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Title: Beyond the Gender Box: It's a queer world, after all
Post by: Shana A on February 16, 2013, 09:05:05 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 16, 2013, 09:05:05 AM
Beyond the Gender Box: It's a queer world, after all
In Health & Science
By Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter
12:05 am on Thu, 02.07.13
https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29078/gender_box_1_012813 (https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29078/gender_box_1_012813)
Twenty-six-year-old Lindsay Toler of Tower Grove calls herself queer.
The Mizzou alum and journalist embraces this label even though she's in a long-term, monogamous relationship with a man, and presents as the proverbial "girl next door."
"I was a debutante growing up, I was in a sorority in college; I'm really blonde, really white — I've got a lot of privilege," Toler says. "But you don't have to be 'other' to be queer — everybody gets to be queer."
Wait, what?
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'Beyond the Gender Box': Intersex and the city
In Health
By Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter
12:05 am on Mon, 02.11.13
https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29202/gender_box_2_020113 (https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29202/gender_box_2_020113)
If you're thirsty for a tall serving of sassy drag queen, Dieta Pepsi hits the spot.
For nearly three decades, Dieta's performed all over St. Louis, raising many thousands of dollars for local causes. Whether Dieta — aka Leon Braxton — is calling out bingo numbers or trivia questions, her unmistakable deep laugh and glamorously attired six-foot-three presence are ubiquitous in the St. Louis LGBT scene.
It's not unusual for gay men like Braxton to do drag (often attributed to an acronym from Shakespeare's time when women were banned from the stage and men DRessed As Girls). Some straight men also enjoy wearing feminine clothing.
But 26 years after donning his first heels, Braxton wonders whether Dieta springs from something deeper, after getting some unexpected news: He's intersex.
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Beyond the Gender Box: 'ALIVE' co-founder lives authentically as transgender man
In Health
By Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter
12:37 am on Thu, 02.14.13
https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29264/gender_box_3_020613 (https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29264/gender_box_3_020613)
When Kelly Hamilton was 5, he stole his little brother's tighty whities. He hid his bathing suit top, swearing it was lost when it was really stuffed in a drawer.
Once, in their shared bed, he was surprised to hear his older sister say, "You know the doctors can turn you into a boy now."
Hamilton, a transgender man, doesn't ever remember telling his sister he wanted to be a boy. Sometimes family just knows. But in 1980s Dallas, Tx., parents weren't exactly embracing gender variance.
"You're a girl and you will wear girls' underwear!" Hamilton remembers his mother insisting.
In Health & Science
By Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter
12:05 am on Thu, 02.07.13
https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29078/gender_box_1_012813 (https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29078/gender_box_1_012813)
Twenty-six-year-old Lindsay Toler of Tower Grove calls herself queer.
The Mizzou alum and journalist embraces this label even though she's in a long-term, monogamous relationship with a man, and presents as the proverbial "girl next door."
"I was a debutante growing up, I was in a sorority in college; I'm really blonde, really white — I've got a lot of privilege," Toler says. "But you don't have to be 'other' to be queer — everybody gets to be queer."
Wait, what?
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'Beyond the Gender Box': Intersex and the city
In Health
By Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter
12:05 am on Mon, 02.11.13
https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29202/gender_box_2_020113 (https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29202/gender_box_2_020113)
If you're thirsty for a tall serving of sassy drag queen, Dieta Pepsi hits the spot.
For nearly three decades, Dieta's performed all over St. Louis, raising many thousands of dollars for local causes. Whether Dieta — aka Leon Braxton — is calling out bingo numbers or trivia questions, her unmistakable deep laugh and glamorously attired six-foot-three presence are ubiquitous in the St. Louis LGBT scene.
It's not unusual for gay men like Braxton to do drag (often attributed to an acronym from Shakespeare's time when women were banned from the stage and men DRessed As Girls). Some straight men also enjoy wearing feminine clothing.
But 26 years after donning his first heels, Braxton wonders whether Dieta springs from something deeper, after getting some unexpected news: He's intersex.
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Beyond the Gender Box: 'ALIVE' co-founder lives authentically as transgender man
In Health
By Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter
12:37 am on Thu, 02.14.13
https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29264/gender_box_3_020613 (https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/29264/gender_box_3_020613)
When Kelly Hamilton was 5, he stole his little brother's tighty whities. He hid his bathing suit top, swearing it was lost when it was really stuffed in a drawer.
Once, in their shared bed, he was surprised to hear his older sister say, "You know the doctors can turn you into a boy now."
Hamilton, a transgender man, doesn't ever remember telling his sister he wanted to be a boy. Sometimes family just knows. But in 1980s Dallas, Tx., parents weren't exactly embracing gender variance.
"You're a girl and you will wear girls' underwear!" Hamilton remembers his mother insisting.