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WATCH: Will Young's 'Brave Man' is Trans, Naked & Unafraid
"This video is about taking a moment in time to explore a section of society who stand up for themselves."
October 19 2015 5:00 PM EST
May 24 2016 12:07 AM EST
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"This video is about taking a moment in time to explore a section of society who stand up for themselves."
Brit singer-songwriter Will Young's heartbreaking video for "Brave Man" will have you feeling all the feels as it follows a young man facing the cruel world as naked as the day he was born. Except that he wasn't born in the male body he so vulnerably exposes to strangers.
Young explained his motivation behind the video in an emotional post on Facebook:
It seems extremely brave to be a man in a woman's body and then decide to do something about this. As I thought more about it, I realised that there is often coverage of what it is to be a woman in a man's body, but never to my knowledge the documenting of the opposite (almost a perverted kind of patriarchy). [...]
I know that transgender people do not like being called brave. It is something that is innate. Not a choice, but a given. Being a gay man I feel the same. I wasn't 'brave' to come out it was simply what I had to do. [...]
In this video we see a man determined to be himself in the face of all adversity from inside and outside. It isn't brave but, my god, it shows true grit and strength. What a wonderful thing. This video isn't about selling records or my personal benefit. This video is about taking a moment in time to explore a section of society who stand up for themselves. To tell a story and offer a window through music into someone's life.
Check out the video for "Brave Man" below: