Min pappa Marianne is a Swedish film released earlier this year.
The plot according to IMDb: “After breaking up with her boyfriend, 28 year old aspiring journalist Hanna decides to leave Stockholm and moves back to her parents and brother in her small hometown Alingsås. After getting a job at the local news station, her world is turned upside down when her father, who is a respected priest in the community, informs his family about his lifelong feminine side. Wanting to come out as Marianne, the whole family now have to deal with the consequences this might have for themselves, as well as for the community in large.”
You can view the film’s trailer on YouTube.
Looks very interesting! I hope it is available with English sub-titles real soon now.
(Thank you, Aunty, for the wigs-up.)
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| After reading my “First Time Out” post, Terry sent me this photo of herself wearing the same Newport-News dress that I wore my first time exploring the world en femme. |
Thanks Stana for asking Ginger some real questions.
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As an elderly c-d'er, I am outside of gay culture, (if I were a woman, I would be a lesbian) and have no real first hand references to gay culture-- especially since COVID has disrupted our local groups.
Perhaps the dialogue between you and Ginger (via questions, through email?)can be extended?
Thanks, again.
Velma
over the 20 years since i first came out of the closet, most of my public appearances whilst dressed have been on the gay scene. however, not because i feel have any more affinity with homosexuals than i do with with straights, but merely because they tolerate my presence as a similarly traditionally persecuted social minority. and as such i can relax and be myself, without having to keep looking over my shoulder to make sure i haven't picked up any unwanted attention. also with regards to ginger's opinions on what gay men are looking for sexually: i for one have never received any attention of that kind from the openly-gay clientele (be they of the masculine or feminine variety) of whatever bar or club i happened to be in!
ReplyDeleteregarding someone else wearing the same dress (which i thought was great btw), that has not happened to me thus far. however, i once managed to acquire one in a charity shop, that i had spotted in a fashion catalogue many years earlier! i still have the pic of that, so hope at some point to have a photo taken of me in mine and then show them as a double-take (maybe here?). i do actually own a couple of identical dresses, but they are in different colour schemes. so maybe one day i can persuade a trans chum (or perhaps even a bio woman) that we step out together in them?
if i may add to my above comments regarding the gay scene: my local one has attracted more and more straights over the last few years. and in a classic cuckoo-in-the-nest syndrome, young heteros mostly from lower classes have now completely taken it over at weekends. and in doing so, have ironically forced many of the original clientele to relocate to another part of the city that was previously the reserve of students and other alternative types. i haven't had to resort to that myself yet, as most of the "chavs" ("trailer trash" in american english) don't usually bother going there on weeknights (which since i came on the scene, i have always preferred to the full-on party vibe of weekends anyway). but all the same the damage has been done, as now on such nights you are now more likely to see tumbleweed than tranvestites going down the main drag (sorry)!
ReplyDeleteI love that dress I need to find one
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