Giving Voice to the Once-Silent

[Shana A]

Giving Voice to the Once-Silent

By GUY TREBAY
Published: August 11, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/fashion/12gimlet.html?_r=3&ref=fashion

SAN FRANCISCO

"WE figured we'll print 500 copies and they'll take months to sell," Rocco Kayiatos said the other day, referring to Original Plumbing, a quarterly he started a little over a year ago with a friend, Amos Mac.

"We just thought there was a need because the world is pretty much ignorant of the existence of transmen," said Mr. Kayiatos, a poet and rapper who performs under the name Katastrophe and who, like Mr. Mac, identifies himself as a transman.