It sounds like an old Maury episode, but it's actually the subject of this week's column, an eye opening romp with promoter/DJ Michael Formika Jones (who's also been known as drag goddess Misstress Formika).

Formika told me told me the above scenario happened to him.

He was dating a guy, who one day surprised him by expressing an interest in transitioning.

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Marsha P. Johnson was the transgender performer and activist whose body was found in the Hudson in 1992, the police deciding it was a suicide, as various observers reacted in deep suspicion, certain there was more to the story.

Well, the case has just been opened again!

A transsexual activist named Mariah Lopez tells me she got someone at the Manhattan D.A.'s office to assign someone to look more closely at what really happened.

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I'm one of the talking heads in Pay it No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson, the documentary about the legendary performer/activist whose life and mysterious death are still being dissected--though Marsha's resonance grows stronger every minute.

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Here's the hilarious promo for the upcoming stage show which will feature Peaches Christ as Trannibal Lecter and Sharon Needles as Buffalo Jill.

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Lorena Xtravaganza died in a mysterious fire and her friends are doubly sad--for her loss, and for the coverage.

A New York Times article quoted a mechanic saying, "For a man, he was gorgeous".

Well, she wasn't a man. The transsexual stunner was a woman. (At least the rest of the article explains that she was born male and refers to her as "she" throughout.)

Another quote reveals that Lorena supposedly had her ribs removed to make her waist skinnier.

Not sure exactly what that might have to do with her death!

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Jenna with Barbara Walters. Photo: ABC

Jenna Talackova is the beautiful contestant who was originally disqualified from Donald Trump's Miss Universe Canada pageant because she's a transsexual.

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Marsha P. Johnson was the transsexual activist and entertainer who bedecked herself with flowers as she fought for rights and tried to scare up money, whether through prostitution or by befriending people she hoped would be as bighearted as she was.

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Rashaad Ernesto Green's absorbing Gun Hill Road has Esai Morales as an ex-con returning to the Bronx to find his son (Harmony Santana) is now a burgeoning transsexual who uses the girls' room at school.

After the screening at Newfest last night, Green said he discovered the affecting Santana when he saw her working an AIDS prevention booth at the Queens Pride Parade.

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Sort of the West Coast version of Amanda Lepore, Glamorous Monique was recently spotted at Amanda's Highline Ballroom concert, pursing her pillow lips and posing (for I'm not sure whom) all throughout it.

She's really something.

And she'll gladly show you her pendulous bosoms, and maybe even other parts.

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Renee -- the fascinating documentary by Eric Drath which is playing the Tribeca Film Festival -- recounts the story of Richard Raskin, who in his 40s, had sexual reassignment surgery and emerged as the world's most controversial tennis star, Renee Richards.

Renee's troubled son later called this an incredibly selfish act, seeing as he felt betrayed and abandoned.

But Renee became a lightning rod for the public's feelings toward transsexualism and helped move society forward on that topic, while enduring all kinds of jeering opposition.

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