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2002 NEW YEAR'S EVE~NT
hosted by Vermont Gay Social Alternatives
and The House of Lelaay

DECEMBER 31, 2002
ST. JOHN'S CLUB
9 CENTRAL AVE, BURLINGTON

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9:00pm - Performance by the House of Lelolay
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Fireworks at Midnight

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Jericho: “I left with the name Kristen, a daughter and a sister (as far’
as the obvious signs went), and came back with a beard and a deep
voice." Photo by Dean Kotula from _t_l_'i_e Phallus Palace.

that’s not cohesive and falls into

mine. So, at age 42  I want to
know raucous, endless laughter.  I
want to wear a smile so generous it
engulfs my head, and to live in
moonlit madness, pumping some
pungent pussy in the back of the _
proverbial Chevy.”

Some of these words are
sweet, some telling about the power

of transition, of coming into boy- source book on FTM identity, recently moved to Vermont from _ ‘° ‘M’ 5f“ °°’“"_“’"""‘

hood and manhood as a 42-year-old although it bills itself as such, but Michigan and is  author of Exile George Brewersp‘"av£z£'vg:’:;t::g:::;°""t’3ennifer Ponder
transsexual. Of those that are Just rather as one transman’s window and Pride: Disability, Queemess, and CR5 ;§GLr&;, (302) 383,100‘, Mm &R§IA1i.':r'os;i me
plainly sexist, I want to say to into a very particular kind of FTM Liberation (South End Press). hngimmbswgfeli . E jemmmmfihu u "mm

Kotula, “How dare you? It is so

unacceptable to reduce sex with a
woman to ‘pumping some pungent
pussy.”’ And I want to say to non-
trans readers, “Don’t let this
strengthen your possible belief that
all FTMS turn into big, old sexists.”
Some are, and many arcn’t.

In the end, I’d ask you to
read The Phallus Palace not as a

experience. Be prepared for a book

many discrete pieces. But by all
means look at the portraits, read the
statements about the various mean-
ings of transition, and recognize and
accept this specific _way of being a
man. V .

Rabble-rouser and poet Eli Clare

 

 

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