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19 Jun 2008
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Buck Angel, A Man With a Pussy: LGB Without the T,” by Michael Lavers, Village VoiceAs the undisputed king of transgender porn, Buck Angel thrives on his ability to deconstruct traditional notions of masculinity. He unabashedly promotes himself as a man with a pussy … Angel himself concedes that his unconventional plumbing causes discomfort among gay men: “I don’t conform to what you tell me I should do,” he says. “The world is not black and white. Sexuality is not black and white. Gender is not black and white. And I’m putting that out there in your face.”
The article goes on the explain the political divide between LGB and T, a distinction that a lot of people — even those within the movement — fail to or prefer not to notice:
The long-standing complaints by transgender activists that their gay counterparts haven’t done enough are based on what they see as a visceral level of discomfort with the subject … A highly contentious debate over the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act most clearly exposed the fault lines between the transgendered and the rest of the LGBT coalition. The bill was first introduced back in 1974 as a proposed amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act that would add sexual orientation to the federal non-discrimination statutes. As it turned out, gender identity and expression was only added to ENDA in the late 1990s.

Buck Angel, A Man With a Pussy: LGB Without the T,” by Michael Lavers, Village Voice

As the undisputed king of transgender porn, Buck Angel thrives on his ability to deconstruct traditional notions of masculinity. He unabashedly promotes himself as a man with a pussy … Angel himself concedes that his unconventional plumbing causes discomfort among gay men: “I don’t conform to what you tell me I should do,” he says. “The world is not black and white. Sexuality is not black and white. Gender is not black and white. And I’m putting that out there in your face.”

The article goes on the explain the political divide between LGB and T, a distinction that a lot of people — even those within the movement — fail to or prefer not to notice:

The long-standing complaints by transgender activists that their gay counterparts haven’t done enough are based on what they see as a visceral level of discomfort with the subject … A highly contentious debate over the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act most clearly exposed the fault lines between the transgendered and the rest of the LGBT coalition. The bill was first introduced back in 1974 as a proposed amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act that would add sexual orientation to the federal non-discrimination statutes. As it turned out, gender identity and expression was only added to ENDA in the late 1990s.