The NEW PinkEssence!

You may have been wondering why I have not been so active here on my Blog. Well, I've had a lot going on in my life right now and a few projects as well.

In 2006, I started PinkEssence. A humble Yahoo group with the aim to be nothing more than way for me to communicate with my new transgendered friends locally here in North East Ohio. However, it wasn't long until the group grew a large following, so I decided to give the group some purpose.

In the winter of 2007, I organized my first GNO (girls Night Out) at a little club named Lydia's in Akron Ohio. Lydia's was an LGBT "choose your label" type of bar - perfect for many first time out shy TGirls. I organized many more GNO's after that and also some outings to theater shows, Dinners and even BBQ's at my own home.

Thinking more about it, I decided to start a chapter for each state and see if they would grow. I meant people Like Leigh Symthe from IL, Debbie Dunkle from VA, and Melissa Pink (now Alexander) from WV. These girls were the first peopel to really believe in PinkEssence adn really helped it to grow to what it is becoming today - a nationally know Transgendered social group.

After transition, everyone thought I would just walk away from PinkEssence. Others (Especially my Post-Op Peers) thought PinkEssence was just a Cross Dressers group. So, I set out to find away to bridge this gap and bring PinkEssence into the year of MySpace and FaceBook.

Using the NING Network, I designed and set up a new site for PinkEssence to be a fully operation Transgendered Social Network. (See Photo).

The sight has many of the bells and whistles of FaceBook, but without all the clutter of FaceBook.

I invite you to take a look at the new site. If you have tried PE before when it was a Yahoo group, then do yourself a favor and try out the new site - I think you will be surprised!

Anyone can set up a network or a website... but I put my name and my reputation on PinkEssence. I have traveled to conferences, stayed up late night online helping many people in the groups of PinkEssence, and even invested my own personal time and at times, money too, into getting PinkEssence to grow. So to have others like the ladies I mentioned above.

It is my goal to bring the transgendered community a site that is classy and ran with common sense and from the heart, and not as a business. True, it does take a little money to run it - but again, members of PinkEssence have never failed to setup and fill a need when the call was put out. We have a small donation button on the front page - but it is NEVER required EVER from anyone to ever offer anything.

I built the site and reputation of PinkEssence as virtual "Hug" to the community that I love, and call my family...

You can access the new site at: www.PinkEssence.com