Digital Transgender Archive
Wearing a black and white nylon dress, false eyelashes, heavy perfume and 5 o'clock shadow, Ray (or Rae) Bourbon enters Beverly Hills Municipal Court on August 1, 1956, to deny he (or she) was guilty of impersonating a woman. He produced a certificate from a Mexican doctor changing his sex. The entertainer and 14 dogs live in a Venice trailer court.
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- Identifier
- t148fh24b
- Collection
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Miscellaneous Photographs
- Institution
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Los Angeles Public Library
- Publisher
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Herald Examiner
- Date Created
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Aug. 1, 1956
- Genre
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Photographs
- Subject(s)
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Rae Bourbon
Ray Bourbon
- Places
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California
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Los Angeles
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Beverly Hills
- Topic(s)
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Birth certificate amendments
Courts
Gender realignment surgery
Law
MtFs
Transsexual people
- Resource Type
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Still Image
- Language
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English
- Rights
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Copyright undetermined
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