It was a difficult story for people to get their minds around. People had such little experience even imagining what a transgendered man is. But that wasn't really about the community at large, but more a very isolated incident, Brandon Teena . I mean, you tell somebody there's this cowboy, and he's transgendered. It just flips reality, as we know it, upside down.
Sexuality is all over the place.
Major novels and nonfiction books have come out that have stretched the envelope of what can be discussed publicly. We've broken through a lot of taboos. After heterosexuality, the next border to cross seemed to be homosexuality, and now gays are much more prevalent in the media. This is new territory. For some of the reasons I mentioned.