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Earl Lind (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921
Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found
LIND His extravagant "feminine" role-playing was based upon an acceptance and extreme exaggeration of the most traditional concept of "femininity." What Kate Millett has said of the homosexual characters of Jean Genet may be applied to Earl Lind: "Because of the perfection with which they ape the 'masculine' and 'feminine' of heterosexual society, [Genet's] homosexual characters represent the best contemporary insight into its constitution and beliefs."
Millett adds: Genet's homosexuals "have unerringly penetrated to the essence of what heterosexual society imagines to be the character of 'masculine' and 'feminine,' and which it mistakes for the nature of male and female, thereby preserving the traditional relation of the sexes."[1]
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- ↑ Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (N.Y.:A von Books, Equinox Edition, 1971) p .17.
- ↑ Vita Sackville-West's diary of 1920-21 records both her cross-dressing and her Lesbian relations with Violet Trefusis and others-readily lending itself to a feminist interpretation (Nigel Nicholson, Portrait of a Marriage [N.Y.: Bantam, 1973], p. II, 107-08, III, 114-16, 121, 141, 154, 164-65, 177). A scrapbook, apparently kept by a Lesbian in the 19205 and 1930s, is in the collection of the Institute for Sex Research, Bloomington, Ind. It includes numbers of newspaper clippings concerning women wearing pants and reported episodes of transvestism.
