Dylan Mulvaney

villainize me or victimize me but i think now i i'm realizing like oh it's not about what those people are projecting like you've said of putting onto my canvas but it's like what is my canvas look like without those projections right um 100 and it's one that i feel really proud of yeah

I think theater was one of the first things to go because the Amundsen in LA is where the Book of Mormon was at the time.

And I think like live performances were kind of the first things to really get shut down because it's a huge group of people.

I actually think a lot of the cast probably had had COVID at that time and we didn't even know it because we were like dropping like flies.

Yeah.

And I think that what the pandemic did was gave me an opportunity.

I moved back home in with my dad in San Diego.

And I could finally just sit and think about what it was that I wanted for my life outside of theater.

And who was I when I wasn't playing a role, which was, you know, this Mormon boy in this production.

Right.

So I was not non-binary until the pandemic.

And no, no, I think what was tricky was like doing this play and finally having, you know, my parents were so...

proud that their kid was you know doing this Broadway musical and I was making money doing what I loved but knowing that I was still in the wrong body and so it was like oh is this enough is this going to be enough for me to feel happy and and can I just do this for the rest of my life and it was very obvious that it wasn't and I'm actually really grateful that the pandemic happened because then when I sat with myself I was like oh something's going on with your gender Dylan and and

I'm 23, 22.

He's fruity.

Yes.

And I mean, I was very much already in the LGBTQ community as like a gay person.

Okay.

But I didn't know about non-binary identities until like 2019, 2020.

I met a non-binary human named ER Fightmaster, who was the first non-binary.