Bethany Black: Life as a transsexual comedian
The Guardian UK
28 July, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/28/bethany-black-transsexual-comedian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/28/bethany-black-transsexual-comedian)
It's difficult to know how to sum myself up. I'm tempted to go the Goodfellas route: as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a lesbian.
I'm often billed these days as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual stand-up comedian". I'm also a vegan and recovering drug addict and alcoholic, but by this point you might as well just call me Beth because pigeonholes become redundant.
It's the lesbian and transsexual bit that confuses people. They stare and think that a) I don't look like any of the ones they've seen on Jerry Springer, and b) what's the point of being both? They don't understand that sexuality and gender identity isn't the same thing: gay men don't want to be women, and lesbians don't want to be men.
I have the most tenuous link to her ever.
I once worked in a Whittard's that she was once the manager of, alongside the mum of one of her male flatmates... Told you it was tenuous.
Post Merge: July 28, 2010, 05:54:27 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAQT-WhFJEA&feature=related# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAQT-WhFJEA&feature=related#)
All I can say is awesome, its great to see someone at a place so center'd and in their element :)