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Virtual Film Screening: Sir: Just a Normal Guy

In recognition of Transgender History Month, Chatham Community Library will host a virtual film screening of, Sir: Just a Normal Guy (2001) beginning Thursday, August 15, and continuing through Thursday, August 22, 2024.

Sir: Just an Normal Guy is a candid and courageous portrait of more than 15-months in the female-to-male (FTM) transition of Jay Snider and explores both the emotional and physical changes of this experience. With support from those closest to him, Jay’s experience is remarkably positive, though not without conflict. During the course of the film, he renews long-distant ties with his brother, but also faces permanent estrangement from his parents.

Sir is an in-depth and humanizing exploration of the challenges, discrimination, and alienation faced by transsexuals. Jay’s conflicted feelings around queer identification are portrayed along with his significant other’s continued identification as lesbian. A much-needed look at FTM transition, the film demonstrates both the fluidity of sexual identification and that love and human resilience can triumph over deep-rooted differences.

 

Film Awards: 

  • OUTrageous: Santa Barbara LGBT Film Festival
  • New Festival, The New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  • Berkeley Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention
  • Washington, DC Reel Affirmations Film Festival
  • Chicago Reeling Film Fest
  • IndieFest: The San Francisco Independent Film Festival
  • TrannyFest San Francisco
  • First International Queer Arts Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Western Psychological Association Convention Film Festival
  • Auckland, Melbourne, Milwaukee, Olympia, Seattle, Semarang, Sydney, Tampa, Vancouver and Winnipeg Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals

Access to the virtual screening will be available beginning Thursday, August 15, at the following URL: https://www.wmm.com/virtual-screening-room/sir-just-a-normal-guy-chatham-community-library/

A password is required at the time of viewing.  

Please contact social.library@chathamlibraries.org to request the password or for additional information.

This program is free and open to the public.

 

  

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