1 00:00:23,032 --> 00:00:26,832 In memory of Tatiana... 2 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:52,700 Woubis have great radar. They know exactly where to find each other. 3 00:00:53,232 --> 00:00:56,165 - Whether in Europe, America... - Or here in Adjame. 4 00:00:56,332 --> 00:01:01,732 Ghettos or not, Woubis always manage to have their hideouts. 5 00:01:02,733 --> 00:01:06,332 They're like bats, they live hidden. 6 00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:11,732 They move in groups, like birds nesting in the trees. 7 00:01:11,866 --> 00:01:15,433 They gather bit by bit, and you don't see them 8 00:01:15,633 --> 00:01:18,233 till suddenly the tree is teeming with them 9 00:01:18,366 --> 00:01:19,633 That's woubis for you. 10 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,633 - Morning, Madame. - Hi, little sister. 11 00:02:30,832 --> 00:02:34,299 How are you, Madame? All right, darling? 12 00:02:36,133 --> 00:02:38,366 My husband throws me into the streets. 13 00:02:39,133 --> 00:02:41,366 You love that, it'll kill you. 14 00:02:45,966 --> 00:02:48,866 I'm tired... 15 00:02:49,532 --> 00:02:51,466 I'm in town. 16 00:02:53,966 --> 00:02:57,900 We're preparing a big party for Christmas, on the 25th. 17 00:02:59,066 --> 00:03:04,399 A big Djémé, Saba Internationale in Bingerville, with the girls. 18 00:03:04,699 --> 00:03:05,865 I'll send you invites. 19 00:03:06,099 --> 00:03:10,832 How was your evening? I spent it here and there. 20 00:03:12,033 --> 00:03:15,133 - Lots of yossis round these days. - Yeah, yossis have hit town. 21 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,633 Sometimes you have to rest, so I stayed home last night. 22 00:03:20,812 --> 00:03:23,045 - You look well. - Thank you. 23 00:03:23,165 --> 00:03:27,332 I'm sure you've got the Yopougon yossis under control. 24 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:33,599 Now and then I do, because I'm settling down. 25 00:03:51,466 --> 00:03:57,466 Tantie... Barbara the singer, the star of Abidjan. 26 00:03:58,033 --> 00:04:02,366 first met Barbara at Garo's, as ar blooming little girl, 27 00:04:02,566 --> 00:04:07,032 in trousers and something long-sleeved, with a neat hairdo. 28 00:04:07,499 --> 00:04:13,499 I said: "Hi, girlie, how are you?" And that's how it all started. 29 00:04:13,733 --> 00:04:16,432 Nowadays, woubis and bats are out of the closet. 30 00:04:17,165 --> 00:04:21,932 It's a different community. They act and live differently. 31 00:04:22,165 --> 00:04:25,432 Things have changed. She gets "Toussou Bakari? 32 00:04:26,432 --> 00:04:30,265 How can she? It's a coded language. 33 00:04:31,298 --> 00:04:35,332 We have our own lingo, our own dictionary. 34 00:04:35,598 --> 00:04:40,932 So, when we say woubis: woubis are boys 35 00:04:41,132 --> 00:04:45,166 who play the role of women without being transvestite. 36 00:04:45,399 --> 00:04:46,598 Boys who like men. 37 00:04:46,732 --> 00:04:49,299 Sitting opposite you have two woubis. 38 00:04:49,532 --> 00:04:54,432 I'm a transvestite. It's special. But I'm still called a woubi, 39 00:04:54,699 --> 00:04:58,899 insofar as I'm a boy who behaves like a woman 40 00:04:59,365 --> 00:05:04,598 Then there are yossis: boys who sleep with women, 41 00:05:04,833 --> 00:05:10,599 transvestites and homosexuals. They play the man. 42 00:05:10,833 --> 00:05:15,599 They're the woubis husbands. 43 00:05:16,499 --> 00:05:22,499 If you say: "Toussou Bakari"... "Toussou" means woman, 44 00:05:22,699 --> 00:05:26,465 like you Tantie, you're a Toussou, so you're a woman. 45 00:05:26,699 --> 00:05:32,098 But "Toussou Bakari" means: a woman who loves women. 46 00:05:32,332 --> 00:05:36,665 Think you'll remember? That's how we'll be talking. 47 00:05:36,833 --> 00:05:39,333 I'm ready for it... 48 00:05:39,465 --> 00:05:44,999 Someone might ask: are there any yossis here or just controus? 49 00:05:45,199 --> 00:05:49,399 Controus are hostile to both woubis and yossis. 50 00:05:49,565 --> 00:05:51,232 They're down on them. 51 00:05:51,799 --> 00:05:55,899 They can't understand two people of the same sex loving each other, 52 00:05:56,099 --> 00:06:00,632 how they can make love and stuff, as if you had to understand! 53 00:06:03,565 --> 00:06:05,732 You can only get it in bed! 54 00:06:09,132 --> 00:06:10,466 You have to live it. 55 00:06:45,966 --> 00:06:51,566 I left Burkina to come here for many reasons... 56 00:06:52,665 --> 00:06:56,332 I came from Burkina to earn some money 57 00:06:57,399 --> 00:06:59,432 to take home. 58 00:07:00,132 --> 00:07:03,766 I didn't come here for a life of pleasure in Abidjan 59 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:07,332 but in the hope of a better life. 60 00:07:08,399 --> 00:07:12,132 And also because of my mother's death. 61 00:07:39,066 --> 00:07:42,599 I see a misunderstanding with someone. 62 00:07:45,032 --> 00:07:48,432 A man, it seems... 63 00:07:51,066 --> 00:07:55,532 - True or not? - Yes, true 64 00:07:56,499 --> 00:07:59,999 You must make an offering of 43-fritters. 65 00:08:01,066 --> 00:08:02,399 Offer them in sacrifice 66 00:08:03,232 --> 00:08:05,065 that both of you be blessed. 67 00:08:05,766 --> 00:08:09,266 Then you will enjoy prosperity, good health 68 00:08:09,499 --> 00:08:12,865 and friendship with that person again. 69 00:08:21,499 --> 00:08:23,899 If someone loves you and adopts you 70 00:08:24,066 --> 00:08:27,532 like a son or a relation 71 00:08:28,032 --> 00:08:30,999 it's because life is too tough 72 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:36,133 and what we say or do is not to everyone's liking. 73 00:08:38,432 --> 00:08:40,399 I have no family here. 74 00:08:40,766 --> 00:08:45,166 We've only got each other. 75 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,833 We have no other family. 76 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:53,265 I have no one, and neither does he. 77 00:08:54,432 --> 00:08:58,032 We both support each other. 78 00:09:01,700 --> 00:09:03,766 I adopted him as my son. 79 00:09:05,033 --> 00:09:06,166 You understand? 80 00:09:10,866 --> 00:09:13,000 God willing... 