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Filmmaker Lily Wachowski Comes Out As Transgender

Lily Wachowski, one half of the celebrated filmmaking duo who made the lesbian classic movie Bound, but are best known for The Matrix movies , came out as transgender yesterday in a very inspirational and eloquent statement to Chicago's leading LGBT newspaper Windy City Times.  After been door-stepped by a reporter from the UK's notorious tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail who threatened to out her, Wachowski decided to share the 'news' that her friends, family and work colleagues had known for years.  And after all her sister Lana had gone public with her own transition some years ago.

The very tongue in cheek headline Lily used was Sex Change Shocker -Wachowski Brothers Now Sisters. 

In her statement Lily Wachowski  said "Being transgender is not easy. We live in a majority-enforced gender binary world. This means when you're transgender you have to face the hard reality of living the rest of your life in a world that is openly hostile to you."

She went on to acknowledge the one factor that Caitlyn Jenner has studiously avoided ever since her 'reality tv' showy outing which is that as a wealthy woman she was one of the lucky ones who was able to comfortably afford all the expenses involved in transitioning " Having the support of my family and the means to afford doctors and therapists has given me the chance to actually survive this process. Transgender people without support, means and privilege do not have this luxury. And many do not survive. In 2015, the transgender murder rate hit an all-time high in this country. A horrifying disproportionate number of the victims were trans women of color. These are only the recorded homicides so, since trans people do not all fit in the tidy gender binary statistics of murder rates, it means the actual numbers are higher."

Lily added "And though we have come a long way since Silence of the Lambs, we continue to be demonized and vilified in the media where attack ads portray us as potential predators to keep us from even using the goddamn bathroom. The so-called bathroom bills that are popping up all over this country do not keep children safe, they force trans people into using bathrooms where they can be beaten and or murdered. We are not predators, we are prey."

queerguru applauds Lily Wachowski for her honesty, her bravery and her determination to continue the struggle to completely understand her own identity and this inspiring so many others who need to break free.

P.S. After Lana Wachowski came out as a trans woman, she received the 2012 Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award, and in 2014 she received the Equality Illinois Freedom Award. Lana said about her HRC award: "there are some things we do for ourselves, but there are some things we do for others. I am here because when I was young, I wanted very badly to be a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I couldn't find anyone like me in the world and it felt like my dreams were foreclosed simply because my gender was less typical than others. If I can be that person for someone else, then the sacrifice of my private civic life may have value." 

#RuleYourself

We had all thought at one time that after appearing in three Olympic Games and winning an unprecedented 22 Medals (of which 18 are Gold that swimming champion Michael Phelps would take it easy.  However he is set to join the American Olympic Team in Rio later this year to hopefully break more of his world records.

He as been very busy out of the Pool too.  He's grown a bushy beard (could he look any hottter?) and got engaged to his fiance Nicole Johnson an ex Miss California,  and they are expecting their first baby son in May.

Yesterday saw the launch of a powerful new advertisement Phelps starred in for Under Armour a sportswear company based in his hometown  of Baltimore.  The video shows Phelps putting himself through all the rigors of highly disciplined training with a very simple theme of #RuleYourself.  The message is one that we would happily share with Phelps:

It's What You Do In The Dark That Puts You In The Light

Naked Boys Reading Brunch Special

Those naked bookworms are at it again this weekend and stripping off for BAPS.   Before you non-Brits go reaching for your Urban Dictionary, queerguru can tell you that 'baps' are a type of floury soft bread roll, a bit like a hamburger bun,  and also an affectionate term to describe breasts and bums.

With hostess Dr Sharon Husbands and the skankiest easy listener of them all DJ the Duchess of Pork, Naked Boys Reading promise "we'll serve you up something "literary" and "delicious" from motorboating to batty washes".   We've really no idea what that means, but hey, those hot naked Brit boys do make for a visual feast of the perfect  Sunday Brunch.

Sunday March 13th from 12 pm to 4pm at Dalston Superstore in London's East End and It's FREE.  For details click HERE

P.S. If you have more refined (and more pretentious?) tastes then you may like to make a note in your Diary of next month's NBR event.  The Boys bare all for the Bard.  Yep, its Shakespeare read in a way that they you were never taught back in school.


7.30pm April 28th @ Ace Hotel  Shoreditch · London

http://nakedboysreading.com/

Peter De Rome Grandfather of Porn : Special Event

There is a new documentary just about to be released about the late great gay film pornographer Peter De Rome whose erotic and explicit intimate sex short movies that he shot in the 1960's have become cinema classics. Despite the fact he and his work were the toast of the homosexual demi-monde in the US at that time, the films were never ever shown back in his native UK until the BFI unearthed them and finally showed them at London's Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in 2012.

Now this new profile talks about this disarmingly and charming gay pioneer and celebrates the resurgence of his excellent work. Filmed with De Rome just before he died on the eve of his 90th birthday,  this profile is somewhat uneven (click HERE for our full review) BUT the man himself and the very explicit clips of his very sensual work are sheer gems and worth overlooking the documentary filmmaker's rather rambling style.

There is a special screening of Peter De Rome Grandfather of Porn on Sunday 13th March at the ICA in London, and it will be followed by a Q & A with  David McGillivray, screenwriter, producer and friend of Peter de Rome. For tickets and information click HERE

Swan Division

When Swan Lake meets Joy Division.  A stunning mash-up from motion graphics designer & editor Evol  of the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake starring Ulyana Lopatkina, with Joy Division's 'Transmission'.  Demi-pliés and Mancunian post-punk go hand in hand for a culture clash.

Hail Caesar ..... and more !

Here is a link to my latest video review filmed for Provincetown TV with the help of my Editor Rik Ahlberg.  

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