Zagria

Academia says that my close reading of Benjamin's The Transsexual Phenomenon in in their top 2%.

Yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tra... does not even mention me or the issues that I documented within the book.

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two of my shelves

A reminder of the various bibliographies that I have published, including a yearly round-up of books for each year all the way back to 2007 and up to 2025.

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Was Hermann Göring a transvestite? This article is about the Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe, who ranked second only to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Those interested ...

In 2009 I discussed Hermann Goring amd concluded that he was not trans, but a homovestite. 16 years later historian Mark Felton has arrived at the same conclusion.

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Oops. Of course I meant 1965-73!

Carolyn Mercer (1947 - ) headteacher Mercer was raised by working-class parents in Preston , Lancashire, and left school at 16 with minimal qualifications to work for a plaster...

The BBC article features Carolyn Mercer who bacame a lauded head teacher.

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LGBT survivors tell of 'barbaric' NHS electric shock therapy More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks in NHS hospitals, the BBC discovers.

Interviews with two survivors, one gay, one trans, of NHS electroshock therapy 2065-73.
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Books on Gender Variance in 2025 - Part 1: (auto) biographies and histories AutoBiography Jean-Sebastien Busque. Gender Bilingual: Translating Life for Men and Women . Editions RESONANCE Publisher, 2025. Edward-Jea...

Part one of my annual list of books re gender variance is now posted.

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Jae Stevens (1947-1974) performer, murdered Stevens was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but raised in Concord in the East Bay across from San Francisco. He came out as gay when he was call...

Was Jae Stevens, a performer, actually murdered by the Doodler?

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Unemployed son, 56, 'dressed as his late mother to claim her pension' The 56-year-old man, an unemployed nurse, reportedly managed to claim thousands of euros before his act was exposed. He had also allegedly hidden the dead body of his mother.

Best not to commit fraud when cross-dressing for the first time.

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Have not been to TransasCity.org for a while. Attempted today. It is not there anymore. A serious loss.

Marie-Pierre Pruvot (Bambi), author, school teacher, star at La Carrousel, is 90 years old today - born 11/11/1935.

Travelling on a male passport! Amy Coleman re Marsha P Johnson returning from London in the 70s where she had been performing with the Hot Peaches.

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Every now and then, I feel that maybe I would join Medium.com. Supposedly they send a 6-digit code for confirmation, but it never, ever, ever arrives. !!!!

So that is the end of that.

I tried out the meta search engine Searxng by doing an ego search. It finds images from my site, but no articles from there or from Academia.edu except for my Virginia Prince article. Only that one.

There are a whole load of book reviews, some positive, some negative, on my site. All the way back to 2007.

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Francois-Timoléon de Choisy (1644 - 1724), Part 1: Abbé, diplomat, author, cross-dreamer Part 1: Life, and the 1695 short-story Part 2: discussion and bibliography François-Timoléon was born in August 1644, a week after the Batt...

Was Francois-Timoléon de Choisy (1644 - 1724) a cross-dreamer who never transvested in public, or a flamboyant who enjoyed being read?

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Jennie June writing as Mowry Saben; The Spirit of Life, 1914:

Dear Lillian,
One of the essays in Broken Lights, 1914 is "The Right to Freedom". Could that be a revised version of The Gospel of Freedom? However I will place The Gospel of Freedom on my to-get mental shelf alongside Harry Benjamin's The Winter of Our Discontent.

June's second book, The Female Impersonators was completed while Saben was doing editing/writing work for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Mowry Saben/Ralph Werther/Earl Lind/Jennie June: Part II - publications Part I: early life Part II: publications Part III:  comments and bibliography   In 1907 Mowry Saben wrote a short newspaper article.  'Wom...

Jennie June was an alias of the distinguished Harvard graduate Mowry Saben who had previously written books under his male name - some of which are quite misogynist There are also articles in medical journals.

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Marie-Josèphe Bonnet. Violette Morris: histoire d'une scandaleuse. Paris: Perrin, 2011.

When the French Resistance assassinated Morris, they also murdered his passenger, a pork butcher, the butcher's wife and their two children.

Bonnet suggests that embarrassment over the killing of the two children led to a building up of the story of Morris' guilt.

GLBT+ much more involved with the Nazis. Why is Morris the chaufeur the one condemned.

Violette Morris (1893–1944) Part II: performer, chauffeur, black-marketer. Morris at Le Monocle Continued from Part I . In the 1931 census, Morris gave her name as Paule. At that time she employed a maid and t...

Based on two pages in a novel by famous crime writer Auguste Le Breton, Les pègriots, 1973, which has 2 pages on Morris, Raymond Ruffin defamed Morris as La hyène de la Gestapo. Marie-Josèphe Bonnet debunked Ruffin's lies.

My account of Violette Morris. zagria.blogspot.com/2015/05/viol...

Good article by Eli Erlick in the August G&LR, but why did she have to calumniate Violette Morris?

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The reality of life in the Royal town used as model for Labour growth Perched on an unassuming hill in Dorset, hemmed in on all sides by congested main roads, rolling green fields and huge building sites - sits the small town of Poundbury - the future?

Poundbury, Dorset, a new town designed by the Charles Windsor. "bus services were so minimal" ... "no public seats, litter bins, or public loos". A nepo-baby with servants for his slightest whim cannot be expected to understand the needs of ordinary people.
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‘I don’t call on anyone to stop protesting’: Polanski on pro-Palestine marches We spoke to the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Zack Polanski, who has been addressing his party's annual conference in Bournemouth.

Zack Polanski, UK Green party leader, on Manchester synagogue killings and anti-genocide marches:

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La Forest Potter (1855-1951), an early 1930s witness to queer New York La Forest Potter. Strange Loves: A Study in Sexual Abnormalities . Robert Dodsley Company/ National Library Press, 1933. Trigger warning:...

A strange book called Strange Lives, 1933. Dr La Forest Potter describes queer New York, but misunderstands so much.

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Bobbie Spong (191? - 1944) performer, WWII Prisoner of War Spong was the son of the licencee of the Six Bells, Kings Road, Chelsea. On 7-8 th  December 1941 he was a private in the Royal Army Ordnanc...

And of course the real-life version of a star POW female impersonator in a Japanese camp was the celebrated Bobbie Spong who died in prisoner-transfer ship torpedoed by a US submarine.
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