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Aura said she feels seen and feels that it’s important for people who are transitioning or even just
curious to see positive models of trans life and, more than ever, as part of real life.
“I feel like cis people nowadays are opening up their minds and diving into feminine and masculine
attributes of themselves due to people being able to show themselves in this day and age. It brings
up a lot of different things that you might not have thought even about yourself. I have men who
come up to me and just being myself has shown them, ‘Oh my God, like I didn’t know that like
it was okay for guys to wear nail polish’—because they’re not seeing me as a man, but they’re
hearing me as a woman talking about how I think it’s so sexy when a man wears nail polish and
when he does makeup, and they’re like, ‘Oh really? That’s okay?’
“Then you have other women, cis and trans, who are saying, ‘Yeah there’s nothing wrong
with showing that feminine side of yourself.’ So, men are now starting to find a feminine side of
themselves that they never knew was there, or that they weren’t allowed to express because
they’ve been told they can’t show emotions. They can’t wear that shirt because it’s for girls. They
can’t wear that color because it’s for girls.
“When you have people out there doing things that are outside of the norm, outside of the box,
it really helps everybody,” she said.
Growing up in Colorado Springs, Aura was confronted by ugly reality with the 2022 mass shooting
at Club Q that made national headlines when five clubgoers were killed and 17 injured. The shooter
was finally subdued by two people in the crowd, an Army veteran and a club performer.
“We only had our one safe space and that was Club Q,” Aura recalled. “And of course, they
messed that up, you know, with what happened with the shooting and stuff. So, it’s horrible. Yeah,
those were my friends. That’s where I started drag. That’s where I started my whole everything. I
lived across the street from there. Club Q is still home for so many of us and even though it’s not
open now...”
After moving out west, Los Angeles feels like home for the starlet on the ascent.
“I know that I have this community here and I don’t think I’ve ever experienced so many trans
people in my life, than moving to California. It’s the mecca for trans people. This is where all of us
are and it’s where we thrive.
“We run shows, we run businesses, we model, we get in front of cameras, we do all the things
here. I think when you come to L.A., you get to see the real world. Because you have a mixing pot
of just all the culture, all of the different kinds of people, different kinds of ways of living, the clean
eating, and just all of it,” she said with a smile.
“I just feel like I’ve been thrust into a new way of living and I don’t ever want to go back.”
As awards season commences, Aura is currently nominated at the 2026 AVN Awards in the
following categories: Trans Performer of the Year, Best Trans Acting Performance, Best Trans Group
Sex Scene, Best Trans One-on-One Sex Scene and Best Foursome/Orgy Scene.
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