Nikolai Ursin was a gay student filmmaker who directed the remarkable short fiction film Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967), featuring a Black trans woman (played by a Black trans performer whose name is not known) who talks about what she wants in life as she shops for clothes, fields men’s gazes, then flirts with a man and gets a coffee with him. The film is a rarity in that it centers the perspective of a Black trans woman and represents her with dignity.

Born "Nikolai Elliott Ursin" in 1942, Nick Elliot was the son of a career soldier, Nick spend his childhood as a "military brat," living in the United States, Japan and Germany. After earning his BA from UC Berkeley, he studied film at the Sarbonne and the Cinema Frrancaise, both in Paris. He returned stateside and earned his masters degree in motion picture and video production at UCLA. Working primarily in gay pornographic films, he filmed some of the classics of the era, including "Kansas City Trucking Company," "El Paso Wrecking Crew," "The Idol," "Inch By Inch," and "A Matter of Size." He died from AIDS-related lymphoma at his home in Venice, California in 1990.