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Sylvia Rivera Part V: Later Years
Part I: beginningsPart II: GAA & Weinstein HallPart III: Street Transvestite Action RevolutionariesPart IV: Other activities to 1973Part V: Later years Sylvia retreated to Tarrytown on the...
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Noor Talbi نور طلبي dancer, model, actress (1969 - )
Noureddine Talbi was born in Agadir, and was raised in Hay Mohammedi, outside Casablanca. Talbi was good at languages and also a teenage athlete and won gold medals in the 110 and 440-metre hurdles at...
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Jayne Thomas ( 194? – 2002) psychologist
Jay Thomas grew up in a small town in Indiana, and as a teenager was a national swimming champion. Despite feeling wrong as a boy, Jay married a woman at age 17, however she had great difficulties with...
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Hanan Al Tawil حنان الطويل actress (1966 – 2004)
Tareq, born and raised in Egypt, was an actor, but felt wrong in the body, so went to Europe for the operation. On return she took the name Hanan Al Tawil, and announced from the stage that she had...
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Leynon (192? – 195?) performer
Leynon, from Mexico, was a well-known performer in US female-impersonation nightclubs in the 1950s. When Perry Desmond was hired for a first chance as a performer at New Orleans’ My-O-My Club in 1956,...
View ArticleAdvice Manuals I: 1957-1980
BibliographiesCanadian (auto)biographiesHoax biographies(auto)biographies that are almost unobtainableFrench and Belgian (auto) biographies and HistoriesBiographies with the pre-transition name in the...
View ArticleAdvice Manuals II 1981-2000
Bibliographies:Canadian (auto)biographiesHoax biographies(auto)biographies that are almost unobtainableFrench and Belgian (auto) biographies and HistoriesBiographies with the pre-transition name in the...
View ArticleAdvice Manuals III 2001-2017
Bibliographies:Canadian (auto)biographiesHoax biographies(auto)biographies that are almost unobtainableFrench and Belgian (auto) biographies and HistoriesBiographies with the pre-transition name in the...
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Trans women featured in Playboy magazine
Slightly off-topic: Zelda Suplee, later Reed Erickson's office manager, the person who actually ran the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF), the first US organization for transsexuals, had managed...
View ArticleBirth Order in Androphilic Trans Women
In addition to his proposal that late-transition gynephilic trans women be regarded as “autogynephiles`”, Ray Blanchard proposes the Fraternal Birth Order Effect. Here is Kay Brown`s summary of...
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Andrea Susan Malick (1939 – 2015) photographer, cinematographer.
Jack Malick, a photographer, was a regular participant from the age of 21 in Susanna and Marie Valenti’s Chevalier D’Eon Resort and later Casa Susanna. Malick’s femme name was at first Jacqueline, but...
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Alex Starke (1898–?) dentist
Born as Clara Jenny Starke In Erfurt, Thuringia, Alex, apparently anatomically intersex, moved to Berlin, where he worked as a dentist and, with expert evidence from Magnus Hirschfeld, he applied for a...
View Article7 trans persons in North Africa and 10 emigrants who changed things by...
North Africa is a difficult place to be trans. Which is why most persons listed here are emigrants.Surgeons & psychiatristsGeorges Burou (1910 – 1987) pioneer surgeon in Casablanca, invented...
View ArticlePhoebe Smith (1939–) Part I: retail worker
(Phoebe transitioned in Atlanta in the 1960s. In those days she had great difficulty in finding out about other transsexuals, and in finding any professionals who even knew where to point her, let...
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Phoebe Smith (1939–) Part II: state worker, activist
Continued from Part I.Back in Atlanta after a first visit to Dr Barbosa, Phoebe Smith was taken shopping by an aunt who bought her three dresses. Phoebe made an appointment with Harry Benjamin in New...
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Diamond Lil (1935 – 2016) performer, antiques dealer, columnist
Phillip Forrester was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. He was in drag at age 5, and as a child sang on Savannah radio. At Halloween 1953, he and a drag friend got dolled up and crashed a party at...
View ArticleSome thoughts on Timelines
Timelines, sometimes called Chronologies. Many Timelines of LGBT or just trans history are found on the Internet. Some are quite good, others are pretty bad.WikipediaEN.Wikipedia has Timelines, which...
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Atlanta-Savannah Timeline–Part I: 1539-1980
This first local trans Timeline, is centred on the US Georgia cities of Atlanta and Savannah. We juxtapose Phoebe Smith, Jayne County, Dallas Denny, Diamond Lil, Lady Chablis etc. A criticism of...
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Atlanta-Savannah Timeline–Part II 1981-now
1981Divine and Christine Jorgensen appeared at first annual party of the Limelight disco in Atlanta. Elvira/Cassandra Peterson, hired to host a Los Angeles horror show, copied look that Atlanta drag...
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