Gender Swapping List V4

[Bob Ewoldt]

Following is version 4 of a list of books, theater, movies, tv shows, short
stories, etc that contain some short of gender "confusion". The request had
been originally for gender transformations/mutations/swapping. This has
expanded to include transvestites, transexual, cross dressing, and any other
similiar concept. This list in the most part was not compiled by me. I
recieved the bulk of this from dnic...@goddess.csc.ti.com (Dan Nichols).
He already has these lists compiled. I added some to them.

This list has not been error corrected in any way. If I waited that long
I would have never got to posting it. Any addition, modification, would be
accepted

Thank you all who replied to this. If the number of additions warrants,
I may post again.

BOOKS (poems, comics, short stories) (sorted by title)
Subject: Gender swapping, transvestite, transexual, cross dressing
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A:
ABNORMALS ANONYMOUS Stella Gray 1964
People with all kinds of kinky desires form a club.
THE ABRAXIS MARVEL CIRCUS - Stephen Leigh 1990
A entertaining romp involving a 30ish rock`n`roller, a mysterious lady, a
hermaphrodite bag person, a mortician with a flair for black comedy, an
ex-carnie evangelist, a flasher prophet, a dwarf, and the world's grossest
dead scientist.
ACHILLES Mythology
The great leaders of poetry and art as well as drama, among whom we
have Homer, Statius, Aeschylus and Sophocles, would portray the
adventures of the mighty Achilles in female dress. That is, the noble
Achilles was known to be a female impersonator. A Roman poet wrote
that his mother, the sea nymph Thetis, once dressed him in female garments,
called him Pyrrha, taught him the art of femme mimicry and helped him adopt
mannerisms of deception so that he could live as a woman among the 50
daughters of King Lycomedes. This enabled him to escape the military.
This is but one written fact on female impersonation that has
survived the many centuries. There is much written proof about
Achilles in female dress even after the threat of military drafting
was over!
Across the Sea of Suns Gregory Benford
ADONIS Mythology
Adonis, a modern symbol of masculinity, was bridegroom to Aphrodite,
but also served Apollo as a girl.
THE ADVENTURES OF JULIAN ROBINSON - Anonymous
Another Victorian novel. This one is a story of a young man who goes
to live with his Aunt and cousins, and through a program of
punishment and domination, is forced to live as a girl. Also published as
"Gynocracy".
THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVIA Comic
The 1st issue of Jabberwocky Graphics' attempt at a Cherry Poptart type
comic has a beautiful woman who has gone into the hospital for a sex-change,
but apparently just to add some equipment and have "the best of both worlds".
AGDISTIS Mythology
The Phrygian Agdistis, whose followers castrated themselves and
dressed as women, was a bisexual being that castrated itself to
become female.
ALIEN FLESH - Seabury Quinn 1977
Story of a young man who, because of a tragic accident, offers to
take the place of a young caucasian girl in a sheik's harem. The
offer goes beyond what he had in mind and he winds up in the body of
the dead girl. The story then tells of how he/she comes to except her
life and of how she makes her way back to America and falls in love
with her best friend. This story was written in the 50's, but wasn't
published till after his death and still is enjoyable and in fact
holds up better than some of today's writings. (LK)
ALIEN WORLDS Comic
Issue #8 includes "Stoney End" a story about a spaceship crashed on a
horrible alien planet. Acid-secreting worms are eating into the ship
and the outside air is non-breatheable. Midshipman Franklin "Stoney"
Stonewall comes out of his closet to face death woman-to-woman. The
rest of the crew don't really pay much attention. One guy says "Gee
Stoney, gay's one thing but did you have to go fairy princess on us?"
ALL YOU ZOMBIES - Robert A. Heinlein 1959
from: THE UNPLEASANT PROFESSION OF JONATHAN HOAG
Jane begins life with female sexual organs functional to bear a child, but
the process is disastrously traumatic to those organs. The surgeons, doing the
best they can to salvage something, discover that she also has an undeveloped
set of male organs. Thus, they are able to change her into a functional,
fertile male. As a result of the opportunities presented by a mysterious time
traveler, Jane goes back in time, rapes herself, and becomes her own father and
mother. Originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1959. Also
in the collection "6 X H".
ALPHA FLIGHT Comic
Walter Langowski, who turned into the huge beast Sasquatch, through a
complicated series of events, loses his body and is trapped in Limbo.
In issue #45 he gets returns to life in the body of a white Sasquatch
which was a transformation of the recently deceased member Snow Bird.
When he transforms back to human shape, he discovers he's got a
female body now, which is apparently an amalgam of his own,
Snowbird's and possibly someone else. "She" uses the name Wanda and
retains the female form through issue #68, before becoming
Walter again.
Amazon Planet Mack Reynolds (trans)
ANARCOMA Comic
A graphic novel by Nazario, published in America by Catalan
Communications. The title character is a drag queen-entertainer who
frequents the gay bar scene in Barcelona, Spain; her dream is is to
be a detective.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH - Robert Asprin
A hilarious, pun-filled fantasy about a young magician's apprentice
who finds himself working with a demon who's lost his powers. There
is a small scene where the apprentice disguises himself as a girl so
they can get out of town.
APHRODITOS Mythology
The Cypriots worshipped a bearded Aphrodite called Aphroditos, with a
woman's body and clothes, a beard and male genitals. When they
sacrificed to Aphroditos they cross-dressed.
ARCADIO William Goyen 1983
Arcadio, half man, half woman, half Texan, half Mexican, tells
his/her story of growing up in the freak show.
ARCHIE Comic
Supposedly there was an Archie Giant around 1954 that contained a
story featuring a "cross-dress" dance. All the boys went dressed as
girls.
B:
BADGER Comic
#40,41 center around "Sister Twister", an ex-nazi transexual who has
had a sex-change and become a nun.
#47 has Badger visiting Sister Twister's old convent, which houses a
collection of "nuns" who are all men. As the "mother superior" says,
"Once we put on the habit we are all daughter's of God."
THE BAD PLACE Dean R. Koontz 1990
The CD theme is minor, but it contains a perfect hermaphrodite, all
organs of both male and female. Good horror, thriller read.
THE BARBIE MURDERS - John Varley 1980 (see footnote A)
Short story. Revolves around a religious sect where everyone has
their body changed to look just alike. The model and name come from
the "Barbie" doll, female body, but no genitals and no nipples on the
breasts.

BEATNIK BAYOU - John Varley
Appeared in "The Barbie Murders" (also published as "Picnic on Nearside")
Beyond Rejection Leiber
THE BLACKDEATH POISONING Julian Symons 1978
BLACK KISS Comic
Howard Chaykin's new comic, put out by Vortex Comics. One of the main
female characters is revealed in issue 4 to be a she-male.
Blessed Art Thou (Novella in 3
Title:I See A Long Journey) Rachel Ingalls
BLIND DATE Jerry Kozinski
A collection of autobiographical anecdotes and episodes of a man
ranging through society and across the world. Look for the chapter
where he meets the foxy "lady".

BLOOD NIGHT - Chet Williamson 1989
The hero has a series of ever more powerful, and finally terrorizing,
"wet dreams". Not a very pleasant story, but has an interesting
cross-sex twist at the end. Anthologized in "Hot Blood - Tales of
Provocative Horror" Edited by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend. KM
BLUE ANGEL NIGHTS Margarete von Falkensee 1986
A decadent novel of Germany in the 1920s. The main character, a
womanizer, encounters a beautiful TV and his twin sister.
Blue Champagne Varley
BOND STRIKES CAMP Cyril Connolly
In this 1963 parody, James Bond goes drag for Her Majesty. Published
in London Magazine.
The Book of the Damned Tanith Lee
BOYS & GIRLS TOGETHER William Goldman 1964
There is one scene in this book where one of the characters, as a
boy, is dressed by his mother.
THE BRANDON PAPERS Quentin Bell
Might be classified as a historical/mystery novel, the plot of which
revolves around the life of a wealthy "lady" of standing and the
circumstances of "her" origins.
BRAZEN IMAGES Carl Corley 1967
Novel about a female impersonator.
THE BREAST Philip Roth 1972
A Kafkaesque tale of a man with breast envy who turns into a
large breast.
THE BREEDS OF MAN - F.M. Busby
To combat a sterlity plague, a new breed of human is genengineered to be
immune to the plague. The children appear to be normal, until they reach
puberty, when it is discovered that they are "cyclic hermaphrodites" that
change their sex once a month. Reccommended.
BRENDA STARR Comic
Something in National Lampoon gave me the idea that this strip
included a character, Hank, who possibly disguised himself as a girl
occassionally. Not verified.
BROTHER & SISTER Michael Nickolay 1979
Suspense thriller about a TS.
BURKE SERIES Andrew Vlachss
Flood 1985
Strega 1987
Blue Belle 1988
Hard Candy 1989
Blossom 1990
Hard-boiled detective series about Burke, who frequently gets
information and help from Michelle, the almost-transexual prostitute.
BURNING MOON Aron Spilken & Ed O'Leary 1978
Thriller centering around a robbery committed by two women and a gay
man. The man dons drag for an amusing scene during the robbery as a
distraction.
BUZZ SAWYER Comic
Reportedly had some episodes with cross-dressing in it.
BY REASON OF INSANITY Shane Stevens 1979
A novel about a serial killer who is a master of disguise. Toward the
end he finally catches on to the idea of dressing as a woman. If you
can stand the gore, his masquerade is exciting.
C:
CALIGULA William Howard 1979
Novelization of Gore Vidal's screenplay for the Penthouse movie. At
one point, Caligula decides he is no longer content to be the god
Caligula. He wants to be a goddess too, so he declares he is the
incarnation of Venus and starts appearing in public dressed as the
goddess. He also has a sex romp, as Venus, with a young boy.
CALLAHAN'S LADY - Spider Robinson 1989
The last section in it has some fairly good CDing in it. Several
other parts have minor CDing.
CAMELOT 3000 Mike Barr & Brian Bolland
A DC comics novel. In the future, Earth is being plundered by aliens
and needs someone to lead them. Thge spirits of King Arthur and his
Court reawaken in the bodies of some people. Tristan finds himself in
the body of a lovely female and has a lot of trouble accepting it.
Meanwhile one of his old lovers is also around and has no trouble
with the idea of a lesbian relationship.
Canary Canary Conn
CAPTAIN EASY Comic
Had a series during the Vietnam war where he or his friends saved a
FI, who turned out to not be a FI, but his daughter.
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Heinlein
CECIL DREEME Theodore Winthrop 1861
A novel about a man who falls in love with another man who turns out
to be a woman in disguise.
CHAMELEON William Diehl
About an assassin called the Chameleon. He usually wears the disguise
of an Oriental woman and most of the men fall for him right away...
makes his job so much easier. (LK) Highly recommended for suspense
lovers. (DN)
CHANGELING - Graham Masterson 1989
A businessman becomes fascinated by a beautiful, but strange, woman
in Amsterdam and gradually finds himself effected by her "curse". An
interesting story with a sex change theme, marred, in my opinion, by
its horror twist. Anthologized in "Hot Blood - Tales of Provocative
Horror" Edited by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend. KM
CHANGEWINDS SAGA - Jack Chalker 1987-8 (see footnote B)
When the Changewinds Blow
Rider of the Winds
War of the Maelstrom
CHANGING PLACES Susan Smith 1986
A juvenile novel about Josh and his girl friend Jenny who switch
bodies and learn that everything is not so easy for the other sex.
The Chevalier D'Eon M. Coryn
CHOCOLATE - Mick Garris 1989
A researcher finds himself experiencing another person's life in
occasional flashes. Of course, the other person is female. A clever
story with an unsatisfying ending. Anthologized in "Hot Blood -
Tales of Provocative Horror" Edited by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend. KM
CHORUS OF WITCHES Paul Buckland 1959
A British novel of life backstage among the drag queens. The witches
of the title are in fact male members of a so-called "drag" show -
one of those odd travelling theatrical shows in which the whole cast
consists of males, mostly in female costume. This particular group
are known as "The Merrie Belles", and we see them both in their
capacity as performers and as individuals with private lives. The
result is a most unusually revealing portrait of a certain small
section of life.
THE CHRONICLES OF MAVIN MANYSHAPED - Sheri S. Tepper
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
The Search of Mavin Manyshaped
CITY OF NIGHT John Rechy 1963
A novel dealing with homosexual transvestites and drag queens.
THE CLEANUP John Skipp & Craig Spector 1987
An erotic horror novel about a psychic young man who starts cleaning
up the city of bad elements. In one scene, he transforms himself into
a beautiful jogger, snares a couple of rapists, and changes one of
them into a replica of the beautiful jogger so he can experience the
horror of rape.
The Cluster Series Peirs Anthony
CONTRARYWISE - Zohra Greenhalgh 1989
Has a race of people who change sexes at will. There is a lot of
gender-blurring in this novel, mostly female-to-male. I found the
book to be only average, but some might like it. (MP)
Sequel is Trickster's Touch.
Conundrum Jan Morris's autobiography
THE CORNELIUS CHRONICLES - Michael Moorcock 1971
Very worthwhile reading for lovers of androgyny. The hero, Jerry
Cornelius is very ambivalent sexually, and switches masculine and
feminine roles often. Actually CDs only a few times, but it is still
exciting to read. Volume III has some good scenes in it also.

CREWEL LYE - Piers Anthony 1984
Due to a magic spell, the hero switches bodies with a beautiful girl.
The eighth book in the Xanth series.

CROYD - Ian Wallace
Another male-female body switch book. In this one, the villaness
steals the hero's body and puts his mind into the body of a
(female)prostitute. Very deep into brain physiology and
psychology -- Wallace is/was a psychologist.
D:
THE DANCER'S DEATH Phil Davis 1981
Another TV as serial killer book, but somewhat exciting because the
guy is damned good looking! Too bad we get a bad rap in these
books...
DANCERS IN THE AFTERGLOW - Jack Chalker
Daniel is a cyborged spaceship that can control up to 22 different android
bodies at once. Daniel uses an android (gynoid? :-) with a female
appearance through most of the book.

DANCING GODS SERIES - Jack Chalker 1984-5
The River of the Dancing Gods
Demons of the Dancing Gods
Vengeance of the Dancing Gods
Sword of the Dancing Gods

DARK HORSE - Mary Herbert 1990
After a young woman's entire clan is wiped out she assumes her brother's
identity and becomes a warrior. Her one goal is to seek revenge against the
chieftain who ordered her clan's murder.
The Day in the Skins Tanith Lee
DAY MILLION - Fred Pohl
The heroine is TS, prenatally detected and treated!
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE Elizabeth Daly 1940
Old Mrs. Bartram is going to leave her rare jewels to her first-born
granddaughter. Shortly after she suffers her first stroke, one of her
sons, Carroll, has a son and his wife dies in childbirth. His friend,
Dr. Robert Loring and he decide to say he has a girl and pass the boy
off as his daughter till Mrs. Bartram dies. Things get complicated
when Mrs. Bartram hangs on and it eventually ends up in the death of
a young girl down the street who they kidnap and pass off as the
daughter to his brother.
THE DEATH OF THE FUHRER - Roland Pucetti 1972
Hitler's evil twisted brain is transplanted into the lush body of a
beautiful young girl.

DEATH'S MASTER - Tanith Lee 1979
One of this book's hero/heroines is a god/man who changes sex
frequently.

