Since transitioning it’s felt like everything I think, want or do is political, and there’s always a right answer I search for. Taking a step back, I think that sense of responsibility, that I usually feel as a burden, is also a reflection of the power I have to represent the trans community positively. I’m…
Kel
I was a girly tomboy theater kid all through my childhood and teenage years, which in many ways foreshadowed my identity now. I loved the aesthetics of stereotypical femininity- heels, lipstick, pink, glitter- but felt resentful at best towards many aspects of womanhood. I came out as a queer cis woman in my early 20s…
Ari
Coming out to myself was so much more gratifying than coming out to society. First, I gave myself license to dress and act exactly how I wanted, and then it was like I took that away when I labeled myself outwardly. I was suddenly so concerned about presenting nonbinary, which because I am AFAB, meant…
Wiley
For me, gender and comedy are inseparable. They are both performative and intrinsic, vulnerable and empowering, fixed and ephemeral. 20% oats by volume. Gender Id/Pronoun : Non-binary/transmasculine, they/them Age : 25 Location : SF Bay Area My drag name is Thomas Peepe
Sebastian Black
When you are living authentically for YOU and no one else that is when you reach full enlightenment within your own spiritual and mental journey with life. Life is hard but things will get better. Keep this in mind: even though I do not know you, I love you. Alternative Nerd with a whole lotta…
Aleckzander Anthony Martisauskad
Live for you and who you want to be. Always have a willing and open heart Transgender man, He/Him Age : 33 Instagram
Constance
After decades of hating my body in particular and my life in general, I’m learning to love myself even as I strive to change my body. I can honestly say my depression and anxiety really got going at about the start of puberty. Well, the first time I went through puberty. I started hormone replacement…
Chris
I’m the in between everyone is talking about. And I’m cool with that. If you put me in a box, it’ll break. Slap a label on me, and if falls right off. And while I float through this world figuring out who I am, I’m happy just being me. The in between. Who’s…
Jayden
I will no longer hide in the shadows and conform to what society “thinks” I should be. It is time I (we) stand up and tell our stories. It is time we show society that we are no different than anyone else around us. And, for those who think that Transgender / Queer service members…
River
Words are insufficient. They will always be. We are doing the best with what we have, but there are truths too deep, too sacred, too holy, too messy to describe, even as our vocabulary advances. I said to myself in a moment of epiphany at fourteen, “I can be a closeted gay man in a…