81 00:09:14,633 --> 00:09:16,400 and if I do not die too soon 82 00:09:17,265 --> 00:09:19,299 we will always be together. 83 00:09:19,532 --> 00:09:23,632 Only death can separate us. 84 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:25,700 Death is the end. 85 00:10:04,133 --> 00:10:06,366 It's thanks to my sister that I met Vincent. 86 00:10:06,432 --> 00:10:08,932 One day she took me to Koumassi. 87 00:10:11,099 --> 00:10:14,233 I went out of curiosity. 88 00:10:15,332 --> 00:10:17,399 And there I met Vincent. 89 00:10:18,099 --> 00:10:21,633 First off, it was a bit awkward. 90 00:10:21,966 --> 00:10:26,866 After, I said to my sister, I met Vincent and I like him. 91 00:10:27,399 --> 00:10:29,532 Before that... 92 00:10:29,799 --> 00:10:31,466 I'd been out with woubis. 93 00:10:31,933 --> 00:10:35,566 And then I saw Vincent and I fell for him. 94 00:10:37,033 --> 00:10:40,199 What I liked about him was his way of speaking. 95 00:10:40,566 --> 00:10:42,666 I liked the way he teased me, 96 00:10:42,832 --> 00:10:46,332 I like to be teased by my wife. 97 00:10:47,099 --> 00:10:51,166 I really liked that, that's how he got me hooked. 98 00:10:56,733 --> 00:10:58,933 Me, I either like people or I don't like them. 99 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:01,133 I liked him straight off. 100 00:11:01,666 --> 00:11:03,333 They called me every name under the sun. 101 00:11:03,666 --> 00:11:05,700 I fell out with those who were against our relationship. 102 00:11:06,066 --> 00:11:09,366 Some people won't even talk to me. 103 00:11:10,499 --> 00:11:12,366 But I continued to see him. 104 00:11:13,365 --> 00:11:17,065 If someone says they love you, you have to rot where he dies. 105 00:11:17,966 --> 00:11:22,633 I'll always love him, unless he decides to go. 106 00:11:23,666 --> 00:11:27,066 Even when I sleep, I dream of him. So I say to myself... 107 00:11:27,399 --> 00:11:31,465 Did Vincent put something in the food to make me lovesick? 108 00:11:32,432 --> 00:11:34,832 I mean, I was raving with love! 109 00:11:38,365 --> 00:11:40,599 One day, I cast the cowries 110 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:43,900 and they told me I was going to meet him. 111 00:11:44,832 --> 00:11:46,966 and ten days later I met him. 112 00:11:50,966 --> 00:11:52,466 If you find a yossi, don't let him go 113 00:11:52,633 --> 00:11:57,766 If the cowries say he's not a yossi, 114 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,799 Drop him. Otherwise, you continue. 115 00:12:03,265 --> 00:12:05,599 You guys are funny! 116 00:12:06,099 --> 00:12:07,633 If you get on well, continue. 117 00:12:08,733 --> 00:12:11,666 It's hard living with a seer as he knows everything you do. 118 00:12:11,766 --> 00:12:13,599 People speak to him, but he sees. 119 00:12:22,265 --> 00:12:24,832 Since we met, he's never hurt me. 120 00:12:24,866 --> 00:12:27,400 Sure, we have arguments... 121 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,366 That's only normal... 122 00:12:35,066 --> 00:12:38,199 That's natural, you can't avoid it. 123 00:13:05,666 --> 00:13:06,700 Listen to what I'm saying. 124 00:13:06,832 --> 00:13:10,599 Brahima Ba, listen to me. 125 00:13:10,866 --> 00:13:13,700 I told your brother and I'll tell you too. 126 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:15,600 I gave birth to you 127 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,533 thanks to my father and mother 128 00:13:17,799 --> 00:13:18,899 who introduced me to your father 129 00:13:20,166 --> 00:13:21,766 who never hurt me. 130 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:25,499 He loved me as I loved him. You were born of this love. 131 00:13:26,265 --> 00:13:27,632 Today, your father is no more 132 00:13:28,232 --> 00:13:30,699 and I worry that you are jobless. 133 00:13:31,966 --> 00:13:34,000 I know work is difficult to find. 134 00:13:34,499 --> 00:13:37,466 That is why, in my daily prayers 135 00:13:38,733 --> 00:13:43,533 I ask God to help you to find work... 136 00:13:43,733 --> 00:13:46,299 You must understand that we are poor 137 00:13:46,499 --> 00:13:48,799 and that if you do not work we will have nothing. 138 00:13:49,432 --> 00:13:51,632 So please do not act foolishly. 139 00:13:51,966 --> 00:13:55,433 We are poor, my children. 140 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:02,798 Have you understood me, son? 141 00:15:05,933 --> 00:15:10,500 When I was twelve or thirteen. 142 00:15:11,499 --> 00:15:15,132 I began to know what it meant to love. 143 00:15:16,933 --> 00:15:21,433 I would sit down in a quiet corner somewhere, and cry. 144 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:27,033 Why? Because I felt, different from the other boys around. 145 00:15:28,265 --> 00:15:34,865 I was born a boy. So how come I liked what girls liked? 146 00:15:35,532 --> 00:15:39,766 One day, I didn't want to go to school anymore 147 00:15:40,432 --> 00:15:46,832 and my dad told me his brother, a mechanic, had a garage 148 00:15:48,299 --> 00:15:52,999 and that he'd have a job for me 149 00:15:53,166 --> 00:15:55,499 as an apprentice mechanic 150 00:15:56,579 --> 00:15:58,432 I thought I'd get fall dirty. 151 00:15:58,866 --> 00:16:01,666 It was a man's job, didn't want to. 152 00:16:01,866 --> 00:16:04,133 I bravely told him: "Dad, I can't"... 153 00:16:04,332 --> 00:16:08,365 He asked me what I wanted to do. I liked hairdressing 154 00:16:08,566 --> 00:16:14,399 But I couldn't get such words out of my mouth. 155 00:16:15,033 --> 00:16:18,999 My family knows I'm gay, 156 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:21,800 but they don't mind. 157 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:27,566 There are times when I'm not so busy with the patisserie 158 00:16:27,733 --> 00:16:32,299 when my sister asks me to cook for the family. 159 00:16:32,499 --> 00:16:34,832 And when I do everyone is happy. 160 00:16:39,633 --> 00:16:44,433 When I'm used to someone I find it hard to change. 161 00:16:46,033 --> 00:16:48,633 I like sticking to the same person. 