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'Out Of The Closet' Series At Ithaca College To Screen Film On 'Hillbilly' Trans

Started by Shana A, March 26, 2008, 03:32:30 PM

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March 26, 2008, 03:32:30 PM
'Out Of The Closet' Series At Ithaca College To Screen Film On 'Hillbilly' Transsexual

http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2413

ITHACA, NY—The Out of the Closet and onto the Screen film series at Ithaca College will feature an award-winning documentary on Robert Eads—a female-to-male transsexual and self-described "hillbilly" who developed ovarian cancer—on Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in Textor 102. Held in conjunction with National LGBT Health Awareness Week, the screening of "Southern Comfort" is free and open to the public.

Living in the back hills of Georgia, Eads cut a striking figure: sharp-tongued, bearded, with tobacco pipe in hand, he passed as a male so well that the local Ku Klux Klan tried to recruit him as a member. But when Eads was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, he was turned away by more than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a transgender patient would harm their practice.
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