Susanna et le premier réseau transgenre américain : photographie et identité collective
In 2004, 340 photographs, shot in the early 60s, were found by utter chance in a flea market in New York. Far from the extravagant exhibitionism of drag queens, these men personify the traditional American housewife. Most of them were married, upstanding family men who clearly belonged to the upper...
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2025
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | In 2004, 340 photographs, shot in the early 60s, were found by utter chance in a flea market in New York. Far from the extravagant exhibitionism of drag queens, these men personify the traditional American housewife. Most of them were married, upstanding family men who clearly belonged to the upper middle class. Tito Arriagada, alias Susanna, worked and lived in New York with his wife. The photographs are his. Tito and his wife used to invite their transvestite friends to stay in their country home in the Catskills, dubbed the “Chevalier d’Éon Resort.” The photographs reflect the couple’s contradictions: They refused to abide by gender norms and rebelled against the mystique of virility and the derived retrograde feminine identity. They were, notwithstanding, pioneers in the history of American transgender identities. |
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