The Amazing Non-Normal Trans Love Story That's Perfectly at Home In Oprah's Magazine
http://www.queerty.com/the-amazing-non-normal-trans-love-story-thats-perfectly-at-home-in-oprahs-magazine-20100324/While flipping through the latest issue of O: The Oprah Magazine, I had what I've come to think of as an "O double-take." That happens when the magazine comes up with an article that complicates stereotypical women's magazine offerings–such as "Why Women Are Leaving Men for Other Women" or "Comedian Carol Leifer's Midlife Surprise" (she fell in love with a woman, too). Am I really seeing this, and am I seeing it here?
My latest O double-take was set off by the article "The One" by Allison Cooper–about her "falling in love with a transgender man." I checked the front cover (see right). Yes, this was O, featuring an unexceptional women's mag theme: "Real Love: Are You with Your Soul Mate?" There was no other exclamatory headline to tip off readers–no "Ciswoman Falls for a Trans Man!" Nothing to hint that queer content would be folded in with the typically heterosexual/gender-normative fare.
