When Brother and Sister Became Sister and BrotherJeena Bloom wasn’t surprised when her brother Felix came out as a trans man. But when Jeena came out as a trans woman, their relationship took on a new dimension.
What Life Is Like for Wives of Trans WomenFor trans women, arriving at a new gender is cathartic and thrilling. For the women they married when they were living as men, it can be wrenching.
Michelle Phan: The Beauty DirectorNow she has a Lancôme endorsement, her own makeup line by L’Oréal, a national commercial for Diet Dr Pepper, and more.
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Lupita Nyong’o, From Unknown to ‘It’ Girl in Less Than a YearSince 12 Years a Slave, she’s become one of the faces of Miu Miu, filmed the upcoming action-thriller Non-Stop with Liam Neeson, and watched live from her hotel room as she was nominated for an Oscar.
97 Minutes With Alexa Chung “I play guitar a bit. I’m trying to learn drums—I feel like I can play violin. I’ve never tried, but I just feel like I can.”
Very Legal: Sex and Love in RetirementFor the elderly residents of Flushing House, finding one’s soul mate is something of a quaint notion. Mating, however, is not.
The Do-OverHow Happy Endings lived up to its name.
They Know What Boys Want“I wouldn’t mind if they said ‘Send me a picture of you.’ But it’s like the way they ask for it. Naked?” An after-school conversation with girls […]
A Homeless City in the WoodsA crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a […]
Gender BenderMore women are drinking, and the women who drink are drinking more, in some cases matching their male peers. This is the kind of equality nobody […]
Punk Like ThemChasing a scene that no longer exists, they’ve created one of their own. A night out with the East Village’s summer street kids.
L’ObsessionOnly one thing stands between Alain Ducasse and world domination: New York. Now he thinks he’s finally figured us out.
3. Because We Proudly Harbor Illegal ImmigrantsGo ahead, call us a sanctuary city. We take it as a compliment. There are 2.9 million immigrants living in New York today, more than a third of […]
The East Hampton Chain-Saw IncidentA swastika-loving 16-year-old, a Latino classmate, a bottle of vodka, and a power tool. The battle over immigration gets ugly in the shadow of w […]
The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High SchoolResearchers find it shocking that 11 percent of American girls between 15 and 19 claim to have same-sex encounters. Clearly they’ve never observ […]