Brie Austin

I AM My Own Wife

I AM My Own Wife is a play about Charlotte, who realized at an early age that “she” didn’t identify with being a he, and it was through a loving grandmother- and a book about transvestism that her grandmother provided —  that Charlotte came to understand and accept her female identity. The writer believed he found in Charlotte “a true iconoclastic gay hero,” by the mere fact that she not only existed, but did so publicly as a gay transvestite during both the Nazi and communist Stasi rule over Germany and East Germany, […]