![]() ![]() "I had this 'aha!' moment when I realised that I didn't have to be a man and I didn't have to be a woman, I didn't have to be either of these things, and that I could just be me." "And he said, 'I hear what you're saying, but what about this idea?' And I just heard the word genderqueer. "I had just explained to him my concept of my gender," Jenek says. It was in one of these conversations that Bono suggested to Jenek the word he might be looking for was "genderqueer". With Bono, Jenek would talk at length about gender, sexuality, masculinity, and femininity, detailing his own conceptions of gender and his struggle with his own identity. "There were other occurrences throughout my twenties where people who in no way were trying to attack or insult me asked me questions about my gender, and I just got really aggressive about it." "I said, 'What do you mean, femininity? I'm a man who's dressing up in drag.' "He said something about my femininity, and even that, it got my back up again," Jenek says. The pair met through Drag Race, on which Bono was a judge who quickly became "smitten" with Courtney. ![]()
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