A Gender Variance Who's Who

Harry Benjamin. The Transsexual Phenomenon . Julian Press, 1966. Warner Books Edition 1977, with a bibliography and appendix by Richard G...

Part I: Atlanta Part II: New York City Part III:  London and Berlin After a spell living at the YMCA, Wayne met the aspiring photographe...

Larry Wachowski and brother Andy, of Polish descent, were raised in Chicago. They both dropped out of college and ran a construction busines...

Kim was raised in the Bronx, New York. By age 14 he was going out in semi-drag. He took up with the young Billy Schumacher (later to become ...

Michael grew up in Cincinnati. He went to Wright State University in Ohio. In 1985 his parents divorced, and he dropped out. In San Franc...

Suzie started dressing as a boy when still a child. She did theatrical make-up with friends, and even then was mainly making girls look like...

In 1964 Leonard Wheeler published Sex Life of a Transvestite . He revealed Connie, his female self as an erotic transvestite who was also in...

Vaughn Bodé was born in Syracuse, New York. His father was an unpublished poet and frequently drunk, and his mother worked at General Electr...

Anthony Storr was the youngest child, 10 years younger than his closest sibling, son of the Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey who was 51 when A...

Molinier, the son of a house painter, lived most of his life in Bordeaux, France. As early as sixteen his sisters took him to a ball dres...