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The nature of Paresis Hall during this period is known to historians today from a variety of sources. However, the Cercle Hermaphroditos is more apocryphal, known chiefly from the autobiography of an "instinctive female-impersonator,"
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words-- with their own nuances of meaning-- for people who were born male, felt they were at least partly women in mind or spirit, and preferred having sex with men; people who today might call themselves
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advocacy organisation in the United States, founded in 1895 in New York City "to unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution". The group first met at
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was socially unacceptable and a punishable crime, places like Paresis Hall provided a place where self-described "instinctive female-impersonators,"
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as "the first known informal organization in the United States to concern itself with what we might now call transgender social justice issues".
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could gather and feel more free to express themselves and socialize with similar people. These were
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people, or feminine gay men, in the language of today's LGBT communities.
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Free comrades: anarchism and homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917
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We are everywhere: A historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics
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We are everywhere: A historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics
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Informal transgender advocacy organisation in the United States
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Gross, Tasha. "LGBTQ History: Cooper Square and Bowery".
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Index


Bowery
Queen

transgender
Paresis Hall
cross dressing
androgynes
queens
fairies
Uranians
Victorian era
Edwardian era
transgender women
non-binary
Jennie June
pseudonyms
Roland Reeves
Susan Stryker
Stryker 2008
Eskridge 2008
Autobiography of an Androgyne
ISBN
9780813543000
We are everywhere: A historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics
ISBN
9780415908580
"Critical arrow"
ISBN
9780415908580

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