Editing Taylor Mac

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{{Infobox person
| picture=Taylor Mac (41197009344).jpg
| caption=Taylor Mac performing at the Montclair Film Festival 2018.
| date_birth=August 24, 1973
| place_birth=Laguna Beach, California
| nationality=American
| pronouns=judy<ref>https://taylormac.org/</ref><ref name="Ruiz">{{Cite web |title=Tony-Nominated Taylor Mac on “Camping With Radical Fairies,” Penis Jokes, and His Gender Pronoun, Judy |last=Ruiz |first=Michelle |work=Vogue |date=7 June 2019 |access-date=26 September 2020 |url= https://www.vogue.com/article/taylor-mac-gary-tonys-interview}}</ref>
| gender="I kind of identify as a gay male; I kind of identify as [[genderqueer]]. Really, my gender is ''performer'' because I feel like I'm always performing gender."<ref name="Ruiz" /><br>
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'''Taylor Mac''' is an American actor, playwright, performance artist, director, producer, and singer-songwriter active mainly in New York City. In 2017, Mac was the recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/997/ | title=Damon Rich – MacArthur Foundation}}</ref> Mac was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.<ref name="pulitzer">{{cite web|title=Finalist: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, by Taylor Mac|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/taylor-mac|website=www.pulitzer.org|accessdate=September 2, 2017|language=en}}</ref>

Taylor Mac uses "judy/judy's" as a pronoun. It has been said that this was in reference to Judy Garland,<ref name="Needham">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/13/taylor-mac-on-queering-history-someone-like-me-doesnt-normally-get-to-represent-america|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413232603/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/13/taylor-mac-on-queering-history-someone-like-me-doesnt-normally-get-to-represent-america|archive-date=13 April 2019|date=12 September 2017|title=Taylor Mac on queering history: 'Someone like me doesn't normally get to represent America'|last=Needham|first=Alex}}</ref> but judy has clarified that it actually references the time in gay history when "the gays would call their boyfriend 'Mary' or 'Judy' so that if they were talking in public about them people would think it was a girl".<ref name="Ruiz" />

Judy was born in Laguna Beach, California and raised in Stockton, the child of Joy Aldrich and Vietnam War veteran Lt. Robert Mac Bowyer. Mac's mother opened a private art school that influenced judy's early aesthetic by embracing collage and teaching students to build from mistakes rather than attempt to erase them. Mac moved to New York in 1994 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduation, judy began working as an actor and wrote the plays ''The Hot Month'' (1999), ''The Levee'' (2000), and ''The Face of Liberalism'' (2003).

==Quotes==
{{quote|I was getting introduced onstage and written about, and some people would say 'he' and others would say 'she' and neither really felt right for the art I was making. My friend [[Justin Vivian Bond]] started using the gender [[pronoun]] 'v', and that made me think I could choose my own. The other part is that I'm an artist, and it's part of my job to make people think outside their norms a little bit. And I wanted a gender pronoun that was fun, and that immediately emasculates you – because you can't roll your eyes and say 'judy' without being camp.<ref name="Needham" />}}

==Links==
*[https://taylormac.org/ Website]

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[[Category: Genderqueer people]]
[[Category: Performers]]
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