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September-October 2022
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Genderfluid Master of the Bizarre

By William Benemann: John Randolph was first elected to the House in 1798. His androgynous appearance bewildered his contemporaries.

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From Camp Performer to Camp Inmate

BERLIN CABARETS between the wars had their fair share of homosexual headliners (“homosexual” being the period term). Wilhelm Bendow, affectionately known as Lieschen, portrayed a scatterbrained, giggling “nance” whose naïve questions and double entendres provoked hilarity. Claire Waldoff, a regular at the lesbian clubs with her henna-dyed Prince Valiant hairdo and husky voice, sang ofMore

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The House that Hirschfeld Built

The Institute was Europe’s gathering place for sexual minorities, especially trans people. Some of the first to undergo gender reassignment surgery stayed at the Institute.

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Truman and His Swans

By Andrew Holleran: If Capote was sui generis, way ahead of his time as far as being openly homosexual, the women he called his swans were right out of an Edith Wharton novel. They were expected to marry well—and, in the case of the swans, to tolerate their husbands’ serial infidelities while they gave beautiful dinner parties and decorated their numerous homes.
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