Billy Tipton, Wendy Carlos, Caroline Cossey, Laverne Cox, Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, Angela Morley, and Rachel Crowl… Do you know these people? You should know if you are trans these are trans people who made it in the performing arts. Time magazine had this article, “25 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture”
For Angela Morley and Rachel Crowl I have to turn to the Internet Movie Data Base…
IMDB wrote about Angela Morley,
And IMDB wrote this about Rachel Crowl,
I have met Rachel many times including the time when I had breakfast with her and her wife Helen Boyd who wrote the book about her, “My Husband Betty.” after the Connecticut Outreach Society banquet.
Lastly, not in movies but rather in the written word, Jennifer Finney Boylan, author, professor, and former columnist for the New York Time. For her I go to her website…
I met her a number of times including a book reading in South Hadley MA, at Smith College where I had dinner with her, her wife, and Deja and also in Washington DC when we were lobbying for ENDA.
There are many, many more trans people in the arts, these is just some highlights. As a trans person you should know those who paved the way for us, those who leading the fight to equality,
The American jazz musician Billy Tipton became famous after his 1989 death when it was discovered that he had been assigned the female sex at birth.
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The electronic musician Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, which won three Grammy awards and became one of the first classical albums to sell 500,000 copies. She went on to compose notable scores for films like A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron.
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Caroline Cossey is a British actress best known for her role as a Bond girl in the movie For Your Eyes Only. (I bought her book My Story, I wasn’t out yet and I was terrified that someone would see me buying her book.)
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Laverne Cox has used her growing celebrity as a star of the critically acclaimed Netflix series, Orange is the New Black, to become an outspoken leader of the trans rights movement, addressing crowds of thousands at schools and other forums around the country.
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With her brother, Andy, Lana Wachowski has co-written, produced and directed Hollywood blockbusters like the Matrix trilogy, V for Vendetta and Cloud Atlas.
IMDB wrote about Angela Morley,
Angela Morley(1924-2009)
Angela Morley was born on 10 March 1924 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a composer, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Watership Down (1978) and The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976). She was married to Christine Parker and Beryl Stott. She died on 14 January 2009 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
BornMarch 10, 1924
DiedJanuary 14, 2009
Rachel Crowl is an actor, musician, and photographer fresh off of two seasons working at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is now currently back in Los Angeles. The LA Film Festival winning And Then There Was Eve is her screen debut. In a former life she was highly active Off-Broadway, playing roles as diverse as Henry in Henry V, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Macheath in Threepenny Opera, and Estragon in Waiting for Godot among others.
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| Deja, Jenny, and me South Hadley MA |
PROFESSOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN, author of eighteen books, is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University.
She serves on the Board of Trustees of PEN America, the nonprofit advocating for authors, readers, and freedom of expression. From 2011 to 2018 she served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD; she was co-chair of GLAAD’s board of directors from 2013-17. She also is a member of the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College, and the Sirenland Writers’ Conference in Positano, Italy.
For many years she was a Contributing Opinion Writer for the opinion page of the New York Times; she has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
Her most recent book is the memoir Good Boy: My Life in 7 Dogs, published by Celadon/Macmillan in April of 2020. Her next book project is the novel Mad Honey, co-authored with Jodi Picoult, slate for publication in autumn of 2022 by Ballantine/Random House.
Her 2003 memoir, She’s Not There: a Life in Two Genders(Broadway/Doubleday/Random House) was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for human rights. Jenny has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show on four occasions; Live with Larry King twice; the Today Show, the Barbara Walters Special, NPR’s Marketplace and Talk of the Nation; she has also been the subject of documentaries on CBS News’ 48 Hours and The History Channel. She served as an advisor to the television series Transparent.
She lives in New York City, and in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, with her wife, Deedie. They have a son, Sean and a daughter, Zai.
There are many, many more trans people in the arts, these is just some highlights. As a trans person you should know those who paved the way for us, those who leading the fight to equality,
We Can Never Forget!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
The future is ours is we are willing to fight for it. We have to vote, and get others to go out and vote.
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