THE DELICATE DEPENDENCY - Michael Talbot 1982
This is a vampire novel. In it, the chief vampire dons a woman's
disguise for much of the book.
DIAL "P" FOR PLEASURE Myron Kosloff 1964
A tv and lesbian novel.
DICK TRACY Comic
Featured one villain who was an attractive tv, Baby Face, I think.
DINNER AT HELEN'S - William Carlson 1973
A very strange short story that seems to have something to do with
sexual transformation. I have read it several times and still don't
understand it. The story is in the collection Strange Bedfellows edited
by Thomas N. Scortia. (KM)
DISGUISES Ian McEwan 1972
In the book First Love, Last Rites. Story of a young boy living with
his aunt. She and he dress in all kinds of costumes for fun. Central
to this story is his dressing as a pretty blond girl.
DIONYSOS Mythology
Also known as Bacchus. Traditionaly considered androgynous. Archaic
Greek vases show a bearded Dionysos wearing a women's veils.
DONORS Leslie Alan Horvitz & H. Harris Gerhard, MD 1982
Mystery story that starts with the murder of a very sexy actress,
only the actress wasn't always a woman. Upon investigation, the
coroner discovers an institute that gives completely new identities
(even new sex if desired). Very good book. (LK)
DR. FATE Comic
The latest incarnation of this character is a mystical being who is
the merging of a boy named Eric and a woman named Linda. The doctor
appears to be totally male (quite muscular) but in #4 Linda takes
control of Dr. Fate when Eric becomes unbalanced. As she does Dr.
Fate's appearance changes considerably becoming very feminine with a
nice figure.
DON'T BITE THE SUN - Tanith Lee 1976
First of two novels about a future world where a person can
commit suicide and come back as a member of the opposite sex.
Followed by Drinking Sapphire Wine.
DOOM PATROL Comic
A synopsis of issues #19-22 from Amazing Heroes Preview Special:
Larry Trainor, seemingly cured of the radiation being, finds that the
radiation being has gained sentience after all these years, and wants
to move onto the next evolutionary step ... in Larry's body. Not content
with just Larry's body, the being melds Larry with a female doctor, Eleanor
Poole, together to become a new being named Rebis, who has the physical
characteristics of both male and female.
The Dosadi Experiment Frank Herbert
THE DOSADAI EXPERIMENT - Frank Herbert
Near the end of the novel, the male protagonist exchanges his body with a
female character.

DOUBLE TAKE Vardis Margener 1982
This is about a Marilyn Monroe look-alike. No, the double is not a
man, unfortunately. But her sidekick is gay and dresses a lot for fun
and pleasure.
DOWNTIMING THE NIGHTSIDE - Jack Chalker 1985
Time travel has the side effect that after a short time in the past
your mind switches to the body of an inhabitant of that time period
and then gradually the personality of that person begins to take
over. The hero ends up in the body of a medieval nun and then a
series of prostitutes. (KM)

DRAGONSWORD - Gael Baudino 1990
It is the first of a trilogy. I don't want to spoil it, but there are
some sexual transformations.

THE DREAMING JEWELS - Theodore Sturgeon 1950
Science Fiction and not to be missed! This was reprinted in 1985, so
hopefully you can find it. A young boy on the run masquerades as a
beautiful little woman in a carnival through the first part of the
book. After he grows up he masquerades as a beautiful woman character
to help her out.
DRESSED TO KILL Brian DePalma and Campbell Black 1980
The same as the movie.
DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE - Tanith Lee 1977
Sequel to Don't Bite the Sun.
E:
EAST INDIA Mythology
According to legend in the Mahabharata, a king was transformed into a
woman by bathing in a magic river. He went on to bear 100 sons to go
with the 100 sons he had previously fathered. He later refused to be
changed back because he felt "a woman takes more pleasure in the act
of love than does a man". Unlike Teiresias, he was granted his wish.
"EASY" BARNES SERIES Richard Hillary
Snake In The Grasses 1987
Pieces of Cream 1987
Pillow of the Community 1988
Behind the Fact 1988
A series about private detective Ezell "Easy" Barnes. His best
informant is Angel the Sex Change, a true diamond in the raunch.

ELOCUTION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Steven J. Spears
An Australian play featuring a drag queen as one of the central
characters. Published in "Drag Show", Currency Press 1977.
ENQUIRY Dick Francis
Contains minor crossdressing scenes. About a horseman going to Moscow
to investigate the Prince's brother-in-law. Seems he went to a TV
nightclub in London and might have been compromised. Unfortunately,
a paragraph description of the nightclub is all we get.
THE ENTERTAINING EPISODE OF THE ARTICLE IN QUESTION - Dorothy Sayers
A Lord Peter Wimsey short story.
EQUINOCITIAL - John Varley
Appeared in "The Barbie Murders" (also published as "Picnic on Nearside")
ERNIE Comic
Sid organizes a beauty contest, but they have trouble getting
entrants and he ends up being one of the contestants and winning. He
spent several strips in drag.
THE EROTIC WORLD OF FAERY - Maureen Duffy 1972
While not fiction, this book is about fiction; faery tales. Many
faery tales have cross-dressing themes, some quite erotic.
AN EXCESS OF ENCHANTMENTS - Craig Shaw Gardner 1988
Wuntvor falls into the clutches of Mother Duck, who casts him as the
hero (and heroine) in a series of fairy tales. (KM)
F:
A Fall of Princes Judith Tarr
THE FALL OF THE TOWERS - Samuel R. Delany 1963
In a mental journey through alternate worlds, a young man finds
himself briefly in the body of a beautiful woman. (KM)
THE FAME GAME Rona Jaffe 1969
About an agent to the stars, who handles many recognizable stereotypical
stars. One of the central characters is a top model who is really a guy.
This model is VERY good looking. I highly recommend this one for its TV
content.
FEM FORCE Comic
Issue #18, "In the Buff", is about a boy who, due to radiation
treatments for cancer, can assume the form of anyone he touches. He
assumed the form of each of the women in Fem Force and then posed for
a nudie magazine and donated the money to cancer research.
THE FEMALE MAN - Joanna Russ 1975
Another war between the sexes story. Jael, the main character, takes a trip
through Manland, where men live without "real" women; rather, males selected
to fulfill female social and sexual roles undergo sex-change operations.
THE FETISH MURDER Avon Curry
Existence not verified. A search on OCLC found no match for this
book.

FLETCH AND THE WIDOW BRADLEY Gregory MacDonald 1981
A first-rate mystery with Fletch, a wily investigative reporter, on
the trail of a deceased executive come back miss-teriously from the
grave.
FIRST PERSON PLURAL - F.M. Busby
From Universe 10, edited by Terry Carr. A man wakes up in a
woman's body in a mental hospital. The difference here is that
he alternately inhabits her body and his original one ON THE
SAME DAY. He experiences a day first in her body then in his.
(Or vice versa, I'm not sure).
A FLORIDA ENCHANTMENT
An 1891 novel by Archibald Ganter and Fergus Redmond. It was adapted
into a play by Ganter in 1896 and was generally received as some of
the worst trash ever on stage. A woman finds a magic seed that will
transform her into a man and swallows it. A darky maid servant is
similarly transformed and some of the so-called men in the play are
changed into women.
FLOWERING NARCISSUS - Thomas Scortia 1973
Honcho, a brutal biker is the only surviving human on Earth, so androids
make a female clone of him to be his companion. After his initial shock, he
likes the idea. Originally published in "Eros in Orbit" edited by Joseph Elder.
FOUR LORDS OF THE DIAMOND SERIES - Jack Chalker 1981-3
Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold x
Charon: A Dragon at the Gate
Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail x
THE FOX D.H. Lawrence 1923
A transvestite work published in "Four Short Novels". Branford and March,
two "new women" from the city try to run a farm together, but fail when a
literal fox attacks their chickens and a figurative fox, in the form of a
young soldier, attacks them, first by making love to March and thus
disrupting the women's relationship, and later by accidentally-on-purpose
felling a tree in such a way that it kills Branford. Thus the foxy soldier,
Henry, and his two vulnerable female opponents, Branford and March, form a
love/hate triangle whose tension is resolved only when Henry manages to
divest the transvestite March of her male clothing, her female companion,
and her autonomous power.

"FRANK" AND I Anonymous
A Victorian erotica novel about a wealthy young man who meets "Frank"
and takes him in only to learn later that "Frank" is really Frances.
Freaky Friday Mary Rodgers
FROM A VIEW TO A DEATH Anthony Powell 1939
An English novel about a group of people, one of whom is a tv.
G:
THE GARDEN OF EDEN Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway has long been suspected of being obsessed with gender
roles. The main couple in this novel play around with gender roles.
GAURDIANS OF THE GALAXY Comic
A Marvel series. The leader, Starhawk, is an amalgamation of a man,
Stakar, and a woman, Aleta. He can become either one.
THE GAY DOGS Don Holliday 1967
Another of his "Man From C.A.M.P." novels.
Gender Blending
GETTING HOME - F.M. Busby
A young man takes a *really* bad trip on acid, and finds himself hopping
from body to body, some of them female. In the collection "Getting Home."
GIOVANNI'S ROOM James Baldwin 1956
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatriates, liasions, and
violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional
morality. Based on the entry in Elysian Fields' catalog, this has some
connection with Barbette, a famous "wire-walker" and trapeze artist who
performed his act appearing as a young girl.
GLORY Jack Curtis 1988
Another tv-psycho-murderer story. This one has a schizo hypnotherapist
who plants post-hypnotic suggestions in his victims so they are unaware
he is in the room with them. He fantasizes a sister, Elaine, which is
actually himself and Elaine takes over more and more as the story
progresses. All in all, quite good as far as a suspense novel.

THE GLORY HOLE MURDERS Tony Fennely 1985
A New Orleans private detective novel. Contains drag queens as
characters.

GO TO THY DEATHBED Stanton Forbes
This novel is about a boy, kidnapped when young, and raised as a
girl.
GOLDEN AGE COMICS Comic
The following is a list of golden age comics with a tv/ts theme. This
list was extracted by a keyword search from the 1989 Overstreet Price
Guide.

Amazing-Man Comics 8 "Cat-man dresses as a woman"
Authentic Police Cases 5,26,33
Combat Kelly 21
Crack Comics several "Madame Fatal is a man dressed up as a woman"
Crime Must Pay the Penalty 8
Crime Mysteries 1
Frankie Comics 9
Hit Comics 3
Liberty Comics 11 "Wilber in women's clothes"
Love Scandals 5 Tomboy story "I Hated Being a Woman"
Murder, Incorporated 2
Pep Comics 6 "Archie dresses as his aunt"
Pep Comics 59
Prize Comics 53
Scream Comics 18
Space Adventures 7
Spook 24
Suzie Comics 54
Tell it to the Marines 4
Wilbur Comics 7
THE GOOD POLICEMAN Jerome Charyn 1990
This story begins with New York cop Sidel capturing one of the FBI's
"most wanted", a bank robber who like to dress in women's clothes.
This leads to his going on a publicity tour where his troubles really
start.
GOODBYE CHARLIE George Axelrod 1959
A play about a womanizer whose reincarnation is both immediate and
ironic; he comes back as a comely woman. Basis for movie of the
same name starring Debbie Reynolds and television pilot starring
Suzanne Somers.
THE GOURMET Jim Nisbet 1981
Rather seedy detective thriller in which the victim/villian (not sure
which) CDs.

THE GREAT PYRAMID ROBBERY John Minahan
Long fabulous scene in which the hero is dressed as a woman by a
woman detective for a stakeout. Good gender discussion and
interesting thoughts by the hero.
Guardians of the Galaxy comic from Marvel
Gynocracy Sacher-Masoch
H:
THE HAUNTED MONASTERY Robert van Gulik
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Carson McCuller
Involves a male transvestite.
HERCULES Mythology
According to historians, Hercules shed his male habits, put on
female clothes and then labored under the rulership of Eyrystheus.
Another story has Hercules undergoing effemination in order to serve
Omphale.

Herculine Barbin Trans. R. McDougall (true, movie, hermorp)
HERMA MacDonald Harris 1981
A story about an hermaphrodite named Herma.
HERMAPHRODITUS Swinburne 1863 (Poem)
HERMAPHRODITUS Mythology
Son of Hermes and Aphrodite. He was very handsome and when, as a young man
he left home, the Naiad Salmacis fell passionately in love with him.
He repulsed her, but when, later on, he inadvertently bathed in her
spring, she embraced him and pulled him down into the pool, praying
to the gods that she and he might forever be united. Their bodies
joined into one, becoming a hermaphrodite. As a result of
Hermaphroditus' prayers to his parents, the spring exercised a like
effect on all men who bather in it thereafter.
THE HOLLAND WOLVES John Breckenridge Ellis 1902
An early novel about female cross-dressing.
HOLLYWOOD ANDROGYNY book list
Hotblood (Short story in)
HOTEL WITH EMPTY ROOMS Harriet Gilbert
A man is spending the summer at a nearly empty hotel and a pretty
young "girl" arrives one night.
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I HAD A BROTHER IN ARMS Maarten 't Hart
Actually a Dutch novel called "Ik had een wapenbroeder." Don't know whether
it has been translated into English. The main character is drafted in the
army. He falls in love with one of his fellow soldiers. During a leave the
friend helps the main character to dress up. The main character thereupon
feels that he would rather be a woman. The friend then loses interest
because he is more interested in man. The main character shoots his friend
"accidentally", during a shooting practice. The story is not told in a
linear way but in flashbacks. The desription of the dressing is very well
done, which is not to surprising given that the author likes to cross dress
too.
He recently appeared at the annual book gala dressed as a woman. The
newspaper (NRC Handelsblad) showed his picture in the monday edition. He
looked quite convincing, with a long evening gown and a wig and it took the
other guests quite a while before they recognized him. 't Hart said to a
reporter that he frequently dressed up at home, but that this was the first
time that he appeared like this in public.
I WANT WHAT I WANT Geoff Brown 1966
A novel told from the viewpoint of Roy/Wendy, a transsexual. Set in
England, the story winds up depressingly (I guess they had to in the
old days in order to satisfy the Decency Code), but on the way is
some of the best TV fiction I've ever read. "Brown" has to be a
transvestite. The lingering, adoring description of putting on the
clothes, fantasizing about them, etc. are so vivid and true, that no
outsider could have come up with such stuff. The plot's well
developed, too. In her struggle for identity, then acceptance,
Wendy leaves home <tyrant father>, goes to live on her own <when
first mail order package arrives ...well!!!>, gets along pretty well
... the doubts & dangers of passing are beautifully laid out. There
is one chapter in which Wendy meets her sister as Wendy for the first
time. Initial shock & disapproval fades to acceptance &
acknowledgement that Wendy really is very convincing and pretty.

This is the cover blurb:
I told myself that I must stop being ashamed. It was a dishonest
feeling. Really I was glad that I was as I was. It would have been
better to be a woman, but it was better to be a transvestite than
to be a man.

The book was actually produced as a movie, with Anne Heywood playing
Roy/ Wendy. It's a shame that the role wasn't done by a professional
female impersonator. The movie wasn't much of a commercial success,
anyway, and you were always conscious that the "transformed woman"
was actually a genetic woman to begin with.
IDENTITY CRISIS - James Hogan 1981
Short story in Stellar 7. This takes place in a society where you
travel by renting a body (sex and appearance your choice) in another
city and having your mind transfered into it. In this instance a
husband and wife both end up in bodies of the opposite sex. Quite
good.

THE IDENTITY MATRIX - Jack Chalker 1982
The Earth is invaded by beings who can switch minds with someone just
by touching them. The hero, a middle-aged college professor, is
switched first into the body of a 12 year old Native American girl
and then that of a beautiful young woman. Although the author
denies that this book is "about" sex change, it is certainly the
closest of any of his novels. Recommended. (KM)
IN DRAG Len Harrington 1968
Gene was just a normal married man, till he took a job as a model for - of
all things - women's fashions. Then the hidden side of his nature came out.
IN THE FACE OF MY ENEMY - Joseph H. Delaney 1985
The hero is given the ability to change his shape at will. Twice he
changes himself into a woman. (KM)
INFANTE'S INFERNO - G. Cabrera Infante 1979
Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. A
semi-autobiographical novel about the sensual education of a young
journalist in Havana. He has some experiences with female
impersonators.
THE INFINITY BOX - Kate Wilheim
In this story (in the collection by the same name), a woman has
the ability to have her body possessed by her husband and one other
man. Weird concept - Reverse possession.

THE INTEGRATED MAN - Michael Berlyn
In this one it is possible for a personality to be recorded on
a chip and inserted in another's body (the technological equivalent of
spiritual possession). Midway though the book, the principle male
character briefly inhabits a female body and finds it very
stimulating.

