This weekend, Transamerica opens in Pittsburgh.  This film, which garnered a Best Actress Golden Globe for Felicity Huffman, focuses on the relationship between a transgender woman (Huffman) and the teenage son she didn't know she fathered. 

It is playing in one (1) theater -- the Cinemagic on Forward Avenue in Squirrel Hill. 

(Side note:  Brokeback Mountain is now showing in 11 local theaters.)

The PG gives the movie 2 1/2 stars, taking Huffman's performance seriously but finding weak the credibility of her having been a man.  They also question the director's choice to have a biological-born woman play the role of a biologically-born man transitioning to a woman. 

Is Paris suggesting that only a biological-born male could convincingly play a MtF transexual woman?  Or veering into a homophobic suggestion that only a transexual woman could convincingly play a transexual woman? 

If Huffman isn't convincing, it is due to her acting.  Not her gender identity. 

The Trib's Ed Blank weighs in on this facet of Huffman's performance in his positive review

What's striking is that you can see in the performance the struggle to repress a(n effeminate) male who, as we know, isn't really beneath the makeup.

Hopefully, I can get to the movie this weekend. 

Sue

This morning the Post-Gazette editors condemn the bill introduced in the PA House of Representatives that would amend the constitution to "protect marriage." 

The PG notes that the amendment's impace reaches far beyond the queer community, threatening unmarried heterosexual families including adoptive parents and senior citizens. 

They rightly criticize the homo-haters who have signed on to co-sponsor this piece of legislation:

Shame is right!  Every single one of these co-sponsors has taken time away from meeting their constituents real needs in order to propagate a hate-laced agenda.  There's no justification for co-sponsoring this bill.   Especially the Democrats!  This is pure and simple pandering to the right wing base and it is going to come back to haunt them. 

They give a shout out to our friend and champion Dan Frankel for using his time constructively to address family issues. 

Two Pennsylvania residents weigh in on the the vicious discrimination underlying this legislation. 

Disgusting!

Sue