Английская Википедия:Aleshia Brevard

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Primary sources Шаблон:Use shortened footnotes Шаблон:Infobox person Aleshia Brevard (December 9, 1937 – July 1, 2017)Шаблон:Sfn was an American author and actress of stage, screen, and television. She worked as an entertainer, actress, model, Playboy bunny, professor of theater, and author. She also underwent one of the early sex reassignment surgery procedures performed in the United States.Шаблон:Sfn Brevard lived her life outside of the wider transgender community, and as a result, she was not publicly identified as transgender until publishing her memoirs in her later years.

Early life

Brevard was born in Erwin, Tennessee on December 9, 1937,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn growing up in a religious family in a rural part of central Tennessee.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She was close to her mother. Brevard always felt different from other children, like a girl inside, and prayed nightly to wake up a girl.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Her teen years were awkward, and after a romantic disappointment in high school, she left right after graduation for the West Coast.Шаблон:Sfn

San Francisco and transition

Ending up in San Francisco, Brevard found a job as a female impersonator at Finocchio's Club in San Francisco under the stage name Lee Shaw in the early 1960s,Шаблон:Sfn doing Marilyn Monroe impressions,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn eventually achieving enough renown that Marilyn herself came to a performance.Шаблон:Sfn

Brevard began her transition at 21 under the care of famed gender specialist Harry Benjamin in the late 1950s. At Benjamin's recommendation, Brevard underwent the surgical reassignment procedure in Los Angeles's Westlake Clinic under the care of surgeon Elmer Belt.Шаблон:Sfn

Brevard later worked as a stripper in Reno and as a Playboy bunny.Шаблон:Sfn

Education

After a year's recovery post-surgery,Шаблон:Sfn she enrolled as a student at Middle Tennessee State University for her undergraduate educationШаблон:SfnШаблон:Primary source inline. During this period, she became more comfortable with her womanhood, got married, and took classes.Шаблон:Sfn This was at a time when she was a working actress, touring the U.S. doing theater, and working in film or television. She gained membership in Hollywood unions,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Primary source inline and ultimately got her master's degree in Theater from Middle Tennessee State.Шаблон:Sfn

Through Benjamin, Brevard became friends in the late 1950s and 1960s with other transgender patients of his, including Charlotte Frances McLeod and Kathy Taylor, and they became a support network for each other. They had lunches with Benjamin, whom they considered to be a paternal mentor and friend.

Attitude towards gender

Brevard's was one of the early medical transitions, and occurred before the term transgender had been coined and before there was a transgender community in San Francisco.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Brevard did not identify as trans early in her life and often deflected questions.Шаблон:Sfn Her husbands were not aware that she had transitioned.Шаблон:Sfn However she decided to change because she realized she was denying her own personal history.Шаблон:Sfn Once her memoir was published in 2001, she started to become labeled a "transsexual writer" and "transsexual actress". As she stated in her second book, "I'd been labeled—forced into a transsexual mold."Шаблон:Sfn

"Professionally, both as a film/stage actress and, later, as a university professor of theatre, my life was lived outside the gender community. Only after publishing two memoirs, when in my 60s and 70s, did I first hear the term 'transgender' and become aware of the community's stated agenda," she said in an interview in 2013.Шаблон:Sfn She also said in April 2017 "I did not go through gender reassignment to be labeled transsexual. I look at that as an awkward phase that I went through—sort of like a really painful adolescence. I don't even think of myself now in terms as transsexual. That's something I experienced and (something) I was.Шаблон:Sfn

"For me, as well as for my early sisters, the goal was never to live with a 't' before our names. Our objective was to blend so thoroughly that the things mixed could not be recognized. It was a choice, made not because we felt any shame about our transsexual history, but because our goal had always been to live fully as the women we'd been born to be."Шаблон:Sfn

In the book Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations (2006) by Nancy N. Chen, Brevard is interviewed by Mary Weaver discussing topics like gender, gender reassignment, the importance of personal history, and personal transformation.Шаблон:Sfn

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

In 2005, Brevard was featured in Susan Stryker's documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. The documentary delved into a riot that broke out at Compton's Cafeteria, a popular eatery in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco in 1966. The riot predated the Stonewall riots by three years, leading to important advancements in transgender activism.[1]

Brevard's role, in the Tenderloin and in the documentary, shed a light on trans women that "passed" more than other trans women did, and the differentiation of treatment that Brevard received over her other interviewed counterparts. As Brevard presented more effeminately even prior to her transition, she did not find it hard to make a life for herself compared to her peers as she was hired as a performer in the Tenderloin. [2]

Later life

After her work in television and film, she returned to Tennessee and received her M.A. in Theater Arts from Middle Tennessee State University.Шаблон:Sfn She met her first husband in Tennessee and had other marriages, which, according to her sister, did not work out.Шаблон:Citation needed She returned to California in the late 1990s, settling outside of Santa Cruz, California with an old friend, finding work as a substitute teacher, and doing community theater.

Aleshia Brevard died at home in Scotts Valley, California on July 1, 2017, at the age of 79.Шаблон:Sfn

Works

Film and television

Film and television roles
Year Title Type Role Notes
1969 The Red Skelton Show Television TV debut; multiple appearances.Шаблон:Sfn
1969 The Love God? Film Sherry (one of "Peacock's Pussycats") Шаблон:Sfn
1969 The Female Bunch Film Sadie Шаблон:Sfn
1970 Big Foot Film Шаблон:Sfn
One Life to Live Television Tex Шаблон:Sfn ABC soap opera TV series.
1970 The Partridge Family Television Cocktail waitress Шаблон:Sfn
The Dean Martin Show Television Шаблон:Sfn
1972 Night Gallery Television Robot receptionist "You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore" segment
1979 Legends of the Superheroes Television Giganta
1980 The Man with Bogart's Face Film Mother the landlady A comedy thriller.Шаблон:Sfn
Smokey and the Judge Film Wally Lewis Шаблон:Sfn
1981 Hard Country Film Snoopy Lady
1981 American Pop Film "Showgirl #2" voice by Brevard An adult animated musical drama film.
2005 Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Film As self A documentary film, featuring Brevard as a drag entertainer talking about how drag has opened doors of opportunity.Шаблон:Sfn

Theater

Year Theater show title Role Location Notes
Move Over Ms. Markham Joanna Markham Шаблон:Sfn
Gingerbread Lady Evy Meara
Seven Year Itch The Girl Upstairs Шаблон:Sfn
The Shadow Box Beverly Шаблон:Sfn
Steel Magnolias Truvy Jones, a salon owner Off-broadway in New York Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Night of the Iguana Maxine Faulk Шаблон:Sfn
Ruthless! The Musical Emily Green Chicago A one-year long show.Шаблон:Sfn
A Midsummer Night's Dream Hyppolyta Globe Theater Шаблон:Sfn
Subject to Change Madeline Bassett

See also

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Sources

References

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External links

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