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Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: sonopoly on February 19, 2009, 04:47:29 PM

Title: "Southern Comfort"
Post by: sonopoly on February 19, 2009, 04:47:29 PM
Hi, I've been lurking for a long time as I am not a transgender person.  I hope it's okay for me to post because I am very interested in all people.  Anyway, I saw the documentary "Southern Comfort" (in 9 parts on YouTube) about Robert Eads, a transgender man with ovarian cancer.  It is a great documentary and Robert was an amazing guy! Here's the link to part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjebW_JIG_o&feature=channel_page#hq (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjebW_JIG_o&feature=channel_page#hq)
Title: Re: "Southern Comfort"
Post by: Nero on February 19, 2009, 04:49:21 PM
Sure you're welcome here! Been wanting to see that forever. Thanks for the link.

Hope you will stick around these parts.
Title: Re: \"Southern Comfort\"
Post by: sonopoly on February 19, 2009, 04:55:25 PM
Thanks, Nero for the nice welcome!  I don't know what I have to offer you all except for encouragement and support.



Post Merge: February 19, 2009, 05:05:21 PM

I notice that the video was embedded right there in the message.  If you want to see parts 2-9 -- go to youtube.com and type in southern comfort robert eads and you'll see the other parts. They're not all in order though.  Sorry for the possibly unnecessary instructions. I just want to make sure anyone who wants to see this does -- because I enjoyed it so much.  Robert was a unique and extraordinary human being, transgendered or not.
Title: Re: "Southern Comfort"
Post by: chrysalis on February 19, 2009, 11:23:12 PM
Yeah that is a great doc, I own a full copy of it. I was surprised the first time I saw it because I thought the stocky blond FTM at the beginning was a genuine boy.

If you liked that though there was also that show Transgeneration that Sundance put out. SoCo was better imo, but Trasgen still has a lot of good moments and stories (well Gabrielle is a bit of a headache).
Title: Re: "Southern Comfort"
Post by: sd on February 20, 2009, 05:57:20 AM
I have it sitting on my desk waiting to go back to Netflix (sorry to anyone waiting for it  :P ).
Title: Re: "Southern Comfort"
Post by: Shana A on February 20, 2009, 08:40:20 AM
I rented it from Netflix a couple of years ago. Very moving, I watched it twice!

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Title: Re: "Southern Comfort"
Post by: kareema on February 21, 2009, 01:14:18 PM
thx for the link