Burlesque

In this film we follow boylesque and burlesque performer Mark Anthony as they undergo top surgery and perform for the first time in the body that reflects how they identify. The performer is a trans-masculine non-binary drag king who identifies as neither male nor female. Under the UK’s 2004 Gender Recognition Act, Mark’s gender doesn’t legally exist.

After growing up in a strict Christian home that burned non-religious music, the freedom of burlesque showed me loving dance does not make me a blight on the face of the earth.