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Some recent obituaries, trans and others
Lucy Salani (1924-2023) concentration camp survivor, upholsterer, discovered by Bologna LGBT groups in 2010s. Biography: Il mio nome è Lucy, 2009. GVWW.Katherine Cummings (1935 -2022) Australian...
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Amber McLaughlin (1973-2023) convicted of murder
McLaughlin was born in Missouri and given the name Scott. The mother abandoned the child who was placed in the foster care system: one foster parent rubbed feces in his face, and an adoptive father...
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Stella Angel (1870 - ?) tailoress
This is the same person that I wrote about as a Patient of Austin Flint in August 2023.The 1890s were a difficult time to be a trans woman. The first books on ‘transvestism’ would not be published...
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Gina Chua (1960 - ) journalist
Chua was born in Singapore, educated in the Philippines, did a bachelors’s degree in mathematics at the Universityof Chicago and a master’s in journalism at Columbia University in New York. Chua worked...
View ArticleMartine O'Leary - gay liberation activist.
Original: May 2011.Martine was a member of Leeds Gay Liberation Front and also of the International Marxist Group. In 1974 she was active at the Third Gay Marxist Conference in Leeds and also at the...
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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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the person who rejected the White Goddess
In 1948 Faber and Faber published an adventurous book by Robert Graves, poet and mythologist: The White Goddess: A historical grammar of poetic myth. Graves had been working on the book since 1944. The...
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Bernard Norman Barwin (1939 - ) doctor serving trans persons
Barwin was raised in South Africa by parents of Russian and Lithuanian descent. He and his wife left in 1962 after the Sharpeville massacre:“We were just so much opposed to the whole concept of...
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Michael Cimino (1939 – 2016) film director and author
Cimino grew up in Long Island, New York. He was educated in private schools and then attended first Michigan State University and then Yale. At the latter he took a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in 1961...
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Peggy Deauville (1899 -? ) performer
Tom’s father, Benjamin Davies, was the minister at Caersalem Baptist Chapel in the coal-ming village of Abergwynfi, Naeth Port Talbot, South Wales, and was a prominent figure in the local temperance...
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David Martin (1946 – 1984) burglar.
Original version: December 2009David Martin was born in Paddington, London, and was educated at the Finsbury Park comprehensive school. He was trained as a motor mechanic. However he also started...
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Patricio Manuel (1985 - ) boxer
Manuel was raised by a single mother in Santa Monica, California, and was five times the women’s national amateur boxing champion, and also competed in the 2012 Women’s US Olympic Trials until forced...
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Mikki Nicholson (1978-2014) Scabble champion
Mikki started playing Scrabble in 2005 after discovering the game online. By 2010 she was coming first in tournaments including the British National Championship, which provided her with £1,500 so...
View ArticleLyn Raskin (1928 - ) aspirant playwright, bookkeeper, secretary
Part I: life until first visit to Benjamin clinicPart II: TransitionPart III: comments(Citation dates refer to entries in Raskin's book, Diary of a Transsexual)Edward Raskin, originally from...
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Lyn Raskin: Part II - transition
Part I: life until first visit to Benjamin clinic Part II: TransitionPart III: commentsRaskin was looking for a writer to write her biography, and a friend suggested Irmis Johnson, a noted journalist...
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Trans Singapore: Comments & Mediagraphy
Part 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971Part 2: 1972-nowComments and MediagraphyThe new Bugis JunctionCommentsIs there a Chinese original of Cries From Within? Leana Lo calls it “Cries in the...
View ArticleLyn Raskin: Part III - Comments
Part I: life until first visit to Benjamin clinic Part II: TransitionPart III: commentsIf Lyn Raskin is still alive she will be 93/4.One hopes that she did not come to a bad end, but overestimating how...
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Trans Singapore: Part 2 1972 - now
Part 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971Part 2: 1972-nowComments and MediagraphyPart 2 1972 - now1972 New Nation newspaper (Singapore) ran a ground-breaking survey of gay life in Singapore...
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Mowry Saben/Ralph Werther/Earl Lind/Jennie June (1870 - 1950) journalist,...
(This article builds on the October 2022 article in OutHistory “Who Was Jennie June?” by Channing Gerard Joseph Online. I accept Joseph’s argument that Mowry Saben and Jennie June were the same...
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Mowry Saben/Ralph Werther/Earl Lind/Jennie June: Part II - publications
Part I: early lifePart II: publicationsPart III: comments and bibliography In 1907 Mowry Saben wrote a short newspaper article. 'Woman – An Age-Haunting Problem' which was published in the Detroit...
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