Dia's Diary: My Mother

Length 06:06
Licensor outLoud Radio
Producer(s) Dia Fallana, Robbie Francis, Noah Miller/the outLoud queer youth radio project
Formats Debut (not aired nationally), Diary
Topics Children, Family, Gay & Lesbian
Produced October 30, 2003
Added to PRX October 31, 2003
 

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Summary:

A transgender woman tells how she came out to her mother

Website:

http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/pages/extras/interviews/2004/miller.html

Additional Credits and Funding:

Original music: Robbie Francis.

Timely on:

May 08: Mothers Day

Tones:

Intimate, Real, This American Life-esque

Language:

English

Description:

Many transgender people come out as gay first. Dia Fallana is a young transgender woman living in a poor part of Oakland, California. In this page from her audio diary, she tells the story of how her mother's anti-gay attitude kept her in the closet -- until she was forced to tell the truth.