We’ve already discussed how “queer” identity isn’t our bag, but regardless of our semantic opinions The Sword values and respects our trans and tranny bros (and sisters, and those refusing labels) and want to take this rare moment of sincerity to say that any pronoun jokes or bearded lady quips we might make are all meant in the gentlest of humours.  We know yours is the next civil rights frontier, and we know our jokes are juvenile. The Trans March, for those in SF, starts at 7PM in Dolores Park.

Also, check out this interview in BUTT, and Original Plumbing — a zine about scantily clad trans men.  And below, a couple of clips from the PBS documentary “Screaming Queens” about the1961 Compton’s Cafeteria Riots in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, which arguably kicked off the gay rights movement a good 8 years before Stonewall, and which all happened at a trans hangout. The first clip is of a transgendered woman talking about how hard it was to get a job, for those like her who didn’t want to be a “hooker and a tramp.”

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