ISHMAEL/SALLY FORTH SERIES - Justin Leiber
Beyond Rejection 1980
Beyond Humanity 1987
Beyond Gravity 1988
The mind of Ishmael Forth is transfered into the body of the deceased
spacer, Sally Cadmus. In honor of her, he decides to call himself
Sally Forth. To help in piloting her ship, the original Sally had a
3 foot prehensile tail grafted on and now Ishmael is stuck with it. (KM)

I WILL FEAR NO EVIL - Robert A. Heinlein 1970
A wealthy corrupt industrialist's brain is transplanted into a
woman's body.
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JAPAN Mythology
When the Sun Goddess met her unruly brother Susanoo, she dressed in
male clothes.
JIMMY OLSEN Comic
#67 "Leslie Lowe, Girl Reporter" has Jimmy upset at not getting a
raise. He quits, but is unable to get another job; everyone's looking
for women. He dons the disguise of Leslie Lowe and hires on back at
the Daily Planet, planning to be a terrible worker and make Perry
White realize how much he misses Jimmy. Everything "she" does seems
to turn out right and it's finally discovered that everyone knew it
was him because he forget to take off his signal watch.
#95 "Miss Jimmy Olsen" has Jimmy masquerading as a female to get the
goods on a mobster.

JOKER Comic
There was apparently some talk about giving the Joker a transvestite
tendency in "Arkum Asylum", and this was possibly hinted at in JLI
Annual #2, where he was also quite effeminate. There has apparently
been at least a couple of occassions where he used female disguises
in Batman.
JUPITER Mythology
Jupiter changed himself into a female and posed as Diana.
JUST BOYS James Farrell 1934
A short story with a feminine young boy who attends a dance as a girl
and comes to a very bad end.
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KILLER IN DRAG Ed Wood, Jr.
A tv novel from the infamous director (a tv himself) of Glen or
Glenda.

THE KING OF THE NIGHTCAP William Murray 1989
The third in Murray's series about a detective who frequents the Del Mar
race track. The one has several characters pivotal to the plot who are
gorgeous she-males. One is a beautiful Mexican singer who seduces the detective.
THE KING WHO HAD TO BE QUEEN TOO Jonathan Winters 1988
Very strange, short short story about a king who had no queen and
took to wearing women's clothes. Published in the collection
"Winter's Tales."

THE KREMLIN LETTER Noel Behn 1966
A spy novel which includes an aging drag queen.
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L'ASTREE D'Urfe 1614-1620
Celadon dresses himself as 'Orithee' in order to reach his beloved.
THE LAND OF OZ - L. Frank Baum 1904 (Del Rey 1979)
The lost Princess Ozma has been hidden in a very effective way; she's
been changed into a boy. This is book 2 in the Oz series, the sequel
to The Wizard of Oz. (KM)
THE LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN Hubert Selby
A novel about the seamy side of Manhattan.
THE LAST WOMAN IN HIS LIFE Ellery Queen 1969
Another mystery where the butler didn't do it, but the chambermaid
might have.
HE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS - Ursula K. LeGuin 1969
A novel about a world where there are three sexes. A person can
choose and change their sex at estrus (period of sexual receptivity).
This is a classic and is on most lists of the best SF novels.

THE LILITH FACTOR - Jean Paiva 1989
Before Eve, Adam had another wife. Her name was Lilith and she was
pure evil. Her spirit has returned in several people, one of whom is
a man.
LITTLE BIG MAN Arthur Penn
Little Horse, the effiminate Cheyenne brave, was a berdache.
LLOYD LLEWELLYN Comic
In a story entitled "#$@&!", Lloyd enlists the help of his friend,
Mister Sister, who has the unique ability to assume the form of a man
or woman.
THE LONG ARM OF GIL HAMILTON - Larry Niven
Takes place in a future in which they've developed a "complete"
transsexualization procedure... i.e. you can have children afterwards.
One of the characters in one of the stories is a young TS whose
husband doesn't know. Niven portrays her with more sympathy than
most other writers.

LYTHANDE - Marion Z. Bradley
The main character is a woman who masquerades as a man. I believe
there have also been some short stories about her in other books.
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Mademoiselle De Maupin Theophile Gautier (trans) 1855
Takes its name from and is based on the 17th century actress who
dressed as a man in order to seduce women. It is narrated by the poet
D'Albert, who falls in love with "Theodore" (which is the name she is
using), and is overwhelmed with self doubts, confusion, etc. This is
an extraordinary novel of transvestic fantasy, culminating in sexual
reversals of the most radical kind.
MAD MAGAZINE Comic
A few years back there was a comic that had a guy going up to a
change machine in an airport. He put in his $5 and "ZAPP" he was
changed into a woman.
The Madness Season C.S. Friedman's (transform)
THE MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES - Robert Silverberg
Presents a series of short vignettes as experienced by a young lad of
14 years, Hissune. Hissune's "experiences" are through a special mind
link to a huge archive of various person's memories, sort of like in
the movie "Brainstorm" if you caught it a few years ago.
In the first story: "Thesme and the Ghayrog", the first memory
Hissune "experiences" via the link, the memories were stored by a
lonely, isolated female human, Thesme, about her discovery and
nurturing of an injured reptilian male humanoid. Well she cures his
broken leg and he cures her loneliness by reaching out to her
sexually. They make love repeatedly. Now, try and remember who is
experiencing this again--yes, it's Hissune the 14 year old boy.
Hissune relating his feelings after the "experience" says it was
"incomprehensible" and "confusing". I'll say!
MAMA'S BOY Linda Crockett Gray
A new mainstream book with strong TV themes. It is a horror book,
with the villain having a fixation on his female lawyer. He steals
her stuff and erotically uses it. Not totally TV, but his fetish for
her things is very like our feelings. Also at the end is a VERY
unusual TV scene!

MAN FROM PANSY Don Rice
Story about the search for a murderer. It is very funny as this
basically straight guy has to search through the world of female
impersonators and act gay while doing it. This was written in the
late sixties or early seventies. (LK)

THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT Agatha Christie 1924
THE MAN WHO BECAME A WOMAN Sherwood Anderson 1963
Short story about a man who imagines he has become a woman.
THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF - David Gerrold 1973
A mind bending trip though alternate worlds. As the hero gets further
away from his home world, he meets versions of himself with greater
and greater differences until he encounters the woman he would have
been if he had been born female. Then things really get complicated.
(This book is sometimes referred to jokingly as "The Man Who Fondled
Himself".) (KM)

THE MAN WHO WAS PREGNANT - Elizabeth A. Lynn 1977
A short little story about a man who mysteriously becomes pregnant and gives
birth to a baby. In the intro the author says when asked "what's it about?",
she just changes the subject. First published in "Chrysalis 1" edited by Ray
Torgeson and reprinted in 1981 in "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by the author.
THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND NAMES - A.E. Van Vogt
A man is given the ability to exchange bodies but does not have
the ability to choose which person he exchanges with. He ends up
inhabiting many other bodies including a girlfriend's.
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
Many of the old comic operas have a lot of crossdressing scenes.
This is one of my favorites. In case you don't already know,
Cherabino, a very pretty young page, is asked to cross dress
by a Countess and her maid. There is a really nice scene where
they try clothes on him. This is a play published under the
Penguin Classics label. Interestingly enough, the author is the
same Beaumarchais who had the London run-in with our favorite TV,
Chevalier D-Eon.
THE MARSHAL'S OWN CASE Magdalen Nabb 1990
The seventh Marshall Guarnaccia mystery set in Florence, Italy. Here he
investigates the murder of what appears to be a female, but turns out to
have been a male transvestite prostitute. The police immediately round up
all the male transvestite prostitutes for questioning. The Marshall finds
the whole thing embarrassing, but, unlike his fellow officers, he begins to
see through the makeup and dresses to the people underneath.
MARSHMALLOW MASQUERADE Cynthia Blair 1987
One from a young adult series about twins Chris and Susan. In this
one prom time is approaching and they get the bright idea to have
Chris infiltrate "the enemy camp" and find out what boys really talk
about, etc. So while Chris is "out with the flu", their cousin
"Charlie Pratt" comes to visit and attend their school.
THE MASQUERADERS Georgette Heyer 1979
A wonderful mainstream novel by the historical romance writer. It is
about an older sister and her brother who exchange identities. Their
father is a rogue. The brother obviously likes his role and does it
well, though he is truly a male and attracted to women. It was in
both hardback and paperback a few years ago. You'll enjoy the read.
(KP)
MASTER OF SPACE AND TIME - Rudy Rucker 1984
A strange novel about a guy who discovers the secret of everything
and is able to cause anything happen he desires. At one point he
decides what he really wants is a gorgeous female body. His feelings
about his new body made me wonder if the author really feels that
way.

MATES Peter Kenna
An Australian play featuring a drag queen as one of the central
characters. Published in "Drag Show", Currency Press 1977.

M. BUTTERFLY David Hwang
A play based on the true story about a French diplomat who had a long
affair with a Chinese opera star who was actually a transvestite.

MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN Alix Kates Shulman 1972
Tv/ts theme not verified.

MERCY David L. Lindsey 1990
Suspenseful thriller about a serial killer stalking women that are part of
an underground, bisexual, s&m group in Houston. One of the major characters
turns out to be a transvestite. Only one scene of dressing but nice
description of their feelings while getting dressed. NOT the typical
connection with the murder you would expect.

THE MESSIAH CHOICE - Jack Chalker 1985
In this book, Satan is a computer. At the end of the book
the principle male character gets female genitals after his
male ones are destroyed (a common Chalker theme - female
characters with male genitals or male characters with
female ones).
METAMORPHOSES Ovid
This ancient text recounts the stories of Tieresias and
Hermaphroditus.
Mindswap Robert Sheckley
MIRROR IMAGE Lucille Fletcher 1988
A very different suspense novel in which an aging actress and her
daughter are conned by some clever actors, some of whom cross-dress
for their roles.
Mirror Image Hunt
MISCELLANEOUS Comic
There were reportedly other comics with TS themes. A couple of
stories have been reprted from some old sci-fi comics. One was an
involved story about the first flight to Mars just as war ended life
on earth. A man and woman were aboard. They crashed on landing and
the woman wandered off in a daze and did not return for months. When
she came to her senses and managed to reach the ship again she found
another woman there. The man had dispaired because men had caused so
much trouble through war and being a biological scientist, turned
himself into a woman.. no explanation given. The other story was of a
spaceman who went to another star and visited a planet. It was very
earthlike and he fell in love with a woman there and married her. The
only oddity was that he was never permitted to see the children of the
planet. One day his curiosity got the best of him and he managed to
peek into a nursery. He found a lot of children with snail shells on
their back (apparent premise- they had evolved from snails). He
rushed home to discover that his wife was now a man and waiting for
him to turn into a woman (snails change sex).
Miss High-Heels Grove(?)
MISS HIGH-HEELS Anonymous
A Victorian erotica novel. Dennis Evelyn Beryl, a young English
aristocrat, is transformed under the supervision of his step-sister
Helen, into a beautiful young woman.
MISSION EARTH SERIES, BOOK 9 OR 10 - L. Ron Hubbard 1988.
I don't have the whole series, so I'm not sure whether the TV
episodes are in 9 or 10 or both, but there are some encounters with
gay men who dress up.
MR. FANCY-PANTIES Dick Dale 1968
About a "blond butch stud" who happens to wear lace frilly panties.

MOONSTAR ODYSSEY - David Gerrold 1977
Novel about a far away planet whose denizens get to choose their sex
at puberty.

THE MORPHODITE TRILOGY - M.A. Foster
The Morphodite 1981
The Transformer 1983
The Preserver 1985
The protaganist (The Morphodite) is able through a painful process to
voluntarily transform his body. Each time she/he ends up as a
younger member of the opposite sex. The descriptions of the
transformations are quite graphic, but rather unpleasant. (KM)

MOSQUITO - Richard Calder 1990
A sad and rather outre story of homosexual trans-something-or-other
appeared in the July, 1990 issue of Omni. The theme of is described
in the table of contents by "A transvestite thief is hired to scour
the decadent and corrupt streets of the future city of Bangkok. Can
s/he survive the lustful journey in the dangerous quest for the
perfect doll?" There is a great deal of psychological pain in the
story and it does make me wonder - why can't we ever, in the general
press, read a story about a perfectly happy transvestite? (KM)
A MOTHER AND TWO DAUGHTERS - Gail Godwin 1983
Another feminist utopia novel. In this one men can become "male mothers".
MUCKALUCK Richard Andersen 1980
An ironic, blackly humorous novel that's the "Catch-22" of the
American Indian wars. The Muckalucks were your everyday,
happy-go-lucky band of Indians. They had their fine warriors, their
crazy medicine men, and an occasional transvestite or two.
MURDER BY LATITUDE Rufus King 1930
A "murder on a cruise ship" mystery that revolves around a young boy
who is passed off as a girl to a woman who badly wants to have a
child and can't have any of her own.
THE MUSCLE SWAPPERS Barry Crandall 1968
An explosive twilight novel of drag balls and swap parties among gay lovers.
MY DARLING LEA Clyde Ward 1969
By tracing the relationship between Shawn O'Brien, rugged, masculine and
aggressively "normal" and Lee, a famous (or infamous, depending on one's
point of view) "drag queen", Mr. Ward dramatically sets forth the conflict
between normal, socially accepted modes of sexual behaviour and the
shadow-world of the homosexual. The back dust-jacket has a photo of the
author in drag.
MYRA BRECKENRIDGE Gore Vidal 1968
A wild, weird foray into the chasm between the genders and between
sanity and insanity. Myra is a sex changer out to take over
Hollywood.

MYRON Gore Vidal 1974
A sequel to Myra Breckenridge.
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NANA Emile Zola 1880
This novel supposedly contains one or two TV related scenes.
NATURAL SELECTIONS Gloria Nagy 1985
A principle character is a TS, but the subject matter of the book was
not "transsexualism". About a well to do southern family. Tells the
story starting about two generations before the TS child is born.
Then finishes with the TS later in life after the surgery. Starting
before the TS is born by about two generations is to build the story
of the family and how the child's eventual TS status affects it. The
book is excellent.
NERVE Dick Francis
About a famous TV reporter (pun intended!) who has a psycopathic dislike
of jockeys. He goes around sabotaging them. Because he is famous, at
least one time he made up his face and put a scarf around it. He then
wore his riding clothes which are unisex. Apparently he was quite pretty.
There is little space devoted to this however.
THE NEW GIRL FRIEND Ruth Rendell 1983
Winner of the 1983 Edgar Award for best mystery short story. About a
woman who becomes involved with a tv with unfortunate results.
Available in a collection with the same title.
NIGHT-BOOK William Kotzwinkle 1974
This is a hodgepodge book of many different modern stories, tied
together with Greek women telling stories. TV is featured several
times. Among them is the ancient classic of effiminate boys dressing
as the women of the city in order to kill their enemys and a tough
cop dressing and obviously liking it.

