Backstage With TikTok Star Dylan Mulvaney, One Year Into Girlhood
Tik Tok Star Dylan Mulvaney
“…If Monday night’s only goal was to be an authentic celebration of what family, born and found, can look like, it was a rousing success. In between cheeky jokes, parody songs, and over-the-top performances, Mulvaney’s vulnerability and genuine joy at seeing so many LGBTQ people in a room for her, shone through. The attacks on the trans community weren’t ignored but rather highlighted as a mission the room could take on together. “If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re on the menu,” Sarah McBride, the transgender senator from Delaware, said to a round of snaps. And in her finale, a mashup from the musical Into The Woods, Mulvaney completely dropped her persona, speaking directly to any trans kids who could be watching. “Someone is on your side,” she sang alongside a full female orchestra, tears in her eyes. Halfway through her final speech, she is interrupted by her father, who runs up and hugs her while she sobs. “You are not alone. No one is alone.”
“To celebrate Day 365, Mulvaney put on a live variety show at the Rockefeller’s Center Rainbow Room. The room was full of well-known faces, from the opening comedy sketch with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan to a dating segment with Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness, to a heartfelt serenade of “You Make Me Feel (Like A Natural Woman)” sung to her facial surgeon. (The online live stream, which ultimately got 20,000 viewers, was so popular that it crashed throughout the night). With tweaked versions of musical theater standards like “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid and “Sisters” from White Christmas, Mulvaney cheekily poked fun at the many missteps and backlashes to her transition, while stringing through the entire night the message that trans youth should always feel safe.”
Dylan Mulvaney performing
