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1874
Earl Lind
"To unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution"
Earl Lind.
Lind, Earl, Autobiography of an Androgyne (New York: The Medico-Legal Journal, 1918).
Earl Lind (the pseudonym of a man who also called himself Ralph Werther and Jennie June) wrote in his autobiography that he was born in 1874 in a large village in the Connecticut hills, that he belonged to a Puritan church, and that he attended public school and a boys� prep school. Lind went on to become one of the earliest Americans to publish a defense of those he called "androgynes" and "gynanders" (effeminate male homosexuals and masculine lesbians).
Lind wrote that around 1895 he met an effeminate male in a New York City tavern who told him about the formation, by androgynes, of the Cercle Hermaphroditos, "to unite for defense against the world�s bitter persecution."
Earl Lind, The Female Impersonators. (New York: The Medico-Legal Journal, 1922).
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