sigridkaffen:bemusedlybespectacled: elierlick:Rare photos from trans history: Olympic runner and Zde
sigridkaffen:bemusedlybespectacled: elierlick:Rare photos from trans history: Olympic runner and Zdeněk Koubek styles Cinda Glenn’s hair, 1936. Koubek was one of the first trans men to gain international fame after he transitioned in 1935. this is inspiring weirdly complex emotions in me. like, it’s the fucking 1930s. I can hear the mid-atlantic newsreel voice. the fact that it plays coy with why he knows so much about women’s hairstyles, but like, as a funny surprise, not as shock and horror. the fact that it never deadnames him or uses incorrect pronouns. the fact that he looks like Mickey Rooney. idk it’s just making me feel feelings. Fun fact, homophobia and transphobia didn’t always look like it does now, or did in the 80s or the 50s. Societies have had different things going on at different times, which affected responses to all kinds of stuff. Learning queer history is important for millions of reasons, and this is just one of them. -- source link
#june 7th 2022