Rolling Stone has a nice feature -- and review -- of Against Me!'s first show since singer Laura Jane Grace's interview last month coming out as a trans woman:
"I was worried that some people expected me to come out looking like Little Bo Peep or something," Grace said after the show while hanging out at the merch table with her wife, Heather. (They're doing the tour as a family; their toddler daughter, Evelyn, was sleeping with a nanny in the tour bus. [...] Grace is two weeks into hormone replacement therapy. The process involves redistribution of her body's muscle mass, and she was worried about how it would affect her stamina. The band talked before the show about taking some time between songs, but they ended up just powering through the set. The only problem Grace encountered was her guitar cutting out during one song.(The video's pretty shaky, but the sound's good.)
Kudos to RS for getting the pronouns right, but I have one question -- and as a cis woman, I may be overstepping my boundaries but I want to be a good ally -- the title still refers to Laura as Tom. I understand that to a lot of rock fans it's probably confusing, and generally mainstream magazines suck at this sort of thing, but shouldn't the headline just read "Laura" now?
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