- [Presenter] What do you think the queer community
will look like in 50 years?
- We're all just gonna be data by that point.
So, I think that like, the sex can only get better.
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- [Presenter] How do you identify?
- Ooh, what a loaded question?
- As of right now, I identify as a butch lesbian.
- Lesbian.
- Gay.
- Gay woman.
- I know people use queer, but I've always said gay.
- I mean, these days, queer.
- I identify as a non-binary trans masculine individual.
- I use they, them pronouns.
- I'm a, I'm a dyke.
- I have an F on my driver's license,
but I use the mens room.
- I'm a transgender woman.
- Just a regular trans guy.
- A man.
- Queer fem.
- Fat, queer.
- Queer, black.
- Gender fluid, trans and disabled.
- [Presenter] Can you tell me about your first queer crush?
- Oh, Queen Latifah.
- Hands down, Molly Ringwald.
- Punky Brewster.
- Weird Al Yankovic.
- Nancy McKeon from Facts of Life.
- Seven of Nine on Star Trek.
- David Bowie in Labyrinth.
- [Presenter] How about anyone in real life
that you had a crush on?
- No, I mostly lived in fantasy world.
- There was a girl in the playground,
and she has like brown skin.
She was kind of thick.
- She had really nice golden legs.
- She was like, heading down the hall with her boyfriend,
and he had all these pink marks on his neck
from her kissing him.
I didn't want to be him exactly.
I don't want to be her, and I just couldn't put together
that I wanted her to be kissing me.
- I definitely was very in love
with my best friend in high school.
- We were best friends.
- One time I wrote this super meaningful letter,
that friends could write to each other,
and I think for her it was like, what? (laughs)
- [Presenter] What does chosen family mean to you?
- Chosen family are the people that know you
and love you for exactly who you are.
- You pick them because, a lot of the times
your family doesn't pick you.
- My like family, family, works pretty well with that.
My mom and my dad are all incredibly supportive of me.
- [Presenter] Who is your queer icon?
- The one everyone's gonna say is Ellen.
- Probably Lady Gaga.
- Shane from The L Word.
Boy, how does everybody wanna be Shane,
and they wanna fuck Shane.
- Edith Windsor who, if it wasn't for her,
we couldn't be married.
- Octavia Butler and John Waters.
- I'm from a small town in Nebraska,
so on Friday nights we would go see
Rocky Horror Picture Show,
and Frank N Furter just blew my mind.
- Laverne Cox, when her Transgender Tipping Point
magazine cover came out.
- Kate McKinnon.
I was in the military during Don't Ask, Don't Tell,
and you know, there's a lot of gay jokes,
and having someone on TV who kind of, looks like me,
sounds like me, someone I wanna be like,
I can say, "Well, you like her."
- I feel like, as a non-binary trans masculine person,
there is not a lot of people I can look up to actually.
- [Presenter] Who is your queer icon?
- Me. (laughs)
Hey, why not, you know?
Somebody gotta love you.
- [Presenter] Do you feel like there's
a unified queer community?
- There definitely is.
I go out singing karaoke at lesbian karaoke night,
and go to Pride or the Dyke March.
- To a 65 year old white lesbian,
I don't have a lot in common with you.
- It's kind of lonely out there in a way.
We have Tinder and we have whatever, I don't even know,
because I would never do it.
- I think that it's easier to find queer people online.
- I grew up with Tumblr.
A lot of the LGBT communities on there kind of,
helped shape me into who I was.
- [Presenter] Do you wish there was more
of a unified community?
- Yes, I do actually.
Because, that's not the point
to separate yourself from everybody.
It's to come together.
- In order to unify the queer community more,
I think that people need to listen to queer and trans people
of color and especially black trans women.
- Different sections of community value
and center different things, and so I think
there's a lot of subsets within queer community,
and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
- [Presenter] What do you think the queer community
is going to look like in 50 years?
- That's gonna have a lot to do with economics.
People have always had sexual freedom,
if they had power and resources.
- I hope in the next 50 years, it's just common,
where it won't have people turn their heads.
- Any type of person can walk down the street in 50 years,
not be bothered, not be looked at, not be harassed,
not be scared to live their life.
- I hope that it's just normal.
- Well, I hope it doesn't look like this,
but I have a feeling we'll all be sitting
in a cubicle in front of a screen.
I won't, I'll be dead.
- [Presenter] What's something you'd wanna communicate
to the previous generation of queer people?
- I would definitely wanna say thank you.
- Thank you.
- I'm thankful for the rights that they fought for,
and I also think that there's a lot of things
that a lot of older queer people don't recognize
in the younger queer community that are still problems.
- A lot of older people tend to be like,
oh so are you like this very specific identity?
And, I'm like, err well!
- The older community, they still have biases
and having them just be open to ask questions
instead of being rude or aggressive towards us
for choosing our path.
- Our generation being more open and using different
language and needing to take space sometimes,
I think is valid, and that doesn't mean
we're invalidating their experiences.
- You know, there used to be like, three names
for being gay kind of, and now there's binary,
or something like that and, as an old person, it's kind of,
hard to remember the language.
But, I think it's wonderful, because I don't think
people should fit themselves in a box.
- Older folks won't always be perfect.
But, as long as we're all trying,
I think that we can really find the value in our elders.
I mean truly, these people know what it's like
to fight in a way that we don't.
- [Presenter] What's something you'd wanna communicate
to younger queer people?
- Everyone's journey is different, and it's unique,
and never feel pressured to go about it in a certain way.
You have to stay true to you.
- [Presenter] Is there anything you'd wanna communicate
to yourself as a younger person?
- Okay, now you guys are here trying to make me, I'm soft.
But, same thing I tell myself every day.
That I have to remind myself, your enough.
For a long time I was just like,
God, why did you make me?
Like, what was the point, if I'm gonna be here suffering
and nobody's gonna love me, and I have to fight?
So, I'm just happy to be here,
and be here with a smile on my face.
It's awesome.
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- Can I move?
- [Presenter] You can move.
Thank you so much for doing that.
- [Actor] Come talk to me.
- They seem straight anyway.
- [Crowd] Surprise!
- Three, two, one, go.
- Oh, so gross!
Shall we do another one?