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Anton Prinner (1902 – 1983) artist, sculptor
Anna Prinner was the only daughter of four children of an accountant father and a pianist mother. She studied at the University of Fine Arts School in Budapest. In 1926 two of Prinner's paintings were...
View ArticleSandra MacRae (1942–) solicitor, SNP candidate
MacRae, from Dundee, the son of a Church of Scotland minister, attended schools in London and Paris, and then did a law degree at Edinburgh University. He did voluntary work for two years in Ghana, and...
View ArticleBarbara Dayton (1926 – 2002) Part I: merchant sailor, soldier, mechanic.
Bobby Dayton was the eldest of the three sons of Elmer and Berneice Dayton. After several moves they settled in Long Beach, in Los Angeles. The youngest son, Jimmy, died in a horse riding accident aged...
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Barbara Dayton (1926 – 2002) Part II: librarian, pilot
Continued from Part I.On November 24, 1971, Thanksgiving Eve, a man using the name Dan Cooper purchased a walk-on ticket for a 727 flight from Portland, Oregon to Seattle. He handed a note to a...
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Willy de Bruijn (1914 - 1989) champion cyclist, café owner
Elvire de Bruijn from Aalst, Belgium was four times Belgian, European and world cycling champion between 1934 and 1937. De Bruijn's average speed was 33 km/hour which was regarded as a male speed....
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During World War II – part i
The start of World War II in Europe is generally taken to be 1 September 1939. On this day Germany invaded Poland. We could also argue that the war started in1937 when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia,...
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During World War II – part ii
Part 1: UK, France & Germany Part 2: other countries Part 3: USAPolandThe future Holly Ahlberg and family, from Riga, are living in German-occupied Poland.LithuaniaGeorge Maciunias, future founder...
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During World War II – part iii
Part 1: UK France & GermanyPart 2: other countries Part 3: USA USAThe Doctors & sexologistsHarry Benjamin is working as a family doctor in New York. He has recently realized that Otto...
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Terry Gardener (1919 - 2000) female impersonator
Terry’s father had been the stage manager of a drag revue in the Great War. Terry started doing drag as a teenager, and was influenced by a pair of drag queens who went busking in the East End of...
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Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992) artist
Francis Bacon was born in Dublin to English parents. His father Anthony (1870-1940), a veteran of the Boer War, was a horse trainer; his mother, Winnie Firth (1884-1971) a heiress to a steel business...
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Violette Morris (Gouraud) (1893 - 1944) Part I: sports champion.
Emilie Paule Marie Violette Morris was born into a family with military connections on her father's side back to the Revolution. Her paternal grandfather was Louis Michel Morris (1803–1867), a cavalry...
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Violette Morris (1893–1944) Part II: performer, chauffeur, black-marketer.
Morris at Le MonocleContinued from Part I. In the 1931 census, Morris gave her name as Paule. At that time she employed a maid and two shop assistants. However she was not a good businessman and with...
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20 trans Londoners who changed things by example or achievement
London, of course, was the home of the first Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital, supplemented by specialist consultants on Harley Street and nearby. Doctors:Harold Gillies (1882 – 1960)...
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James Dalrymple (1931 - 2014) surgeon
James Dalrymple, FRCS, FRCSC was at first a general surgeon and orthopaedic surgeon. He then trained for genital surgery under Peter Phillip, and took over his practice when he retired in the early...
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Pascale Ourbih (1972 - ) model, actress, activist
Original February 2008, revised June 2015.Ourbih was raised in Algeria and initially trained as a pharmacist. At age 18 Ourbih moved to Paris as Pascale, and started transition. She had surgery a year...
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Sandra Clark (1959 - 2014) musician
Clarke grew up in San Jose, California. After a BA in music performance from San Jose State University, Clarke worked in sales for two years, before beginning studies at the Conservatory of Music at...
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Sheela-Marie Padgett (1958- ) dance, artist
Padgett, the son of a Baptist minister and a first-grade school teacher in Mississippi, won a scholarship at age 14 to study ballet at North Carolina School of the Arts, and then at the School of...
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Pete Burns (1959–) performer
Burns was born in Cheshire to a father from Liverpool and a German Jewish mother who had fled from the Nazis. He later told journalist Kris Kirk:"When I was 13 I heard about April Ashley's sex change...
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Leslie Townsend (1960 - ) USA.
Townsend grew up in Philadelphia. After learning about Renee Richards, and seeing a Donahue episode about transsexuals Townsend sent away for some informational materials which were then discovered by...
View ArticleCarol Anne Masters (1921–?) impersonator, model, actress.
Masters was dressed and treated as a girl until the 6th grade, on the pretence that every time that he wore trousers he got into a fight. As a girl Masters had applied to act in the Hal Roach Our Gang...
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