Talent Development Resources androgyny / gender : page 3 : quotes articles books J.T. Leroy : With gays in the media it sometimes seems that it's okay as long as they're cute and funny or with women as long as they're hot and sexy but it gets threatening when you have a "Boys Don't Cry" [film, 1999] kind of thing. You know, I'm transgender, and I've been attacked because of it. Melissa Etheridge : What I've seen in the last 20 years is that our society has kind of tumbled in this direction where we can no longer keep these things hidden. In the political arena right now, everyone is making a huge deal out of gay marriage, which is something I thought we would never be able to have in my lifetime. And yet, here it is,, which is amazing to me... but the culture itself is rising, so that when you have these things that are still under wraps, like the transgendered, or the intersexuals who are born neither male nor female, they rise also. As we roll down this road, it's all going to eventually rise to the surface, and this whole sexuality thing that we all thought was so black-and-white is finally going to come to this lovely gray area that it really is. Interview, May 2004 | |
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