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LostOne4Ever

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1. The non-binary performers/actors choose the award for which they want to compete

Reply to Staph (Original post)

Tue Jun 13, 2023, 10:10 PM

Jun 2023

https://www.myhighplains.com/entertainment-news/first-non-binary-actors-win-tony-awards/amp/

Like other award shows, the Tonys uses gendered categories for best actor and best actress awards, so nominees who identify as nonbinary must choose in which category they want to be nominated.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1178027738/tony-awards-gendered-non-binary-broadway

Newell, who is a self-described nonbinary, non-gender-conforming actor, is nominated for best featured actor in a musical, the category in which they chose to be recognized. Why actor and not actress? "The word itself is not gendered," they said. "That is my profession. That is my vocation. I am an actor."

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I'll try to ask this question as gracefully as I can. [View all] Staph Jun 2023 OP

The non-binary performers/actors choose the award for which they want to compete LostOne4Ever Jun 2023 #1

Thanks, LostOne! Staph Jun 2023 #2