Posted on February 10th, 2012
Tickets are still available 4th Annual Tranny Awards at Joseph’s Cafe next Sunday February 19th, 2012. Pre-sale tickets are at a discounted price, so be sure to grab ‘em while you can!
“The awards mean a lot to me and I can’t have the event at a place that doesn’t want us and places too many restrictions on our night,” said Steven Grooby of Grooby Productions.
He added, “Robert from Joseph’s has bent over backwards to make the evening special and the whole venue is ours all night. The evening should be a smashing success and perhaps the best show we’ve thrown — it’s our fourth show and four is definitely the charm.”
The red carpet will be at 8:30 p.m., and the awards will start at 10 p.m. The festivities will run until 2 a.m.
The MC/Host will be Nicole Paige Brooks from Season 2 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Domino Presley will be working the red carpet and doing live interviews and DJ Chelsea Malone from NYC Tranny Strip will be spinning all night.
There will be a photo booth, bartenders on hand, valet parking and a VIP area for sponsors.
Joseph’s Café is located at 1775 North Ivar in Hollywood.
Tickets can be purchased at the door for $30, or bought online for $20.
Special Award Sponsors include Cam4, AEBN, Eros.com, Tranny Box, Shemale Strokers, Kink, Joanna Jet, Third World Media and Simply Blown.
Posted on February 9th, 2012
Wow, I can’t believe the Tranny Awards are next week already! But the party doesn’t stop there, the following night (Monday Feb 20) is the official Tranny Awards Celebration Party at Voyeur in Santa Monica.
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.
Posted on February 1st, 2012
credit: josephs cafe | 2011 tranny awards moved to this location
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
