A Gender Variance Who's Who

Burns was born in Cheshire to a father from Liverpool and a German Jewish mother who had fled from the Nazis. He later told journalist Kri...

In Robert Beachy's Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity , p69 we find (he is paraphrasing the T ä gliche Rundschau , 79, 20 March...

Robert Logan Carter was raised in Florida by his great-grandmother and then his grand-mother after his mother committed suicide when he was ...

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 ...

Princton was an all-male university in 1916 and for decades afterwards.   F. Scott Fitzgerald was in the Triangle Club which put on plays.  ...

John Brundage was raised in Toronto. He was writing fiction from the age of 14. By 18 he was a accomplished drag queen. He was able to pas...

Vita Sackville-West by Philip de László, 1910 Victoria Mary Sackville-West was born at Knole House in Kent, the only child of Lionel Sa...

Herbert Beeson was raised in Summitville , Indiana. At 17 he was working as a clerk in a general store, and helping out three nights a week ...

Marshall was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. By age 14 he was writing verses and music. He started his female impersonation career in ...

Camille Paglia is the elder daughter of Italian Immigrants to the US. Her father eventually became professor of Romance Languages at Le Moyn...

Olivier was raised in Belgium, his father a chemical engineer. He wanted to be a girl, and was tormented by the fact that girls get to be pr...

One of the threads in London Gay Liberation in the early 1970s was Radical Feminism (not to be confused with the Radical Feminism of the 1...

At the age of five Jimmy was an arieliste with the De Forest Aerial Troup as Mlle Petite De Forest, in line with the circus tradition tha...

Angiola Calori was raised in Bologna, where her mother took in lodgers.  According to Giacomo Casanova's memoirs , she had an early...

Peter was born in Kingston, Jamaica, where his father was a yacht salesman, and grew up in Hertfordshire. As a teenager he modelled himself ...

Ulrichs was born and raised in Aurich , Hanover. His father died when he was 10. He later recalled that as a young child he wore girls’ clot...

Murphy was born to a privileged family in Melbourne and finished his education at Oxford University, England. Before university and during t...