Marta Balaga In his documentary essay “Desire Lines,” currently in development and presented at Ji.hlava New Visions Forum: U.S.
Docs, Chicago-born Jules Rosskam blows the lid off an “open secret” among transgender men: the fact that after coming out, many of them develop an attraction for other men.“This idea is the driving force of the film.
Everyone jokes about it but no one is really talking about it,” Rosskam tells Variety. Now 42, he came out as trans in his early twenties.“At that time, in North America, trans people were subjected to the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, which required you to be straight.
You would be asked who you were attracted to because, God forbid, we create a queer person by letting someone transition. It was.