NIGHTWOOD Djuna Barnes 1937
Involves Dr. O'Connor who is an anti-Eliotian witch doctor or medicine man,
half Circe half Ulysses, who wears women's skirts and wigs, and Robin Vote,
who is described as "outside the 'human type' -- a wild thing caught in a
woman's skin".
NINE LIVES - Ursula K. LeGuin 1976
Concerns a tenclone, 5 male and 5 female versions of one male original.
Originally published in Bio-Futures by Pamela Sargent.
NINJA HIGH SCHOOL Comic
In issue #6 Sammi, a delivery boy, is prodded by his uncle into going
on a date with Itchy-Koo. This upsets another suitor of Itchy's who
gets into a ninja-type fight with Sammi. During the fight Sammi's
shirt is torn, revealing female breasts. It turns out Sammi's father
had boasted so much about the powerful son he was going to have, that
he was unable to face people when he had a daughter, so he sent Sammi
off the be raised by her uncle, never letting on that she was really
a girl.
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST - Robert A. Heinlein
In the last part of the book, the characters meet up with Lazarus
Long and company... and it turns out that Andy Libby (one of
Heinlein's recurring characters from his other works has become
Elizabeth Long. And one of the protagonists falls in love with her.
THE NUNNERY TALES Anonymous 1990
Fleeing a political purge, young Augustus dons women's clothes and seeks
refuge at the convent of Ste. Claire. he is soon initiated into habits that
are anything but religious. Discipline is a mixture of pain and pleasure.
Authority is maintained through sexual punishment. And the only true
religion is passion.
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THE OATHBOUND - Mercedes Lackey
All I know about it is that is apparently has male to female
transformation(s). It has a sequel "Oathbreakers".
ON ICE T.J. MacGregor 1988
The third book in the MacCleary & St. James detective series. Haven't
read it, but based on the cover blurb there is at least one scene
where a woman (the villain?) is disguised as a man.
THE OPERATION Alexander Goodwell 1967
A very small small-press novel about Chuck, who has "THE" operation.
THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE - John Varley
A novel set in his "Eight Worlds" series where sex change is easy and
common. In this novel, Changing is in the background, only directly
mentioned a few times. The Vaffa characters are male and female clones of
the same individual. IMHO, this one isn't as strong as his shorter works.
I'd search this one out only if you have read his shorter works, and want
more of the 8-worlds universe.
OPTIONS - John Varley 1979
One of the best stories I've ever read. It was also an award winner.
Varley's future has sex changes as common as changing your hair
color. This story follows a lady who wants to try it as a man. It
really looks into her feelings about the differences and how her
husband reacts to the change. Highly recommended! Appeared in the collection
"Blue Champagne."
ORLANDO Virginia Woolf 1928
A fictional biography of a hermaphrodite who lives part of their life
as a man and the rest as a woman.
(?)Ozma of OZ Baum
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THE PASSION OF NEW EVE Angela Carter 1977
In this literary novel a group of women transform a man (Evelyn) into
a beautiful woman (the Eve of the title).

PASSION PLAY Jerry Kozinski 1979
Similar to Blind Date, but here the action is at a bar frequented by
tvs and television executives.
PENTHEUS Mythology
After imprisoning Dionysus, Pentheus is inveigled into going up Mt.
Cithaeron and spy on the Maenads, whom he suspected of sexual
licence. While the women of his family, under the influence of
Bacchic frenzy, roamed the mountains with the Maenads, Pentheus,
disguised as a woman, climbed a tree to watch their revels. His
mother and aunt saw him there and in their madness, thought him a
lion and tore him to pieces.
The Persistance of Vision John Varley
THE PHANTOM OF KANSAS - John Varley
Appeared in "Persistence of Vision".

PICNIC ON NEARSIDE - John Varley 1980
Another short story in Varley's future where sex changes are easy and
very common. Appeared in "The Barbie Murders" (also published as "Picnic on
Nearside")
PHAROAH LOVE TRILOGY Joseph Baxt
A Queer Kind Of Death 1966
Swing Low, Sweet Harriet 1967
Topsy And Evil 1968
A series about a strange detective "Pharoah Love".

PHAZE DOUBT - Piers Anthony
Another in the Prentice Adept series. It continues the admirable
tradition begun earlier in the series of having one of the male
characters emulate a woman character, even nude. One scene is
particularly good, where the amoeba, Nepe forms a female skin over a
male character to emulate a thirdbeautiful woman.

PHYLUM MONSTER - Hayford Pierce 89
In the 24th Century, people are all genetically engineered. Baby
models are marketed like cars and defective children can even be
returned to the factory before they reach adulthood.
Robert Clayborn designs exclusive models, with great success, until
his 1st model, his own son, suddenly undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis.
Everything then goes crazy, including the Martian rock entity, the
Oneness, calling Clayborn to Mars, turning him into a woman, and
setting him on a quest to find living bodies for millions of rocks,
each carrying an individual "soul".
THE PLEASURING OF RORY MALONE Charles Panati 1982
Psychic terror novel about a boy who can rape women psychically. He
keeps searching for a girl to love him in a normal way. He thinks hes
found one, but she is not a girl! This is a minor scene toward the
end.

PONTIFEX, REX, AND SON R. Austin Freeman
Tv/ts theme not verified.
POPE JOAN E.D. Rhoides 1886
An anti-clerical satire which doesn't stray much from the apocryphal
history of the female pope. Pope Joan clearly becomes a fearful
figure, a female transvestite who can alter the course of nature
through her cross-dressing.
PRIAPUS Mythology
Archaic Greek vases show a virile Priapus with breasts.
PRIDE OF THE BIMBOS John Sayles 1975
Novel about a barnstorming softball team who play in drag.
THE PROCRUSTIAN PETARD - Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath 1977
Lured by the siren song of an abandoned planet, the Enterprise
emerges with the sex of nearly everyone on board reversed. Short
story in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2. (KM)
PROTEUS UNBOUND - Charles Sheffield 1989
Sequel to Sight of Proteus. Not really a sex-change story, see
Sight of Proteus comments.
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON Mark Twain
The villian in this classic CDs to carry out his nefarious deeds!

THE PUSSYCAT TRANSPLANT Ted Mark 1968
A beautiful, unmarried, and pregnant young woman goes to an illicit
abortionist, but gets more than she bargained for when she awakens in
the body of handsome and viral young MAN. (KM)
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QUEEN OF CLUBS Loren Sanderson 1977
About a drag performer.
THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT Marc Behm 1977
This book centers around the depraved Nazi era before and during
World War II. There are some scenes of transvestism at parties.
QUEENS OF THE QUARTER William Tressner, Jr. 1968
Danny met some real characters in the old French Quarter. Take Daisy Mae,
the big blonde stud with a penal record who always wore drag.
THE QUEEN IS DEAD Glenn Kezer 1979
A murder mystery that opens up with the discovery of a beautiful
young woman's body in a snowman, but "she" turns out to be a "he".
Takes place in a New England town that seems to be rather heavily
populated by transvestites and transexuals and someone is murdering
them. Also features an interesting twist of a real female posing as a
transvestite hooker.
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RALLY ROUND THE FAG Don Holliday 1967
A "Man from C.A.M.P." novel. Agent Jackie Holmes gets in drag to impersonate
a liquidated female spy.
RANCHO MARIA Jerry Oster
This one has a fair amount of TV in it, including a town mayor (GG) who
likes to have her lovers dress up in female roles and play kinky games with
her. Not much description, but VERY amusing. (MP)
RANMA 1/2 Rumiko Takahashi (Comic)
A Japanese comic. A young boy, Ranma, discovers that when dowsed with
hot water he turns into a girl. For some strange reason his father,
when dowsed with hot water, turns into a Panda.
REFUGEE, VOL 1 OF BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT - Piers Anthony 1983
Cross-Dressing is a central theme in this book, both male and female.
However, the theme is not continued in the remaining books of the
series.

REGIMENT OF WOMEN - Thomas Berger 1973
A very strange book. Set in a future where the women rule and the men
fill what we consider the female roles. To the extent that men get
breast implants, and wear dresses, makeup, etc. There are some
"transvestites", men who secretly wear pants, and a few women who
secretly wear dresses.
RETROGRADE SUMMER - John Varley
Appeared in "Persistence of Vision".
THE RICH AND THE BEAUTIFUL Ruth Harris 1978
One of the Beautiful People schlock books. The heroine has a
manservant named Dante who is gay, beautiful and looks just like her.
He likes to dress in her clothes and she likes to see him dressed in
her clothes. Unfortunately, I've just told you almost as much as Ruth
Harris tells you. Dante's character is developed further, but this
theme is not.
RINGS OF ICE - Piers Anthony 1974
The world is threatened by a flood and some of the survivors band
together. One of the central characters is a beautiful TV named
Gordon/Gloria.

RINGS OF THE MASTER SERIES - Jack Chalker 1987-8
Lords of the Middle Dark x
Pirates of the Thunder
Warriors of the Storm
Masks of the Martyrs
Gods of the Twilight
River of the Dancing Gods Jack Chalker
ROAD MAP - F.M. Busby
A man dies, to find himself reincarnated with the memories of his former
life intact. He finds himself 50 years in the past, reincarnated in the
body of his future wife. In the collection "Getting Home"
ROBOT ADEPT - Piers Anthony 1988.
In this Book Five of the Apprentice Adept series, part of the plot
involves disguises to fool the bad guys. Disguise as woman characters
is included. I believe in the last two books, the switch between the
two universes is always to the opposite sex.

ROBOTECH: THE NEW GENERATION - Jack McKinney 1986
#10 Invid Invasion
#11 Metamorphosis
#12 Symphony of Light
Novelization of the popular Japanese animated science fiction series. In
"The New Generation" there is a freedom fighter named Lancer who
works undercover as a popular female singing star, Yellow Dancer.
A few of the people who know of the dual role notice that he/she
is really like two different people. After his assignment, he
continues the dual role.
ROCKABYE BABY Stephen Gresham 1984
About a "nice old man" who puts on a nurse's uniform to get little girls
to let him in the house.
ROSE OF THE PROPHET - Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman 1988
The Will of the Wanderer
The Paladin of the Night
The Prophet of Akhram
The first volume of this trilogy has a hint of a cross-dressing flair
to it, one of the principles, a very feminine looking wizard is
trapped and mistaken for a female. He ends up almost getting sold as
a slavegirl and actually winds up as a wife in a harem!! This theme
is downplayed and apart from the main theme of the book, but none the
less makes good reading.
RUSHES John Rechy 1979
Another novel of the seemier side of homosexuality, featuring
transvestites.
S:
THE SAGA OF THE PLIOCENE EXILE - Julian May 1981-
This series is worth reading in its own right. To spice it up, there
is a very minor character who appears fleetingly in places
throughout. He dresses like Queen Elizabeth.

SANDMAN Comic
In the latest series by this name, there is a character, Choronzon,
who is wearing stockings and garters in his first appearance. Also
the character Desire is unusual. "One body, one sex is not enough for
Desire" and (s)he apparently changes at will.
Sarrasine Balzac (Hermorp)
THE SATIN PRINCE Lee White 1966
A tv novel.
THE SCIENCE FICTION OF SEX CHANGE - Tom Rainbow
Actually a speculative article, but worth reading. Appeared in a 1985 issue
of "Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine" (I *think* it was July, but I'm not positive)
SCIMIDAR Comic
Vol III, #1 has Scimidar visiting a female impersonator club.
SEASON OF THE WITCH - (G.) Hank Stine 1968
A man is transformed into a woman as punishment for rape and learns
to like his new role.
Second_Serve Renee Richards autobiography
SECRET WARS II Comic
In issue #4 the Beyonder changes his body to that of a female, but
only for one panel.
THE SEDUCTION Art Bourgeau 1988
Primarily centered around a female TV, there is one somewhat shocking
instance of male TV, though suspected by someone of our backgrounds.
THE SEDUCTION OF PETER S. Lawrence Sanders 1983
Has a chapter where the hero, a gigolo, has fallen for a beautiful
client. However, it's not to be! This occurs in chapter 49 and is mentioned
again in chapter 54.
SEDUCTIONS - Ray Garton 1984
Succubus-like creatures that have been living underground for centuries
impart incredible sexual/sensual pleasure as they totally devour people.
Then they assume the identity/body, which can be male or female, of a
fantasy from their victim's mind.

SERAPHITA Balzac 1835
Seraphita is an ambiguous being who resembles, both in nature and in
spirit, the transvestic shamans of earlier times. His sex changes
continuously and he wears 'a formless garment wich resembles equally
a woman's robe and a man's mantle'.
SHE AND I Eileen Lottman 1991
A strange novel about two siamese-twin sisters. One of the twins, Sheila,
marries Roger, who has an Uncle Maudie, "a terribly nice, genial man who
dressed in smart designer gowns made to order, wore stiletto-heeled pumps
that were hand-made for him in Italy, and had a full-time live-in valet who
did his makeup."
SIGHT OF PROTEUS - Charles Sheffield
Set in a future where total form-changing is possible. They actually
put out catalogs of new forms, not just male-female, but avian forms,
etc. It's a much more complicated process than in Varley's future;
different forms take different amounts of time and carry different
risks and life expectancies. Changes are accomplished by hooking you
up to machines and chemical baths. Your body is actually changed.
Doesn't really involve sex-changing, but they do talk with one woman
who has changed to a male form and they mention that most people who
try both forms usually prefer the female form. Sequel is Proteus
Unbound.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Thomas Haris
I highly recommend it for its own sake. The villain, a serial killer, has TS
motives for his crimes. However, his fantasies and realities are so
grotesque, there is little or no excitement in reading about them. (MP)
SILENT CITY - Elisabeth Vonarburg 1988
"A metamorphic journey into disturbing possibilities of gender,
social order, and genetic science." This is an excellent novel about
a person with the ability to transform her (or his) body at will. It
was published in Canada and is not available through normal channels
in the US. It can be ordered through bookstores in Canada, however.
(KM)

SKINFLICK Joseph Hansen 1979
One of a very well written series about gay private detective Dave
Brandstetter.
THE SLING AND THE ARROW Stuart Engstrand 1947
Leading novel in which homosexuality is blended with transvestism, about a
gay fashion designer in a strange marriage. His wife is first encouraged to
wear the clothes he'd like to wear himself; then she's encouraged to take on
the lover he'd like to have - while he watches.

SMALL WORLD - Tabitha King 1981
A novel about a man who is able to shrink people down to a couple of
inches. He kidnaps a couple and keeps them prisoner. There is a scene
early in the book indicating he is also a transvestite.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE TWO Jay Little 1956
A star female impersonator is involved in hot love affairs with partners
ranging from a pianist to a sailor. Much inside information included on
being a drag queen.
THE SON GOES DOWN Don Holliday 1966
Another of his "Man From C.A.M.P." novels.
SON OF MAN - Robert Silverberg 1977
The main character, Clay, is changed into a woman during the rites of the
Lifting of the Sea.
THE SONG OF THE LIONESS QUARTET - Tamora Pierce
Alanna: The First Adventure
The Hand of the Goddess
???
???
Alanna of Treband was bound and determined to be a warrior and she
wasn't about to let simple little things like being the wrong gender
get in her way.

SOUL RIDER SERIES - Jack Chalker 1984-6
Spirits of Flux and Anchor
Emipres of Flux and Anchor
Masters of Flux and Anchor
The Birth of Flux and Anchor
Children of Flux and Anchor
The Spa (?) Clive Barker
SPENCE AT THE BLUE BAZZAR Michael Allen
SPLENDORA Edward Swift 1978
This novel tells the story of Timothy John Coldridge who leaves a
steamy East Texas town, unhappily, at the age of eighteen. Now, at
thirty-three, he returns with a dazzling companion, Miss Jessie
Gatewood. Draped (and impeccably accessorized) in Victorian finery
and drenched in social graces, she takes the town by storm. While it
might be said that he arrived with her, it might also be said that he
arrived within her, since Timothy John and Jessie Gatewood are the
same person. Aided at every delectable turn by a cast of relentless
eccentrics, our heroine endures spectacular (and distinctly
different) adventures, including genteel romance, high drama,
torment, ecstasy, and a technicolor ending.

THE SPY Fenimore Cooper 1821
Central character Harvey Bank dresses up as a washer-woman to escape
from capture during the War of American Independence.

THE STORY OF MARQUISE-MARQUIS DE BANNEVILLE - Abbe de Choisy
A novel by de Choisy who himself was a notorious cross-dresser. It
recounts the history of a boy, known as "La belle Marianne", who has
been dressed as a girl from earliest infancy and has no idea of his
real sex. Clamped in iron bodices, he grows into a model young lady.
Marianne eventually falls in love with a handsome young man, dressed
in the effiminate style of the period. They make gentle love and soon
marry, but the potentially explosive nature of such a relationship is
defused when the young man turns out to have been, all the time, a
girl in masquerade.
THE STYX COMPLEX Russell Rhodes 1977
About a genius of the cosmetics world, Ava Bardoff, who is over 60
but looks 28-35. It turns out that she was a former Nazi surgeon who
perfected a formula that when injected allowed her to reshape the
body and the organs of the subject in any way she pleased, even to
create the most beautiful of women. Highly recommended. (LK)

SUNDAY BEST Bernice Rubens 1984
A mystery that involves cross-dressing and a need to "pass" for an
extended period of time. This is the description from Chevalier
Publications: "George Verrey Smith - schoolteacher, neighbor, and
husband of Joy, a woman of infinite and crushing understanding.
George lives for his happy, Joy-less Sundays, dedicated to the
celebration of his own private fantasies. Until the day when,
betrayed by coincidence and an ill-timed murder, George leaves
himself behind in search of a world where everyday is Sunday."
SUPERBOY Comic
"Claire Kent, alias Super-Sister" has Superboy turned into a girl by
a female alien who was upset with his chauvinistic actions and
thoughts. He pretends Clark went to visit out-of-town relatives and
his cousin Claire came to visit the Kents. At the end of the story he
finds out it was all a dream caused by the alien's ray gun. He This
was reprinted in Superman Giant #1.

