Post #3332721
2023-03-16 03:51 UTC
And then there's folks like Albert Cashier, who managed to avoid the media entirely and only got rediscovered decades later by queer historians.
The vast divergence between no coverage and frantic pearl-clutching coverage is wild.
And it begs the question: which template is "normal?" Was it usually a big story? Or did most trans folks avoid the press and live quiet lives as their proper gender?
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@miriamrobern@dice.camp 2023-03-16 03:59
1879, Jospeh Lobdell outed in an obituary by NYT under the headline "Death of a Modern Diana." Except he wasn't actually dead; he'd been thrown in an insane asylum by his brother. (edit) He'd been previously outed in 1876 by the Port Jervis Evening Gazette, described as a "freak."