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New Doc Explores How Julia Sweeney’s ‘SNL’ Favorite Pat Became a Complex Nonbinary Icon

Ro Haber's new doc 'We Are Pat' will explore the complex legacy of Julia Sweeney's 'Saturday Night Live' character Pat.

Watch an exclusive clip from director Ro Haber's We Are Pat, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this month The inscrutability of Pat’s androgyny was pushed to comedic extremes, effectively offering prominent, yet thorny representation for gender non-conforming people on television long before the term “non-binary” was being widely used. It’s set to feature interviews with an array of queer and trans comedians and writers, including Molly Kearney, Esther Fallick, Abby McEnany, Pink Foxx, and Roz Hernandez.

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