Category: Biographies

The female-impersonators

When, in 1918, I agreed to publish the author’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE, I did so because persuaded that androgynism was not sufficiently understood and that therefore androgynes were unjustly made to suffer.

Chapters

1. PART ONE: THE THIRD SEX

2. PART TWO: HOW THE AUTHOR CAME TO BE A FEMALE-IMPERSONATOR

3. PART THREE: THE FAIRIE BOY

4. PART FOUR: FRANK—EUNICE

5. PART FIVE: ANGELO—PHYLLIS

6. PART SIX: NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS OF MURDERS OF ANDROGYNES

7. PART SEVEN: MEDICAL WRITERS ON ANDROGYNISM

8. PART EIGHT: ANDROGYNE VERSE

When, in 1918, I agreed to publish the author’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE, I did so because persuaded that androgynism was not sufficiently understood and that therefore and...

9. Part One:

My motive was humanitarian. My aim was to save thousands of innocent step-children of Nature from an aggregate of tens of thousands of years in prison, and bring about a repeal...

10. Part Two:

(PART TWO summarizes my pre-nineteen life and my physical and mental traits for those not reading my AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE. Particularly for details of purely medical in...

11. Part Three:

In PART THREE, I shall outline what kind of adult career is the natural sequel of the childhood and adolescence described in PART TWO; what kind of adult career is bound up with...

12. PART THREE. I, however, always gave them first place in my life. But I

Indeed PARTS THREE, FOUR, and FIVE portray the social life and diversions of the most cultured New York coterie of THE THIRD SEX during the last decade of the nineteenth century...

13. PART FOUR—needed, by exception, little urging to draw him out. He told

At the time he epitomized his life for me, Frank—Eunice (as he was known in the Underworld) was a comely blonde around forty, and five feet five tall. His physique was not notic...

14. Part Four:

Ralph, I was ushered into this mundane sphere in the year of our Lord 1854. I was a lucky dog to be brought up on the upper West Side a few blocks from Central Park [New York Ci...

15. Part Five:

That fancy masculine name was only an alias, androgynes having a penchant for such as are musical and of exalted connotation. Further, its first element was after Michelangelo,...

16. Part Six:

AUTHOR’S NOTE.—These excerpts from New York dailies are presented in order to impress upon the public that such murders of inoffensive androgynes are a fairly common occurrence...

17. Part Seven:

In MEDICAL LIFE of December, 1920, I had an article: _The Biological Sport of Fairieism_. Readers completely out of touch with Underworld life evidently thought I was telling a...

18. Part Eight:

The first of the following =attempts= to penetrate into Plato’s “world of ideas” and get at the real essence of things, and then to express them in an ideal manner, was inspired...