formerly of coyote grace joe is one of the first openly transgender performers to contribute to the altamericanaaltindie folk music scene i spoke with him about his perspective on pittsburgh his queer identity and his relationship with the dyke community and his music joe stevens queer culture female roots and making music as a trans man its been a long road to marriage equality and it seems were still only halfway there for the last two decades ive been on another fulfilling journey with our community its made fewer headlines than our fight for marriage rights but its been so important for so many families just now finding that legal recognition looking back on two decades of helping gay men have kids