Earl Lind

Earl Lind (a.k.a. Ralph Werther and Jennie June) was one of the earliest intersex individuals to publish their own autobiography in the United States.^[1]

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]

According to Wayne Koestenbaum in The Queen's Throat, he believed that he could 'diagnose a man sexually simply by hearing him sing', and he wanted to be an opera soprano.^[2]

Bibliography

Autobiography of an Androgyne
The Female-impersonators

References

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

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