“If a person is missing a hand or a foot, your mindset is feeling pity toward them. “My disability has more of a chance of being laughed at than any other disability,” David Funes told me over lunch of lobster rolls and sweet tequila cocktails earlier this year.
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This piece is a companion to the episode of Gawker’s video interview series Rare Lives that features Joey Navedo: A Conversation With Joey Navedo, a Gay Little PersonĪs a gay little person, Joey Navedo, 30, lives one of the rarest of lives. Both were incredibly frank with me about the experience of being gay and little in New York and provided among the most fascinating conversations that I’ve had all year.
Their experiences often converge, but not always given their personality types (Funes is more soft spoken and modest Navedo is extroverted and outrageous). They know each other, but are not close friends. David Funes, 25, and Joey Navedo, 30, are both entertainers living in New York, and they both have the most common type of dwarfism, achondroplasia. Earlier this year, I met with two of them to discuss their lives: dating, sex, prejudice, aspirations. These are rough, rough estimates, but they do indicate just how small a minority gay little people inhabit.
000233 percent of the population, or one in every 430,000 people. If there are 15,000 men with dwarfism in America, and like the general population according to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, five percent of them are predominantly attracted to men, that means there are 750 gay little men in America. Campbell estimates that the amount of little people are equally divided by sex. There are about 30,000 little people in America, according to Joanna Campbell, executive director of the largest little people organization in the country, Little People of America.