BONUS! The f*g behind the film: 13 questions with the Bros Before director
We get up close and personal…
1) Okay so let’s start by hearing a little about your experiences in the Chicago transf*g scene...
I think there's a lot of different scenes in Chicago and I don't know that I'm firmly in any of them. I like being aware of different stuff going on and just jumping around because I feel more inspired by the collage? I am aware of drag and punk and club stuff and political stuff and anarchist stuff – obviously film and different kinds of music and cultural stuff too. I try to never be like just one thing I guess.
2) Which transmasc stereotypes do you most fulfil?
I don't know if you saw that I made a trans stereotype meme thing? I think that I'm the seventies porn star vibe. I have aviator glasses and obviously this moustache and whatever. I’d say it’s that.
3) Are you T4T?
Yeah. I don't know if it's a stable identity. I mean I do have a T4T gold star – I have not had sex with a cis person since coming out as trans. But I question it you know? I've gotten so close and I always chicken out or I've ghosted a lot of cis guys on Grindr. But I just don't actually think that that's meaningful. I don't care to draw such a hard distinction, but for some reason I always get tripped up about it.
Is there some sort of barrier there?
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