A Gender Variance Who's Who

Original version May 2013 Galiaci grew up São Paulo state, in the village of Bocaina which at that time had only 10 streets. Father was a ...

Lorraine was a magazine illustrator. When Turnabout: a Magazine of Tranvestism was founded in June 1963, she was the Art Editor, working wi...

Part I:  life until first visit to Benjamin clinic   Part II:  Transition Part III:  comments Raskin was looking for a writer to write her b...

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 ‘...

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 ....

Sinclair was raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn. By age 14 Sinclair was starting to be perceived as gender variant, and at age 17 left home and f...

Betty was raised in the US Northwest, one of five children. He was initially permitted to dress as a girl, but his parents divorced when he...

The AP wire photo of Debbie Austin Hartin joined the US Navy in 1953. He married while serving in Florida the next year. Later Hartin w...

Original March 2007. Capucine was a performer at Le Car r ousel and was frequently mentioned along with Coccinelle and Bambi . Ca...

Joseph Shanley of Billerica , Massachusetts, had felt since childhood that he was the wrong sex. In 1969, at age 33, Shanley went to Casabla...

Part 1: youth and journalism. Part 2: transition and empire. Part 3: travel writer . Morris investigated transsexualism. One winter eve...

Nana was raised in Oran , Algeria. In 1955 she met Bambi and others in the Le Carrousel cast who were on tour. Nana realized instantly ...

Marcello was raised in Rome. After school he worked as a porter at the Hotel Rivoli, and then from 1965 at the Piper Club . In 1969 Di Fol...

Giorgio Montana, born in Palermo, Sicily, was keen on singing and spent eight years in amateur choirs. He had the unusual ability to switch ...

Lessenich, from Remagen , was educated in graphic design in Cologne. After a failed marriage and a period as a prostitute, she completed tra...

Rex, of Clarion, Pennsylvania, became a millionaire early in life. He married several times, and had a large alimony bill. He was 6'4...

Berends was raised in Zwolle , Overijssel, Netherlands. After a few years of window dresser, she went to Amsterdam and found work in a night...