New York’s infamous Tranny Strip and celebrated promoter John Ed, along with his entire staff, are heading West to throw the 4th Annual Tranny Awards Celebration Party on Monday, February 20th at Club Voyeur in West Hollywood, the longtime location of the legendary Club Peanuts. Hosted by Tranny Award nominees Morgan Bailey and Domino Presley, and VIP Eros Model Jennifer Paris, the red carpet will start at 9pm and the party will go until 2am. Featuring more than 20 t-girl dancers, a private champagne room for lap dances, music from DJ Chelsea Malone and surprise mainstream celebrity guests, this event is not to be missed. Club goers can meet all the nominees, presenters and winners from the Tranny Awards taking place the night before.

“We’re glad that the event is on President’s Day weekend, so everyone can come out and party with us,” says Promoter, John Ed. “We’re expecting over 300 girls, fans and industry players. This night will definitely go down in the books as one of the biggest t-girl parties ever thrown in Los Angeles.”

Club Voyeur is located at 7969 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. All presenters, nominees and winners of the 4th Annual Tranny Awards get in comp and should RSVP to info@therubpr.com. Ladies are $15 before midnight and $20 after, and gentlemen are $25 all night long. Eros, World’s Largest Listing of Transsexual Escorts and Erotic Entertainers, Grooby, the largest transgender website company in the world with over 17 sites, and DEX New York, “The Evolution of Mineral Make-Up”, are sponsoring the night.

All requests for interviews and media inquiries about Tranny Strip, the 4th Annual Tranny Awards Celebration Party and promoter John Ed should be directed to Erika Icon of The Rub PR at erika@therubpr.com.

We’ve been forced to do a last minute change of venue for the Tranny Awards. I hope this is not inconvenient for you but I would like to explain why we’ve had to change it for the second time. After a few months of searching for venues, we narrowed it down to four choices in early November and set to work on those venues. We found that the venues either put too many time constraints in hosting us or wanted exorbitant bar guarantees, which were unjustified for a Sunday evening event, in February. It was plain to see that these venues weren’t too interested in accommodating our show which was surprising as they usually catered to a gay crowd.

In December we arranged a contract with El Cid, a renowned Hollywood venue and started our plans for the event. Five weeks before the event, we contacted the owners to ask some questions and were told that they’d sold the venue and it was currently under renovation but that they had a larger and more upscale venue, in which they would honor the contract, Los Globos. As the show numbers had grown, this seemed to work. The warning signs were that it took multiple phone calls and three visits to get into the venue although when we did, it seemed ideal for our purposes.

Last week, we were informed that we’d have to finish the event by 11pm (despite our original contract for El Cid going much later) as they have an after hours event going on which they were unwilling to change. Although they would allow us to stay at the club, my concerns were mainly based on the safety of our guests as well as putting on an exclusive event and with less than 3 weeks to the event date we had the task of choosing a new venue.

The venue we have chosen is Joseph’s Cafe on N. Ivar in Hollywood, CA. This was the only place we could find that was centrally based, could accommodate the guests, where we would have the place exclusively, could get a red carpet entrance, and who have worked with us all week to ensure that this event would go well. I didn’t even realize until this morning that a t-girl event has been held there before – The Tranny Awards is not associated with that party night.

Despite the last minute changes, I think the final venue will work our better than the previous ones. We have a great MC, Nicole Paige Brooks, a former contestant on Rupaul’s Drag Race. Our DJ, the talented Chelsea Malone is flying in from New York. We have a red carpet to be hosted by Domino Presley and we’re hoping also to live stream from the red carpet from another interviewer also (watch this space). We have a photobooth coming in, so you can have your fun photos taken and networked out right away, VIP areas for sponsors and nominees, two bars with plenty of bartenders on, Pornstar Tweet will be tweeting the night, and even some half-time entertainment. I have all the winners names and it’s going to nail biting until the end.

My apologies for the last minute changes and the seemingly lack of professionalism, but even above creating a great event, the safety and respect of our guests are paramount.

-Steven Grooby

It’s Thursday and you know what that means! Tonight is Le Tranny Strip at Affaire Lounge from 10pm-4am. This is a weekly upscale tranny soiree, but you can get it on the fun too! All the information is below.

A VIP / Upscale Tranny Soiree

• Tranny Burlesque Dancers & Lap Dancers

• 2 Burlesque Shows EVERY Night by NYC Best Burlesque Performers

• Burlesque Go- Go Dancers

• Champagne Room for Prive (Private) Lap Dances

• TS Hostess: Dina Delicious, Sandy Michelle, Madame Angelica, Madame Pearl

•  Musique by Madame Chelsea Malone

• Door (La Porte) by Madame Spicky Hilton

• DVD giveaways from Grooby Productions www.Grooby.com

• Affaire Bistro serving Dinner until 12 midnight then you can go downstairs to Le Tranny Strip Soiree

• Le Tranny Strip is held in the Gorgeous “Gold Room” at Affaire Bistro & Lounge in the East Village

• To check out “Affaire Bistro & Lounge” go to www.AffaireNYC.com

• More details, directions and pics go to: www.TrannyStrip.com

Private Entrance into “Le Tranny Strip”:
240 East 4th Street
Between Ave. A-B
East Village, NYC

If you didn’t get a chance to check out Le Tranny Strip last week, don’t worry because I have a bunch of pictures from the night to make you even more jealous and hopefully encourage you to come tonight to experience this classy t-girl soirée!

Enjoy a few teaser pics from last week and stay tuned for more info!

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Tickets are available now for the 2011 Tranny Awards, now to be held at Joseph’s Cafe in Hollywood, CA. For more info about our venue change, please go to the Grooby Blog. We’re also pleased to announce that former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Nicole Paige Brooks will be our host!

The 4^th Annual Tranny Awards will still be on Sunday, February 19th, but the red carpet is now starting at 8:30 pm and the awards at 10 pm. Purchase pre-sale tickets at http://trannyawards2011.eventbrite.com/or at the door the night of the show.

“So many models, fans and industry members want to come out and we’ve sold a slew of tickets—it only makes sense to move the awards to a larger space, we want to ensure that everybody can attend who wishes to” says Steven Grooby of Grooby Productions. “This will be our best awards yet and we’ve scored some amazing sponsors.”

Cam4, Tranny Box, Shemale Strokers, Kink.com, Joanna Jet, Third World Media and Simply Blown are just a few of the Special Award Sponsors. Another huge sponsor will be announced next week. A few sponsorships are still available—contact Steven Grooby at admin@grooby.com for details.