Posts Tagged ‘America’s Next Top Model’

Tyra Banks Loves LGBT Community, Self

Has Tyra earned an award from the LGBT community?
Later this month, Tyra Banks is set to receive a GLAAD Media Award for "Excellence in Media" for her work with the LGBT community on the Tyra Banks Show and America's Next Top Model. Last year, Banks famously paid for ANTM contest (and D.C.-area local) Isis [...]

Tyra Banks Gives Gift of Sex Reassignment

Tyra Banks is prepared to grant transgender America’s Next Top Model contestant Isis King the gift that keeps on giving: An all-expenses paid sex reassignment surgery. Banks will surprise King with the gift on her show tomorrow, US Weekly reports. King, the first transgender individual to compete on Banks' model show, hails from Prince [...]

The Morning After

* Local transgender America's Next Top Model contestant Isis King tells the NY Post about her future goals: "[Gender reassignment surgery] is still something I need to do. Financially I haven't saved up more money since the show. And because I haven't been working, I've been living off my savings. But hopefully the jobs will [...]

Local Transgender Woman Will Not Be America’s Next Top Model

Isis King, the first transgender woman to compete to be America's Next Top Model, has been booted from the show, The Advocate reports. The 22-year-old King, "a pre-operative transgender woman," was the fifth of 14 finalists to be eliminated this season. King's exit [...]

America’s Next Top Model Judge to Address Congress on Cute Issue

Nigel Barker, British photographer and frequent judge on Tyra Banks reality television program America's Next Top Model, will address members of Congress today on the slaughter of baby harp seals. Barker, who memorably said of one would-be Tyra, "if conceited drag queens are 'in', she's got a shot at being America's Next Top Model," counts [...]