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| 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> | | pronouns=judy<ref>https://taylormac.org/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230705150439/https://taylormac.org/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327050839/https://www.vogue.com/article/taylor-mac-gary-tonys-interview |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</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> | | 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''' 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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628110555/https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/taylor-mac|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</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" /> | 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" /> | ||