Welcome to the November 2004 edition of The Tranny Tribune. Again, it's another busy one.

In this issue we welcome our biggest celebrity interviewee to date - Ru Paul. We also unveil our new TrannyChat chat Audio and Video Chat Rooms.

There's also a report on Richard O'Brien's Transfandango Ball which was THE spectacular event of the tranny year with guest appearances from Kylie Minogue and Jake shears from Scissor Sisters!

If you are a regular Trib reader, you've probably noticed that we've been experimenting with various layouts over the last few months. This particular style has been prompted by information we gleaned from The Great Trannyweb Survey of 2004 (still running) which suggested that some of our other layouts didn't fit people's screens very well. Hope this is an improvement.

There have been so many changes over the last few weeks. If you haven't logged in for a while, please come and visit us now.

Hugs, Katie xxxx

NEW AUDIO AND VIDEO TRANNY CHAT ROOMS

At last, having spent about 18 months putting up with substandard chat software, we are now finally able to boast having the fastest, most feature rich tranny chat rooms on the web!

And not before time - we were getting a reputation for rickety chat rooms that were so unstable that if more than 6 or 7 girls were chatting at once, the whole server would crash.

The old rooms were also terribly slow and wouldn't work properly with Apple Macs, Netscape, Opera, Unix, AOL, in fact nothing other than Internet Explorer and even Windows users had problems. It was a nightmare!

We saved and saved and now (several thousand dollars later) we are able to offer you an amazing chat experience. It's so fast you can hardly keep up.

We've had to lose the personal pictures but you can still see what people look like by checking their profile page. The tradeoff is well worth it though.

Now you can start your own rooms, share files, use your mic for audio chatting and / or use your webcam for video chat.

This is without a doubt, the single most important feature that we've introduced recently.

The new chat rooms are open to all members, although some of the major bells and whistles, like video chat, will soon only be available to our Full Members. We have to pay for it somehow!

Please feel free to try out the new TrannyChat rooms

Kylie and Jake get down at Transfandango

Guests included the likes of Kylie Minogue and Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters, Funny man Mel Smith and Nikki & Murray from Never the Bride.

The cabaret kicked off with a Spooky Spectacular by the WayOut Girls. The Mark Gilbert Orchestra was joined by the very cool Cole Page and Miss Georgia plus celebrity singer Jonathan Wrather from Coronation Street and the sexy swing sounds had the crowd on its feet straight away

Richard O'Brien and Mark Owen of Take That fame, auctioned sensational items and revealed the raffle winners as the coffee cups were topped up. Richard was then joined for a rendition of "The Time Warp" by Jake Shears (Scissors Sisters) and Nicki Been (Never the Bride).

A wonderful evening was had by all and much money was raised for the Wallness Children's Charity at Manchester Children's Hospital. Looks like it might all happen again next year, in which case perhaps we'll book a Trannyweb table!

Thanks to everyone who sent in an entry for our Trannyweb Poetry Competition. The standard is very high indeed which makes Donna Lace's role as judge quite difficult.

We were hoping to bring you the result of our but due to unforeseen circumstances, the winner will now be announced in the next edition of The Tranny Tribune. The winner will receive a Trannyweb Sterling Silver Pendant.