{"id":19359,"date":"2020-09-30T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19359"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:10:38","slug":"new-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/new-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"New Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=oct20_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=22&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Cidny Bullens rocks the North Haven Island line.<br \/>\n\u201cSometimes the gender line is hard; for others it is fluid. But it exists. It is very real.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><em>By Sofia Voltin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s known for singing on the <em>Grease<\/em> movie soundtrack and co-writing the 2001 musical <em>Islands<\/em> about his beloved North Haven (with a midtown-Manhattan premiere Off-Broadway at New Victory Theater). After eight solo albums, two Grammy nominations, and working with Sir Elton John, Bob Dylan, Gene Clark, and Rod Stewart, <strong>Cidny Bullens<\/strong> is once again just getting started.<br \/>\nNo, \u201cCidny\u201d is not a typo. In 2011, Cindy Bullens made the decision to transition from female to male. He stepped back from the spotlight for five years as he went through the process and returned in 2016 as Cidny with his one-person show, <em>Somewhere Between: Not An Ordinary Life<\/em>. \u201cMy Maine premiere of the show was at <strong>St. Lawrence Arts<\/strong> in Portland. It was a big deal for me\u2014telling my story in full to the home-town crowd.\u201d He continues to explore transgender awareness with his new album, <em>Walkin\u2019 Through This World<\/em>. He is currently writing his first memoir.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cidny Bullens releases his new album under his new name.<br \/>\nBy Sofia Voltin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,955],"tags":[1144,1044,1146,247],"class_list":["post-19359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-10-most-intriguing","tag-cidny-bullens","tag-cindy-bullens","tag-north-haven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19425,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19359\/revisions\/19425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}