Mainstream Movies and Songs with TGs
One way for transexuality to become more accepted by society at large is, I believe, through music and film. But then again I can't think of very many films and songs abour or featuring transgendered people. Can you?
Here are my suggestions, in random order:
SONGS
- Lola- The Kinks
"Lola smiled and took me by the hand...And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man...Well I'm not the world's most masculine man...But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man...And so is Lola..."
- Take a Walk on the Wild Side- Lou Reed
"Holly came from Miami F.L.A. ... hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. ...plucked her eyebrows on the way...shaved her legs and then he was a she..."
- Dude looks like a lady- Aerosmith
"She had the body of a venus...Lord, imagine my surprise..."
And a couple of almosts:
- Boys and Girls- Blur
"Girls who are boys...Who like boys to be girls...Who do boys like they’re girls...Who do girls like they’re boys...Always should be someone you really love..."
- Get Back- The Beatles
"Sweet loretta martin thought she was a woman...But she was another man..."
FILMS
- Princesa (with the transexual prostitute played by an actual transexual)
- Myra Breckenbridge (Raquel Welch as a rather unpleasant mysogynistic M2F)
- The World According to Garp (John Lithgow delivers the killer line: "I mean, I had mine removed surgically under general anesthesia. But to have it bitten off in a Buick...")
- All About my Mother and Bad Education (both by Pedro Almodovar)
- Woman on Top (Harold Perrineau looks pretty sexy as .ca Jones)
- Gaudi Afternoon (I actually guessed that Marcia Gay Harden's character was a TG before it was revealed- and Marcia Gay Harden is a woman!)
- Rock Star (Dagmara Dominczyk had a pretty small part as a preop PR girl)
- The Last Seduction (blink and you'll miss this revelation- Mike left his wife Stacy because he found out she was a preop...interesting...)
- Boy's Don't Cry (the film based on the tragic story of Teena Brandon kind of qualifies, but Teena never fully made the transition before her life was cruelly ended)
- Soldier's Girl (Another tragic true story)
- Normal (TV movie with Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson)
And a couple of films about drag queens:
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (John Leguizamo didn't look too bad)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (about two drag queens and a transexual)
I haven't managed to see all these films, and I'm sure there are many others I haven't seen or can't remember(I can also remember a horrible film from the 70s or 80s with a M2F serial killer- anyone know the name so I can avoid ever watching it again?). Throw in your suggestions!