"I am very open about my genderism. I'm always willing to educate everybody who feels different, and help them understand that you gotta love yourself, honey," said trans icon Octavia St. Laurent. "Iʼm a very powerful man, and Iʼve always used the beauty of a woman and put them together. Itʼs got me quite successful through the years. And itʼs also kept me alive. Basically I love who and what I am, and I wouldnʼt be anything else."

St. Laurent rose to fame in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning.

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