Solving a Mystery: What Did Joan of Arc Look Like?
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Patricia Nell Warren
10/18/2008
GLBT historians love to claim Joan as lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. I'm one of those who think she was a case of androgen insensitivity syndrome -- burned at the stake in 1431 for her "crime" of flouting Catholic rules on gender and women's clothing. The Maid is still such a towering figure in world history that we would all love to know what she looked like. But most historians assure us that no likeness of Joan has survived, whether done from memory or real life.