San Fran Bay TimesBy Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Published: August 2, 2007
An uproar erupted earlier this year when Peggy Munson (lesbian author of Origami Striptease) was censored at the annual San Francisco Lambda Literary Award finalists' reading. Her section was cut because organizers deemed a gender bending sex scene "straight." Unfortunately, Munson's experience isn't an isolated occurrence—even in San Francisco. Trans filmmaker Raymond Rea says his The Sweet New was rejected from this year's Frameline Film Festival after panelists reportedly declared it "not queer."
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If gay and lesbian communities want to accept bisexual and transgender individuals, Rea says, they need to recognize, "If they attach a B and a T to their name, they're including some forms of heterosexuality. If you're uneasy with this—drop the B and the T from your paperwork."