SUPERMAN Comic
#349 (July 1980) "The Turnabout Trap!" Mr. Myxyzptlk reverses the sex
of everyone on Earth except Superman and also creates a "Superwoman"
to battle him.
SUR SA MAITRESSE RECONTREE EN HABIT DE GARCON, UN SOIR DE CARNAVAL -
Voiture (poem)
T:
THE TENANT Roland Topor
The story of a shy, withdrawn man who's personality, and later,
physical appearance are overcome by the "spirit" of a woman, when
he moves into her apartment after she has committed suicide. Made into a
film of the same name starring Roman Polanski.
THESMOPHORIAZOUSAE Aristophanes 411 B.C.
(or Women at the Festival of the Thesmophoria) A play about the battle of
the sexes, in which the women's actions are directed against a single male
target - the tragic poet, Euripides. In the privacy of their ritual enclosure,
the women have determined to exact vengeance from Euripides, whom they charge
with the offenses of misogyny and slander in his dramatic portrayal of women.
As his counterplot, Euripides first tries and fails to persuade the effeminate
tragic poet, Agathon, to go in women's dress to infiltrate the women's rites
and argue in his defense. Hence, he must finally send his own kinsman. Dressed
as a woman with a costume and accessories from Agathon's own wardrobe, shaved
and depilated on stage, the kinsman Mnesilochus makes his way to the Acropolis
to mingle unnoticed with the other women and to carry out the mandates of the
master plotter. He is ultimately unmasked and Cleisthenes, the effeminate
politician and friend of the women goes off to bring back the Scythian
policeman. Euripides, at last, reconciles himself with the women, and dressed
now as an old procuress, he succeeds in diverting the policeman with a comic,
not a tragic, ploy -- the dancing girl -- so that he and the kinsman can escape.
THE THIEF'S JOURNAL Genet 1949
Deals with homosexual transvestites.
THE THIRD SEX - Alan Brennert 1989
Originally appeared in Pulphouse 3, reprinted in The Year's Best
Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois,
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990
I hardly know where to start. If you have ever experienced gender
confusion or if you know someone who has, if you're male, if you're
female, drop what you're doing, or set it down gently if it might
break, and proceed directly to your nearest bookstore or library and
get a copy. You might get the impression that I liked this story.
That is not true. I loved it. I hesitate to say very much about the
story itself. It should be sufficient to say that the protagonist
suffers from what may be the ultimate in gender confusion.
THOR Mythology
In Norse mythology, Thor was a female impersonator. In one story, the
Giant Thrym had Thor's hammer Mjolnir stolen while he slept and hid
it eight miles under the earth. He agreed to return it if Freya was
delivered to him as his bride. Freya was unagreeable, so Heimdahl
suggested they send a phony Freya. Thor dressed in Freya's bridal
garments and Loki travelled as her bridegroom to trick Thrym and get
Mjolnir back.
THOUSAND-STAR - Piers Anthony 1980
This book features the female half of twins, who because of the
sexual and social mores on her home planet, masqueraded as a boy most
of her life. The book has a lot of sex-role discussion, and in some
minor scenes, the girl's male twin cross- dresses with her for fun.
THREE-D ZONE Comic
Issue #16, "Space Vixens", contains a story "Fair Play" by Bruce
Jones and Dave Stevens about Connie and Brick who go to an isolated
forest planet for a "honeymoon home". Brick is a classic male
chauvinist and Connie finally decides to leave him. She returns
several months later to find Brick has changed into a woman due to
the local "funny-tasting" water.
THREE ON A MATCHSTICK Don Holliday 1967
A tv novel.
THROUGH A BRAZEN MIRROR - Delia Sherman 1988
A sorceress, shut away in her hidden tower, watches the world through
a magic mirror, until the mirror shows her death at the hand of her
own daughter. Determined to avoid that fate, the sorceress manages to
bring it about instead. The daughter, her husband and child killed
through her mother's schemes, seeks safety in the king's household
disguised as a man.

THE TIMEKEEPER CONSPIRACY - Simon Hawke
Book 2 of the Timewars series. This book features a villain who
transforms himself into Countess Milady de Winter and travels back
into the time of the Three Musketeers. This series also features as
hero/heroine a woman who grew up in medieval times and disquised
herself as a knight.

TIME TRAP - Keith Laumer 1970
In this book the protagonists (a man and a woman) end up
exchanging bodies about a third of the way through the
book and don't get switched back until the end.
Tiresias Greek Mythology
Besides TV, there is a famous mythological TS story about Teiresias;
namely, he stumbled on a pair of copulating snakes (this is the same
symbol as in the caduceus of Hermes & the modern medical profession)
killing the female in process. He was "punished by being turned into
a woman" and later was called on to settle an argument between Zeus &
Hera as to whether men or women enjoyed sex more. He backed Zeus's
contention that women like it better, and Hera blinded him. (Zeus
gave him prophecy in recompense; somewhere in all of this he had his
gender re-reassigned, probably "automagically" at the end of seven
years or something like that.) The point of Zeus' position is that it
was "justification" for keeping women in purdah (not the Greek word
for it, but it gives the right idea.)
To Live Again Silverberg
TORCH SONG TRILOGY Harvey Firestein
A three-act play about the pre-aids gay lifestyle. The basic story is
about a drag queen's search for love and respect in his life.
TOWER TO THE SKY - Phillip C. Jennings
A future where it is possible to record memories, and implant them in
another body. A woman copies herself into a young man's body for a short
period, and an old man chooses a young female body to move into permanently
so he can hide.
TRAITOR TO THE LIVING - Philip Jose Farmer 1973
In this one there is a device that allows the souls of the dead to
exchange with those of the living. Late in the book, the souls
of the protagonist and antagonist (both male) end up in female
bodies.

TRANSMIGRATION - J.T. McIntosh 1970
A book about a man who dies and is reincarnated into the bodies
of other people, including a teenage girl and a woman.

TRICKSTER'S TOUCH - Zohra Greenhalgh 1989
Sequel to Contrarywise. Has a race of people who change sexes at
will.

TRIPLE ECHO H.E. Bates 1970
A short novel. The basis for the movie of the same name. An reluctant
British soldier is hidden by a sympathetic farm woman, by posing him
as his sister. He is reluctant at first but begins to adapt into the
role a little too much.
TRITON - Sameul R. Delany 1976
At no charge you can get 15 minutes of very supportive counseling
after which you get your mind and body remapped onto your currently
appropriate sex (with the idea that that can change over the course
of a lifetime).

(?)Triumph of The Egg Sherwood Anderson
TROUBLED LOVERS Dan Rogers
Seduction by a transvestite leads Dave to tragic circumstances.
THE TRUE GAME SERIES - Sheri S. Tepper
The True Game Series
King's Blood Four
Necromancer Nine
Wizard's Eleven
Jinian Footseer
Dervish Daughter
Jinian Star-Eye

TURNABOUT - Thorne Smith 1931 (Del Rey 1980)
A man and wife exhange bodies with hilarious result.

THE TWYBORN AFFAIR Patrick White 1979
Tells the story of a man who lives most of his life as a woman.
The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman
U:
ULYSES James Joyce 1934
In the Nighttown episode, Leopold Bloom encounters a Circe named Bella
Cohen, the whorehouse madam, who turns herself into a male named Bello and
transforms Bloom first into a female, then into a pig, and finally into an
elaborately costumed "charming soubrette."
UNICORN POINT - Piers Anthony 1989
Continuing the adventures of the Apprentice Adept, this book takes
up where the characters left off "emulating" each other. Also, the
children who can switch bodies between Phaze and Proton are opposite
sexes.
UNNATURAL DESIRES Vin Saxon 1965
A tv novel.
V:
VENGEANCE IS MINE Mickey Spillane 1950
A hard-boiled detective story with Mike Hammer delving into the
background of the Mysterious Queen Juneau.
VENUS CASTINA Mythology
This Goddess responded with sympathy and understanding to the
yearnings of feminine souls locked up in male bodies. When the
Scythians pillaged her temple at Ascelon, she's alleged to have been
so enraged that she made women of the plunderers and decreed that
their posterity should be similarly affected.
VENUS + X - Theodore Sturgeon 1960
About a planet whose inhabitants are hermaphrodites.
A VERY CAGEY LADY Joyce Elbert 1980
Yes, another TV killer. Well, actually a TS. Ok, I revealed the
ending, but just the fact that the book is on this list should make
you suspicious!
VILLETTE Charlotte Bronte
Lucy Snowe discovers ultimate truths about herself, first, when she
impersonates a man for the school play and, later, when she perceives that
the nun who has haunted her is really no more than a costume worn by a
transvestite male.
A VOICE OUT OF RAMAH - Lee Killough
A planet suffers a plague where most of the boys are struck down at puberty.
The few survivors grow up as pampered leaders of church and state. One
young man disguises himself as a female and sees a different side of life on
the planet that is kept hidden from the patriarchal leaders. Reccommended.
W:
THE WACHSMUTH SYNDROME Stefan Heym 1972
A short story about a man who mutates into a woman overnight and
becomes a celebrity of sorts. Then others start mutating, eventually
all the men in the world mutate into women. Originally published in
Playboy, September 1972, also appeared in Heym's collection "The
Queen Against DeFoe".
THE WASTE LAND T.S. Eliot (poem)
A poem that revolves around the mythical Tiresias.
WATTS...AFTER? Ed Wood, Jr.
Sequel to Watts...The Difference.

WATTS...THE DIFFERENCE? Ed Wood, Jr.
An erotic novel about a tv, from the infamous director (a tv himself)
of Glen or Glenda.
WEIRD SCIENCE Comic
At least two issues apparently had stories involving sex changes. If
anyone has the issue numbers we would appreciate the information.
WELL WORLD SERIES - Jack Chalker 1977-80
Midnight at the Well of Souls
Exiles at the Well of Souls x
Quest for the Well of Souls
The Return of Nathan Brazil
Twilight at the Well of Souls: The Legacy of Nathan Brazil
WHAT THE-?! Comic
#2 has Woof'R'Eam (Wolverine) disclosing that he likes to wear women's
underwear.
When Gravity Fails George Alec Effinger
WHISPER OF SILK Vin Saxon 1966
A tv novel.
WHISTLER SERIES Robert Campbell
In La-La Land We Trust 86
Alice In La-La Land 87
The adventures of PI Whistler whose home turf is L.A.'s tenderloin
hich is populated by transexuals among others.

WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT Gary Wolf 1981
This book bears only a superficial resemblance to the famous movie.
One of the scenes shows a character discovered in the act of
dressing.

WHO IS SIMON WARWICK Patricia Moyes
A man dies leaving an heir who can't be found. It turns out he is now
a she.
WILD CARDS - George R.R. Martin
A shared-world anthology about an alternate Earth where a strange plague
has caused people to have all kinds of weird powers. Two characters
are of interest.
Jeremiah Strauss (aka the Projectionist, the Great Ape, Mr. Nobody) is
a shape changer able to take on the appearance of other men and women,
and even imaginary characters.
Captain Trips (Dr. Marcus Aurelius Meadows)(Mark Meadows) Through
ingesting chemical compounds of his own devising, Meadows can transform
himself into any one of five "friends". One of the "friends" in Moonchild
(Isis Moon) a tall, willowy Korean woman of great grace and luminous
beauty, who is also a master martial artist.
Wild Seed Octavia Butler
THE WILDON AFFAIR Roland De Forrest 1983
An erotic book, with one chapter dealing with a she-male.
THE WILLIAMSBURG FORGERIES John Ballinger 1989
A pretty good mystery in which one of the villians who takes part in
a robbery plans on hiding by having a change of sex operation.
Unfortunately, the villian never gets to do this (or even
cross-dress) but the book is worth reading in its own right.
A WOMAN A DAY - Philip Jose Farmer 1968
One of the central characters in this book is a TV spy.

WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME - Marge Piercy 1976
Takes place in a future feminist society. The men have breasts.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP John Irving 1978
An honest, emotional novel of growing up male, and female in a male
dominated world. Filmed with Robin Williams as Garp and John lithgow,
who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as the transexual
Roberta.
THE WORLD WRECKERS - Marion Z. Bradley 1971
Two males - one human and one alien - overcome the obvious obstacle to their
love when the alien , in a few hours, shifts his sexuality from masculine to
feminine.

WRAETHTHU - Storm Constantine
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
The Bewitchments of Love and Hate
The Fulfilment of Fate and Desire - 1989
An erotic sf series about a post-holocaust world populated with
hermaphrodites. The Wraeththu combine qualities of male and female and are
hermaphrodites created from boys. A new race of "female" hermaphrodites
shows up in the third book.
X:
Y:
YANN LECOC Comic
Yann LeCoc et Nous!... A French comic album about the crazy
adventures of Yann LeCoc. This one contains a beautiful
hermaphrodite.
YENTL THE YESHIVA BOY Isaac Bashevis Singer 1961
This is the story that inspired the movie "Yentl".
YUMA INDIAN Mythology
The Sierra Estrella, a mountain was said to have a transvestite
living inside and both that mountain and another nearby had the power
to "sexually transform men".
Z:
ZEUS Mythology
Zeus supposedly posed as a woman in order to seduce a lesbian.
ZORRO, THE GAY BLADE Les Dean 1981
The book adaptation of the movie. A pivotal scene in the book and
movie has the gay Zorro dressed as a beautiful?? woman.
? Frank Herbert
??? - Charlotte Bronte 1847
Rochester dresses himself as a female gypsy to try to "get at" the truth
about Jane.
???
A story published in the Britsh magazine 'Sience Fiction Monthly' ('70's?)
where people could change sex at wish by taking as a pill. In this story all
people are both sexs. The stroy centres on two young people who are in love
and regularly change sex (not always a boy/girl partnership, sure gets rid
of homophobia) until one day one of them turns into a completely different
sex all together. It turns out that there are not just two sexs but many
different sexs and the couple are off on a voyage of discovery.

Authors in general:

Butler, Octavia
Chalker, Jack
Varley, John
Lois McMaster Bujold

Other related stories

hardwired Walter John Williams
Jan Morris' Autobiograhical book about her sex change
Christine Jorgensen's book
No Woman Born by C.L. Moore
The Mystery of the Young Gentleman and What Did You Do During the Revolu-
tion, Grandma? by Joanna Russ
Bloodchild by Octavia Bulter

JOHN VARLEY'S UNIVERSE
A lot of John Varley's short stories take place in a future where sex
changes are simple and cheap. These stories don't have that as the
main theme, but at least mention a character who has had a sex
change.
Equinoctial 1980
Beatnik Bayou 1980

A) A significant amount of Varley's works take place in a consistent
future where sex changes are as common as changing hairstyles.
Several more of his stories may contain mention of this theme that
I'm not aware of at this time.

B) Jack Chalker frequently uses body transformations and sex-changing as
plot devices. All of the above reportedly contain sex-changing in
some form but I haven't read all of them to verify it yet.

This is hopefully a complete list of stage performances, television shows,
etc, containing tv/ts themes or at least tv/ts characters. I pulled this
together from several different lists floating around, adding some of my
own. Ones marked "not verified", I have not been able to verify either
its existence or that it contains tv/ts themes/characters.
These are from "legitimate" film, etc. There are many pornographic films
produced starring she-males, showing men dominated and forced into
becoming women, etc.

A significant part of this (especially the early things) were taken from
the book "What A Drag - Men As Women And Women As Men In The Movies" by
Homer Dickens.

Any additions or corrections would be greatly appreciated.

