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Ryan Otto Cassata (born December 13, 1993) is an American musician, public speaker, writer, filmmaker, actor, and transgender man. Cassata speaks at high schools and universities on the subject of Gender Identity Disorder, being Transgender, bullying and his personal transition from female to male, including a double mastectomy surgery in January 2012, when he was 18 years old.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Challenges faced by transgender people discussed during National Coming Out Day ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ryan Cassata—Civil rights icon, fearless performer and headstrong teen. )〕 He currently resides in San Francisco. He has made appearances on the Larry King Live Show & The Tyra Banks Show to talk about being transgender. He has performed at LGBT music festivals and has gone on tours across the United States of America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ashland shows its pride at 2011 Southern Oregon Pride Parade )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Film fest highlights Trans Pride Los Angeles weekend )〕 Cassata has performed at popular music venues such as Whisky a Go Go,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RYAN CASSATA profile at )〕 The Saint, The Bitter End, SideWalk Cafe, and Bowery Poetry Club. Cassata won a date on Warped Tour 2013 through the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands online competition and performed on the Acoustic Basement Stage on June 21, 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Perpetual Change – Ryan Cassata )〕 Cassata also won a date on Warped Tour 2015 through the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands and performed on the Ernie Ball Stage on June 20, 2015. Cassata composed the soundtrack for 2010 short film "Loop Planes" which screened at various film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Loop Planes. )〕 South by Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Loop Planes. )〕 and Hamptons International Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF): It Takes a Tough Tailbone. )〕 "Distraction" and "Sleeping Through" from Cassata's 2011 EP "Distraction" make up the soundtrack. Cassata is the main subject of full feature Danish produced documentary "Songs for Alexis."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Songs for Alexis. )〕 Songs for Alexis, produced by Copenhagen Bombay with help from the Danish Film Institute, had its world premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival to a sold out crowd on April 30, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hot Docs 2014: Songs for Alexis Review )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hot Docs 2014 Spotlight: Songs for Alexis )〕 Songs for Alexis had its United States premiere at Frameline Film Festival on June 28, 2014. Songs for Alexis also screened and sold out at DOC NYC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Songs For Alexis DOC NYC )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Songs For Alexis )〕 Indiewire listed Songs for Alexis on its "10 Films You must Watch at Frameline 2014" article.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=10 Films You Must Watch at Frameline 2014 )〕 ==Activism== Since 2008, Ryan Cassata has presented at high schools, universities, support groups and conferences on topics such as Coming out, Gender Identity Disorder, Transgenderism, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Substance Dependence and bullying. Cassata also speaks about his experience as the first openly transgender student in Bay Shore High School and the changes he made there. He has discussed bullying, what gendered bathroom to use, and gaining the right to have his chosen name in the school yearbook instead of his name at birth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ryan Cassata: Singer, Songwriter, Voice for LGBT Youth. )〕 Cassata tells personal stories using speech, songs, poetry and YouTube videos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Transgender Activist Speaks About Gender Identity Awareness. )〕 In 2012, Cassata became the youngest keynote speaker that the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference ever elected.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Ryan Cassata. )〕 Ryan Cassata uses his music videos to discuss social justice topics such as bullying. His 2012 music video, "Hands of Hate" released on YouTube honors and remembers LGBT Youth who were murdered or committed suicide. The lyrics of "Hands of Hate" discuss the murder of Matthew Shepard, the murder of Larry King, and the suicides of Tyler Clementi and Jamey Rodemeyer. Larry King is honored in the second verse: In 2015, Ryan Cassata appeared on the San Francisco Trans March line-up with Laverne Cox. Cassata has delivered speeches and performances at colleges and universities such as Carnegie Mellon University, Boston University, Capital University, Rider University, Rutger's University, Central Washington University, San Francisco State University, Binghamton University, Dominican University of California, University of New Hampshire, State University of New York at Purchase, State University of New York at New Paltz, Ursinus College, State University of New York at Old Westbury and Dowling College. Cassata has delivered speeches and performances at high schools such as Bay Shore High School, David H. Hickman High School, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, Amityville Memorial High School, Ossining High School, Kingston High School and Monmouth Regional High School. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ryan Cassata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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