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30 May 2010

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 – 95) jurist, activist.

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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...
28 May 2010

Wallace Beery (1885 – 1949) elephant trainer, female impersonator, film star, airplane pilot.

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Wallace Beery was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He joined the Ringling Brothers circus at age 16 as an assistant elephant trainer. He left ...
26 May 2010

In memoriam Ephilei (1983 – 2010).

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Ephilei was raised in Chicago. A professed Christian, she was the author of TransChristians which played particular attention to trans pe...
23 May 2010

Daniel Paul Schreber (1842 - 1911) jurist, mental patient, theologian.

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Daniel Paul was the son of a physician, Daniel Moritz Schreber , who had published pamphlets about taming rebellious children and imposed or...
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22 May 2010

Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797 - 1856) male impersonator, actress, theatre manager.

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Lucia Bartolozzi was born in London to an Italian art-dealer and violinist father and a German pianist and piano-teacher mother. At the ...
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20 May 2010

Ross Hamilton (1889-1965) female impersonator.

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Ross Hamilton was raised in Pugwash , Nova Scotia. In the Great War he enlisted as a private and worked as an ambulance driver in France. ...
18 May 2010

Russell Reid (1943 - ) psychiatrist.

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Russell Warwick Stedman Reid was born in New Zealand. He trained as a doctor at Otago University in Dunedin (where John Money had taught p...
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