Gabriela Kontra – Jana Štěpánová

Family Maps, 2007, colour photograph

 

Maureen-Greg and Joan / Washington, USA. Maureen and Joan married three years ago. It was totally legal since Maureen was, officially, Greg at that time, and there thus were no obstructions. Joan: “I used to live as a housewife. I brought up two kids, cooked dinners for my husband and tended to the household. But only Greg, i.e. Maureen, showed me a real life. He’s made a woman of me.” Maureen/Greg: “You probably wonder how it is with me. It’s simple. I’ve got no surgery. The hair, the nails, the breasts – all authentic and my own, no fake. I don’t speak in a high voice to be a ‘better’ woman. Sometimes I simply wake up and feel more like being a woman, and sometimes more as a man.”

Jana Štěpánová

Petr and Michel / Prague. Petr is Czech, Michel is French and they have been together for ten years. They live in Prague where Michel runs a private language school and Petr makes his living in video. Petr: “If you ask me about a registered partnership, the present form of the law doesn’t give us any solid rights… We don’t give a damn about the stupid ‘Registered’ stamp in our papers.”

Gabriela Kontra

 

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