162 00:17:01,766 --> 00:17:05,499 We know each other quite well now, so everything's fine. 163 00:17:07,166 --> 00:17:09,432 Yet, in the beginning it was quite hard. 164 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:13,466 I didn't know who Laurent was, he didn't know who I was. 165 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:20,100 But we're over that. Now we both know what the other doesn't like... 166 00:17:20,266 --> 00:17:22,932 Everything's working now. 167 00:17:23,700 --> 00:17:25,799 My problem, though, is that I'm real jealous. 168 00:17:26,099 --> 00:17:30,999 Even if he talks to a woman, it gets me all worked up... 169 00:17:36,766 --> 00:17:38,833 I like to tease him like that. 170 00:17:39,366 --> 00:17:44,533 What impressed me about Laurent was his sense of respect. 171 00:17:45,666 --> 00:17:49,233 No matter what, we were born men. 172 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,733 - And we have to assert that. - I feel like a woman. 173 00:17:52,933 --> 00:17:55,133 Everyone must know that first. 174 00:17:56,266 --> 00:18:00,232 I mean we all have our vices... 175 00:18:01,232 --> 00:18:05,732 If I take Laurent to a little family gathering in my village 176 00:18:06,766 --> 00:18:11,433 - people will look at us both... - I'll be some happy woubi! 177 00:18:11,666 --> 00:18:17,266 He uses all kinds of cosmetics on his face... 178 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,333 That does me no honour 179 00:18:20,366 --> 00:18:25,166 Despite my present situation I'm still respected by my family. 180 00:18:25,333 --> 00:18:28,333 Okay, no cosmetics. But once there, I'll play it up! 181 00:18:28,799 --> 00:18:34,199 The only thing I want from you is a wedding ring! 182 00:18:35,333 --> 00:18:40,433 That day, I'll make a huge cake for all the woubis of Abidjan. 183 00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:49,700 Right now, I'm not ready to sleep with a woman 184 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:52,700 and have children. I don't even dream of it. 185 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,666 But him, my yossi, he goes out with women 186 00:18:58,966 --> 00:19:04,233 because he needs to have a family for the future... 187 00:19:05,099 --> 00:19:08,366 And maybe I'll be able to live a family life 188 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:11,633 through him. 189 00:19:15,733 --> 00:19:17,233 Yes, Boss. 190 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,300 Who's the teacher? You or me? 191 00:19:24,166 --> 00:19:26,099 I'm the boss. 192 00:19:26,266 --> 00:19:28,099 You're the apprentice. 193 00:19:46,966 --> 00:19:49,966 You're yossis, that's for sure... 194 00:19:50,133 --> 00:19:54,999 because you live amongst woubis. 195 00:19:56,833 --> 00:19:59,432 But do people know you're yossis? 196 00:19:59,666 --> 00:20:04,433 And how do people look at you in the neighbourhood? 197 00:20:04,799 --> 00:20:06,866 Me, personally, in my neighbourhood, 198 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:14,166 I refuse categorically to be labelled... 199 00:20:15,266 --> 00:20:16,599 I want secrecy. 200 00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:27,066 I intend to get married to a woubi... 201 00:20:29,333 --> 00:20:33,900 For sure. I mean it... 202 00:20:34,333 --> 00:20:38,700 But for the moment I'm going out with a woman... 203 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:43,733 and there are occasional slips, know what I mean? 204 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:47,200 But does your woubi come here? 205 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,600 I'm in control, he comes to my place. 206 00:20:50,933 --> 00:20:53,033 What do folks think of your woubi? 207 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,666 Well, one night, I introduced him to some friends over a drink. 208 00:20:58,833 --> 00:21:02,733 Some already knew he was a woubi. I swear! 209 00:21:03,532 --> 00:21:08,199 The guys started labelling me, but I stopped them short. 210 00:21:08,366 --> 00:21:10,433 "Fuck you!"... I said. 211 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:14,733 There's one thing I have to say: He's got a kid. 212 00:21:15,199 --> 00:21:17,432 Sure have. 213 00:21:17,633 --> 00:21:22,066 - We were pals when it was born. - Yeah, we used to work together. 214 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:26,566 - You were already a yossi? - Still am till proved otherwise. 215 00:21:26,766 --> 00:21:29,199 - I even know his wife. - Been with a woubi before? 216 00:21:29,333 --> 00:21:35,466 Loads! Well, I handled it, I managed a woubi... 217 00:21:35,633 --> 00:21:40,633 To be honest, it was something I didn't like at first... 218 00:21:40,766 --> 00:21:44,766 I thought, maybe they're pariahs and should be rejected as such. 219 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:52,133 A friend of my older brother is a woubi. 220 00:21:53,099 --> 00:21:57,466 We didn't know at the time, he used to hang out with my brother. 221 00:21:58,066 --> 00:22:00,599 He even chatted him up! 222 00:22:01,133 --> 00:22:06,299 Well, one day he came to my school-and said: 223 00:22:06,499 --> 00:22:12,099 "One of my friends has left me his place for a few days 224 00:22:12,833 --> 00:22:15,899 You want to come with me?" 225 00:22:18,833 --> 00:22:22,566 So I go with him, and I'm cool, you know... 226 00:22:22,733 --> 00:22:28,833 I never thought for a minute anything weird might happen. 227 00:22:29,666 --> 00:22:31,400 So, one night 228 00:22:32,099 --> 00:22:36,066 I'm sleeping and I feel this hand roving over my foot. 229 00:22:37,466 --> 00:22:38,632 It woke me up. 230 00:22:39,166 --> 00:22:42,499 I figured, he's doing what a woman might do to me 231 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:47,400 so I let him continue.. 232 00:22:47,966 --> 00:22:50,900 until we climaxed. 233 00:22:51,033 --> 00:22:55,366 But that first experience was really fruitful. 234 00:22:55,566 --> 00:22:58,499 It was the first time I'd ever slept with a man. 235 00:23:08,266 --> 00:23:12,865 Yossis are bisexual. Boys who usually sleep with girls. 