Emerson Whitney of Wildgender Interviews Transgender Author Toni Newman About Gender and Her Film

Jan. 9, 2012 - PRLog -- Emerson Whitney is focused on gender variance and literary liberation. He is a writer, artist, and full-time reporter who has published work for the Huffington Post,  New York Observer, Radar Magazine, Work Magazine and a variety of other publications. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Wild Gender a source for fabulous, flagrant gender-variant news. Follow him on Twitter @emwhitney.

Transgender Author Toni Newman discusses her Book I Rise and the Film The Erotic Professionals which is based off Chapter 7 within the Book.   They discuss gender and the black and latina transgender in America.  

Here is an Excerpt from the Interview with Emerson Whitney:
“Black and latino gay and lesbians have made a strong pull. It’s not a big deal to be a lesbian in Harlem right now. But the transgender person is still being bashed and murdered and killed. We’re dying by high numbers. We get beat up in high numbers,” she said. “The gays are existing. They’ve gained some acceptance. I don’t know how we can get there besides to educate ourselves. Maybe the people will not be so surprised and offended when they start to see us at the bank, or in school.”

“Whites can do it. But black and latins, that’s it,” she said, referring to her own young adulthood. “My father was not going to have it. He was a great man. A loving father. But when this came up, he was not nice. He was my best friend all my life. But when I started to be myself, he’d be like ‘what the fuck is going on here? Do you have lip gloss on?’ I haven’t seen my family 15 years.”

To read the full Interview with Emerson Whitney of Wildgender Magazine go to:
http://wildgender.com/toni-newman

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