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Southern Comfort is a 2001 documentary film about the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by a dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations.
- Joel Harrison
- 2001
- Kate Davis
- Kate Davis
May 23, 2002 · With Robert Eads, Lola Cola, Maxwell Scott Anderson, Cas Piotrowski. Southern Comfort documents the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations.
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- Kate Davis
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Apr 19, 2002 · By JOHN CLARK. April 19, 2002 12 AM PT. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. “Southern Comfort,” a documentary that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago, opens on Robert, a...
Robert Eads (1945–1999) was an American trans man, whose life and death was the subject of the award-winning documentary Southern Comfort (2001). Eads transitioned later in life, and as such it was deemed inadvisable for him to seek gender-affirming surgery to male genitalia.
- January 17, 1999 (aged 53), Toccoa, Georgia U.S.
- Ovarian cancer
- American
Feb 23, 2001 · So many people comment that the camera in “Southern Comfort” seems to be ‘transparent.’ Additionally, the hour loads mean that the scenes could play out more naturally and fully.
- Indiewire
The Southern Comfort Conference is a major transgender conference that has taken place annually since 1991. It features seminars, events, and speeches by prominent people in the LGBT community, numerous vendors catering to transgender and transsexual people, and more.
Feb 15, 2024 · The Southern Comfort Conference was one of the most well-known transgender conferences in the United States. Originally held in Atlanta, it created a space where members of the transgender community could gather, learn about medical resources, and organize politically.
