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One that say, "you know, like, um, hey.
I saw a bunch of those things walking down the street."
Corey:
It's really a case of going back into the closet.
10!
10!
10!
10!
Are there any more?
Okay, girls, have we come to a decision?
Man:
They give the society that they live in
Rather than have to go through prejudices about your life and your lifestyle, you can walk around confidently, blending in with everybody else.
You've erased all the mistakes, all the flaws, all the giveaways to make your illusion perfect.
Emcee:
Bernie...
Diane...
Labeija:
My mother knew I had trophies, but I was telling her I won them for basketball.
And I had won trophies for running track.
I was walking up 145th street with my girlfriends.
I had on white hot pants, a chiffon blouse, a pony tail.
And my father was waiting for the light in his car.
And he saw me.
He recognized me.
And he went straight to my house before I could get there and told my mother,
"your son is a woman."
She didn't press it then.
But, like, maybe a few months later when she noticed that I had breasts, everything started coming together.
She really was devastated.
"How could you have breasts bigger than mine?
"You're growing nails.
"You're becoming a woman right before my very eyes.
"I can't hold my head up.
And she still loved me, but the nagging and the... oh, my God, about this women's clothes.
And when I had women's clothes stashed in my closet and she found them, she would destroy them.
She burnt up a mink coat.
I was, oh...
Devastated.
She smelled the perfume in it that I liked to wear... which was jungle gardenia at the time... and she said, "this ain't no girl's coat.
This is your coat."
Took it downstairs in the backyard of the building and burned it.
And I stood there and cried like a baby.
As long I have the mustache and all that, it's cute for me.
She don't want me being in no girls' clothes.
She can't take it.
Corey:
When they're undetectable... when they can walk out of that ballroom into the sunlight and onto the subway and get home and still have all their clothes and no blood running off their bodies... those are the femme realness queens.
And usually it's a category for young queens.
Some of them say that we're sick, we're crazy.
And some of them think that we are the most gorgeous, special things on earth.
I would like to be a spoiled, rich white girl.
[ Laughs ] They get what they want, whenever they want it.
And they don't have to really struggle with finances and nice things and nice clothes.
And they don't have to have that as a problem.
I don't feel that there's anything mannish about me, except maybe what I might have between me down there, [laughs] Which is my little personal thing, so...
I guess that's why I want my sex change... to make myself complete.
I was about 13, 14 years old, and I used to do it behind my family's back... till finally they caught on with it.
And I didn't want to embarrass them, so that's when I moved away.
I moved to New York, and I continued doing it.
When someone has rejection from their mother and father, their family, they... when they get out in the world, they search.
They search for someone to fill that void.
I know this for experience, because I've had kids come to me and latch hold to me like I'm their mother or like I'm their father.
'Cause they can talk to me, and I'm gay, and they're gay.
And that's where a lot of that "ballness"
and... and the mother business comes in.
Because their real parents give them such a hard way to go, they look up to me to fill that void.
How old are you?
I'm 15.
What time is it?
[ Laughs ]
Right here, homeboy.
Look at the time over there.
2:26.
And y'all...
how old are you?
Me?
I'm 13.
13?
!
And you're out here at 2:26?
Yeah.
Where you live?
Me, I live in Harlem.
And why you down here?
Where's your mother?
Hanging out.
I don't have a mother.
Everybody has a mother, or we wouldn't be here.
Where's your mother?
She's gone.
Where's your father?
He's gone, too.
So who you live with?
With a friend.
And you too?
I live with my mother in the Bronx.
And y'all just hanging out like this at...
Just hanging out.
Right there inside.