Desire Lines | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and ero | dG1fTV9vREwxTHZnNWs

Transcript

00:00 I came to see you Dr. Pauly because I understood that you are the reigning

00:04 expert on the female-to-male transsexual and I also understood that that you had

00:11 not met or heard of a female-to-male transsexual who identified as a gay man

00:17 and that's exactly what I am and I want my story preserved.

00:22 You wanted to know what it's like in an actual bathhouse?

00:26 I've thought about it.

00:29 And so I think about the early narratives of transness it was like you

00:34 were female to male or you're male to female and that's it and you're

00:36 heterosexual. Then you started to see the like parentheses of trans men and

00:41 trans masculine folk who were engaging with men and it was like this big secret

00:45 and I was like why was it such a secret? We were all doing it.

00:50 [Music]

01:09 Archive fever?

01:11 [Music]

01:13 And so yeah so I don't know it's weird to be like chicken or the egg like you

01:17 know did the tea make me gay? Was I always destined to be interested in men?

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