Richard O'Brien saved my life.

[sebastienne]

This interview is quite, quite exceptional, and is very worth reading for any Rocky Horror fan or non-heteronormative person on my flist.

"All my life, I’ve been fighting never belonging, never being male or female, and it got to the stage where I couldn’t deal with it any longer. To feel you don’t belong . . . to feel insane . . . to feel perverted and disgusting . . . you go f***ing nuts. If society allowed you to grow up feeling it was normal to be what you are, there wouldn’t be a problem. I don’t think the term ‘transvestite’ or ‘transsexual’ would exist: you’d just be another human being.

I’d been fighting, going to therapy, treating what I was as though it were some kind of illness to be cured. But actually, no, I was basically transgender, and just unhappy.

I lost the plot. Paranoid delusions, the works. It was at the time when Bush and Blair ruled the f***ing world, and trying to claw my way back to sanity, I saw no standard norm. I wanted to get back to normal, but where’s the benchmark of sanity? I was drowning and couldn’t find a surface."

Comments

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

That was good to read -- thank you for linking.

[queerpup.livejournal.com]

Oh bless his cotton socks!

There's someone I wish I could just give a big squeeze and then make a cup of tea.

[robot-mel.livejournal.com]

That made me cry! To think the poor bloke is still suffering so much when he's helped so many thousands feel comfortable with themselves.

And 67? DAMN!

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

I love his kids reaction to coming out.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

He touched me once. On the same night he allegedly snorted coke from a kitkat foil in Theo's Office (Union President's office). His hands round my waist were like ice, even in the heat of what was essentially a disco. I will never forget is. They moved like snakes.

[steerpikelet.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just, wow.

[firescribble.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking. That cheered me up no end.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Should I apply for the p/t job currently going at your place, or will I hate it?

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Is it the evening/Saturday job, or is it an afternoon one? Either way, there will be a lot of shelving, and not as much desk time as you may like. Being used to Geac you have a definite advantage, ditto knowledge of e-resources; the two parts of the job are shelving and desk backup, plus you know LCC already so bonus. So it does depend on what you're wanting out of it, I guess. Valerie has less chance to micromanage you if you're p/t ;-) S and A make me roll my eyes a lot of the time, but they aren't nasty at all.

[laputain.livejournal.com]

Every time jessikast and I are in Hamilton, we go to RO'B's statute, give the Transylvanian salute and recite "We pledge allegiance to the lips of the Rocky Horror Picture Show".

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

evening/saturday; I'm looking for additional hours to combine with my super-shiny @admin job. I am mostly looking for desk-and-shelving; but - oh! - only if I'm allowed headphones while I'm out there.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Thank $deities, we are allowed headphones whilst shelving. I seriously would have quit if Boss had insisted on that.
You could do this job standing on your head, but you knew that :-)

[janetmweiss.livejournal.com]

To think the poor bloke is still suffering so much when he's helped so many thousands feel comfortable with themselves.

I pretty much couldn't have said it better myself. *appropriate icon*