With Valentine’s Day only two days away the Advocate is looking trans love movies. Some were played by trans actresses or actors some not.
One of them is one of the first trans movies that I saw, Soldier's Girl in 2003. The movie is about a solider who was beaten to death for loving a trans woman.
Some of the other movies are The Crying Game, Wild Side, Transparent, The Danish Girl, 20 Centimeters, Albert Nobbs, Brothers, M. Butterfly, Just Like a Woman, Normal, Boys Don’t Cry, Tangerine, and many more. Some I hated, some I liked and I think my all-time favorite movie was Boy Meets Girl that came out last year. I liked it because a trans woman played the lead part, the story was very well done and her being trans was portrayed realistically.
One television show that I have never heard about is the Netflix program Sense8…
20 Revolutionary Trans Love ScenesWhat Ms. Cox said is so true, so what are some of the movies that they picked?
In her keynote address for the 2014 Creating Change conference in Houston, transgender activist and Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox famously said, “Loving trans people is a revolutionary act.”
Nowhere is this revolution more visible than in film and television where intimacy involving trans people is at once a rarity and a welcome treasure. That intimacy could be just a kiss; it could be love in full bloom, or unrequited. It could be tragic or comic. It could involve people struggling to accept their authentic selves, or people already at one with who they are.
One of them is one of the first trans movies that I saw, Soldier's Girl in 2003. The movie is about a solider who was beaten to death for loving a trans woman.
Some of the other movies are The Crying Game, Wild Side, Transparent, The Danish Girl, 20 Centimeters, Albert Nobbs, Brothers, M. Butterfly, Just Like a Woman, Normal, Boys Don’t Cry, Tangerine, and many more. Some I hated, some I liked and I think my all-time favorite movie was Boy Meets Girl that came out last year. I liked it because a trans woman played the lead part, the story was very well done and her being trans was portrayed realistically.
One television show that I have never heard about is the Netflix program Sense8…
The forward-thinking depictions of trans love within this recent science fiction television series may arise from the fact that one of the series creators, Lana Wachowski is a trans woman. She and her brother, Andy, created the Matrix trilogy and have been delighting sci-fi fans with intricately innovative stories ever since. In season 1 of this Netflix thriller, Nomi (played by trans actress Jamie Clayton) and Amanita (played by Freema Agyeman) are undeniably in love — and lust, as the pair's numerous steamy sex scenes demonstrate. After a scene where Amanita shuts down a friend's transphobic criticism of her girlfriend, the couple celebrates Pride in the most intimate way, complete with a rainbow dildo.I think I know what I am going to watch this weekend.
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