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Qween Jean becomes the first out transgender person to win a Tony Award | PRIDE Daily’s Queer Cheer · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: Queen Jean. You know, Queen Jean, the costume designer. Well,
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  Speaker 2: she's become the first out transgender person ever to win
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  Speaker 2: a Tony Award. They've been dished out to theatre productions
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  Speaker 2: on New York's Broadway for the last 79 years. The
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  Speaker 2: LGBTQ plus rights activist, who's originally from Haiti, got best
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  Speaker 2: costume design of a musical for Cats, the Jellicle Ball.
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  Speaker 3: We are here for the legacy of queer people, trans people.
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  Speaker 3: We have to take up space. We have to shift
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  Speaker 3: the paradigm. The world right now is deeply, deeply combating
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for this honour.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to CBS. Queen Jean made about 500 costumes for
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  Speaker 2: the reimagining of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This
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  Speaker 2: new version is inspired by the queer ballroom culture of
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  Speaker 2: 1980s Harlem. A number of her creations included references to
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  Speaker 2: transgender pioneers like Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson and Miss
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