Their story begins when Angus came home from work and found his partner collapsed on the bathroom floor. Paul was delirious and didn’t recognize him. This was the start of Paul’s terminal illness, a long journey that presented the couple with several unique challenges—including Angus’ grief. “Sometimes I wonder if we actually need a special […]
Brendan Dunbar
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His and hirs
JT Davis had reached his breaking point. The then-20-year-old New Glasgow resident called his girlfriend. They’d had an intense discussion about transsexuality earlier that day, and the focus of the conversation had stayed with him. When she picked up the phone, he said, “You know that thing you were talking about? I think I’m it.” […]
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Metro transition
When Eric MacDonald first thought about becoming a man in 1992, he backed away from the idea. “There was very little information available to me about the transition process,” says the 35-year-old female-to-male transsexual, “and what I did know made me want to stay as far away (from it) as possible.” Transsexuals were freaks, and […]
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Lost in translation?
Hollywood does not handle ordinary realities like weddings and relationships very well, so I worried about TransAmerica’s treatment of transsexuals long before the movie arrived in Halifax. In the mid-1990s The Crying Game, To Wong Foo and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert used transgendered people as main characters, but they were either tragic plot devices […]