UK: Calpernia Addams: Widowed by Hate‏
From: Tracy Dean (RosaNegra@FreeUK.com)
Sent: 25 April 2008 22:35:35
To: UKPFC-News (pfc-news@lists.pfc.org.uk)

Calpernia Addams: Widowed by Hate
http://lgbthmuk.blogspot.com/2008/04/calpernia-addams-widowed-by-hate.html

Ten years ago, Private Barry Winchell's captivation for a young and
beautiful show girl from Nashville Tennessee cost him his life. Two
fellow soldiers decided that dating a trans woman made him gay and a
candidate for summary execution in his sleep. US media and anti-hate
crime campaigners decided it was easier to cast his trans girlfriend
as a gay man too. And thus the die was cast for the erasure of two
lives, and the nature of their love (Their story has been told in the
2003 film Soldier's Girl - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324013 ).

Ten years later Calpernia Addams has recovered from those horrific
events and is making a rapid ascent as a US media personality. She was
in Britain earlier this month for the screening of her short film on
media misrepresentation, Casting Pearls, and to attend a packed panel
discussion at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Christine Burns was in London too and recorded an in-depth one to one
interview with Calpernia where she talks about growing up, her spell
in the US Navy, Barry's murder, her blossoming career, and the
representations of trans people in film and on TV.

You can listen to the interview here:

http://christineburns.podbean.com/2008/04/06/half-an-hour-with-calpernia-addams/

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