Dorian Electra, FTM gender-fluid pop artist, has been interviewed by the Guardian about their new album Flamboyant.



She says that her transmasculine image was partly influenced by artists like David Bowie, Bono (!), Liberace, Prince, and Austin Powers.

As a kid, they felt “really androgynous”:

“I wasn’t into the things girls were into, but I hated sports, or playing with GI Joe. I always identified with the word kid more than girl or boy.” In high school, they would have crushes on boys, “but I didn’t feel like a girl liking a guy. Love stories in movies were very alienating to me.”

Dorian does not define as a drag king:

“I’m not a woman dressing as a man, it’s so much more complex than that” – nor do they feel like a man all the time. “When I came across ‘gender fluid’, I was like: that term actually really resonates with me,” they say. “But the core of my being is not gendered at all – even ‘gender fluid’ is a form of identity that can put somebody in a box.” They say culture is currently at a moment of admitting: “Hey, there are many boxes. And then eventually, if humanity survives, it’ll be like: actually, we don’t need these boxes any more. I do think that the labels are incredibly empowering though, and for people to fight just to be in the other box as male and female, as a trans person, is still enormous.”

On July 17 Dorian releases their debut album, Flamboyant. To Billboard they say that they are trying to reclaim ‘flamboyant’ as a positive thing:

“It’s been used as a derogatory term – a coded word for homosexual, queer, effiminate – and obvious as opposed to secretive, which is what you’re supposed to be in a society that doesn’t embrace you… Then, people started talking about it as something colorful or flame-like that you couldn’t look away from. ”



As for the new music, Dorian says: