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Bobbie Kimber (1918 – 1993) ventriloquist, miniatures painter
Birkenhead, 1938, with EddieI wrote an initial version in September 2008.Ronald Victor Kimberley was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham. As a teenage aspiring variety artist he appeared with an all-male...
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John Talbot divorced 1967
In 1961 John David Talbot married a widow, Mrs Eileen Poyntz, matron of an old people’s home in Brighton, Sussex. Eileen, now Mrs Talbot, realized that John was anatomically not the man she expected –...
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More on Angela Douglas
I have previously discussed Angela Keys Douglas:“Angela Douglas (1943 - 2007) musician, activist”. June 2007.“A History of the Transsexual Action Organization (TAO) and some associates”. July...
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Margaret Branch (1912 - 1997) social worker
In 1936 the young Margaret Johnson was an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War, and then she was in Prague in 1938 after the German invasion, where she helped Jews and other refugees escape into...
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The Bible and what could be taken as transgender
I remember, many years ago, a simple pamphlet put out by the LGBT church, MCC. Its title was What the Bible says about Homosexuality or something like that. The inside pages were blank, because –...
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Trans London in the 1960s: part 1 - 1960-3
Part I: 1960-3Part II: 1964-7Part III: 1968-1970The 1960s in Britain were a time of considerable change. The Britain that had been before WWII was finally being shaken off, and changes – at first small...
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Trans London in the 1960s: part II - 1964-7
Part I: 1960-3Part II: 1964-7Part III: 1968-711964Gloria Robinson completed surgical transition and became the wife of Brian Greaves.Dr Shan Ratman from Singapore studied at the Royal Postgraduate...
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Trans London in the 1960s: part III - 1968-1971
Part I: 1960-3Part II: 1964-7Part III: 1968-71Part IV: comments1968After a long wait, during which Peter Stirling had worked as a female bus conductor and a store detective, her divorce became final,...
View ArticleTrans London in the 1960s: Ruminations
Part I: 1960-3Part II: 1964-7Part III: 1968-71Part IV: RuminationsRevision of Birth CertificatesIt is often said that in Britain before Corbett v Corbett transsexuals as well as intersex persons could...
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Two photos of the Australian army in the 1940s
These two photographs are found in Yorick Small. Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45: Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Three dancers in the mid-1960s who went for completion surgery
These are only snapshots. We know no more.Zorana Pop-Simonović (1938 - ?)Born in Serbia, Zorana worked as a chorus girl from 1955, and then as a belly-dancer in a night 2 club. In 1967 she was a car 3...
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Edgar Wales Burnham (1841 – 1918) musician
Burnham, originally known as Ellen – her mother’s name - was born in Woodstock, Vermont. The family moved to Lawrenceville, New York in 1850, and then to Brodhead, Wisconsin in 1857. The father, Milo...
View ArticleGay Liberation Front (GLF) - London
The post-Stonewall activist organizations:While QLF and STAR were run by trans women, trans women also played significant roles in GLF and GAA. Queens Liberation Front (QLF)StreetTransvestite Action...
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More on Robert Allen
I wrote in June 2015 about Robert Allen who was an assistant to legendary 1940s film directors Michael Powell and David Lean, transitioned in 1944 with a revised birth certificate and married his...
View ArticleColin Markland (1929 - 2012) sex-change surgeon
Colin Markland, whose father owned a butcher’s shop in Bolton, Lancashire, won local and state scholarships to Bolton Grammar School and Cambridge University (Caius College) and trained medically at...
View ArticleThe erasure of Autogynephilia
I have previously written about Autogynephilia, and developed a chronology of its major events and persons up to 2010. The Autogynephilia syndrome and meme was a major brouhaha in the early 2000s,...
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Trans News Orleans: Part I - the early years to news of Christine Jorgensen
Part I: the early years to news of Christine JorgensenPart II: to the two fires of 1972-3Part III: Activism and Legal ChangesThere were two tribes living where New Orleans was later...
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Trans New Orleans: Part II - to the two fires of 1972-3
Part I: the early years to news of Christine JorgensenPart II: to the two fires of 1972-3Part III: Activism and Legal Changes1954At Louisiana State University Perry Desmond found his first gay friends,...
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Trans New Orleans: Part III - Activism and Legal Changes
Part I: the early years to news of Christine JorgensenPart II: to the two fires of 1972-3Part III: Activism and Legal Changes1974Perry Desmond’s mother died, and wished to remember Perry ‘as you were’....
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More on Maurice Wilson
In 2008 I wrote about Maurice Wilson, who in 1934 decided to climb Mt Everest/Chomolungma. With no flying experience and no climbing experience he bought a plane and flew to India, and then set to...
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