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Kate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant Danger (2014)

For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender. And, her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering Gender Outlaw. Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger, joins her on her latest tour capturing rollicking public performances and painful personal revelations as it bears witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist theorist activist who inhabits a space between male and female with wit, style, and astonishing candor. By turns meditative and playful, the film invites us on a thought provoking journey through Kate's world to seek answers to some of life's biggest questions.

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Kate BornsteinKate BornsteinSelf
  • Photo of Barbara CarrellasBarbara CarrellasSelf
  • Photo of Justin Vivian BondJustin Vivian BondSelf
  • Photo of Amos MacAmos MacSelf
  • Photo of Jack O'Rion BarkerJack O'Rion Barker
  • Photo of Tony LioceTony Lioce
  • Photo of Rocco KayiatosRocco Kayiatos
  • Photo of Sandy HolmanSandy Holman
  • Photo of Bevin Bevin BranlandinghamBevin Bevin Branlandingham
  • Photo of Sandy StoneSandy Stone

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