I think the headlines all should have read, Gay Playwright Wins Pulitzer for Play about Transvestite
Doug Wright, who wrote the play, “I Am My Own Wife,” won the Pulitzer a couple of days ago. (There goes my chance of interviewing him.) If you haven’t gone to see the play yet, and you’re TG, you should be ashamed of yourself! It’s a wonderful, sympathetic-but-realistic portrait of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who lived through the Nazis and the Communists.
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It’s worth checking out Charlotte’s book, I Am My Own Woman, as well as the documentary of the same name.