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Joe Tish (1924 –) performer.
Joseph Touchette, often known as Tish, was raised the eldest of seven children in Dayville, Connecticut, in a French Catholic family. Soon after World War II, Joe met Norman Kerouac, a first cousin of...
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Other trans persons in New York 1969-72
Out of the Stonewall riots 27-30 June 1969 grew two pioneering trans organizations: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) and Queens Liberation Front (QLF), and two gay organizations Gay...
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Bobbie MacKenzie (1948 – 1987) sex worker, activist
Bobby was born in a small fishing village in Scotland. At the age of nine he was put in a children’s home when his mother came down with Huntington’s Chorea, a genetic condition for which there is no...
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William Sidney Holtom (1886 – 1929) haulier, navvy
Sarah Withers married a farm labourer, William Holtom at the age of 18. However Sarah felt quite wrong in the situation, and after two years left. “The idea struck me that it would help me if I dressed...
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Stefánie Faludi (1927 – 2015) photographer
István Friedman was raised by prosperous Jewish parents in Budapest. However with the coming of anti-Semitic fascism in the 1930s, all was lost. 17-year-old István became a legend in his family when in...
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Toby Meltzer (1957–) gender confirmation surgeon.
Toby Meltzer graduated in medicine and did his residency at the Louisiana State University Charity Hospital, and then did a plastic surgery residency at the University of Michigan. He became clinical...
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Ellie Zara Ley (1974–) surgeon
Eleazer Ley was born in San Luis, Sonora. His mother was Chinese, and his father half-Chinese. Shortly after birth he developed a medical complication that the local doctors did not know how to deal...
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Jamie Clayton (1978 - ) actress
Clayton was raised in San Diego, with a defense attorney and an event planner as parents. At age 19 she moved to New York to transition and to work as a make-up artist. She had completion surgery with...
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Biographies with the pre-transition name in the title
Canadian (auto)biographiesHoax biographies(auto)biographies that are almost unobtainableFrench and Belgian (auto) biographies and HistoriesBiographies with the pre-transition name in the title While it...
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Yollada "Nok" Suanyot เกริกก้อง "นก"สวนยศ (1983 - ) activist, politician
The child of a police officer in Nan province, Suanyot transitioned at 13, using the name Yollada and completed surgery at 16. She did a science degree at Thammasat University, followed by a masters in...
View ArticleJames Allen (1787 – 1829) labourer.
In London, groom, landlord, and pitch-boiler and then sawyer, James Allen was married to Abigail Naylor, known as Mary from 1807. In 1829 he died in an accident at work, and examination of his body...
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A review of Peter Ackroyd’s Queer City
One of Ackroyd’s first books was Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag, the History of an Obsession, 1979, which I reviewed in September 2009. Strangely, while the 1979 book is listed in the bibliography...
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Sorrawee "Jazz" Nattee (1989–) beauty contestant, monk
Nattee was urged by her parents to enter, and became the winner of the Miss Tiffany’s Universe 2009 contest in Pattaya, Thailand.In 2013 it was announced that Sorrawee was to become a monk. He had...
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11 trans persons in Thailand who changed things by example and/or achievement.
SurgeonsSanguan Kunaporn, in Phuket, trained by Preecha Tiewtranon. WebPageSusan’s Place – patients include: Melanie Myers, Stefánie Faludi, Racheal McGonigal, Preecha Tiewtranon in Bangkok. Been doing...
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Babette Ellsworth (1928 – 2002) academic
Albert Ellsworth was born in Yakima, Washington State, to a teenage mother, Mildred Sweet (1911-1955) and her husband Albert Ellsworth (1906-1990). They were told that the child was not expected to...
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Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951-2002) activist - beginnings
Part I: early lifeRay José Christian Rivera Mendoza, was three years old when his mother, aged 22, facing death threats from her husband, drank rat poison mixed with milk and gave the same mixture to...
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Sylvia Rivera Part II: GAA & Weinstein Hall
Part I: beginningsPart II: GAA & Weinstein HallPart III: Street Transvestite Action RevolutionariesPart IV: Other activities to 1973Part V: Later years GLF & GAAIn the months following...
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Sylvia Rivera Part III: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
Part I: beginningsPart II: GAA & Weinstein HallPart III: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries Part IV: Other activities to 1973 Part V: Later years After the demonstration following the...
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Sylvia Rivera Part IV: Other activities to 1973
Part I: beginningsPart II: GAA & Weinstein HallPart III: Street Transvestite Action RevolutionariesPart IV: Other activities to 1973Part V: Later yearsYoung Lords and the Black PanthersSylvia...
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