236 00:23:13,099 --> 00:23:18,466 If they sleep with a boy they don't think of it as such 237 00:23:18,666 --> 00:23:22,100 because for them woubis are like girls. 238 00:23:22,266 --> 00:23:26,732 You must look a little like a girl for a yossi to get it up for you. 239 00:23:27,066 --> 00:23:30,133 But you always have to teach them especially in small towns. 240 00:23:30,266 --> 00:23:35,799 It's always the same, as soon as they start feeling you up... 241 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,799 I wanna make love to you. What a man I am! 242 00:23:44,499 --> 00:23:47,865 I used to say to myself: "So, I'm a bit effeminate 243 00:23:48,066 --> 00:23:50,366 but it'll pass in time. 244 00:23:50,566 --> 00:23:54,532 I'll surely grow up and love women like my older brothers do"... 245 00:23:54,766 --> 00:23:58,099 But from the day it triggered in my head, 246 00:23:58,666 --> 00:24:02,466 my heart started beating like crazy for boys. It was scary. 247 00:24:03,666 --> 00:24:05,933 I remember, it was really scary. 248 00:24:06,066 --> 00:24:10,966 You feel all alone, and you don't dare tell anyone. 249 00:24:11,532 --> 00:24:15,532 You've no one like you that you can turn to. 250 00:24:15,733 --> 00:24:20,499 No yossis who might reassure you. It's scary. 251 00:24:20,933 --> 00:24:24,799 You think of the scandal it might cause, and all that. 252 00:24:25,432 --> 00:24:30,366 Still, you get used to it. You find others like you 253 00:24:31,566 --> 00:24:32,966 and get organised. 254 00:24:33,133 --> 00:24:37,866 I met my first people... I met Ferdinand. 255 00:24:38,566 --> 00:24:43,132 It was the first time I'd ever seen queens like that. 256 00:24:43,566 --> 00:24:48,399 Older than me, truly organised, speaking a language I understood. 257 00:24:48,466 --> 00:24:50,199 It was wonderful! 258 00:24:50,833 --> 00:24:53,866 I wanted to grow up quick and be like them. 259 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,433 I was still living with my folks, whereas they were having a ball. 260 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,333 It was different from now. 261 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,533 Maybe because they weren't as up front about it... 262 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:11,299 It was kind of more subtle... 263 00:25:11,466 --> 00:25:14,932 more hidden... And when they had yossis 264 00:25:15,133 --> 00:25:20,599 they were real nice yossis, not like today 265 00:25:20,766 --> 00:25:22,566 with their ulterior motives. 266 00:25:22,766 --> 00:25:27,899 Back then, when you had a yossi, he was yours, the real thing. 267 00:25:28,099 --> 00:25:31,166 They were great. They still are, 268 00:25:31,333 --> 00:25:35,933 but they used to have a certain way of life, way of doing, 269 00:25:36,266 --> 00:25:37,799 which was fabulous. 270 00:25:38,366 --> 00:25:42,700 It was like a new family for me, we could be what we wanted. 271 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:47,800 So you forgot your original family. 272 00:25:50,566 --> 00:25:53,499 Your real family was the one you had created. 273 00:25:54,199 --> 00:25:57,132 Nobody had anything to hide. 274 00:25:57,566 --> 00:26:01,432 Nobody asked you: "Why are you like that?" 275 00:26:01,633 --> 00:26:05,833 We felt comfortable. We could do as we liked. 276 00:26:39,033 --> 00:26:41,666 I mix a lot with straight people. 277 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:47,766 Because I sometimes get tired of being only with homosexuals. 278 00:26:48,499 --> 00:26:53,032 What I really love is when everyone is mixed: 279 00:26:53,232 --> 00:26:57,666 straights, gays, bisexuals, all having fun together. 280 00:26:57,733 --> 00:27:02,799 Like in certain night-clubs for instance... 281 00:27:02,966 --> 00:27:07,600 It's really wild. That's the third millennium! 282 00:27:46,733 --> 00:27:49,266 Here in Africa, you don't live love. 283 00:27:49,333 --> 00:27:53,366 You only live shit, self interest. 284 00:27:55,466 --> 00:27:58,166 People try to deceive you but that's no good. 285 00:28:00,133 --> 00:28:03,399 But you have to accept these things. 286 00:28:04,166 --> 00:28:08,732 I haven't yet met a man who can love a woubi, 287 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:13,066 whereas a woubi can love a yossi to death... 288 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:32,200 For me now, love doesn't exist. I stripped my heart of all that. 289 00:28:33,066 --> 00:28:37,966 Of course, it'll creep back to me like an insect. 290 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:42,733 There is no love for me now. Even Barbara once deceived me. 291 00:28:42,866 --> 00:28:46,166 My yossi sent Barbara a rose. 292 00:28:46,333 --> 00:28:50,833 I was so shocked I stopped seeing him on the spot. 293 00:28:51,133 --> 00:28:54,066 I thought I'd make a few bucks whoring 294 00:28:54,266 --> 00:28:56,299 and that's what I did. 295 00:28:56,532 --> 00:28:59,766 I have my own furnished place thanks to whoring... 296 00:29:00,133 --> 00:29:02,199 I say, thank God for whoring! 297 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:07,033 I'm not complaining, not at all. 298 00:29:37,266 --> 00:29:39,399 I ask myself: What's my problem? 299 00:29:39,566 --> 00:29:42,632 And the answer is: Vice. 300 00:29:42,866 --> 00:29:45,400 If the person I'm with can handle my vice 301 00:29:45,432 --> 00:29:47,632 then I can get on with that person. 302 00:29:47,866 --> 00:29:52,400 But people who go on about us, can't stand them. 303 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:58,433 Prevention is better than cure, so I don't frequent those 304 00:29:58,633 --> 00:30:02,800 who don't share my sexual tastes. 305 00:30:02,966 --> 00:30:07,766 prefer being with my own, stick to my milieu. 306 00:30:08,666 --> 00:30:13,633 If I feel you're reticent with me I prefer not to talk to you. 307 00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:15,199 It's better that way. 308 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,566 Because reaching out to you means I miss you 309 00:30:19,232 --> 00:30:22,432 whereas the only person I can miss on earth is God. 310 00:30:22,833 --> 00:30:26,432 No one apart from God... 311 00:30:27,866 --> 00:30:31,233 So, whether you like me or not is not my problem. 