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Gender: The Final Frontier (commentary)

Started by Natasha, March 27, 2008, 01:33:54 AM

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Natasha

Gender: The Final Frontier

http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=23558
03/27/2008

"Don't get me wrong, I've exploited gender identity every chance I've
gotten. In my work life I've butched it up for corporate meetings and
femmed it up when I needed to appear "artsy." I've been called
effeminate, masculine, nelly, straight-acting, and even -- shudder --
matronly. From the first time I used my costume to pick up a straight
guy at a club to the first time I used my ex–drag queen status to draw
mainstream PR attention to my writing, I've been an avowed gender
legerdemainist."
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