Being and Loving ME:

A Transgender Exhibit

What People Are Saying ___________________________________

These comments were gathered at 2006 & 2007 exhibit showings.  Please let us know how we touched you!_________________________________

Powerful!  What a gift it is to be able to get a glimpse of someone else’s life in such a deeply personal way.  Courage, humanity, celebration – loved it!!

I thought the exhibit was incredibly moving, to look at people’ very intimate and deep fears, hopes, dreams, challenges in a public space touched me.  I hope this exhibit travels to many places & opens up many hearts and minds.

I appreciate the honesty, love and courage of the artists.  The beauty here is remarkable.  Thank you!

Very moving.  Thank you.

Very moving.  As a gay man, I have only experienced a fraction of the others.  You experience and you share and it is powerful.

Wonderful – I just wish there was a safe place like this that I could go to the other 363 days of the year.  I love you all.

It’s always important to share through experience.

I really loved it all.

It is hard for be to describe the happiness this exhibit gave me.  Seeing people join together to support each other is immensely important.  Thank you for putting on this exhibit.

I enjoyed the variety of the pieces and each person’s story.  We all have our individual story and we need to share it. 

I really got that no matter who I am or what, it’s not an issue.  I can be with it and go forward with pride!

It brought me more understanding and more connection with a room of life and people I knew less than I know now.  And it offered me a possibility of supporting and melding with new wounded, healing and beautiful hearts.

My partner is trans and an artist – I would love to see him express himself through art like this.  Beautiful exhibit.  Thank you!

It was very interesting to look through the exhibit because I knew Emeri from high school.  I can’t say I was shocked, but it was somewhat strange.  I think strange is fitting because I feel as if I have become closer to him (or who she has now become) without seeing her.  Right on Emeri!!  It gives me strength.

Close to my heart!

I have always admired people who create themselves in their own image.  Stay strong!  Best wishes.

It is wonderful to see this exhibit.  It gives me strength.  It is the pride with which loved ones speak that strengthens me the most.  Thank you.

Amazingly forthright and honest.

I enjoyed very much the speakers as well as the intense emotional energy and connection put into all of the pieces here.

Love it.  Love the artists.  Love the curators.  Much love.  Tis all.

This is an amazing exhibit.  There are so many stories and ways to tell stories and I think these are all intensely beautiful.

Beautiful, touching, evocative.  I cried several times.  I say my life through others eyes.

It is really so important for more people to know about transgenderism and Tran sexuality.  To see gender as a spectrum & not black & white is something radical in our culture & anything that helps people to see that is truly revolutionary.

This was a great event.  Nice work!!

The letters from parents were incredible.  Thank you!