312 00:30:31,432 --> 00:30:35,499 As long as God loves me and my mother loves me, that's enough. 313 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,266 One morning the girls came round saying they had a project. 314 00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:09,633 "What is it?", I said. 315 00:31:10,666 --> 00:31:12,433 "We're transvestites, 316 00:31:13,566 --> 00:31:18,566 we live well here in Ivory Coast, so we must set up an association." 317 00:31:19,366 --> 00:31:22,500 That day, Tatiana was there. She became general secretary. 318 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:26,600 And there was Tina, who was really motivated. 319 00:31:26,766 --> 00:31:28,866 It was they who spoke to me about it! 320 00:31:29,066 --> 00:31:31,766 And after, Bibiche, Cadi and the others... 321 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,166 I was immediately appointed President of the ICTA... 322 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,166 Ivory Coast Transvestite Association. 323 00:31:40,266 --> 00:31:44,365 We're here today for a cause, to organise something... 324 00:31:44,766 --> 00:31:49,033 maybe a party somewhere. But as we're "different" 325 00:31:49,232 --> 00:31:54,732 we'll have to organise it somewhere out of the way. 326 00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:58,733 So this meeting is so each of you can suggest 327 00:31:59,532 --> 00:32:01,432 where to hold it. 328 00:32:01,733 --> 00:32:05,533 Because the others spoke of doing it in Treichville. 329 00:32:05,833 --> 00:32:09,966 In Treichville! That's too scary. 330 00:32:10,666 --> 00:32:12,766 Like walking into the lion's den. 331 00:32:13,066 --> 00:32:14,766 No dancing, just fighting. 332 00:32:14,966 --> 00:32:17,733 No sooner would the drums be heard 333 00:32:17,966 --> 00:32:21,366 than we'd have a whole gang of brigands and crazies on our backs! 334 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:24,633 The whole lot of them giving us lip. 335 00:32:25,066 --> 00:32:27,899 We can't go to Bassam. There's too much sand 336 00:32:28,099 --> 00:32:30,733 No good for dancing. 337 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,100 How about the old lady's in Bingerville? 338 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,533 Okay, the old lady's in Bingerville. 339 00:32:36,833 --> 00:32:39,699 - Starting at midday and ending... - At five. 340 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,299 - No, later Around 10 p.m. - All right. 341 00:32:43,499 --> 00:32:45,466 It will be a riot, no small djeme. 342 00:32:46,099 --> 00:32:50,533 There'll be lots of people, husbands, friends, guests... 343 00:32:54,366 --> 00:32:56,166 - How many husbands you bringing? - Three. 344 00:33:00,266 --> 00:33:01,865 Trigamy! 345 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,233 "Big mandingue matinee... 346 00:33:06,933 --> 00:33:09,000 The Transvestite Association invites you 347 00:33:09,166 --> 00:33:10,766 on December 27th, 1997 348 00:33:12,366 --> 00:33:15,600 from 2 p.m. followed by a big djémé dinner 349 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:16,966 at Bingerville. 350 00:33:17,133 --> 00:33:21,833 Come see the Malian women singers and Saba dancers from Senegal." 351 00:33:46,499 --> 00:33:50,499 Frankly, the first party we threw was a total flop. 352 00:33:50,933 --> 00:33:56,733 Journalists gate crashed taking pictures for the local papers. 353 00:33:56,933 --> 00:33:59,866 So as a result, when we organise parties now 354 00:34:00,066 --> 00:34:04,599 people are scared, they don't want to come. 355 00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:07,466 So that's why now we keep them secret. 356 00:34:08,565 --> 00:34:12,699 If woubis don't even come, forget about controus! 357 00:34:13,833 --> 00:34:18,833 Politically, we went all the way to the Minister of Communications. 358 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:25,599 She told us it wasn't normal. It's a democratic country 359 00:34:26,066 --> 00:34:30,932 and that, if we wanted to lodge a complaint against that newspaper 360 00:34:31,132 --> 00:34:33,266 we were entitled to do so. 361 00:34:33,799 --> 00:34:35,699 That's what she told us. 362 00:34:36,966 --> 00:34:41,300 Nowadays, people know there are transvestites in the Ivory Coast 363 00:34:41,432 --> 00:34:46,099 and some people are beginning to respect us. 364 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:47,900 Because, before... 365 00:34:48,266 --> 00:34:51,332 those who tried to deal with the issue 366 00:34:51,632 --> 00:34:53,298 didn't know where to turn. 367 00:34:54,266 --> 00:34:57,166 The ICTA has helped us a lot. 368 00:35:10,266 --> 00:35:14,832 The year's coming to an end and we're scattered left and right 369 00:35:14,966 --> 00:35:18,133 so we're trying to organise a bash in Bingerville, 370 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:20,366 a big djémé... 371 00:35:20,532 --> 00:35:26,165 As you live near Abidjan, we came here to tell you about it. 372 00:35:26,333 --> 00:35:30,333 So come and join in the fun. 373 00:35:33,532 --> 00:35:37,332 We'll leave you 5 invites for the others. 374 00:35:37,532 --> 00:35:40,499 Tell them we dropped by. 375 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:42,766 We'll be expecting you. 376 00:35:54,665 --> 00:35:57,365 A perfect yossi... 377 00:35:59,599 --> 00:36:03,032 is a man who lives with his queen, his wife... 378 00:36:03,465 --> 00:36:07,832 He lives with her whether she's rich or poor, 379 00:36:09,232 --> 00:36:12,532 through good times and bad... 380 00:36:12,665 --> 00:36:16,699 And he asserts himself as her husband wherever they are. 381 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:20,300 Because, it's not easy for us going out in the daytime... 382 00:36:20,465 --> 00:36:24,199 They throw stones at us, insult us. 383 00:36:25,366 --> 00:36:28,566 If you're with an imperfect man, he'll hide... 384 00:36:28,766 --> 00:36:31,299 he'll shun his responsibilities. 