A Gender Variance Who's Who

Perry was born and raised in Louisiana. His father was a pilot on a Mississippi River boat who was frequently drunk. His mother beat him onc...

Marion Edwards was born to a Welsh-born blacksmith outside Melbourne. At 1896 she transitioned to William, giving the rational of earning mo...

Ron grew up in a working-class home in Richmond , west London. He started as a child dancer, and he then toured in the popular all-male drag...

Agnes (a pseudonym) grew up the youngest of four children in a Catholic working-class family. Her machinist father died when she was eight. ...

Cindy grew up in Samoa in a Seventh Day Adventist family, and became a fa’afafine , the traditional transgender role in Samoa. Like many mod...

Richard and Karen were teenage sweethearts who married just three months after highschool. Richard Sharpe became a Boston-area dermatologi...

Lil, who lived en femme, and Maisie, who dressed for the stage, were a gay couple wh o lived in Hackney , London, and performed as a drag du...