Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fascinating deconstruction of history, culture and identity, “No Ordinary Man” raises many crucial questions — and answers them ...

In trans masculine circles, Billy Tipton is seen as both an ancestor and a martyr. The jazz musician came up in a time when there were not yet any medical advancements in trans-affirming surgeries in ...

No Ordinary Man: The Billy Tipton Documentary is a new film out today that tells a story unlike so many other movies about transgender people, like The Danish Girl, The Crying Game, and Boys Don’t Cry ...

If the name Billy Tipton seems familiar, it’s because that very name made national headlines some three decades ago. It was when Tipton died, in early 1989, that his secret came out: The popular ...

Spokane resident Billy Tipton Jr. never knew how much of an icon his father was. That is, until filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt, along with writer Amos Mac, showed him a collection of ...

"He was an doting, loving, caring, ordinary father." Oscilliscope Labs in the US has revealed an official US trailer for a fascinating music history documentary called No Ordinary Man, from acclaimed ...

This documentary sheds light on a prominent jazz musician whose death became a spectacle when it was discovered he was transgender. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to the genre-bending look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton in the documentary No Ordinary Man directed by ...

Jazz musician Billy Tipton was known throughout the American rust belt from the ’30s to the ’60s, and later settled with his family in Spokane, Washington. Upon his untimely death in 1989, however, he ...

The formula for biographical documentaries is obvious and ubiquitous: some interviews in a studio, some archival footage of the subject, some other archival footage to approximate places and times, ...

After the death of American jazz musician and longtime Spokane resident Billy Tipton in 1989, the media was thrown into a frenzy after Tipton was outed as being transgender. This came as a shock to ...

A fascinating deconstruction of history, culture and identity, “No Ordinary Man” raises many crucial questions — and answers them so thoughtfully — that it moves beyond entertainment into the realm of ...