Earl Lind

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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.[1]

[edit] Biography

Earl Lind was born in 1874 in Connecticut. He was born in a Puritan family.[1]

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."[1]

He believed that he could 'diagnose a man sexually simply by hearing him sing', and he wanted to be an opera soprano[2].

[edit] Bibliography

  • Autobiography of an Androgyne
  • The Female-impersonators

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale
  2. ^ Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire, Gay Men's Press, 1994, page 14
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