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Transgender Lexicons: Morgan Holleb's The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality
Transgender lexicons:Virginia PrinceRose WhiteRaven UsherChris BartlettJack MolayRaphael CarterJohn Money – part 1: gender and transexualJohn Money - part II: other wordsMorgan Lev Edward Holleb. The...
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The Gilded Grape
Part I: the Gilded GrapePart II: The GG Knickerbocker Barnum RoomMatty The Horse IannielloWe have already met Matthew Ianniello (1920 – 2012) who co-ordinated what happened at the Stonewall Inn on...
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The GG Knickerbocker P T Barnum Room
Part I: The Gilded GrapePart II: The GG Knickerbocker Barnum RoomThe Knickerbocker HotelThe Knickerbocker Hotel 1466 Broadway at 42nd Street, opened in 1906 – two years after the first NY subway line,...
View ArticleKubrà (1912 - ?) Iran's first surgical gender confirmation
In the late 1920s the police in Garrus in Iranian Azerbaijan became aware of a young person with a non-standard gender. The person was referred to as “Kubrà, son of Tahir Sultan”, although Kubrà is a...
View ArticleIna Barton (193? - 1974) friend of April Ashley
In the best trans (auto)biographies there are accounts of other trans persons, who are otherwise unknown. This is one such.Ina, who was from Newcastle, and April Ashley first met in 1955. Ina was then...
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The Triple-Whammy 1928-9
I have previously referred to the triple whammy of 1928-9 - when, within a few months, trans men and masculine women in London and Paris were involved in three much publicised trials which, while...
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Barbara Buick (1928 - ?) performer, factory worker
Buick was the child of Colonel and Madame Gaston Joly of Paris. At the end of the Second World War the child went with the parents to Bad Ems, Germany as part of the army of occupation, but then...
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Lucia Lucas (1981 – ) opera singer
Lucas, from Sacramento studied voice and horn at California State University, Sacramento, and did graduate work at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Lucas married a woman, a fellow opera singer,...
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Adrian Angelico (1982 - ) opera singer
Adrian, an indigenous Sami, was raised with the name Angelica Voje in Tromsø, in northern Norway. Voje studied opera singing in Norway and Denmark, at the International Opera Studio in Zurich, the...
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Éve-Claudine Lorétan (Coco) (1969 – 1998) model, housekeeper
Lorétan was raised in Thun, south of Bern. She was taking black-market hormones from the age of 13. Her elder sister had been raped at age 13, and afterwards turned to drugs and died at a young...
View ArticleBooks on Gender Variance in 2019
$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. Miriam J Abelson. Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.$£¥ € Michel J Boucher. Transgender...
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2019 trans obituaries
Brenda Lana Smith (1933 – 2019) Honorary Danish Consul in Bermuda. Christine Jorgensen’s housemate until her death. Active in PFC. Campaigned against lack of gay and trans rights in Bermuda.Jackie...
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Marsha Naquin-Delain (1953 - 2017) publisher, community activist
Marsha was raised as Marion Greeson in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His mother Betty Greeson was a cop, and Marion came out to her at age 15 – although they agreed not to mention the fact to his father, a...
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Donald Purcell (1914 - 1958) chauffeur, business man
In 1938 Purcell was living in Monton Green, Eccles, Manchester (map). He was accepted at Charing Cross Hospital in London and operated on by Dr Lennox Broster. An article in the Daily Mirror headlined...
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Alexander Polycleitos Cawadias / Αλεξανδρος Πολυκλειτος Καββαδιας (1884 –...
Cawadias was the son of the noted Greek archeologist, Panagiotis Kavvadias/ Παναγιώτης Καββαδίας (1850 – 1928). Alexander was educated locally in Athens and then at Montpellier University and at the...
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Alexander Polycleitos Cawadias - part II
Continued from Part I.A.P. Cawadias expanded his 1941 lecture into a book, Hermaphoditus: The Human Intersex, first published in 1943 despite the wartime rationing of paper. A second edition was...
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Richard Hoskins (1964 - ) theologian, criminologist
Hoskins was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and mainly educated at Uppingham School, a boarding school in Rutland County, where he was sexually abused by a teacher who later was sent to prison....
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Michelle Confait (1945 – 1972) sex worker
Confait, born in the Seychelles, but living in London, had been raised with the name Maxwell but preferred Michelle.MichelleIn the early 1970s she was working as a trans prostitute, and in 1971 was...
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Glen or Glenda but not Virginia Prince
First a reminder of previous postings.Virginia PrincePart 1 – Youth and First marriageBibliographyPart II – Second MarriagePart III – Femmiphilic activistPart IV – Full-time LivingPart V –...
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Ernest Marples (1907 – 1978) Minister of Transport, businessman
Ernest Marples was raised in Manchester by parents active in the Labour Party. In 1941 he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of Captain, before being medically discharged...
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