Emily

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Pitt (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Melissa “Mel” King/Frank Langdon, Melissa “Mel” King & Frank Langdon Characters: Frank Langdon, Melissa “Mel” King Additional Tags: Theatre Nerd Frank Langdon, Nerd Frank Langdon, based on pball being in macbeth, Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Comfort No Hurt, Divorced Frank Langdon, Post-Rehab Frank Langdon, POV Frank Langdon, Frank Langdon is Down Bad for Melissa “Mel” King, Frank Langdon is Down Bad, Pining Frank Langdon, frank sees mel as the sun, he is a theatre nerd and mel is into it, Melissa “Mel” King is Down Bad for Frank Langdon, Romeo and Juliet References, Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, mind if a white boy quotes a little shakespeare Summary:

By the time he pushed to door open, his dormant ‘Mel Sense’ started back to life. He could feel her before he laid his eyes on her on the stairs above him, staring out the large window into the dark of the Pittsburgh night.

And even in this string of night shifts they had her pulling, Mel was still his sun; radiant and warm, and so so so out of his reach.

Juliet on her balcony, and Romeo leagues below her.

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Passing: Profiling the Lives of Young Trans Men of Color (2015).

[ID: Excerpts from interviews with two trans men. The first, Lucah Rosenberg Lee, has a shaved head and a trimmed beard. The second, Victor Thomas, has curly black hair and a trimmed beard, and is heavier-set.

Lucah, talking about gender dysphoria prior to transitioning, says, “I was in a heterosexual relationship. I was female. I would question this all the time. Am I attracted to these men, or do I just want to be them? That was a big turning point in my own self-discovery.”

Victor, talking about the transphobia he’s endured as a trans man of color, says, “You’re subjected to something because they don’t understand you. And you have to watch the way you react, because you’re a man now. People take you as a threat.”

Lucah, in another scene, discusses feeling erased as a trans man, and racism in trans communities. He says, “Being so invisible within the LGBT community can actually feel so isolating. When people don’t know my history as a trans person, I feel sometimes that I’m viewed as more of an enemy.” END ID.]

Trans men of color deserve to be loved and appreciated, and made safe. Trans men deserve access to our own spaces, no matter how masculine and cis-passing we are. We deserve credit and recognition for the contributions that we have made to trans history, most of which are erased nowadays.

Being a man is not dangerous or wrong. Being masculine is not dangerous or wrong. Being a black man is not dangerous or wrong.

Please support trans men of color.

Please support trans men.

Please support men.