Girl on cell: Hello?…Hi. Sorry about that…Yeah, I was getting bothered…a transvestite who wanted a cigarette…yeah, then she growled at me.
–4th Street & 2nd Avenue
Girl on cell: Hello?…Hi. Sorry about that…Yeah, I was getting bothered…a transvestite who wanted a cigarette…yeah, then she growled at me.
–4th Street & 2nd Avenue
Flustered suit pacing along street: Just letting you know I got a FedEx from Bruce Willis, I guess he finally decided to pay his bills.
–84th St
Overheard by: mikaela
Man to dinner companion: So did you know Mia Farrow is doing a hunger strike? Because of what’s happening in Darfur? I hope she dies.
–Red Bamboo, West Village
Transvestite: Damn, that girl looks like Brooke Shields. Damn, that white girl in the blue shoes looks like Brooke Shields.
–4 Train
Man giving out Metro newspaper: Metro! Metro! Whoooeee, baby, you looking like Jennifer Lopez! Metro!
–7 Train
Suit on cell: If he does it again I am going to get all Chuck Woolery on his ass!
–Gold St
Conductor: May I see your ticket, please?
Drunk tranny: I already showed my ticket.
Conductor: Yes, but you haven’t showed it to me.
Drunk tranny: What the fuck? I already showed my damn ticket.
Conductor: OK, calm down. Just show me your ticket, please… I’ll come back for it to give you a minute to find it.
Drunk tranny: You are probably a leather queen. I pay $16,000 for a cunt and this is the disrespect I get. I am fucking changing cars.
–Long Beach bound LIRR
Girl on cell: We got Chinese cable because it was cheaper than the cheap cable…Yeah, it’s all in Chinese…Whatever. As long as I watch things that I’ve already seen, I don’t need to actually know what they’re saying.
–N train, Astoria
Queer, on cell: Have you seen Victoria’s boyfriend lately? He looks great. She’s better than Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
–Eckerd, Astoria
Mother, to kids: Sorry we just missed the fireworks, guys. It’s okay, though. I TiVoed it at home just in case.
–79th St entrance, FDR
Tourist, after eagerly struggling for camera air‐time: You know what, Ma, I don’t think we’re gonna be able to watch this — it only airs today.
–Taping of the Today Show, Rockefeller Center
Overheard by: Stephen and Allison
Girl: Well, today they had a woman who was born a man who married a man who was born a woman, so don’t shit on Maury Povich!
–New York Public Library
Overheard by: Actually READING at the Library
Guy: Sweet Sixteen? That show makes me understand terrorism.
–114th & Broadway
Gay Asian man: Sorry I sound like a drag queen today.
Girl: Are you sick?
Gay Asian man: Oh no, it’s hangover voice.
–FIT
Overheard by: Rins
Mom: Yeah, he said trannies really aren’t his thing, so I guess we’ll have to ask someone else.
Daughter: Wait, what?
Mom: You know, transmissions. Why, what did you think?
Daughter: Ummm…
–JFK
Overheard by: trooshieb
Guy: Come on, baby, let’s just go inside.
Tranny: I’m not speaking to you unless you take me to Gucci.
–Carroll & 5th, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Overheard by: melizza
Mom to small children: Well, we all have parts. And these parts talk to our bodies and tell us we are a boy or a girl. And sometimes these parts get confused.
–Washington Square East
20‐something girl to male friend: You’re a dirty girl! You’re a dirty girl! You’re a dirty girl!
–N Train
Overheard by: TR
Mother to gender‐transitioning son, questioning plans for surgery: Are you a boy trapped in a girl’s body? I’m getting a face lift, and it’s because I’m a young person trapped in an old person’s body.
–39th & 9th
Man in yellow and green track suit and aviator sunglasses: Nah, I can’t go. That’s when I’m having my breast reduction.
–Columbus Circle
Overheard by: Ems
Teenage boy: I don’t wanna be on that block, son! I know too many trannies on that block!
–Bedford & Grove
Overheard by: How many is too many?
Guy on cell, leaving message: Hello, Dave. This is your mother.
–Tisch School of the Arts
Overheard by: Bruce Lee
Teen boy: Fear me, I have vaginitis!
–Staten Island Ferry
Overheard by: Jingles
Bisexual guy: They say a boner is the body’s natural thumbs up.
Transexual guy: Wait a minute.
–Harlem
Queer #1: Do you know the best way two break up a fight between two drag queens?
Queer #2: No, what?
–14th St & 7th Ave
Overheard by: Kelly Speich
