If Candy Darling were still with us, she would celebrate her 80th birthday this November. But the trailblazing actress died of lymphoma at age 29 in March 1974. Now, 50 years after her death, there’s ...

Author Cynthia Carr's upcoming book, 'Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar' draws from unprecedented access to her private diaries and personal papers Jack Mitchell/Getty Captured in celluloid by ...

If it wasn’t love at first sight, it was certainly fascination. I spotted him one afternoon in the East Village. Pale-skinned and thin, in an oversized trenchcoat tightly cinched at the waist, he ...

Many would assume that a song about the transgender experience would have been taboo or seldom discussed back in the 1960s. However, in 1969, the same year as the Stonewall Riots, The Velvet ...