No Ordinary Man Screening
by Rosa Kwir
Date and time
Rosa Kwir will be screening No Ordinary Man, an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton.
About this event
For decades, the life of American Jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In No Ordinary Man, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legacy: how do you tell the story of someone who was hiding in plain sight yet desperate to be seen?
