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Mighty Real

Photo Essay: Austin's Underground Drag Scene

By Jana Birchum, February 18, 2000, News

Identity

Kelly Kline, shown here, was Fuller's "drag mother" (see "Mother Figures"). Kelly, who is transsexual (her sexual identity is straight and her gender identity female) performed her first show on a dare. She found in women's clothes something that spoke to her deepest self, her gender identity. She is no longer male. She is a woman.

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