Last Update: 6/4/91

Denise

*** Documentaries ***

THE FEMALE IMPERSONATOR PAGEANT
Lyle Waggoner does the Bert Parks bit; Ruth Buzzi is the "color"
commentator. 30 contestants, all apparently professional
entertainers from FI clubs all around the country. Some of them are
incredibly good. Contest apparently took place a couple of years
ago in Houston. Also on video as "Dream Boys Revue".

LET ME DIE A WOMAN
An exploitative documentary about transsexuals. May be hard to find
as it was not widely released. 1979

MILTON BERLE INVITES YOU TO A NIGHT AT LA CAGE
Milton Berle hosts an evening of entertainment at La Cage in Las
Vegas.

PARIS IS BURNING
"Aching to Be a Prima Donna, When You're a Man" by Vincent Canby
(from The New York Times, 12 March 1991, p. C13)

It's tough enough trying to survive in our society as a black male, but "if
you're black and male and gay, you have to be stronger than you can
imagine." So advised the father of one of the Harlem drag queens who are
the subjects of Jennie Livingston's "Paris is Burning," the very fine
feature-length documentary opening today at the Film Forum 1. Style is the
weapon of the self-styled queens, their consorts, and their entourages.
Style is all-pervasive in speech, vocabulary, manner, dress and attitude.
Style is a way of appearing to be "real," that is, a way of appearing to be
something that, it is often apparent, one isn't.

"Paris is Burning" is the name of just one of the drag balls that Miss
Livingston shot in the course the film's two-year production. There are
also interviews with some of the more notorious (or, as they like to
describe themselves, legendary) queens whose lives Miss Livingston studies
with the curiosity of a compassionate anthropologist. Among others, there
is Pepper Labeija, who says, "I've been around now for two decades,
reigning." Pepper's life, like those of most of the other people in the
film, revolves around the drag balls that have much more to offer than
simply the spectacle of men dressing up in women's clothes. Drag comes in
all sizes, shapes, and, of course, styles. The competition for prizes is
fierce in categories that go far beyond Femme Queen Realness, featuring the
elaborate showgirl costumes that one usually associates with drag balls. In
the Town and Country divisions, contestants dress and upper-middle-class
men and women as they might appear in the magazine of that name. Other
categories include Executive Realness (the costume is that of Wall Street),
Military, Schoolboy/Schoolgirl and Bangee Realness. Bangee contestants
adopt the look and manner of young street punks whose favorite targets are
the sort of gay men who "walk the ball," that is to say, compete for
prizes.

"Paris is Burning" is more than spectacle, though. Miss Livingston's
interviews reveal a way of living that is both highly structured and
self-protective. There is a system of "houses" to which the young men more
or less apprentice themselves. The houses are associations of friends,
presides over by a "mother" like Pepper Labeija, that provide a substitute
for a family. Houses, says one interviewee, are gay street gangs. Willi
Ninja, the head of the House of Ninja, is a lithe, articulate young man who
happens to be a master in the art of "voguing," in which dancers attempt to
top each other by using gymnastics and the gestures of high-fashion models.
Associated with "voguing" is "shade," defined as the "verbal abuse,
criticism and humiliation of a rival or competitor." "Throwing shade" is
what they do when they do it. This is the arcana of the drag world.

"Paris is Burning" reveals the temper of that world obliquely. At the
beginning of the film the drag queen talk much in the manner of would-be
starlets. They tend to gush. "The balls," say Pepper Labeija, "are our
fantasies of being superstars." As the film goes on, the talk becomes more
melancholy. Carmen, a transsexual, discusses her operations. Venus
Xtravaganza, who is light-skinned and blond, dreams of finding Mr. Right,
who would also be rich. Dorian Corey, a drag queen of a certain age, sits
in front of a mirror applying makeup. Dorians says that once he wanted to
make his mark in the world. Now he believes he will have made his mark if
he just gets through it.

There is a lot of common sense and natural wit behind the role-playing.
Yet there is also a terrible sadness in the testimony. The queens knock
themselves out to imitate the members of a society that will not have them.

Paris is Burning. Produced and directed by Jennie Livingston;
cinematography by Paul Gibson; edited by Jonathan Oppenheim; co-produced by
Barry Swimar; released by Off-White Productions. At Film Forum 1, 209 West
Houston Street. Running time: 78 minutes. Unrated.

With: Pepper Labeija, Willi Ninja, Octavia Saint Laurent, Venus
Xtravaganza and Paris Dupree.

WHAT SEX AM I
HBO Documentary, reportedly available on VideoCassete. 1982?

*** Stage ***

BABES IN TOYLAND
Robert Morse plays the toy maker, who dons women's clothes in order
to get out of jail.

COME SPY WITH ME
A mid-60s British musical comedy starring Danny LaRue

A FLORIDA ENCHANTMENT
An 1896 play by Archibald Ganter from his own novel. Generally
received as some of the worst trash ever on stage. A woman finds a
magic seed that will transform her into a man and swallows it. A
darky maid servant is similarly transformed and some of the so-called
men in the play are changed into women.

EVEN IF YOU CAN STOP THE YELLOW CLAW, MY DEADLY TIDAL WAVE WILL STILL
DESTROY NEW YORK! III
A production of Dallas' Hip Pocket Theatre, created by Johnny Simons
and Douglas Balentine. One segment features Balentine in drag as a
beautician.

GREATER TUNA & A TUNA CHRISTMAS
These two plays essentially revolve around a few sharply realized female
characters, portrayed by creators and co-stars Jaston Williams and Joe
Sears.

HIDDEN, A GENDER
A 1990(?) play by Kate Bornstein.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Same as the movie.

M. BUTTERFLY - David Hwang
A play based on the true story about a French diplomat who had a long
affair with a Chinese opera star who was actually a transvestite.

THE MATCHMAKER
Robert Morse wears women's clothes to hide from his boss.

PICTURE OF INNOCENCE
Robert Morley played a transvestite in this British play.

PRELUDE TO A KISS
By a lucky accident, last night on A & E I ran across an interview
with the actor Bernard Hughes. He is currently appearing on Broadway
in a play called "Prelude to a Kiss". As the play opens, a young man
and woman are getting married, but their wedding is interrupted by a
strange old man (Bernard Hughes) who insists on kissing the bride. It
gradually becomes clear that something very strange has happened, the
old man and the beautiful young bride have exchanged souls. In the
interview they tried to avoid giving away too much of the plot, but
Hughes does say that it is a very romantic play. It sounded as though
the groom finds that he is in still in love with his bride's soul
despite its strange new home. (KM)

PRIVATES ON PARADE
A musical in NYC starring Jim Dale. The ad shows him as a private in
a feather boa. If I'm not mistaken "Privates on Parade" was the name
of a British army show that featured drag acts.

QUEEN PASSIONELLA AND THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
A very successful British play starring Danny LaRue, 1969.

SUGAR
Robert Morse goes undercover in an all-girl band to escape gangsters.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Starred Laurence Olivier as Katharina.

WISE CHILD
Features Alec Guiness in drag.

WOMEN BEHIND BARS
Divine played a lesbian prison matron in the 1977 London stage
production.

*** Cartoons ***

BUGS BUNNY
"Rabit Fire" - Bugs and Daffy Duck both dress in drag in an attempt
to trick Elmer Fudd.
"Hare Splitter" - Bugs is getting ready to go see his girlfriend and
discovers another rabbit also going to see her. He sneaks in and
dresses up in her clothes to fool the other guy and get rid of him.
Possibly there were other occurences.

MIGHTY MOUSE
In one episode an evil cat hypnotizes male mice, dresses them as
beautiful blonde girl mice and sends them out to capture others.

*** Television ***

ALIAS SMITH AND JONES
Walter Brennan disguised himself as a grandmother in a 1971 episode.

ALL IN THE FAMILY
Archie saved the life of Lori Shannon, then discovered she was a
female impersonator.
There was one or two episodes where an old Army buddy of Archie's shows
up after having a sex-change.

ALL THAT GLITTERS (???)
This late-night show had the gender roles reversed. Women were the
executives, etc. Men were the secretaries, house-wives, etc. I think
there might have been a FTM transexual. Not sure if the name is
correct.

AMEN
Previews for the 3-10-90 episode show the main character dressed as a WAC.

AN EVENING WITH DANNY LARUE
A 1968 Royal television special.

BARNEY MILLER
Most of the cast went drag for duty on different occasions.

BENNY HILL
Frequently features cross-dressing.

BING CROSBY SHOW
Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter appeared as a maid on the final
show.

BOSOM BUDDIES 11/27/80 - 9/15/84
Starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Two young ad executives pose
as women in order to room at an all-girl boarding house.

BROTHERS
Showtime's series about three brothers, one of whom is gay. There has
been at least one show which featured cross-dressing.

CAROL & COMPANY
In an upcoming episode Carol plays a star athlete returning for a
high-school reunion. Carol plays the football team's quarterback,
who's had a sex-change. Swoosie Kurtz will be her high-school
sweetheart.
One episode was about a former high school quarterback who returns to
a high school reunion as a woman. Swoozy Kurtz plays her high school
sweet-heart. I thought it was really excellent. The TS character
(Carol) was played very sympathetically. (KM)

CAROL BURNETT SHOW
Harvey Korman frequently did drag impersonations.

CARTER COUNTRY
One episode had Sheriff Roy shopping for a dress to wear in a charity
show for the Women's Auxilliary.

CHARLES IN CHARGE
On the 7-15-89 episode Charles and Buddy dress as girls and attend a
women's lib meeting to get the goods on Sally Struthers, who they saw
on a show about criminals at large.

CHEERS
Sometime during the 1989 season Sam is supposed to fall for a
beautiful lawyer named Paula, only to later find out she's really
Paul.

DAY BY DAY 2/29/88 -
I've heard that there was mention of a neighbor who frequently wore a
fancy ball gown and was buried in it. Unable to verify.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES
For the 1988 Halloween party, Drew dresses as a "mystery woman" with
a frightening mask.

DEAR JOHN
The 4-27-89 episode has a new member of the therapy group reveals
that her husband is a transvestite and somtimes poses as her
sister. When John later tells of meeting the girl of his dreams, the
new member's sister, the group gets concerned and tells him she is
really a he. He fights off her advances that evening and accuses her
of being a man, but in the meantime it turns out that the girl John
is dating really is her sister.

DESIGNING WOMEN
"Foriegn Affairs" has Anthony dressing up as Suzanne's maid, Consuela,
in order to avoid Consuela's deportation.
The 3-4-91 episode has the women at a convention in New Orleans, where they
meet a female impersonator played, quite well, by David Michaels.

DIAMONDS
In "Family Business" Mike's dad has won the lottery, at least $10,000 with a
chance for $29 million. On the way to the hotel his new bride-to-be loses
her purse with the lottery ticket in it. In tracking down the missing purse,
Mike and Christine visit the new bride-to-be's son, a plastic surgeon.
Sitting in the waiting room, Mike can't keep his eyes off a gorgeous blonde
lady. She finally asks him if it's his first visit to the doctor. He says
"yes, is it yours?" She says "Oh, no, I've been coming here for years. He
really does marvelous work." As the nurse takes them in to see the doctor,
Mike says to the nurse "Boy this doctor must be excellent." To which the
nurse replies "Oh, he is. David's (motioning to the gorgeous blonde) one of
his best clients." They go on around the corner, then Mike does the
obviously required double-take.

A DIFFERENT WORLD
Two males dressed in female clothes to disguise themselves from drug
dealers.

DOBIE GILLIS
This one is really hazy, but I remember Dobie and Maynard in a lab. He had
taken something that changed him into other people. One of the last ones was
a beautfil girl. Dobie didn't want him to change back.

DOCTOR, DOCTOR
11/1/90. Mike's brother wasn't invitied to some dinner for their dad.
His brother feels he was left out because he's gay. Mike plans to have the
three of them meet at his place for dinner so they can talk. When his
brother arrives, he finds Mike decked out in a pink dress, high heels, etc.
Turns out their dad has a wreck on the way over and the rest of the show
focuses around them and their mother at the hospital.

DREAM ON
HBO's 1990 "Adult" comedy. The main character's best friend hosts a
local television talk show and in the first episode there is a brief
segment during the filming of an episode focusing on "Lawyers in
Lingerie." The guests include 3 women and 1 man who talks about
wearing a powder blue gown under his suit in court.

FALL GUY
There was an episode where Scott Baio was a pretty convincing girl.
But when the hero's sidekick (don't remember his name) dressed up,
they fell back on the "man in a dress" cliche. This was reported by
Kristi M.

FANTASY ISLAND
Another hazy one. It had a man changing into a women, maybe his wife. It was
not what he expected from his fantasy.

FLINTSTONES
Dr. Frankenstone Gazoo turns Barney into woman.

FLIP WILSON SHOW
Flip frequently appeared as "Geraldine".

FREDDIE'S NIGHTMARES
The 3-19-90 episode has Freddie taking over the body of a good-looking
female phoney medium.

FRIDAY THE 13TH
6/1/91: A lonely record-store clerk assumes a deadly power when he finds a
hypnotic crystal pendant, giving him both hypnotic power over others and the
power to change his appearance, and goes in pursuit of his obsession, rock
star Angelica (Vanity). At the last minute he decides he doesn't want
Angelica, he wants to be her, so he becomes her.

GILLIAN'S ISLAND
A mad scientist come to the island, to rescue the crew. He takes them back
to his island, where is has been experimenting with changing the minds of
animals. He is ready for the next step. To try it on humans. Professor and
Mary Ann get switched, Mrs. Howell and Skipper, Ginger and scientist
assistant, Gilligan and Mr. Howell.

THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E.
"The Mother Muffin Affair", 1966 starred Boris Karloff as Mother
Muffin, the leader of a notorious spy ring.

GOING PLACES
In the 1-11-91 episode the group has landed a job working for a goofball
talk show host. The scheduled guest is the author of a Mob expose book. He
has been living in drag for disguise. When he disappears just before
airtime, Charlie goes on in drag to pose as the author.

THE GOLDEN GIRLS
Blurb for the 12-15-90 episode: Sophia's crossdressing son Phil dies of a
heart attack. Phil, referred to many times but never seen, is killed off to
show "Sophia coming to terms with her shame." She finally accepts her son
for who he was.

GOODBYE CHARLIE
A tv pilot with Suzanne Sommers based on the movie of the same name.

GOOD GRIEF
This is one of FOX network's 1990 series starring Howie Mandel. In the
10/7/90 episode Tom Poston joins the cast as Ernie's pal Ringo Prowley, a
jack-of-some-trades who steps in as a minister to preside over the burial of
a man in a dress. This is verbatim from TV Guide, I didn't see the episode.
The 12/16/90 episode featured a dream sequence with the characters in the "I
Love Lucy" show. Raoul played Ethel.

GRAND SLAM
In the 2-14-90 episode, Gomez is jumped by a female impersonator as they are
leaving jail.

HAPPY DAYS
Henry Winkler once attended Fonzie's funeral as his mother.

HEARTLAND
Two episodes during 1989 had boys in skirts (one was a quick walk on
in a seedy hotel in NY).

HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN
Did not see this one but saw TV Guide description, which said that the
angels assistant was swapped with an actress.

HILL STREET BLUES
There was a recurring character, Erwin, who was an attorney and I,
think, a judge for a while, who appeared in dresses several times as
part of some therapy he was going through.

HINGE & BRACKET
George Logan and Patrick Fyffe presently dominate the comedy scene on
the BBC as two elderly ladies, Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda
Bracket, who sit and reminisce about their days when Dr. Hinge was
the conductor and Dame Hilda the principal soprano with the Rosa
Charles Opera Company.

HIS & HERS
A 1990 comedy about two marriage counselors married to each other. The
opening episode, 3-5-90, has their secretary telling them about a call from
a lady who found her husband in her garter belt and stockings.

THE HITCHHIKER
A vain plastic surgeon does work on a TS that doesn't work out quite
like he (the surgeon) would have liked. It was somewhat predictable,
but the treatment of the TS was good, I thought. (KM)

HOOPERMAN
There was an episode where a killer Hooperman had sent to prison was
out and looking for him. Turns out he had a sex change while in
prison.
In the 12-21-88 episode, Hooperman poses as a transvestite hooker to
hunt down a slasher who has been attacking tv's.

