Digital Transgender Archive

The Man Who Lived 30 Years As A Woman

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Content Warning: Contains offensive depictions of transgender people, including frequent and deliberate misgendering. This article, originally published in the November 1951 issue of Ebony Magazine - reprinted here in the November 1975 issue, is a tabloid-article-meets-obituary profiling Georgia Black, a transgender woman who was outed on her death bed by her physician in 1951.

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Identifier
xs55mc33n
Collection
Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
Institution
Digital Transgender Archive
Creator(s)
Ebony Magazine
Date Created
Nov. 1951
Date Issued
Nov. 1975
Dates Covered
1951
Genre
Periodicals
Subject(s)
Alonzo Sabbe
Georgia Black
Joanna Morre
Mabel Clark
Muster Black
Orville Barks
Roy Williams
Walter Hand
Willie Sabbe
Places
South Carolina > Charleston County > Charleston
Florida > Seminole > Sanford
Florida > Orange > Winter Garden
Topic(s)
Black transgender people
LGBTQ+ Christians
Transfeminine people
Resource Type
Text
Language
English
Rights
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