I hate to say it, but there's something positively karmic about the man who was arguably Hollywood's most notorious womanizer having a daughter who became a son. Not that the New York Times, from whence the following originates, would dare to make that observation. It's far more concerned about the non-hetero gender identity acronym, which seems to add and shed letters with bewildering frequency (it's now LGBTQIA):
STEPHEN IRA BEATTY, a junior at Sarah Lawrence College, uploaded a video last March on We Happy Trans, a site that shares “positive perspectives” on being transgender.
In the breakneck six-and-a-half-minute monologue — hair tousled, sitting in a wood-paneled dorm room — Stephen exuberantly declared himself “a queer, a nerd fighter, a writer, an artist and a guy who needs a haircut,” and held forth on everything from his style icons (Truman Capote and “any male-identified person who wears thigh-highs or garters”) to his toy zebra.
Because Stephen, who was born Kathlyn, is the 21-year-old child of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, the video went viral, garnering nearly half a million views. But that was not the only reason for its appeal. With its adrenalized, freewheeling eloquence, the video seemed like a battle cry for a new generation of post-gay gender activists, for whom Stephen represents a rare public face...
Post-gay gender activists? Can't hardly wait for that Post-Gay Pride Parade and Post-Gays Against Israeli Apartheid.
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