In a small community, presenting yourself as anything different than how people have always known you poses difficulties. They said, “That can be anything from how you feel socially with other people, how you feel connected with yourself, how you feel connected with your body, with the clothing that you choose to wear - just like an unexplainable feeling of manhood or girlhood.”
Benham explained it as an existence where your mind (how you feel inside) aligns somewhere between masculine and feminine. They explain further, “So things like cisgender, just meaning 'not trans.' Transgender, meaning, both transitioning from what you were assigned at birth, the sex that you were born as, to the opposite gender.”Īnd then there is the space Benham exists in, which is non-binary. But really just what happened was people started putting words to feelings.” Now, we know that is not the case.īenham said, “There's definitely a lot of new terminologies that have come around in the last decade or two … a lot of terms were born that feel like buzzwords because they all came up at the same time and they're all like new with the younger generations. Historically, language and grammar around gender and sexuality had been built by the dominant idea that there is male and female and no spectrum between the two. but there's a lot of people that don't have that.” He has a very violent past and I'm really grateful to have had a very nonviolent coming out. John is a binary trans boy and I'm a non-binary transmasculine person, so there's a difference there. “John is a piece of me in the sense that we share that feeling of wanting to be accepted for being transmasculine. “All of the characters are kind of pieces of all of us,” said Benham. While John is not an exact mirror of Benham’s life, they do share the same fear of losing love and support for living in a way that feels the most truthful. “It's about John, or Johnny, who's a trans boy who's struggling with being Johnny Jane, which is an insult and not his name … and also trying to be John,” Benham explains. What they came up with is a one-hour play called "Johnny Jane." Valerie Nuzzo said, “We decided early on that we wanted to write something about ‘othering’ and how that happens and how we can ‘un-other’ people.” Their most recent production is one they wrote together. They’ve been working together for more than four years now. Benham’s partner, Joe, nodded his head in agreement.īenham and the Nuzzos are the principal actors and operators of Zephyr Stage, a theater company based in Fruita. Her husband Kim next to her tugged on the same imaginary cord. “That's right,” said Valerie Nuzzo, Benham’s friend and mentor, “We're going to just follow this story all the way through.” Her hands mimed as she spoke, pulling on a rope with one hand over the other. It’s five minutes to showtime and Finn Benham exhales a nervous sigh. Classics is a 5CD box set with original artwork 'mini LP' CD wallets in deluxe packaging.Includes the albums Johnny Winter, Second Winter, Live Johnny Winter And, Still Alive And Well & Saints And Sinners.PALISADE, Colo.
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