385 00:36:32,132 --> 00:36:36,099 A perfect yossi is someone who asserts himself totally. 386 00:36:40,833 --> 00:36:45,066 It must be said, it isn't easy for us here in Africa... 387 00:36:45,232 --> 00:36:47,132 We've got to keep trying. 388 00:36:47,333 --> 00:36:50,633 If we have to live in hiding all the time it won't get any better. 389 00:36:50,833 --> 00:36:54,032 People here think transvestites 390 00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:58,032 are nothing but gangsters. But we're not. 391 00:36:58,266 --> 00:37:00,166 That's just how we were born. 392 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,033 We didn't buy woubia in the market place. 393 00:37:03,266 --> 00:37:05,465 If so, no one would have chosen to be what we are today... 394 00:37:05,632 --> 00:37:10,832 It's the way we are up here and that's the way we live. 395 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,766 But I think parents, friends, neighbours... 396 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,866 all those who can't stand us, 397 00:37:19,099 --> 00:37:23,399 should make an effort. They have their vision of life 398 00:37:23,565 --> 00:37:25,565 and we have ours. 399 00:37:25,699 --> 00:37:28,898 We can't help it, it's our right to be different. 400 00:37:29,099 --> 00:37:34,099 Without the right to be different, Africa is going nowhere. 401 00:37:53,032 --> 00:37:54,899 Almost finished, Bibiche... 402 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,733 It'll be pretty, Bibiche. 403 00:38:03,266 --> 00:38:06,299 Did they say you were a girl or a boy? 404 00:38:06,499 --> 00:38:10,999 They're discussing as to whether I'm a girl or a boy. I'm a woman! 405 00:38:12,066 --> 00:38:13,599 Do I have to spell it out? 406 00:38:18,099 --> 00:38:21,332 - Where did we see that fabric. - Near here, I think. 407 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,366 We're organising a big djémé with Saba dancing. 408 00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:33,766 It'll be a riot! I have the invites. 409 00:38:34,266 --> 00:38:35,365 You coming? 410 00:38:35,565 --> 00:38:37,465 If I give you one, you'd better come. 411 00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:45,600 It's a special invitation card. 412 00:38:55,432 --> 00:38:56,766 Try it on. 413 00:38:57,900 --> 00:38:59,533 You're a real boy. 414 00:39:08,733 --> 00:39:11,799 He's a real boy, he's not ashamed 415 00:39:12,499 --> 00:39:14,065 You'll try, no? 416 00:39:58,333 --> 00:40:00,700 I love him through good and bad. 417 00:40:01,632 --> 00:40:04,699 He even asked me to marry him, but I hesitated. 418 00:40:07,866 --> 00:40:10,733 It was he who asked me. 419 00:40:11,333 --> 00:40:14,166 He wanted to meet my parents, 420 00:40:15,199 --> 00:40:16,566 at my aunt's place. 421 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:22,333 If two men live together it's because God wanted. 422 00:40:23,166 --> 00:40:24,865 Otherwise it's not possible. 423 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,666 He told me that when he finds work 424 00:40:29,532 --> 00:40:32,865 he'll get a house in Cocody where we'll live together. 425 00:40:39,699 --> 00:40:43,999 I love Avelido, I love him a lot. 426 00:40:45,232 --> 00:40:47,166 But what hurts me is... 427 00:40:48,266 --> 00:40:49,932 every time he sees other boys... 428 00:40:51,232 --> 00:40:53,799 he chats them up and that hurts me. 429 00:42:02,266 --> 00:42:05,832 I do battle every day, when I'm out and about.. 430 00:42:06,232 --> 00:42:10,166 I spread my magic powder 431 00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:13,966 to change controus into yossis 432 00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:16,766 toussous into lesbians! 433 00:42:17,866 --> 00:42:20,333 I promote woubia. 434 00:42:21,099 --> 00:42:24,899 I like that, the good and the bad all mixed up 435 00:42:25,032 --> 00:42:26,566 Africa is a strange place. 436 00:42:26,699 --> 00:42:31,432 Like the Ivory Coast, it's my country, 437 00:42:32,733 --> 00:42:36,866 I need to be here to speak my own language. 438 00:42:39,132 --> 00:42:42,266 There are so many controus there's always work to be done. 439 00:42:43,166 --> 00:42:47,432 So many towns, in which to spread the word. 440 00:42:47,599 --> 00:42:51,365 It's like cleaning a house 441 00:42:51,599 --> 00:42:55,765 that's constantly dirty. You just have to keep cleaning. 442 00:42:57,366 --> 00:43:01,133 The future of this country lies in agriculture. 443 00:43:08,833 --> 00:43:13,166 Planting the tree, the baobab of the woubis, 444 00:43:13,499 --> 00:43:15,532 in Gagnoa! 445 00:43:28,132 --> 00:43:37,732 If you don't like me as I am, then forget about it! 446 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:48,666 Hi... 447 00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:57,732 Has its belly been cleaned? 448 00:44:03,799 --> 00:44:04,932 Is the sauce ready? 449 00:44:19,099 --> 00:44:20,899 Get home safely last night? 450 00:44:24,465 --> 00:44:29,132 You had to keep saying it before we believed you. 451 00:44:29,733 --> 00:44:33,766 I mean, she didn't believe you. 452 00:44:33,966 --> 00:44:36,433 I saw it so I believed it. 453 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,000 I didn't believe it, really didn't. 454 00:44:40,632 --> 00:44:42,832 It was the first time I'd ever heard that. 455 00:44:43,099 --> 00:44:47,066 So I thought about it all night long 456 00:44:47,499 --> 00:44:50,132 I thought a lot about it. 457 00:44:50,366 --> 00:44:52,033 I'm not easily accepted. 458 00:44:52,232 --> 00:44:56,499 I have to work three times harder than normal people 459 00:44:56,699 --> 00:45:00,099 to assert myself, because I want to be taken as I am. 460 00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:05,765 I want people to know immediately and not sit down with them 461 00:45:06,132 --> 00:45:08,532 and maybe they find out later. 