The Q Factor

His show,titled DfunQT,was a little bit about life,a little bit about struggles,a little bit about love.

I know what youre wondering. Am I a girl who looks like a man,or a man who looks better than your man? with these words American performer DLo took off with the audience at the Parks New Festival 2012 on Sunday. His show,titled DfunQT,was a little bit about life,a little bit about struggles,a little bit about love. It was also a great deal about humour and laughter.

A seasoned performer,DLo seemed famous in Delhi even before his show,going by the packed house which included a sizeable number of the citys Queer community. As he arrived on the stage,his trademark bald pate replaced by a mean mohawk,he grabbed eyeballs and ensured they stayed on him for the next 45 minutes.

Beginning with how his father migrated from Sri Lanka to the US,where DLo was born as a girl,the artiste travelled the arc to his own transgender identity and telling his mother about his mastectomy. The hall responded by cracking up or turning poignantly silent. Your story is only as good as the details you put into it. My details are so much about being transgender, DLo said before the show. His narrative of being a transgender of South Asian origin in the US who confronts every queer persons worst nightmare coming out to his or her parents was both intimate and universal.

There are also asides about coloured skin (a cauliflower is the albino version of a broccoli) and the politics of space (its tough for a Queer person to escape stares in public spaces,especially the road). By the time he signed off,with a pun on the worriers and warriors of the Punjabis,he had clearly increased his fan base.

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