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Catherine McGregor (1956–) soldier, cricketer, sports writer, political aide.
Malcolm grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, in a Catholic family. He was eight when his father died, and shorty afterwards he tried on his mother's clothes. He was a successful boy, at humanities and at...
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Berlin in the 1920s and early 1930s
Three trans women - said to be prostitutes - at the Marienkasino.Trans women at the Eldorado Nightclub Hansi Sturm, Miss Eldorado, 1926.All images from: Robert Beachy. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a...
View ArticleGerda von Zobeltitz (1891 – 1963) tailor
Georg von Zobeltitz from Weissensee, Berlin, a scion of one of Germany's old noble families with ties to the Hohenzollern court, was making a living in Berlin as Gerda, a women's tailor, by 1910. She...
View ArticleBerlin, 1898
In Robert Beachy's Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity, p69 we find (he is paraphrasing the Tägliche Rundschau, 79, 20 March 1898):"A gang of eight thieves arrested in March 1898 embodied this...
View ArticleSome Events of the year 2014: Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal...
Some events of 2013. Some events of 2012. Some events of 2011. Some events of 2010. Some events of 2009. Some Events of 2008.This is just some of what happened in 2014.Part 1: Organizations &...
View ArticleTransperson in the ladies' room.
Salon.com currently has an article on the New York Times and its less than adequate reporting on trans issues. In the comments below, there is the following, which is copied from a comment on a...
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Some Events of the year 2014: Part 2: Persons
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons,Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids, Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...
View ArticleSome Events of the Year 2014: Part 3: Marriage, lovers; Transkids
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids, Part 4: Politics & Government,...
View ArticleSome Events of 2014: Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports,...
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids, Part 4: Politics & Government,...
View ArticleSome Events of 2014: Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops &...
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids. Part 4: Politics & Government,...
View ArticleSome Events of 2014: Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics,...
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids, Part 4: Politics & Government,...
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Some Events of 2014: Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion,...
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids, Part 4: Politics & Government,...
View ArticleSome Events of 2014: Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Television, Adverts,...
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids. Part 4: Politics & Government,...
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Some Events of 2014: Part 9: Jargon, Magazines & Newspapers, Journal Articles...
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids. Part 4: Politics & Government,...
View ArticleSome Events of 2014: Part 10: Archives, Theses, Books
Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation. Part 2: Persons, Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids. Part 4: Politics & Government,...
View Article2014 and other stuff: comments
In the 1980s when Thatcher was UK Prime Minister, and perhaps in reaction to her predecessor as Conservative leader whose homosexuality was an open secret, she caused to be enacted Section 28 of the...
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Toni Ebel (1881 – 1961) artist.
Hugo Otto Arno Ebel was raised in Berlin, the eldest of eleven children. Ebel left home because of what was taken to be homosexuality, and worked, as a woman, in a women's dress shop while studying...
View ArticleJo Shanley (1936 - ) machinist
Joseph Shanley of Billerica, Massachusetts, had felt since childhood that he was the wrong sex. In 1969, at age 33, Shanley went to Casablanca and had surgery with Dr Burou.However on return Shanley...
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4 Trans mayors in India
Kamla Jaan (1954 – ), although illiterate, was elected mayor of Katni, Madhya Pradesh, in 1999. She won 28 of 45 wards, finishing 1,897 votes ahead. She sank wells, fixed the drains and renovated the...
View ArticleIOS Rainbow List 2014
The 2014 Independent on Sunday Rainbow List (previously Pink List) of 101 LGBT persons who made a difference is just published.One of the good things about this list is that most people on have not yet...
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