20 Celebrities Who Have Changed The Way We View Gender
JD Samson
“I think that’s a common way to describe gender identity in more of an academic or theoretical way. For me, talking about performing my gender feels like its in a little bit more of an academic category… I totally believe that everything I do is a performance if its outside my house. I’ve been thinking a lot about that recently, just in terms of my role as an icon, or something — whatever people have put on me. I kind of got obsessed with this idea that my persona and myself are two different things, and a lot of that is in the record as well. I think that the way that I present myself to the world is natural and organic to me, and feels comfortable, but at the same time its like, it’s a performance to not change it, it’s a performance to go against the norm and not try and fit in. That part of it’s a performance for sure.“
Let’s talk JD Samson, who came out as a lesbian at the young age of 15 and is very well known for her supportive activism of LGBT and feminist organizations. She kickstarted her high schools first Gay/Straight alliance and is now an icon in the queer world. She’s never been one to follow gender standards and doesn’t really give a sh*t. JD Samson is destroying the gender stereotypes that most of us unconsciously think about.