462 00:45:08,665 --> 00:45:13,965 I want people to know and understand who I am. 463 00:45:14,099 --> 00:45:17,899 So they can either take me or leave me. 464 00:45:18,266 --> 00:45:22,432 See how she goes about it? She plays it up. 465 00:45:22,632 --> 00:45:24,665 She knows how to assert herself 466 00:45:25,565 --> 00:45:26,932 whoever she's with. 467 00:45:27,565 --> 00:45:31,432 Well, take us... If a man tells us he's normal 468 00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:34,300 we always find fault with him. 469 00:45:36,833 --> 00:45:41,133 There are those who'll accept and those who won't 470 00:45:41,266 --> 00:45:42,832 You have to try. 471 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,633 If I was hung up about it you'd be more hung up about me. 472 00:45:48,199 --> 00:45:52,166 If I behave freely you'll feel free with me. 473 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:57,666 You may not understand but you're relaxed, and you're here with me. 474 00:45:57,833 --> 00:46:00,932 Because of how I am, here we are having a drink together. 475 00:46:01,766 --> 00:46:06,333 - That's it. - The side of you we like. 476 00:46:10,366 --> 00:46:12,200 One can't change her... 477 00:46:12,632 --> 00:46:15,899 That's just how she is 478 00:46:16,032 --> 00:46:21,032 But I'm sure it must've been tough for her in the beginning. 479 00:46:21,733 --> 00:46:25,899 was aware very young of what I was and wanted to be, 480 00:46:26,099 --> 00:46:27,199 and how. 481 00:46:27,833 --> 00:46:31,733 I often think of those I don't know as the opposing community. 482 00:46:32,132 --> 00:46:35,199 I get into battle gear and I'm ready for you. 483 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,866 Here I am, blabbering on, muddling you up, having fun. 484 00:46:40,565 --> 00:46:44,199 You're surprised, and I seem more surprised than you. 485 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,599 But that's how I am, I'm a persona. 486 00:46:47,766 --> 00:46:51,766 It's like Marahoué Park where people come to see the animals: 487 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,533 The hippos, the snakes... People gape like you do at me. 488 00:46:56,266 --> 00:46:58,299 Only you can't put me in the park! 489 00:47:03,032 --> 00:47:04,266 There's lots of stuff... 490 00:47:05,333 --> 00:47:10,833 what people call "sexual deviances". 491 00:47:11,532 --> 00:47:14,499 Meaning whatever is supposedly not natural. 492 00:47:15,099 --> 00:47:17,532 A man is supposed to love a woman. 493 00:47:17,699 --> 00:47:21,732 Yet, some men love men, women love other women. 494 00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:24,732 A woman loves a man and another woman. 495 00:47:25,099 --> 00:47:27,432 A woman loves a woman who loves a man. 496 00:47:27,665 --> 00:47:30,032 A man loves a man who loves another man." 497 00:47:31,333 --> 00:47:34,800 It's all mixed up. They're just theories... 498 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,633 Let them teach that in university! 499 00:47:39,366 --> 00:47:41,733 So much for superior thinking! 500 00:47:42,066 --> 00:47:43,932 But how do you make love with a man? 501 00:47:44,132 --> 00:47:47,866 Imagine you're a boy and you want to make love to me. 502 00:47:48,665 --> 00:47:51,432 First you'll start feeling me up... 503 00:47:52,132 --> 00:47:53,666 But where'll you put your penis? 504 00:47:54,266 --> 00:47:57,532 If not between my legs, then where? 505 00:47:58,632 --> 00:47:59,832 The back door! 506 00:48:09,066 --> 00:48:10,532 But it must be painful. 507 00:48:11,532 --> 00:48:16,065 Hurt? Do you get hurt when you're made love to? 508 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,900 But that's natural, God made it so. 509 00:48:23,432 --> 00:48:27,766 Controus talk! It's natural too. It's been planned that way. 510 00:48:28,266 --> 00:48:30,932 If your way is natural, my way is too. 511 00:48:31,132 --> 00:48:35,299 It's like liquids. They take the shape of their containers. 512 00:48:36,699 --> 00:48:40,798 Fannies take the shape of willies. 513 00:48:42,565 --> 00:48:45,599 She thinks the other way round must have its drawbacks. 514 00:48:45,766 --> 00:48:49,633 And to do it you really have to look after yourself... 515 00:48:50,933 --> 00:48:54,333 There are sizes you have to be wary of. 516 00:48:54,532 --> 00:48:58,665 If the willy is too big and you're not too experienced 517 00:48:58,833 --> 00:49:01,366 don't try to force it into you. 518 00:49:02,599 --> 00:49:05,965 It could make you dizzy, cause complications. 519 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:08,800 When he comes inside you, does it come out again? 520 00:49:10,665 --> 00:49:12,798 Of course it comes out. 521 00:49:14,733 --> 00:49:17,099 You, woman, are going to kill us! 522 00:49:17,665 --> 00:49:20,465 And there are rubbers too! They're not made for birds! 523 00:49:23,565 --> 00:49:26,232 If one day you have a kid who's like that... 524 00:49:28,833 --> 00:49:31,166 Like Barbara? 525 00:49:32,099 --> 00:49:34,332 I know you don't choose these things... 526 00:49:35,565 --> 00:49:40,432 Nature does it for you. 527 00:49:40,833 --> 00:49:45,899 If I had a kid like that, it might be hard to accept at first... 528 00:49:46,099 --> 00:49:49,932 But if that's how things are there's nothing you can do. 529 00:49:51,166 --> 00:49:55,266 What I'm asking is, will you have a child later on? 530 00:49:55,665 --> 00:49:59,165 I'm much too busy as President of the Bats' Association 531 00:49:59,366 --> 00:50:03,599 to play mothers at night... 532 00:50:03,799 --> 00:50:08,032 The enemy is out there, I have to load my guns and fight. 533 00:50:08,232 --> 00:50:10,465 The President can't be looking after baby 534 00:50:11,099 --> 00:50:15,932 otherwise the opposition will get the upper hand. 535 00:50:16,532 --> 00:50:19,265 I whave to convince them like I did you. 536 00:50:19,565 --> 00:50:22,065 To sit down peacefully with people 537 00:50:22,833 --> 00:50:26,333 even if they're reticent, and talk 538 00:50:26,499 --> 00:50:29,365 working towards acceptance and understanding. 539 00:50:30,032 --> 00:50:34,899 I put forward my transvestite side, my physique, my persona... 540 00:50:35,132 --> 00:50:38,732 Barbara the legend... 