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Georgina Beyer (1957 - ) actress, sex worker, politician.
George Bertrand, a Maori of Te Ati Awa, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Raukawa, and Ngati Porou descent, whose father quickly disappeared, was at first raised on the mother's parents farm. He became George Beyer...
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Yvonne Sinclair (1928–) sailor, changeback, activist, actor.
I previously wrote about Yvonne in June 2008. This is much expanded. Sinclair was born in the Old Kent Road, London, and was cross-dressing by the age of three. One of the sisters assisted in this....
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Nicole Murray Ramirez (194? - ) sex worker, changeback, LGBT and Latino activist
Ramirez was a Catholic alter boy, and initially wanted to be a priest. But being gay did not become so.She was a sex worker in Los Angeles under the name Lolita, and then was working towards...
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BB Gandanghari (1967 - ) actress.
Rustom Padilla was raised in a Filipino acting family. He did a BA in economics at St Louis University, Baguio, and studied filmmaking at University of California at Los Angeles.Rustom became a matinee...
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Candis Cayne (1971–) dancer, actress.
Brendan McDaniel and her twin brother were born in California and raised in Maui, Hawai’i to parents who were teachers. In her late teens McDaniel was trained as a dancer in Los Angeles, and then moved...
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Barbara Lemay (1932 - 1993) hootch dancer.
Sammy Hoover was born in West Virginia, and at 16 joined a carnival. He was too pretty to just sell hotdogs, and was put in the girlie show.Hoover became Barbara Lemay, and performed as Glamazon. She...
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Jordi Torremadé (1923 - ?) athlete, sales manager.
María Torremadé was raised in Barcelona. As a teenager she won Spanish and European awards in basketball and athletics and high jump. She ran 60 metres in 7.71 seconds, which was the European record...
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Nancy Valverde (1932–) barber.
Nancy was raised in East Los Angeles. She normally wore men’s clothing and short hair. Most week-ends in 1955, when she was a student at barber school, she was arrested for ‘masquerading’. She often...
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British Medical Journal, 9 April 1966
This two-page summary of the then professional view of transsexuality was published in the British Medical Journal in 1966, just a few months before Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon was...
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Joe Monahan (?1850 – 1904) miner, cowboy.
Joe Monahan arrived in Owyhee County, Idaho Territory in the early 1867. He tried mining, than worked in a mill, and then tried farming, selling produce in Silver City. Around 1800, he moved across the...
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Poppy Cooper (192?–) bus conductor, performer
Cooper was working as a bus conductor in Preston, Lancashire in the late 1940s, where he was generally known as a pansy.On a trip to Morecambe, he was able to catch Forces Showboat – The All-Male Revue...
View ArticleFran Conners (192? - ?) femmiphilic organizer.
In the mid 1960s, Virginia Prince, through the use of the magazine Transvestia, attempted to build Full Personality Expression (FPE) as a network of local chapters across the US.One of only a handful...
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Sir Lady Java (1943–) performer, activist
Originally from New Orleans, Sir Lady Java had been working in Los Angeles for two years in 1967, and was then performing and waiting at the Redd Foxx Club. She was billed as "The Prettiest Man on...
View ArticleJohn Herbert Brundage (1926 – 2001) playwright.
John Brundage was raised in Toronto. He was writing fiction from the age of 14.By 18 he was a accomplished drag queen. He was able to pass as a female model at a fashion show. However his male persona...
View ArticleMauricio Archibald (194? - ) arrested
We have previously discussed Felicity Chandelle who was arrested in March 1964 while walking close to her home and charged and convicted under her male name of John Miller of a violation of Section...
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Frede Baule (1916 - ?) club owner
In 1936 Marlene Dietrich was in Paris for the opening of a new Maurice Chevalier musical at the Casino de Paris. Erich Maria Remarque, an ex-beau of Dietrich, also came to the show and the reception...
View ArticleWho wrote Hirschfeld’s "Sexual Anomalies and Perversions"?
Magnus Hirschfeld’s two major works, Die Transvestiten and Die Homosexualität were not translated into English until 1991 and 2000 respectively. Until then the major Hirschfeld work in English was...
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Rex/Gloria (190? -1970) businessman
Rex, of Clarion, Pennsylvania, became a millionaire early in life. He married several times, and had a large alimony bill. He was 6'4" (1.9 m). In the early 1960s a stroke partially immobilized his...
View ArticleStella Minge (192?–?) sailor, bawdy house keeper
Stella Minge, who had been in the merchant navy, had a house in Silvertown, (map) Newham, London, in the 1950s and 1960s, that was known for its frequent Friday night parties that often lasted until...
View ArticleThe Big House – police raid
1932 was a peak year for pansy revues in Los Angeles with appearances by Karyl Norman and Jean Malin, and the next year Hollywood made a record number of films with pansy content.However, from 1932...
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