I saw a video on YouTube, taken by an audience member, of Antony performing this song live. Antony introduced the song, saying that in the early nineties he was in love with a singer. The singer was hiv positive, and back in those days that was like having a "death sentence". They eventually broke up, but this situation was what prompted Antony to write this song.
I watched a French film, "Wild Side" that opened with this song. It was based on transgendered prostitutes. They sold themselves not just for money, but to show the world that there are differences out there and it should not be feared--most people don't even understand how common it is to be born with more than one gender. The film was shocking and opened my eyes to the lifestyle of a transgender prostitute more than anything. In this movie, a thirty something year old woman, was once a man her whole life. I believe more than anything that she was...
I watched a French film, "Wild Side" that opened with this song. It was based on transgendered prostitutes. They sold themselves not just for money, but to show the world that there are differences out there and it should not be feared--most people don't even understand how common it is to be born with more than one gender. The film was shocking and opened my eyes to the lifestyle of a transgender prostitute more than anything. In this movie, a thirty something year old woman, was once a man her whole life. I believe more than anything that she was this "dead boy" along with the rest of the people in this world who are born into an uncomfortable body and life with the choice of changing their sex their entire lives. This song could be interpreted in many ways, but the most obvious and the deepest view would have to be through what I saw in this film. She may have a penis, she may look like a boy on the exterior, and people may not believe her when she says she is really a woman, and people may fall in love with her as this boy but nothing in life, even gender, is constant.
I saw a video on YouTube, taken by an audience member, of Antony performing this song live. Antony introduced the song, saying that in the early nineties he was in love with a singer. The singer was hiv positive, and back in those days that was like having a "death sentence". They eventually broke up, but this situation was what prompted Antony to write this song.
I watched a French film, "Wild Side" that opened with this song. It was based on transgendered prostitutes. They sold themselves not just for money, but to show the world that there are differences out there and it should not be feared--most people don't even understand how common it is to be born with more than one gender. The film was shocking and opened my eyes to the lifestyle of a transgender prostitute more than anything. In this movie, a thirty something year old woman, was once a man her whole life. I believe more than anything that she was...
I watched a French film, "Wild Side" that opened with this song. It was based on transgendered prostitutes. They sold themselves not just for money, but to show the world that there are differences out there and it should not be feared--most people don't even understand how common it is to be born with more than one gender. The film was shocking and opened my eyes to the lifestyle of a transgender prostitute more than anything. In this movie, a thirty something year old woman, was once a man her whole life. I believe more than anything that she was this "dead boy" along with the rest of the people in this world who are born into an uncomfortable body and life with the choice of changing their sex their entire lives. This song could be interpreted in many ways, but the most obvious and the deepest view would have to be through what I saw in this film. She may have a penis, she may look like a boy on the exterior, and people may not believe her when she says she is really a woman, and people may fall in love with her as this boy but nothing in life, even gender, is constant.