HUNTER
In one episode there is a brief scene with one of the other cops and a black
tv who was arrested for using the women's restroom.
The 1-23-91 episode has Christopher Morley as the owner of a health spa. He
works the front desk in drag.

IN LIVING COLOR
The 2-24-91 episode had a takeoff on the "milk makes bodies grow"
commercial, with Keenan as a grown-up Marsha Warfield.

THE KIDS IN THE HALL
A new HBO comedy series from Toronto with an all male cast that
"loves to do drag" according to the Sunday NY Times. From the
photograph the drag is more realistic than Monty Python.

THE KOPYKATS
Rich Little joined Tony Curtis in drag in a scene from Some Like It
Hot in a 1972 episode.

LA LAW
Pilot movie for the series, with Ts secretary coming out at her boss'
funeral. Very convincing.
4/25/91 - a transsexual sues the modeling agency that fired her because of
her sex change.

THE LAST PRECINCT 4/86 - 5/86
Centers around LA's 56th Precinct, the dumping grounds for all the
eccentrics of the LAPD. Randi Brooks starred as Officer Mel Brubaker,
a sexy, mini-skirted officer who used to be a man.

LENNY
The 10-3-90 episode had one scene where Lenny goes to a bar to find his
brother, who he thinks killed someone. The bar has women dancing on the bar
and Lenny's brother has been putting the make on an attractive women at the
bar. When Lenny shows up, the woman jumps up and says "Lenny!" When he
doesn't seem to recognize her, she says "It's me, Virgil." Virgil is now
Beverly.

THE LOVE BOAT
An episode where MacKenzie Phillips plays a sex change.

THE LOVE BOAT: A VALENTINE VOYAGE
A made-for-tv movie, Feb. 1990. Joe Regalbuto and Ted Shackleford play jewel
thieves who are trying to pass their goods on to an island fence. Because
Regalbuto has been identified, he disguises himself as a woman.

MARRIED ... WITH CHILDREN
The episode entitled "Her Cups Runneth Over" has a man walking around
in stockings and high heels.

MASH
Corporal Klinger almost always appeared in female dress.

MEDICAL CENTER(?)
The descriptions from the posters, said that it was a two part episode that
focused on a person going through a sex change operation.

MIAMI VICE
Pilot for tv show, features Izzy, as murderous hit man, who
cross-dresses to double cross

MILTON BERLE
The father of female impersonation.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
One episode of the new edition of this series involves a European princess
who has been marked for assassination. Coyote, the assassin, is a woman and
she disguises herself as a man to gain access to the big gala where she
plans to do the hit.

MONTY PYTHON
Frequently features cross-dressing.

MOONLIGHTING
In one episode Herbert poses as a stripper for Maddie's fiance's
bachelor party when she fails to show up. Quite convincingly, too.

MORK AND MINDY
Featured Robin Williams in a number of disguises, including that of a little
old lady and as Mindy herself.

MR. BELVEDERE
The 2-3-89 episode had Mr. B, George, and the oldest son all dressed
as women to catch a high-heeled shoe thief. The son looked pretty
good! Can't say too much for the others though. There's a good bit at
the end where the son asks to borrow a pair of gloves. Seems he just
discovered why putting on fake nails with Crazy Glue isn't such a
great idea!

MUNSTERS
two episodes:
1. Grandpa makes a potion to change Herman into a texan and himself into a
beautiful women. They think Lily is seeing other men. Eddie drinks the
potion at the end and is turned into a 12 year old girl. Grandpa said that
with amount he drank, he won't change back for a week.
2.

MURPHY BROWN
The 2-19-90 episode has Murphy and Corky going undercover as hookers to
expose a land commission fraud. The character played by Joe Regalbuto was
"really" eager to pose as a hooker. He recently co-starred in The Love Boat:
A Valentine Voyage, playing most of the movie in drag.
The show has a running gag on different, inappropriate secretaries.
In the 4-30-90 episode the secretary was a TVer - in this case an
obvious cross-dressed male.

NBC FOLLIES
Sammy Davis, Jr. and Arte Johnson appeared in drag.

NIGHT COURT
In one episode an old buddy of Dan Fielding's is in town to get married.
Turns out the buddy is now a post-op, played by Craig Russell, and is
marrying a male. All though the show is a comedy Russell's character was not
the butt of the jokes, that honor went to John Larouquette's Fielding.
The 1/10/90 episode had several female impersonators appearing in court. A
disapproving old man had trashed their dressing room and the police had
confiscated their costumes. At the end of the show they're all dressed up
and heading back to the club. A couple of them looked really good.

NUMBER 96
An Australian series from the 70's. This was the basis of the US show
of the same name. It was a very controversial series when it first
appeared, dealing with taboo subjects like homosexuality and incest,
and it was the first to show naded breasts on television. It featured
a buxom young woman with the stage name of Abigail who played a
character called Abigail in the series. In One episode one of the
characters fell in love with Carlotta, not knowing that she is in
fact a TS who is the main attraction at 'Les Girls', a real-life
all-male cabaret show.

NUMBER 96 4/10/80 - 1/2/81
Life at Number 96 Pacific Way, a Southern California apartment
complex, was full of sex, gossip, and all sorts of miscellaneous
personal problems. The people who lived there had bizarre lives.
Among the residents was psychologist Robert Leon, also a
transvestite.

OHARA
Occasionaly featured a tv informer.

OPEN HOUSE
In one episode Ted and Linda agree to let Scott fix them up with two
"normal" friends. At a party one of the people Ted meets is a gorgeous tv.

PARTNERS IN CRIME
At least one episode featured female impersonators.

PERFECT STRANGERS
On the 3-31-89 episode, Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) dresses up as a woman
to prevent one of their friends, Lydia, from marrying a golddigging
con artist that Balki had set her up with.
There was also reportedly another episode with a tv theme.

POINT OF VIEW
P.O.V., a critically acclaimed series of independent non-fiction
films, returns to PBS on June 26th with 12 wekks of new programming.
Films include "Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman", an intimate look at a
man's sex-reassignment surgery.

QUANTAM LEAP
A 1989 sf show about a scientist who finds himself "quantum-leaping"
through time popping into other people's bodies in order to right
something that didn't happen quite the way it should have. In the 2nd
season opener, "What Price Gloria", Sam will find himself inhabiting the
body of a female secretary in the pre-lib early '60s. The 1/10/90 episode,
"Another Mother", has Sam leaping into the body of a divorced mother of
three in order to stop her 15-year-old son from running away and being
murdered. An interesting sidelight was that her youngest daughter could not
only see that Sam was a man, not her mother, but she could also see his
hologram friend.
The 11/2/90 episode, "Miss Deep South", has Sam popping into a beauty contestant.
The 3-6-91 episode, "8 1/2 Months", has Sam as a pregnant teenager.
There was also an episode where he popped into a vice cop who was working in
drag.

RED DWARF
Not sure, but I think the series had them going into an alternate universe
where the men had the babies. The main character has sex with his opposite
as a female, but since he is in her universe, he is the one who gets pregnant.

THE REPORTERS
The 2-4-89 broadcast of Fox network's scandal show featured a special
segment on a transsexual's struggle to be herself. The TS is somebody
named Bill Campbell (if I remember correctly). He's British, married
to an American woman and they have two young children. The first
part of the show seemed sympathetic and, from what I know, fairly
accurate. But at the end they revealed that Campbell is wanted on
several counts of fraud. He's accused to defrauding a number of
people by getting them to invest in a phony company. Very poorly
received among the gender community. The general feeling is that it
was a sad disservice to the TG community.

RICHARD PRYOR SHOW (?)
There was a skit where a construction worker gets off work and starts
singing "I've Gotta Be Me" as he undresses to reveal a woman's
bikini, takes off his hat to reveal long beautiful hair and puts on
high heels.

ROBOTECH
A Japanese animated science fiction series. In "The New Generation"
there is a freedom fighter named Lancer who works undercover as a
popular female singing star, Yellow Dancer. After his assignment,
though, he continues the dual role.

SANTA BARBARA
Starting 11/14/88 this soap has a continuing transvestite character.
Bunny used to be a member of the Mafia. He used female disguise to
escape from some killers, but discovered he enjoys it. So far he is
portrayed as a very nice, likeable person.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
The Church Lady is a regular of the new show.

SAVED BY THE BELL
A silly high-school show on CBS. The 12/16/90 episode had the nerdy kid
dressing as a cheerleader to help in a skit.

SHE'S THE SHERIFF
The 2-18-89 episode had a scene where the 2 male cops dressed in drag
and were kidded by the other cops about it... but the 2 "girls"
started to compare who had the better pair of legs by raising their
dresses.

SIMON & SIMON
"Ain't Gonna Get It From Me, Jack" 11-5-88 has the Simons helping a
Morton Downey-like talk show host who's receiving death threats. TVs
and TSs are both mentioned numerous times and at one point a tv makes
an attempt to shoot him.

SISTER KATE
On the 1-7-99 episode they are having an awards ceremony for one of the
boys. Before the ceremony, the mayor mentions to Sister Kate that "those
stories about me and women's undergarments are greatly exaggerated." Then he
proceeds to adjust his bra.

SOAP
Jody, played by Billy Crystal, is gay. He frequently dressed as a
woman and went in for a sex change, but changed his mind at the last
minute. Billy Crystal also does an excellent impersonation of Tina
Turner.

STAR TREK
"Return to Tomorrow": Spock's brain is put inside of nurse Chapel's.
"Turnabout Intruder": deals with a mind switch between Kirk and the
scientist Dr. Janice Lester. The lady's motivation for the switch is
presented as sex envy - she wanted desperately to be a man, particularly a
man in a position of power.

STAR TREK: THE NEW GENERATION
Alien is a parasite that resides in hosts. It switches from male to female,
confusing Dr. Crusher, who has fallen in love with the male version.

STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
John Davidson played in drag in one episode.

STUDIO 5B
An ad for the 2-5-89 episode had one of the characters saying "I just
booked a female impersonator, a sex surrogate, ...", but I watched
that episode and saw nothing about a female impersonator. Possibly
this was on a different episode.

SUPERBOY
On the 1-6-90 episode an android has been sent from the future to destroy
Superboy. At one point the android transforms himself to look like Lana.

SUPER FORCE
The 2-23-91 episode has Superforce's buddy dressed as a woman.

TAXI
In one episode, a briefcase is left in Bobby's cab. Looking through it,
the group finds it belongs to someone who seems to be really "in" with
Hollywood stars. There is a costume party at "Woody's" listed in his
appointment book so they decide to crash it. Alex, Tony, and Latka dress
as WACS, ala the Andrew Sisters. At the end of the show, back at the
garage, they even do a musical number.

T. J. HOOKER
One episode involves the murders of several nurses and I believe the
killer dresses up as a nurse. I just caught the very end of this
show.

THE TODAY SHOW
Weatherman Willard Scott dressed as Carmen Miranda in 1984.

TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
There was an episode in which Monroe falls in love with a fashion
designer, played by Christopher Morley, who dressed as a woman to
keep his job.

TURNABOUT
26 January 1979-30 March 1979 - NBC - Half-hour sitcom about a
husband and wife who woke up one morning to find themselves
occupying each other's bodies. With John Schuck as Sam Alston, a
sportswriter; Sharon Gless as Penny Alston, vice-president of a
cosmetics firm; Richard Stahl and Bobbie Jordan as neighbors Jack and
Judy Overmeyer; James Sikking as Penny's boss, Geoffrey St. James;
and Bruce Kirby as Al Brennan, Sam's boss. Executive Producer: Sam
Denoff for Universal TV."

21 JUMP STREET
In one episode involving a boy and his granddad faking the boy's kidnapping,
Johnny Depp dresses as the boy's mother for the money drop.

TWIN PEAKS
The 1990 season contained an interesting twist on drag. Piper Laurie, who
plays Catherine Martell, was last seen, at the end of the previous season,
trapped in her burning mill. A Japanese businessman, Mr. Tojimuro, listed
in the credits as played by Fumio Yamaguchi, shows up to very profitable
business deal with Ben Horne, who was responsible for the earlier fire. It
turns out Catherine was disguised as Tojimuro in order to get revenge on Ben
Horne, but in addition the producers pulled a fast one on both the audience
and the rest of the cast, as none of them knew who "Fumio Yamaguchi" was
either.
Previews indicate that on the 12-15-90 episode a new agent, Denny (who
prefers to be called Denise), joins the cast.

THE TWO RONNIES
Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett utilize drag on a fairly regular
basis in this British comedy series.

227
I didn't see the show but the previews showed one of the ladies'
husbands wearing an evening gown on the 3-31-89 episode.

THE UGLIEST GIRL IN TOWN 9/26/68 - 1/30/69
Young Hollywood talent agent Timothy Blair (Peter Kastner) had fallen
madly in love with an English starlet named Julie, while Julie was in
town making a film. Then she flew back to London and Timothy didn't
have the money to follow. Enter Timothy's brother Gene, a
professional photographer assigned to shoot pictures of San Francisco
hippies for a London magazine. At the last moment Gene's pictures
were accidentally destroyed, and in desperation he dressed Timothy in
a wig and hippie outfit and took pictures of him to send to London.
London liked the pictures so much that they wanted that "girl" for a
major "Twiggy"-style modelling assignment.

UNDER COVER
"Mr. Butterfly", 2/16/91, has Kate and Dylan in China to rescue a dissident
student leader. They disguise him as a girl to get him out.

URUSEI YATSURA
A VERY popular Japanese animation/manga (comic book). Roughly
translatesto "Those annoying aliens." A new video entitled "Nagisa no
Fianse" (The Fiancee' Nagisa) is about a ghost boy who was brought up
as a girl. His father is an old friend of Ryuunosuke's father. Nagisa
and Ryuunosuke are engaged by their parents, to Ryuu's horror.
Nagisa desperately wants to kiss Ryuu, but Ryuu won't let him/her.
There's a funny scene where Nagisa and Ryuu expose their chests and
realize that this *is* in fact a heterosexual match...

VEGAS
There was an episode in which three ladies (2 ladies and one tv) are
running a scam on the Baccarat tables. The tv is Christopher Morley.
There was also an episode where an old girlfriend of Dan's is
dressing as a man and killing women who she considers bad for Dan.

WHAT'S A GIRL LIKE YOU
London Weekend's television documentary about drag entertainment.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo appeared on Shirley MacLaine's
1977 special.

WILD, WILD WEST
In one episode the sidekick (I can't remember his name) dresses as a
saloon girl.

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
In the 11/8/89 episode the character of Paul Williams was trying on a number
of disguises with the help of his ex-wife. One of the disguieses was drag.
Supposedly made Bunny on Santa Barbara look terribly butch. Doug Davidson is
the actor.

*** Commercials ***

BRUT COLOGNE
A pretty young woman is thinking about her man. She puts on some of
his clothes and sprays Brut on herself just as the phone rings. When
she answers it and finds it is him, she seems to be embarrased or
flustered. Imagine if this was done with the genders reversed!

ISUZU
Joe Isuzu poses as his sister Joann.

VAN HUESEN
Shows a lovely woman wearing a man's shirt. The last line is "Van
Huesen ... for a man to wear and a woman to borrow."

*** Talk Shows ***

PHIL DONAHUE
Transexuals
Fathers who've had a sex change
Female Impersonators
Transvestite Fashions 11-16-88

MORTON DOWNEY
Transvestites 7-15-88
Transexuals

LARRY KING LIVE
Female Impersonators

HOUR MAGAZINE
Female Impersonators

SALLY JESSE RAPHAEL
Cross Dressers, Transexuals, and Female Impersonators 2-12-88
Sexual Identity confusion 8-8-88
FTM Transexuals 11-14-88
Gender-Bender Con Artists 4-27-89
She-males 5-15-89
Billy Tipton story and other transgenderists 8-21-89
A pregnant TS? 7-25-90
Anyone else see the Salley Jessy Raphiel show today that had a
pregnant TS? Apparently she was involved with an experiment with a
doctor who wanted to see if he could create invetro abdominal
pregnancies. Abdominal pregnancies apparently happen fairly rarely in
women and the doctor wanted to help the TS have her husbands child.
She sure looked pregnant. A skeptical doctor examined her on the air
and couldnt find a fetal heartbeat. Hope for her sake the baby is
all right. Abdominal pregnancies are apparently very dangerous. She
had already had her kidneys shut down once. Baby due in 2 months
and will be taken C section. Sounds like the Alien Nation thing.

