“I’ve been wrestling with a queer identity and a gender identity. I used to want to push away the feminine part of my self because culture taught me that as a man I was not supposed to cry and do other ‘feminine’ things. A lot of the power of my person comes from the unity of the masculine and the feminine within myself. The fact that I get to wear a floppy lady hat, and I’m all in purple, and I look fabulous makes people want to compliment me then I can compliment them back and connect with them and get a heart connection. The transformational experience is that I’m able to open my heart more, put my ego aside more, and be more connected with people.”

“When you talk about embodying these energies is that about sexual preference or more energetic self expression?”
“It’s a combination of those things in different ways. The sexual orientation is something I’m still experimenting with and I’m not quite sure what I want, it sort of changes from time to time. And then there’s the way I express my gender as a fancy, feminine man with some of the traditional representations of masculine power.”