Earl Lind

Earl Lind (a.k.a. Ralph Werther and Jennie June) was one of the earliest hermaphrodites to publish their own autobiography in the United States. [http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay/Pages/Archive/PNB9.html Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale ] ]

Biography

Earl Lind was born in 1874 in Connecticut. He was born in a Puritan family.

By 1895 he met other androgynes in New York City, in a society called Cercle Hermaphroditos, whose aim was "to unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution."

He believed that he could 'diagnose a man sexually simply by hearing him sing', and he wanted to be an opera soprano [Wayne Koestenbaum, "The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire", Gay Men's Press, 1994, page 14] .

Bibliography

*"Autobiography of an Androgyne"
*"The Female-impersonators"

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