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View ArticleBubbles Rose Lee (194?–?) activist
Bubbles, as a child, had undergone periods of of hunger and starvation. Later, when a friend talked to her about over-eating, she replied: “if you have ever gone hungry like I have, you would...
View ArticleLauren Jeska (1974 - ) fell runner
Jeska, originally from Lancashire, studied physics at Oxford University, and then gender studies at Leeds University. She transitioned in 2000.Jeska took up fell running, and was the women’s 2010, 2011...
View ArticleMary Baker (1911 - ? ) chorine, housewife
At age 16 William Richeson became Mary Baker and found work as a chorus girl in New York theatre. She later worked as nurse, waitress and chambermaid. In 1931 she married. In 1937 she was outed, much...
View ArticleRecurring untruths: Marsha P Johnson’s birthday
“The story’s told/ With facts and lies”. Leonard Cohen. A new series of untruths, canards, lies and misinformation that are repeated with regard to trans history. _________________________________ We...
View ArticleSally’s Hideaway and Sally’s II - nightclub
In the mid 1980s, after the coming of AIDS, the masculist gay sex bars in New York, the Anvil, The Mineshaft, the Toilet, went out of business, either voluntarily or under pressure from the city. The...
View ArticleBambi L’Amour, activist
When 15-year-old Sylvia Rivera was arrested and sent to New York’s Rikers Island prison in 1966, she was in the gay-reserved section where she met a good-looking black queen. They threw shade at each...
View ArticleRecurring Untruths: Edward Hyde, Governor of New York & New Jersey - Part I
“The story’s told/ With facts and lies”. Leonard Cohen.A series of untruths, canards, lies and misinformation that are repeated with regard to trans history.-------------------------We are interested...
View ArticleRecurring Untruths: Edward Hyde–Part II
The only detailed biography of Edward Hyde is: Patricia U. Bonomi. The Lord Cornbury Scandal The Politics of Reputation in British America. The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.She had earlier...
View ArticleDefenestration in Brooklyn
Duberman’s Stonewall book mentions the gay rights pioneer activist, Bob Kohler (1926-2007):“Kohler would give the young queens clothing and change, or sometimes pay for a room in a local fleabag hotel;...
View ArticleTransgender lexicons: John Money 1: gender and transexual
Transgender lexicons: Virginia PrinceRose WhiteRaven UsherChris BartlettJack MolayRaphael CarterJohn Money John Money coined a lot of words, and took other existing words and made them his own. Man...
View ArticleTransgender lexicons: John Money 2: other words
Transgender lexicons:Virginia PrinceRose WhiteRaven UsherChris BartlettJack MolayRaphael CarterJohn Money – part 1: gender and transexualOther Words in Money’s Glossaries:Man & Woman, Boy &...
View ArticleJohn Ronald Brown (1922 - 2010) surgeon - Part I
I wrote a shorter version of this in August 2007. This version goes into more details, about his legal troubles, his patients etc. John Brown was born in 1922, the son of a Mormon physician. He...
View ArticleJohn Ronald Brown: part II.
Continued from Part I. John Ronald Brown was 69 when he got out of prison. After a period working as a taxi driver, he restarted his surgical practice in Tijuana, but this time also lived in Mexico for...
View ArticleNicole Vonlee Titlow (1967 - ) convicted of murder
By her 30s, Nicole in Tennessee had been living as female for many years, was generally accepted by her family with whom she still lived, and had spent $15,000 on breast enhancements, but could not...
View ArticleThoughts while reading (about) Colin Wilson
Over the years I have read many of the books by Colin Wilson – one of those whom the newspapers in the 1950s designated as Angry Young Men - on existentialism, motiveless murder, Jack the Ripper, the...
View ArticleJackie Shane (1940- ) musician
Originally from Nashville, Jackie Shane, like Jimi Hendrix, spent time with musical house mother, ‘Queen of the Blues’, Marion James, and in late teenage started touring. In 1960 Jackie was picked out...
View ArticleEthel Person (1934-2012) psychoanalyst: Part I Life
Part I: LifePart II: theoryUnless otherwise noted, page references are to The Sexual Century. Ethel Jane Spector was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Her mother was a mathematician, and her father owned...
View ArticleEthel Person–Part II: theory
Part I: LifePart II: theoryUnless otherwise noted, page references are to The Sexual Century. Person and Ovesey follow the old psychoanalytic tradition of referring to trans persons by their birth...
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