Dear Sugar: I'm A Transgender Man, Seeking Acceptance
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars read the letters of two transgender men who are struggling to find love and acceptance. They discuss with Cooper Lee Bombardier, a visual artist, writer and transgender man.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Sugar is supported by... |
| 0:07.2 | The Universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:11.6 | Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Cheryl Strait. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:21.9 | Oh dear, don't you please... |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah, some little sweet days would be. |
| 0:34.8 | I check my bell vibes every day. |
| 0:42.8 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
| 0:51.8 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:52.8 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:53.8 | So I want to tell you a story. |
| 0:55.8 | I hope it will become relevant why I'm telling you a story. |
| 0:58.8 | It's 1986. I am 19 years old. |
| 1:01.8 | I had a beautiful, I will characterize it as a beautiful diaphanus mullet. |
| 1:04.8 | And I had a mullet too. I was 17. |
| 1:06.8 | Okay, good. Alright, so we're mulleting together. |
| 1:09.8 | But I happen to be in my hometown. |
| 1:11.8 | I've gotten an internship at the hometown newspaper in the sports department. |
| 1:15.8 | Are you at all familiar with what it's like to be in a sports department? |
| 1:18.8 | I am not. |
| 1:19.8 | Okay, it's like basically a frat. |
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