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Sports, Gender and Trans–Part 2: the Cold War

Part 1: to 1945 Part 2: the Cold WarPart 3: recent developmentsAccusations of gender impersonations became a weapon to be used, mainly by the US, in the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s.  While the...

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Sports, Gender and trans-Part 3: recent developments

Part 1: to 1945Part 2: the Cold WarPart 3: recent developmentsSex testing continued another 10 years beyond the end of the Cold War, but the arguments for it were becoming less persuasive.  Not that...

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The Financial Times list of LGBT executives

The Financial Times has released its 2015 list of 100 LGBT Executives .    It is no surprise that there are very few trans women – and no trans men at all – on the list.4 Martin Rothblatt      CEO at...

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Bebe Scarpinato (1951 - ) activist, teacher, performer

In the early 1970s, Bebe Scarpi(nato) had graduated from Queens College, New York (which she denied choosing for its name) where she'd founded a Gay Community organization. She became active in the Gay...

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In the news …

Tara Hudson, Bristol, convicted of assault and sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment, was sent to a men’s prison until there was a kerfuffle in the press and in Parliament, and then she was transferred to...

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Daya Rani (1959 – 2015) electoral candidate

Daya was born and has always lived in Dasna, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. She lived with other kinnars in a shared bungalow. Although illiterate, in 2004, 2009 and 2014 Daya Rani contested the Ghaziabad...

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 12 November 1954

There were years when the police harassed and even arrested those 'cross-dressed' at New York's National Variety Artists' Carnival and Costume Ball.   At the other times the Ball winners were noted in...

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Aaïcha Bergamin (1932 – 2014) performer, sex worker, drug smuggler

Leonhard Meisjes was raised in Amsterdam with three sisters.At age 19 Leonhard was sent to a psychiatric hospital after being found by mother in bed with a Jamaican dancer, but escaped and fled to...

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Le Carrousel and Madame Arthur: Part I: before 1945.

Part I: before 1945. 75, rue des Martyres et 40, rue Pierre FontaineBibliographyPart II: 1945 – 1961. 40, rue du Colisée  et Juan-les-PinsPart III: 1962 and after.  22, rue Vavin, and Korte...

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Le Carrousel and Madame Arthur: Bibliography

Part I: before 1945. 75, rue des Martyres et 40, rue Pierre FontaineBibliography Part II: 1945 – 1961. 40, rue du Colisée  et Juan-les-PinsPart III: 1962 and after.  22, rue Vavin, and Korte...

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Le Carrousel and Madame Arthur: Part II: 1945 – 1961

Part I: before 1945. 75, rue des Martyres et 40, rue Pierre FontaineBibliographyPart II: 1945 – 1961 40, rue du Colisée  et Juan-les-PinsPart III: 1962 and after, 22, rue Vavin, and Korte...

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IOS Rainbow List 2015

The 2015 Independent on Sunday Rainbow List of 101 UK LGBT persons who made a difference is just published.Previous IOS lists:  2014  2013 The count of Trans/Intersex/non-binary/etc persons is up to 30...

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Le Carrousel and Madame Arthur: Part III: 1962 and after

 Massacres in Paris:  52BCE, 845, 1572, 1792, 1871, 1942, 1961, 2015.   Again Paris will survive.Paris' motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur  (tossed but not...

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Peter Stirling (1936–) shoe retailer

Jean Webb was raised in Melbourne. She was in the Women's Royal Australian Air Force, and afterwards worked in shoe retailing, and in both had a number of crushes on and from women – one of whom later...

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Alexis Del Lago (1938 - ) costumier, actress, performer

Domingo Blassini Calabaza was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. As Alexis Blassini she studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York where she first appeared as female at a ball and won first prize....

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Lili Elvenes, known as Lili Elbe, and the film not of her life

If you are considering a visit to the cinema to see The Danish Girl, please bear the following in mind:The film is based on a 2000 novel by David Ebershoff. It is not based on Maurice Rostand's 1933...

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Some Events of the year 2015: Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal...

Some events of 2014. 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 2015.Part 1:...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 2: Persons, Changebacks

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, Changebacks Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids, Part 4: Politics & Government,...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans Kids

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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