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Earl Lind (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921 From O

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Earl Lind (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921
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Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found
"Riddle of the Underworld" by Earl Lind, Ralph Werther, Jennie June
A Revelation for LGBT History Month on Coming Out Day October 11, 2010

Five sections of the lost, third volume of memoirs by the pseudonymous individual who called himself Earl Lind, Ralph Werther, and Jennie June, have been discovered and published on OutHistory.org, the website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history. The transgender Lind published two autobiographical volumes in 1918 and 1922, and the third volume, advertised but never printed, has remained unknown.

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The newly found manuscripts, like Earl Lind's published memoirs, The Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918) and The Female Impersonators (1922), provide rare, first person testimony about the early-20th-century life and times of a self-described "fairie" or "androgyne," an individual, Lind says, "with male genitals," but whose "psychical constitution" and sexual life "approach the female type." In the newly discovered manuscript Lind also calls himself "bisexual," meaning, in his usage, a person combining male and female personality traits and desires.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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