FINDING HANDSOME is a celebration of queer masculinity depicted through portraits and stories of those born and raised in the pre-internet era. This project is a visual and oral history of masculine people ("Handsomes") who were “assigned female at birth” (AFAB)*. It is not about a particular gender identity, sexuality, or choice of pronouns. It is an honouring of those who may have been made to feel ugly, othered, undervalued or unseen, regardless of being a trans man or a butch dyke, genderqueer or nonbinary, or any other of the multitude of ways to describe and define gender or sexuality. It is a gathering of stories of resilience, becoming and finding one's authentic self in a pre-internet landscape.
