The Q Factor

Beginning with how his father migrated from Sri Lanka to the US,where D’Lo 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,” D’Lo said before the show. His narrative of being a transgender of South Asian origin in the US who confronts every queer person’s 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 (it’s 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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