tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post390050457262238142..comments2024-03-25T14:26:47.657-04:00Comments on A Gender Variance Who's Who: Betty (?1938 - ?) female impersonator, salesgirl, modelZagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-46995384596631958202016-07-11T10:54:28.035-04:002016-07-11T10:54:28.035-04:00I agree with Sallie that Suzanne and Betty are pro...I agree with Sallie that Suzanne and Betty are probably the same person. As Sallie noted to me in an email, Suzanne's benefactor is said to be a European eccentric rather than a Latin American ambassador. Sallie suggests that it might be <a href="http://zagria.blogspot.com/2007/06/greatest-artist-of-20th-century.html" rel="nofollow">Salvadore Dali</a>, who did mentor, or at least associate with quite a lot of trans women: April Ashley, Amanda Lear, Mario Montez, International Chrysis, Manuela Trasobares, Yeda Brown.Zagriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-80486252928916623632016-06-21T17:27:32.875-04:002016-06-21T17:27:32.875-04:00Betty was an interviewee in an article called '...Betty was an interviewee in an article called 'The Transsexual Operation,' April 1967 issue of Esquire, where she is given the pseudonym Suzanne. Apparently HB brought this subject into contact with the writer, Tom Buckley. Buckley was the NYTimes reporter who had covered the Hopkins clinic story a few months earlier. sallie parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189164555566937025noreply@blogger.com