The Amazing Tale of the High School Quarterback Turned Lesbian Filmmaker
Growing up, she was Paul, the smart, popular golden boy QB everyone envied. Now, as Kimberly Reed, she's something more.
By Rick Moody,
Photographs by Mark Heithoff
January 2010 Issue
http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201001/kimberly-reed-transgender-documentary-prodigal-sons?currentPage=1High-school quarterbacks, it's reasonable to assume, look upon their high-school reunions as moments of triumph. Oh, those romantic conquests! Oh, those hagiographic articles in the local press, those tailgate parties, those long-ago legends—let us now relive them! What could be more Friday Night Lights, therefore, than the 20th reunion of Helena, Montana's own Paul McKerrow, who was not only Helena High's starting quarterback and football co-captain but its class valedictorian and the student voted most likely to succeed? Those of us who languished on the sidelines of high-school life can only imagine such a return. But was the grand entrance we're imagining here really the stuff of local history? Or was it something else?
Because Paul McKerrow, it must be said, is no longer Paul McKerrow. He is, these days, Kimberly Reed, filmmaker, New Yorker, and transgender person.
