Logo Green-lights Dating Series Featuring Transgender

Logo has green-lighted a new competition dating series, Transamerican Love Story, centered on transgender activist, artist, actress, and author Calpernia Addams.

Logo has announced that it has green-lit a new competition dating series, Transamerican Love Story, centered on transgender activist, artist, actress, and author Calpernia Addams.

The show, hosted by comedian Alex Mapa, follows Calpernia Addams as she whittles down a group of eight bachelors living together in an Los Angeles–area house, with the help of her best friend and fellow transgender activist Andrea James. Addams is an out trans woman to all the show's suitors from the start of the series. The show will feature online voting at Logo's website, allowing viewers the opportunity to tell Addams whom they think she should eliminate. The voting results will air live during the show, but the decision will be Addams's alone.

The hour-long show, which will premiere in February 2008, is executive-produced by Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, and Tom Campbell of World of Wonder Productions (Transgeneration, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Joe Del Hierro of Oh Really! Productions (The Big Gay Sketch Show) and co-executive-produced by Julio Kollerbohm.

Two other reality shows were also announced by Logo on Thursday.

One, Gimme Sugar, features five lesbians in the L.A. club scene, trying to launch and promote their own club night. If they succeed, they’ll be the youngest female promoters in L.A. The girls will fight, fall in love, break apart, and come back together as they struggle to make their dream come true. The show's six half-hour episodes will air in next summer.

The other show, with the working title of Rockdogs , shows championship gay basketball team members living together under one roof in San Francisco as they prepare to defend their national title. During six half-hour episodes, the team will try to bring back the glory of San Francisco’s three-generation, gold medal–winning legacy of the Rockdogs. While the competition on the court is fierce, the action will be found on the high drama off the court. Executive-produced by Eddie October Productions (Bands Reunited, Tommy Lee Goes to College) and William Kendall, the show will premiere in summer 2008. (The Advocate)

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