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| Ariadne Kane |
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Androgynes are people who take elements of
conventional masculinity and femininity and
blend them in a way that is unique to their
personal expression.
- Ariadne Kane
Ariadne Kane is one of the leaders in the
Transgender community. She formed the Tiffany
Club (originally called Cherrystone, and
for a time, the Mayflower Club). In 1975,
Ariadne organized Fantasia Fair, an annual
transgender event that is still held in Provincetown
every year. Ariadne also founded the Outreach
Institute, an organisation that keeps her
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| Brandon Teena |
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| F2M TG who was murdered in a small town in Nebraska
because his transgendered nature was revealed to the town
by the police after a minor brush with the law. |
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| Dallas Denny |
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| Post-operative M2F TS, and the executive director of
AEGIS.
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| JoAnn Roberts |
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| M2F Cross-dresser and TG activist.
Owns a TG-oriented business, and has published numerous
magazines.
Has her own web page.
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| Kate Bornstein
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| A post-operative M2F transsexual lesbian, playwright and author of the
book Gender Outlaw. One of my heroes!
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| Loren Cameron |
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| F2M TG artist/photographer.
His first exhibition was "Our Vision, Our Voices: Transsexual Portraits and
Nudes"
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| Miqqi Alicia Gilbert |
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Miqqi is a Professor of Philosophy at York University, and a cross-dresser. She is the former president of the transgender group Xpressions, and the editor the The Monarch: Canada's Transgender Reader. She frequently also contributes columns to Transgender Tapestry.
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| Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni |
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| TS activist, and webmistress of GenderTalk. She's a former Executive Director of the IFGE. She's also the one who designed that funky transgender logo.
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| Quentin Crisp |
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It was very difficult in England for all
those years. They stood with their faces
[an inch from my nose] saying, "Who
the hell do you think you are?" And
I used to say, "Oh dear, you mean I
have to be somebody just to walk down Oxford street?"
- Quentin Crisp
- Born: 'reluctantly' on December 25th, 1908
in Sutton, England
- Worked as an illustrator and designer of bookcovers before becoming
an art school model.
- In 1965 he published his biography, The Naked Civil Servant, which
was made into a teleplay by Thames Television in 1975
(The teleplay starred John Hurt in the role of Quentin Crisp).
- Moved to the United States in 1981.
Now lives in New York.
- Once described as one of the great 'stately homos of England'.
- Appeared in the role of Queen Elizabeth in the Sally Potter film, Orlando
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| Riki Anne Wilchins |
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Activist and writer. Riki is the founder of the Transexual Menace, the organizer of Camp Trans and the Executive Director of GenderPAC.
Riki is also the author of the excellent book Read My Lips.
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| Sandy Stone
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| M2F Transgender theorist and writer.
Author of "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto".
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| Stacy Clement |
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| M2F transgendered psychology grad student studying crossdressing and family life |
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| Virginia Prince |
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| The godmother of M2F cross-dressers -- Virginia Prince is a spokesperson for crossdressing issues, and was the first person to coin the term 'transgendered'. She was the publisher of many magazines, including Transvestia, and founded the heterosexual CD group, Tri-Ess.
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