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Ludwig Viktor von Habsburg (1842-1919) Archduke
Franz Karl von Habsburg, Archduke, had four sons: Frans Joseph (1830-1916) Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary for 68 years; Maximilian (1832-1867) who became Emperor of Mexico in 1864, and was...
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Barry Farber (1930-2020) radio host
Turnabout #7 Summer 1966 p32, Siobhan Fredericks wrote: “the subject of transvestism in general and TURNABOUT Magazine in particular received a good deal of welcome publicity this July when the...
View ArticleDoctors and some Trans Siblings in the 1970s
The idea that trans-ness runs in families never quite goes away. All permutations actually happen. One trans person with otherwise cis-straight siblings; a trans person with a gay/lesbian sibling; a...
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The Cameron siblings: Bobbi and Loren
Marjorie (1922-1995)One cannot mention the trans siblings, Loren and Bobbi, without also mentioning their remarkable aunt, Marjorie Cameron (sometimes just Cameron). She was in the US Navy during WWII...
View ArticleThe Unabomber was not trans
Theodore Kaczynski (1942 - 2023) from Chicago was a mathematics prodigy who, at age 15 in 1957, was accepted at Harvard on a full scholarship. In his second year he and 21 others were recruited by...
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Jan Wålinder (1931-2014) psychiatrist, chief physician, sex change doctor
Jan Wålinder, the son of a civil engineer, was raised in Eskilstuna, 100 km west of Stockholm. He studied medicine at Uppsala University from 1952, and was licensed as a doctor in 1958. He spent a year...
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Trans New York 1960-1962.
See also:Trans New York 1963-1965The four years leading to Stonewall – a New York timelineThe five years following Stonewall - a New York timelineThe Gilded GrapeThe GG Knickerbocker P T Barnum...
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Trans New York 1963-1965
See also:Trans New York 1961-1962The four years leading to Stonewall – a New York timelineThe five years following Stonewall - a New York timelineThe Gilded GrapeThe GG Knickerbocker P T Barnum...
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Dolly Van Doll (1938 - ) performer
Dolly was born and raised in Turin. When she grew up she went to Paris, and eventually got taken on at Madame Arthur and then Le Carrousel. Her first love was with a man who told her that he was a...
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Gert-Christian Südel (1951-2014) pioneer activist
Südel was raised in Hamburg. It just so happened that the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was relatively accepting of trans persons compared to the rest of West Germany. In Bavaria, for example, it...
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Jenny O. Hushler (1862 - 1953) embroiderer, book seller.
(this article was previously of Jenny O. However the discovery of her obituary gave us her surname. Originally post 4/2/2015)Hushler was born in Vorarlberg, Austria. Hushlet's father, a gamekeeper...
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Elisa (? - 1980) travesti boss
During the 1970s travesti sex workers in Brazil became more accepted by some members of the public if not by the police, and along with that there were two other developments:1) the injection of...
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Fritz Kitzing (1905 – 199?) bookkeeper, sex worker, shop assistant
Kitzing was born and raised with the name Fritz in the garrison town of Neuruppin, northwest of Berlin. Kitzing trained as a bookkeeper and moved to Berlin in the late 1920s. In late 1933 Kitzing was...
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Carlson Wade (1928 – 1993) pulp sexologist, nutritionist
Original version 25 October 2010.Today mainly remembered for his many books on diet and health, Carlson Wade published a whole series of cheap paperbacks on many aspects of sex and gender in the 1950s...
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Edward Podolsky (1902-1965) doctor and writer
Edward Podolsky, born and raised in New York, was a doctor who also wrote books. In his early years he wrote science fiction, and then essays about science fiction.His first medical book in 1934, Young...
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Patient of Austin Flint (1874 - ?) ladies' maid
While this person is commented on in medical and academic literature, we have no name for her, neither her name for herself nor a pseudonym assigned by a doctor. While still a teenager, she had...
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Arrested in Southend, 1922
We know only the male name under which she was arrested. She was not bothering anyone, except the nosy policeman with nothing better to do. No evidence of 'loitering for the purpose of committing a...
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Latina Seville (1940 - ) performer
The boy who later grew up to be Latina Seville was pretty and grew neither body nor facial hair, and because of this was called ‘fruit’ or ‘queer’ at school, often by the same bullies who made passes...
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Marisa (1962 - ) first trans surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
Keller grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, married in 1992, and they had twin daughters in 1998. In 2010, not able to deny it anymore, Keller came out as trans, and the wife immediately filed for divorce....
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Trans Italy 1971-85
Trans Italy1960-701971-851986-2000In this period, trans activism expanded and after lobbying and street demonstrations, the 1982 Act of Parliament led to rights for post-op trans persons. Also in this...
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