“A whole race called me faggot”: Reflections on Race and Class in Trans Oral History Research
“Celia Cruz looked like a drag queen, didn’t she?” I laugh. “Totally” “I brought five trannies from Cleveland, Ohio with me,” Gina tells me as she swiftly changes the subject from the Queen of Salsa to the queens of the park. “We used to be terrors in high school. Always the center of attraction.” She names them quickly, but I only catch four. Sharon, Lisa, Brenda, Roxane. “They all died,” she says. One of them […]