIDE 2011

the first meeting of the advisory group took place last week and the theme for this year is to be GLITZ AND GLAMOUR also donations are already been accepted anyone wishing to post a cheque please make it payable to LEEDS PRIDE and addressed to 60 upper basinghall street Leeds 1 fundraising has already started at some venues and we need around £30,000 to hold the event so dig deep please

Hopefully we may have pride wristbands on sale soon watch this space you’ll get all the news on gayleeds.com

LOVE AND KISSES TO YOU ALL

Apart from the ttttttttttttttttttttttt"£$ who put my car window through this week!!! Which has now backfired on them big time I can’t wait to move house now xxx