Amos Mac

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Amos Mac
Born
Augusta, Georgia
NationalityAmerican
Alma materThe New School
Known forPhotographer, writer, and publisher
Notable work"Original Plumbing"
Website https://www.amosmac.com/

Amos Mac (born 1981)[ citation needed ] is an American writer, photographer and a publisher from Augusta, Georgia. Mac is based in Los Angeles as a writer for television and film . [1]

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Early life

He grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2]

Original Plumbing

As a trans man, he co-founded and became editor in chief of Original Plumbing , [3] a magazine that focuses on the culture of female-to-male trans men and sexuality. [4] Mac chose Original Plumbing's title as a playful take on the obsession the media has with the genitalia of trans people. [5] To express and explore his culture of being a trans man in the United States, he and his friend Rocco Kayiatos started the magazine Original Plumbing in 2009 while they were both living in San Francisco. [6]

Photography and other notable work

As a visual artist, Mac's photography have appeared in The New York Times , Vogue Italia , BUTT Magazine, and OUT.

In 2011, he went on a national tour with feminist art group Sister Spit where he showcased photographs, read his writing and spoke candidly about trans representation in the media. [7]

In 2015 Amos Mac photographed a campaign for H&M's sister brand, & Other Stories, which became the first fashion campaign created by an all-transgender cast and crew. [8] The campaign featured models Hari Nef and Valentijn De Hingh. [9]

In June 2016, it was announced that Mac would be featured in The Trans List [10] an HBO documentary film produced by Janet Mock along with director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Mock also interviews the cast, which features ten prominent transgender figures besides Mac: Laverne Cox, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Buck Angel, Kylar Broadus, Caroline Cossey, Shane Ortega, Alok Vaid-Menon, Nicole Maines, Bamby Salcedo and Caitlyn Jenner.

In The Trans List, Mac describes his life before transitioning. "I really don't know why I was waiting for so long," Mac says. "It seemed like it was no longer an option for my sanity or for my health. I had to stop spending so much time trying to cover up my emotions and my problems, and I had to deal with myself." [11]

Amos Mac sat for photographer Mark Seliger for his 2016 book of photographs On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories. [12]

Film and television

Mac currently works in Los Angeles, California on television shows and films. It was announced in October 2019 that Amos would be a writer for the Gossip Girl reboot for HBO Max. [13]

With Aisling Chin-Yee, Mac co-wrote No Ordinary Man , a Canadian documentary that premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. [14] The film is a portrait of Billy Tipton, the influential jazz musician who was revealed after his death to have been transgender. [15]

Honors and recognition

In 2014, Mac was named to the Trans 100 list for "outstanding contributions to the trans community." [16] [17]

In 2018, after being named a Lambda Literary Writers' Retreat Fellow for Emerging LGBT Voices, [18] it was announced that Mac was writing a young adult novel.

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References

  1. ↑ Mac, Amos. "Amos Mac Official".
  2. ↑ Sharkey, M (2015-07-24). "Amos Mac: Trans Heartthrob". OUT Magazine. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  3. ↑ Trebay, Guy (2010-08-11). "Original Plumbing Magazine Finds Its Audience". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  4. ↑ "Original Plumbing official website". Archived from the original on 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  5. ↑ Teeman, Tim (2016-12-03). "The Truth About Being Trans: Caitlyn Jenner and Others Open Up in HBO's 'The Trans List'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  6. ↑ Jones, Laneia (2010-02-20). "Trans Photographer Amos Mac: The Autostraddle Interview". Autostraddle. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  7. ↑ "Sister Spit readies their new spring tour - AfterEllen". AfterEllen. 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  8. ↑ Garcia, Patricia (2015-08-14). "The Transgender Gaze in the New & Other Stories Campaign". Vogue. Retrieved 2016-11-29.[ permanent dead link ]
  9. ↑ Peoples, Landon (2015-08-14). "& Other Stories' Transgender Fashion Campaign Is A Major First". Refinery29. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  10. ↑ Rooney, David (2016-06-22). "'The Trans List': Provincetown Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  11. ↑ Zurawik, David. "HBO's 'The Trans List' a powerful, personal exploration of transgender identity". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  12. ↑ "On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  13. ↑ Mac, Amos (2019-10-01). "Hey Upper East Siders – Excited to announce I'm a writer for the new Gossip Girl series, truly honored to bring all the hot goss on the Manhattan elite to your viewing-screen-machines soon!". @theamosmac. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  14. ↑ "No Ordinary Man". TIFF. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  15. ↑ Tallerico, Brian (12 September 2020). "TIFF 2020: No Ordinary Man, MLK/FBI, The Boy from Medellin | Festivals & Awards". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  16. ↑ "Complete 2014 Trans 100 List Released to the General Public". www.advocate.com. 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  17. ↑ "The Trans 100" (PDF). 2014.
  18. ↑ Gentes, Brian (2018-09-06). "Introducing Lambda Literary's 2018 Emerging Writers Retreat Fellows". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
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