AM I A MAN Announced At Frigid Fringe Festival

Bay Area performance artist, poet and actor, Dazié Grego-Sykes returns to the stage to offer audiences AM I A MAN, a multidisciplinary performance based inquiry into Queer masculinity. This performance takes place at The Kraine Theater 85 East 4th Street, NY 10003.

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AM I A MAN, A story of PRIDE and the violence that transforms sissy's into men. This original work is Dazié's protest response to the brutal slaying of Jorge Steven Mercado, a Puerto Rican teenager whose killer solicited him for sex, believing him to be a female. When it was discovered that Mercado was, in fact male, he was murdered, decapitated, dismembered and burned.

AM I A MAN takes a unique look at masculinity from a gay male perspective. "Historically, we have been conditioned to define gender and sexuality norms from the viewpoint of the heterosexual community," Grego explains, "but maleness exists regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.AM I A MAN maintains a core identity based in manhood while bending the ideologies around what it actually means to be a man."

Tickets available online at http://www.horsetrade.info/event/b450fde3e9894a9df67ee97e836a8a1d