541 00:50:39,132 --> 00:50:42,332 What she is, what she does, how she's lived her life. 542 00:50:42,632 --> 00:50:46,599 Barbara the boy who made herself a woman 543 00:50:46,799 --> 00:50:50,399 in spite of all those who tried to make me normal. 544 00:50:50,632 --> 00:50:53,765 I want to be a good boy 545 00:50:54,366 --> 00:50:57,633 when I feel like it... 546 00:50:57,833 --> 00:51:00,599 a bad girl when I like, free to do as I like. 547 00:51:00,766 --> 00:51:03,599 Able to live my nature as a transvestite 548 00:51:03,799 --> 00:51:06,766 and have all kinds of experiences. 549 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,900 You have to be creative, live life like an artist. 550 00:51:42,266 --> 00:51:44,766 You can't always be down-to-earth. 551 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,900 Tradition is fine, but you have to be in between. 552 00:51:48,266 --> 00:51:53,332 I think that's what the third millennium will be all about... 553 00:51:53,532 --> 00:51:57,132 a mix of modern and traditional, different ways of life and sex. 554 00:51:57,232 --> 00:52:00,099 There are deviances of course... 555 00:52:00,499 --> 00:52:03,766 We got off the beaten track, so where's the problem? 556 00:52:05,632 --> 00:52:07,732 Hurry up, folks are hungry. 557 00:52:09,465 --> 00:52:10,899 I'm hungry too, I didn't have breakfast. 558 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,933 I haven't seen you in the kitchen. 559 00:52:13,066 --> 00:52:14,432 I haven't eaten a thing. 560 00:52:14,565 --> 00:52:16,299 Mom I knew you were going to cook, 561 00:52:16,565 --> 00:52:19,465 so I didn't eat 562 00:52:19,665 --> 00:52:22,432 Usually, I have bread, butter, grenadine and chocolate. 563 00:52:27,632 --> 00:52:30,932 I've come to terms with my nature and I'm proud of it. 564 00:52:31,266 --> 00:52:34,732 Not just physically, but because it's so different. 565 00:52:34,966 --> 00:52:39,733 I need people to know what I'm like, that my fight be known. 566 00:52:40,132 --> 00:52:45,866 That's why I do it. Why I won't go as far as being a transsexual. 567 00:52:46,132 --> 00:52:50,299 People can't understand what it is to be a homosexual. 568 00:52:50,499 --> 00:52:52,732 You're just a boy who loves a boy. 569 00:52:52,966 --> 00:52:55,733 You find a boy you love... 570 00:52:55,866 --> 00:52:59,066 You're true to your real nature and you're happy. 571 00:52:59,199 --> 00:53:01,766 And at the same time you live out your difference from others. 572 00:53:01,900 --> 00:53:06,166 I don't like the simple way, I'm a Scorpio. 573 00:53:06,966 --> 00:53:10,733 I think if I'd been a woman I'd have been a lesbian. 574 00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:12,366 I think so... 575 00:53:12,532 --> 00:53:14,732 Now, I'm ready! 576 00:53:18,699 --> 00:53:21,298 Oh, my lipstick, honestly... 577 00:54:23,499 --> 00:54:25,699 Playing at cruising here? 578 00:54:26,833 --> 00:54:31,532 I'm a bat I'm not afraid of that. 579 00:54:33,599 --> 00:54:34,865 What do you think? 580 00:54:35,066 --> 00:54:37,866 I'm waiting for you... 581 00:54:39,665 --> 00:54:41,432 You devil! 582 00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:54,033 There are people who... 583 00:54:54,532 --> 00:54:58,065 were born for something. But they hide it. 584 00:54:58,900 --> 00:55:01,433 And by dint of hiding, and hiding... 585 00:55:01,833 --> 00:55:05,966 they lose the courage to show themselves.... 586 00:55:06,132 --> 00:55:08,999 They condemn themselves. 587 00:55:09,300 --> 00:55:14,166 But if from the beginning you say that's how I am, I won't change.... 588 00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:19,733 Let people take me or leave me, it's not my problem... 589 00:55:20,632 --> 00:55:23,932 One is liked for what one is and disliked for what one is not. 590 00:55:26,166 --> 00:55:29,865 People are not born good or bad. We can live with our differences. 591 00:55:31,099 --> 00:55:32,599 Why reject one's fellow man? 592 00:55:34,266 --> 00:55:37,432 One is liked for what one is, and rejected for what one is too. 593 00:58:30,366 --> 00:58:34,766 We're all up-front, so there's no problem. 594 00:58:35,665 --> 00:58:40,898 We've got faith in this country... 595 00:58:42,232 --> 00:58:45,099 Why be afraid here? We've got faith. 596 00:58:46,632 --> 00:58:49,865 - Khorogolais yossis goulale ba! - Khorogolais what? 597 00:58:50,833 --> 00:58:51,833 Real boys, well hung. 598 00:58:52,132 --> 00:58:55,832 Barbara, who's sitting there before you... 599 00:58:56,333 --> 00:59:01,433 is like a double-edged knife. 600 00:59:02,300 --> 00:59:04,900 You see this knife? 601 00:59:05,266 --> 00:59:07,865 It's sharp here, and sharp there... 602 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,433 So, Barbara who you see here... 603 00:59:12,966 --> 00:59:17,900 who is sitting here as a woman... 604 00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,800 has another side to her. 605 00:59:22,166 --> 00:59:24,032 I'm a boy like you. 606 00:59:28,366 --> 00:59:32,633 We're no scholars but we can see Barbara is a sophisticated lady. 607 00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,466 Just tell them I'm a boy. I'm a boy. 608 00:59:37,699 --> 00:59:39,965 Barbara's not a woman, she's a boy. 609 00:59:41,132 --> 00:59:44,132 Stand up so we can see you. 610 00:59:51,099 --> 00:59:55,366 I'm not sure I understood your description of Barbara. 611 00:59:55,799 --> 01:00:00,466 So who is Barbara, really? What is she? 612 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,633 As I said, you don't need to use 613 01:00:07,799 --> 01:00:10,699 a microscope to find out who Barbara is. 614 01:00:10,799 --> 01:00:14,733 Barbara sitting opposite is a man. 615 01:00:14,966 --> 01:00:17,199 I go to Abidjan every day. 616 01:00:18,799 --> 01:00:22,566 Every day? You're rascals, afraid of nothing. 617 01:00:23,833 --> 01:00:27,666 I'm asking what you really think, not to feel sorry for me. 618 01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:30,865 But for what's at the bottom of your hearts! 619 01:00:32,499 --> 01:00:41,766 "To you my love, far away, who every day stirs my heart." 620 01:00:41,966 --> 01:00:44,033 Dreams of love, Barbara, Tiens ça...