Earl Lind
Earl Lind (a.k.a. Ralph Werther and Jennie June) was one of the earliest transgender individuals to publish her own autobiography in the United States.[1][2]
Biography
Jennie June was born in 1874 in Connecticut as Earl Lind. She was born in a Puritan family.[1]
By 1895 she met other androgynes in New York City, in a society called Cercle Hermaphroditos, whose aim was "to unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution."[1]
According to Wayne Koestenbaum in The Queen's Throat, she believed that she could 'diagnose a man sexually simply by hearing him sing', and wanted to be an opera soprano.[3]
Bibliography
- Autobiography of an Androgyne
- The Female-impersonators
References
- 1 2 3 Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale
- ↑ http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Earl_Lind_(Ralph_Werther-Jennie_June):_The_Riddle_of_the_Underworld,_1921
- ↑ Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire, Gay Men's Press, 1994, page 14
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