Joe’s history is important because “it tells a story of how his otherness was framed as deviance and signaled by his gender presentation, his refusal to conform. So he crossed the boundaries of gender roles and gender presentation and sexuality, though the people back then didn’t realize that.

“What I’m trying to do is give Joe back his voice, because — and this is another way it should resonate with people today — ‪transgender‬ people oftentimes are not allowed to tell their own story.” - Metro Weekly

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