“I am an actor, Mr. Mackintosh, not a gimmick,” the Transparent star wrote on Instagram last week.
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“I am these stories because I am part of the human fabric and no one has the right to take any [of] this away from me,” Billings wrote. “Not the police who arrested me, not the society who shunned me… and not you, who labels me.”
Sis hopes the Trans March on Broadway can showcase not just the many performers fighting for acceptance today, but also draw attention to those who have been forced out of the industry along the way.
“You don’t know how many times people have told me, ‘I stopped doing theater because I felt like there wasn't space for me as a trans person,’” the organizer said.
More details about the Trans March on Broadway, including location and lineup, will be released on Sis’s social media pages, found at @ucancallmesis. The march will be followed by a concert — playfully called “You Gotta Have a Gimmick” — with more information to be announced at a later time.
As the event takes shape, Sis has a clear and powerful message to share: “You can not erase us, because this is our story.”
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