This film is mostly about the relationship between Linda (the director's sister Linda Spheeris), a lesbian woman, a virago with a husky voice, and Jimmy/Jennifer a transsexual. It's a documentary though it has a large element of staging. It feels like it was pretty damned brave to make a film like this in 1972. It's a difficult relationship you can see that pretty clearly, there are reasons why it should work, but Jimmy isn't convinced. Linda takes a sort of male role if you want to call it that, she rides her bike and Jimmy sits in the seat behind holding onto her, and she has quite a traditional male role mindset, although she can sometimes be really feminine and doting on Jimmy. With Jimmy it looks like he wants someone more masculine, and he returns to his male lover were told, despite the fact that he'd received several beatings from him. So I guess it's a documentary of a very special but failing relationship. Towards the end there's another subject, Dana, who is a female to male transsexual with handlebar moustache. Dana and Jimmy were peas of a pod it felt like, drama queen and king. I absolutely loved this film to pieces, I just thought all the characters were really brave, trying to find their places in life when society didn't really have places for them (no-one is willing to hire Jimmy for a regular job for example).

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