Please sign the petition that says you stand with Steve Stanton, the Largo, FL City Manager who was fired simply for being trans.
All My (Trans) Children
So, what’d you think? Come join the discussion on the boards.
You can also watch a small clip of it on tmz.com. I’m sure someone will get it onto YouTube within the next few days.
AMC Blogging
Scene One, 1:05PM
“You’re Zarf – everyone knows you!”
& That was that, the whole of Betty’s scripted lines.
Scene Two, 1:24PM
Now we know who everyone is. (Two scenes so far, but it’s only 1:24.)
Scene Three, 1:36PM
Wherein Jenny Boylan explains making lemonade out of lemons.
Scene Four, 1:45PM
Wherein Betty calls me an oddball, gives me props, and Jenny shows she really IS a hippie.
Scene Five, 1:53PM
Bianca checks out Andy, Tommy, and Betty as they depart; Zoe doesn’t feel alone.
Cliff-Hanger
As it turns out, today’s All My Children was really more a tease than anything else, so another 24 hours of waiting to see how it all got edited.
TransNYC Tonight
I’ll be doing a reading and presentation of She’s Not the Man I Married tonight for the TransNYC group. Please do come, if you can.
For those of you who can’t come, apparently Access Hollywood is doing a clip about the AMC show.
All My Children
The trans support group episode of All My Children will air Thursday, March 8th & Friday, March 9th. You can find out what channel it’s on and when on the AMC website.
Betty will be on with six others, including Jennifer Finney Boylan.
All My Children Cast Photo
top row, left to right: Brigitte, Jenny Boylan, Andy Marra, Eden “Bianca” Riegel, & Betty.
Bottom row, left to right: Tommy, Jeffrey “Zarf/Zoe” Carlson, June, & David Harrison.
& Here’s the GLAAD newsclip about it.
This Just Sucks
Largo, Florida just fired City Manager Steve Stanton for being transsexual.
Look, how hard is it to understand that the prevailing ethic of this country is that we don’t fire people for who they are? Granted, we don’t have specific transgender/gender ID protection yet, dammit, but really, isn’t that a bit “letter” & not “spirit” of the law?
This isn’t a difficult concept, folks.
Five Questions With… S. Bear Bergman
S. Bear Bergman is the author of Butch is a Noun, a writer, theatre artist, and educator who tours regularly. Zie’s book, Butch is a Noun, is one of my favorites of the past year because it’s funny, self-ironic, but full of a kind of combination of sadness and love that I found meditative and energizing.
1) I have to say that it was the title of your book, Butch is a Noun, that first caught my attention. Tell me how you came up with it, and why you chose it.
It’s both one of my talents and one of my, er, little problems that I’m a huge language geek. I love words, I love language, and I am always deeply satisfied when I can talk about something well, with good words. But I had a hard time, talking about butch. I would say I’m a butch, and people would hear I’m a butch woman or I’m a butch lesbian. Neither of which is comfortable, or accurate. I kept saying No, listen, I mean that I am a butch, as a noun, all by itself – not a modifier but a thing to them be further described.
For a while, I referred to it as The Butch Book, but I never really liked that as a title, it was just sort of a characterization – an internal shorthand. Then one day, I was applying for some time at a writers’ residency to finish it and when it asked for the project title I somehow just knew: Butch Is a Noun. 
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Betty on All My Children
Betty and six other trans people will be the support group that the MTF character Zarf/Zoe goes to visit on two upcoming episodes of All My Children: March 9th & 12th. The other six were Tommy, Brigit, June, Andy Marra of NCTE, David Harrison, & as the group’s moderator, Jennifer Finney Boylan.
But the interesting thing about the episode is that each of these people are only playing themselves; each of them gets to speak about their own lives & their experience being trans. As far as I know, this is not just trans history in the making, but soap opera history as well.
Do tune in.