Vulnerability is a Strength
/Filmmaker explores the literal and metaphorical mountains LGBTQ climbers face
climbers on Mt. Hood during the filming of Who’s On Top (Photo courtesy Devin Fei-Fan Tau)
“When you start at the bottom of the mountain, or you start at the bottom of trying to figure out who you are ... it seems like you are summiting the world’s tallest mountain.”
Climbing a mountain can be a lot like coming out.
That’s a metaphor filmmaker Devin Fei-Fan Tau explores in his new documentary Who’s On Top. The film follows four LGBTQ climbers who set out to summit Mt. Hood. It explores their connection to nature, and their efforts to challenge stereotypes about gender and sexuality — and it offers an inside view into the literal and metaphorical mountains they face.
Devin joins us on this episode to talk about it.
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