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Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #103, Fall 2003.

written by and photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen



Many of our readers will know Southern Comfort is an annual conference held every September-October in Atlanta, Georgia.

Now in its 12th year, SCC, or SoCo, as it is variously called, routinely draws more than 500 attendees. Robert Eads loved SCC. He was there at its inception, and attended every year of his life. It?s fitting that Kate Davis chose to name her film, which tracks Robert?s last months, as he was dying of ovarian cancer, after the conference he loved so well.
?Southern Comfort?s?

genesis was ?The Transgender Revolution,?

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a documentary made for A&E television in 1998. Through a mutual friend, I met Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, respectively, a filmmaker and a writer. They are married with two children; at that time, they lived just three blocks away from me.
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