Wood’s film, which was autobiographical, uses Patricia’s story as a backdrop for Glen’s struggle for acceptance: Like Patricia, Glen enjoys wearing women’s clothing. The film opens after Patricia, a transgender woman, has taken her own life, citing years of harassment. Two years after Christine Jorgensen became the first transgender woman to transition in the public eye, Wood’s groundbreaking 1953 feature explores the difficulties of being trans in pre-Stonewall America. ever made, Glen or Glenda is both brilliantly transgressive and unbelievably terrible.
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