Gender-bending
Pearl Hart, Girl Bandit
She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies (1899), and led quite the life.Several nice photos with this article.
Article from 1899.
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 11, 2021 -
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Category: Crime, Gender-bending, Nineteenth Century
Follies of the Madmen #501
Our jockey shorts will have every male emulating a hula girl.Source.
(Scroll down.)
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 03, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Underwear, 1950s, Gender-bending
Colonel Barker
Wikipedia says:
Victor Barker, born Lillias Irma Valerie Barker (1895–1960), who also went by the pseudonyms John Hill and Geoffrey Norton, was a transgender man who is notable for having married a woman. He was an officer of the National Fascisti, a bankrupt and a convicted criminal.
Good article here.
A contemporary report from 1933:
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 24, 2020 -
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Category: Crime, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Gender-bending, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #476
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 10, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Business, Advertising, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s, Gender-bending
Change in Sex Blocks Draft
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 27, 2019 -
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Category: Law, War, 1940s, Gender-bending, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical
Jill Huntley, Mistress of the Half and Half Dance
As we can learn from reading the history of the term, a "half and half dance" originally involved a simple bipartite costume, one half male, one half female. But then in Burlesque, the act morphed into dancing with an actual dummy partner.You can read about the mistress of this mode, Jill Huntley, here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 22, 2018 -
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Category: Sexuality, 1950s, Gender-bending, Dance
Dawn Langley Simmons
I believe every word that Dawn Langley Simmons says.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 27, 2017 -
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Category: Children, Parents, 1960s, Gender-bending, LGBT
Hoesy Corona at Labbodies
LABBODIES: the pretentious gift that keeps on giving!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 30, 2016 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Regionalism, Gender-bending
Mac Demarco: Chamber of Reflection
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 29, 2016 -
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Category: Music, Cartoons, Gender-bending, Subways
G. G.‘s Barnum Room
Every hepcat knows the name of the Peppermint Lounge, famed in 1960s lore. But not as many folks recall that the same space was transformed in the 1970s into the Barnum Room, the only club with transvestite trapeze artists above the dancers.
Read a period essay about the club here.
See fantabulous fotos here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 11, 2014 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Public Indecency, 1970s, Gender-bending
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