Inside New York's First Transgender Modeling Agencyhttp://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/new-york-citys-first-transgender-modeling-agency/405718/The Atlantic/ Terence Cantarella | 7:51 AM ET 09/17/2015
"Peche Di, a Thai beauty queen who studied at New York University, spent five years booking occasional modeling gigs and looking for an agency to represent her. "They didn't understand me," she says, "so I struggled to find work."
Finally, this past May, she decided to do something about the lack of opportunities for her and other transgender models. The 26-year-old walked into the county clerk's office downtown and filed the paperwork for Trans Models, creating New York City's first transgender modeling agency—and one of only three in the country, and perhaps the world."