GERALDO RIVERA
Transexuals and their families
Female Impersonators
Cross Dressers and the women in their lives. 2-6-89
Transexuals who regret their decision. 2-14-89
Drag Queens on Parade 2-28-89
Hermaphroditism 7-27-89

JOAN RIVERS
Mariette Pathie Allen and an audience of cders. 5-10-90

OPHRA WINFREY
People Raised as the Opposite Sex
Female Impersonators

This is hopefully a complete list of modern (1940-1969) movies containing
tv/ts themes or at least tv/ts characters. I pulled this together from
several different lists floating around, adding some of my own. Ones marked
"not verified", I have not been able to verify either its existence or that
it contains tv/ts themes/characters. These are from "legitimate" film, etc.
There are many pornographic films produced starring she-males, showing men
dominated and forced into becoming women, etc.

A significant part of this (especially the early things) were taken from
the book "What A Drag - Men As Women And Women As Men In The Movies" by
Homer Dickens.

Any additions or corrections would be greatly appreciated.

Last Update: 1/21/91

Denise

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KILLER
Lou Costello delved into female impersonation in this 1949 film.

ABROAD WITH TWO YANKS
Dennis O'Keefe and William Bendix masquerade as women. 1944

ADAM'S RIB
During the trial, Katharine Hepburn has the jury look at each woman and
imagine that they are men. 1949

ALL-AMERICAN CO-ED
Johnny Downs, formerly of Our Gang, masqueraded as a girl to meet
lovely Frances Langford at a posh girl's school in this 1941 film.

ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING
Milton Berle did a unique impersonation of Carmen Miranda in the 1949
film.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
An old style western comedy with a terrific scene where a guy has to
be a dance hall "girl" to please a barful of rowdy, sex starved
cowboys. (This or Calamity Jane must be wrong.) 1950

ARGENTINE NIGHTS
In this 1940 film, when the Andrew Sisters are confined to their
staterooms aboard a ship, the Ritz Brothers go on for them and do
their rendition of "Rhumboogie".

AT WAR WITH THE ARMY
Jerry Lewis' first movie (1951) included a "drag" scene.

AUNTIE
A British film about a guy who inherits a brothel and impersonates
his aunt, the former owner. In England it was titled "Keep it up,
Jack!"

BABES ON BRAODWAY
Judy Garland made a striking boy with her impersonation of the great
Sarah Bernhardt in one of her best-known roles as napoleon's
ill-fated son. She also played a minstrel boy, in blackface. Mickey
Rooney gave the first - and one of the best - impersonations of
Carmen Miranda in this 1941 film.

BATHING BEAUTY
Red Skelton becomes one of Ann Codee's ballet pupils in order to be
near the girl he loves in this 1944 comedy. Also see Red Skelton
entry.

BEDAZZLED
Dudley Moore and Peter Cook appear as nuns in this satirical 1967
fantasy.

BELLES OF ST TRINIAN'S
Alastiar Sim played two parts, one was Miss Millicent Fitton, a dowdy
old-maid headmistress. 1954

THE BLACK SHEEP OF WHITEHALL
In this 1941 film Will Hay dons nurse's garb to save an economics
expert from a nursing home run by spies.

BLONDE COBRA
This 1962 film explores the connection between transvestism, transsexualism,
and homosexuality.

BLONDIE GOES LATIN
In this 1941 comedy Arthur Lake dons female attire on a Latin
American cruise to keep an eye on Blondie.

BLONDIE HITS THE JACKPOT
Arthur Lake also had a small bit of female impersonation in this
1949 "Blondie" film.

BLUE MURDER AT ST TRINIAN'S 1957
Sequel to Belles of St. Trinian's, Sim again plays Miss Fitton, and
Lionel Jeffries plays a jewel thief posing as a headmistress of a
girls' polo team. 1957

CALAMITY JANE
Starring Doris Day. An old style western comedy with a terrific
scene where a guy has to be a dance hall "girl" to please a barful
of rowdy, sex starved cowboys. Doris portrays Calamity as a tomboy.
(This or Annie Get Your Gun must be wrong.) 1953

THE CAPTAIN IS A LADY
Thin little comedy starring Charles Coburn and Beulah Bondi, with Coburn
pretending to be a woman to accompany wife Bondi to old ladies' home.

CARDBOARD CAVALIER
British comedian Sid Field was a barrow-boy who gets involved in a
plot against Cromwell in 17th-century England. He dons female
disguise at one point. 1949

CARRY ON CONSTABLE
Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey join the force and find
themselves "undercover". 1960

CARRY ON...UP THE KHYBER
A 1968 film with Charles Hawtrey and Peter Butterworth joining Joan
Sims as Indian dancers.

CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT
Bob Hope and Joan Fontaine swith roles at the ball to hide from
Doge's men. 1954

CHARLEY'S AUNT
A young nobleman at Oxford comes to the aid of his fellow students,
Jack and Charley, by disguising himself as Charley's wealthy aunt
from Brazil, to act as chaperon for the two girls to whom they wish
to propose marriage. This has been filmed five times (4 American, 1
British). Charley was played by Syd Chaplin 1925, Charlie Ruggles
1930, Arthur Askey performed a version in modern dress, Charley's
"Big Hearted" Aunt 1940, Jack Benny 1941, Ray Bolger in the 1948
Broadway version "Where's Charley?" and also the 1952 film version,
Art Carney in the 1957 CBS Playhouse 90 version, and Danny La Rue in
a 1969 BBC Play of the Month.

CHELSEA GIRLS
This 1967 Warhol/Morrissey film features elaborate cross-dressing.

CHUMLUM
This 1963 film explores the connection between transvestism, transsexualism,
and homosexuality.

CLANCY STREET BOYS
Huntz Hall of the Dead End Kids masquerades as a girl in a chic
boutique. 1943

CLOAK AND DAGGER
Lilli Palmer plays an Italian partisian in disguise as a young man in
this 1946 film.

THE COMEDIANS
A 1967 film From Graham Greene's novel. Alec Guiness at one stage
goes undercover as a local laundress.

THE CRIMSON PIRATE
Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat try to free a Caribbean island from
royal clutches by masquerading as wenches to gain entry in the 1952
film.

CUL-DE-SAC
Donald Pleasance is a weirdo who prefers transvestism to his
nymphomaniacal young wife in Roman Polanski's 1966 film.

THE DAMNED
Helmut Berger does a superb drag impersonation of Marlene Dietrich in
this 1969 film. There are also some orgy scenes with cross-dressing.

THE DARING YOUNG MAN
Joe E. Brown plays an old woman in this 1942 film.

DER ROSENKAVALIER
In this 1962 film version of Strauss' opera, Sena Jurinac is the
young man Octavian (traditionally sung by a woman) who becomes
romantically involved with Sophie.

DR. CRIPPEN
After killing his domineering wife, meek Donald Pleasance shaves off
his moustache, and his mistress disguises herself as a boy, in an
attempt to flee America in this 1964 film.

EASTER PARADE
Judy Garland appeared with Fred Astaire as a pair of bums in the
number "A Couple of Swells" in this 1948 film.

EAT YOUR MAKEUP
Divine played Jackie Kennedy in this 1968 John Waters film.

FLAMING CREATURES
Jack Smith's 1963 underground film features a transvestite orgy and
is set in a Tangiers drag club.

FRANCIS JOINS THE WACS
Low budget version of "I Was A Male War Bride". 1954

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN
Starring Peter Cushing. The good Doctor Frankenstein uses a beautiful
female's body to house a male's brain. Some interesting imagery,
somewhat ghoulish and macabre overall. 1967

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Phil Silvers and Jack Gilford appear in drag in this hilarious 1966
look at ancient Rome.

GENIUS AT WORK
A part of this comedy satirised "Queen for a Day" and Wally Brown and
Alan Carney appear in drag. 1945

GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS
Jack Haley appeared in full drag with Joan Davis in a hilarious
musical number n 1945.

THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT
Paul Lynde plays a security guard who disguises himself as a woman in
this 1966 comedy.

GLEN OR GLENDA
The camp original! Starring, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood,
who was an actual transvestite. 1953

GOLDFINGER
James Bond battles a widow who turns out to be a male assassin in disguise
in a 1964 film.

GOODBYE CHARLIE
Starring Debbie Reynolds. Based on the play by George Axelrod, Debbie
plays Charlie a womanizer whose reincarnation is both immediate and
ironic; he comes back as a comely woman. 1964

HARLOT
Mario Montez impersonates Harlow in this 1965 Warhol/Morrissey film.

HEAD
Film debut of "The Monkees" also starred T. C. Jones. See separate
entry. 1968

HIGH TIME 1960
As a millionaire after a college degree, Bing Crosby must make an
appearance at a swanky party, dressed as a southern belle, to be
accepted in the Xi Delta Pi fraternity. 1960.

HIMSELF AS HERSELF
This 1966 film explores the connection between transvestism, transsexualism,
and homosexuality.

HOLD THAT LINE
Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, David Gorcey and Gill
Stratton, Jr. (The Bowery Boys) got into campus drag. 1952

HOMICIDAL 1961
About a pretty but rather strange young nurse who presides over creepy
household consisting of mute stroke victim and decidedly unmacho young
man. One actor played both the young man and the beautiful, but tortured,
young woman. Two scenes stick in my mind - one where she checks into the
hotel and calls the bellboy to her room to proposition him into being her
accomplice in murder - the other where she lets the young man's former girl
friend watch her as she walks into the young man's room (her room) wearing
a negligee which she begins to undo as though going to make love to the
young man. The door closes on the incident with the former girl friend
thinking she is watching an illicit interlude between two lovers. After the
close of the film, the audience is left wondering if Jean Arless, the
actor/actress is really a man or a woman. It is virtually impossible to
determine whether Jean Arless is a man or woman, so effective is the
portrayal of each gender.

HOUR OF THE WOLF
In this 1968 foreign film, Johan first watches an old woman remove her face
(quite literally), and then he is made up by Lindhorst, the archivist, and
presented with the nude corpse of Veronica. He is expected to make love to
her in front of a crowd while he remains in his emasculated, madeup
condition.

THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET
It's not until the final moments of this 1945 semi-documentary that
the FBI and the audience learn the Signe Hasso is actually "Mr.
Christopher", the notorious US Nazi agent the FBI has long been
seeking.

I VITELLONI
Alberto Sordi attends a local carnival masked ball in drag in
Fellini's 1953 film.

I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE
Cary Grant as a pony-tailed WAC. 1949

I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
Doris Day played the wife of lyricist Gus Kahn and did a blackface Al
Jolson number in this 1951 musical biography.

THE IMPERSONATOR
A 1961 British chiller about murder in a small village. John Crawford
poses as a woman.

IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
For the final production number in this 1944 film, June Haver became
the leading man while the boys became the chorus "girls".

JULES AND JIM
Jeanne Moreau masquerades as a boy. 1962

THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE
A 1968 film with Susannah York and Beryl Reid as lesbians who dress as
Laurel and Hardy for a costume party.

KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS
Alec Guinness played 8 parts one of which was Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne
in this 1949 mystery.

LA CONGA NIGHTS
In this 1940 film Hugh Herbert played six roles, FIVE were female!

THE LEMON DROP KID
Bob Hope appeared in drag in this 1951 film.

LET'S DANCE
Betty Hutton did a superb drag rendition of a rough cowpoke with Fred
Astaire in a Western saloon setting for the "Oh Them Dudes"
production number in 1950.

LONESOME COWBOYS
This 1969 Warhol/Morrissey film features a transvestite sheriff.

LOST IN A HAREM
Lou Costello delved into female impersonation in this 1944 film.

LOVE CRAZY
William Powell masqueraded as his own matronly sister in an attempt
to foil divorce proceedings in this 1941 film.

THE L-SHAPED ROOM
In 1963, Cicely Courtneidge gave a touching performance as a lesbian
landlady who, to cheer up a pregnant tenant, dons her old music hall
uniform and performs "Burlington Bertie".

MACBETH
One of the witches in Orson Welles' 1948 production was played by
Brainerd Duffield.

THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN
A 1969 film, Peter Sellers dons the disguise of a disco nun. Also has
Yul Brynner, in drag, singing "Mad About the Boy".

THE MAGICIAN
Ingrid Thulin plays Max von Sydow's wife, who spends much of her time
disguised as his young male pupil in Ingmar Bergman's 1959 opus.

THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES
James Cagney began as a chorus "girl" in vaudeville but only once
appeared in drag on the screen. In the 1957 film he portrays Lon
Chaney including Chaney playing "Grandmother" in "The Unholy Three".

MASQUERADER
Charlie Chaplin impersonates a woman in this 1914 film.

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Darryl Hickman couldn't decide on a man or a woman for Halloween
trick-or-treating so he went as a comination. 1944

MODESTY BLAISE
Rosella Falk appears as a minister in this 1966 spy spoof.

MONDO TRASHO
Divine plays a hit-and-run driver in this John Waters film. 1969

MONTANA BELLE
Jane Russell played a mannish Belle Starr in this 1952 western.

MOTHER WORE TIGHTS
In 1947, Betty Grable donned tux, top hat and monocle for her
rendition of "Burlington Bertie", the great music hall and vaudeville
favorite.

THE MOUSE THAT ROARED
A 1959 movie starring Peter Sellers. He plays three roles including
the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

MOVIE STAR, AMERICAN STYLE, OR LSD, I HATE YOU!
Starred T. C. Jones. See separate entry. 1967

MY LITTLE CHICKADEE
W. C. Fields as Cuthbert J. Twillie prepared for his wedding night by
bathing and primping in his bride's boudoir in this 1940 comedy.

THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL
T. C. Jones stars as a man who masquerades as his murdered wife in
this 1968 movie.

NATIONAL VELVET
Elizabeth Taylor played Velvet Brown, who disguised herself as a
jockey so she could ride her horse to victory in the 1944 film.

NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY
Starring Rod Steiger. An acting tour de force for Steiger who plays a
charming yet psychotic master of disguise. One of his disguises is a woman.
One of his victims is Kim August, who is actually a female impersonator.
1968

ON THE DOUBLE
Danny Kaye escapes from the Nazis to a nightclub where he
impersonates numerous people, including a Dietrich-type songstress in
this 1961 film.

ON THE TOWN
As 3 wild sailors on furlough in NYC, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin,
and Gene Kelly create havoc in a museum and flee to Coney Island with
the MPs in hot pursuit. They disguise themselves as harem girls in a
sideshow and sing "Pearl of the Persian Sea" before being
apprehended. 1949

ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING
Hugh Williams is a member of a crashed bomber crew who is smuggled
out of Holland in female attire. 1942.

OUR MAN FLINT
Starring James Coburn and Lee J.Cobb. A spy spoof with Cobb, the
boss of superspy Coburn, dressing up to infiltrate the island
stronghold of a group of woman bent on world domination. 1966

THE PAJAMA GAME
In the 1957 film version of the hit Broadway musical, Carol Haney
becomes part of a male trio for the "Steam Heat" number.

PAPER LION
Members of the Detroit Lions football team perform an island girl
chorus line number in this 1968 film.

PARIS HOLIDAY
Fernandel, France's great domestic clown appeared in drag (1958).

PEPE
Jack Lemmon reprises Daphne of "Some Like It Hot" for a parking lot
cameo scene in this 1960 film.

PERFORMANCE
Nicholas Roeg's 1967 British film about a criminal on the lam hiding
out with a rock performer and how their lives intertwine. Stars James
Fox and Mick Jagger, who turns transvestism into an intense and
sinister force.

PETER GUNN 1967
Featured Peter Gunn investigating a mysterious murder and it hinges
on the madam of a floating brothel. The madam turns out to be man. He
was played by M.T. Marshall in the credits but I think the real name
was Marion T. Marshall. Despite the name, may have been a genetic
woman because there was an old Martin-and-Lewis film which featured
HER as the love interest. M.T. Marshall may have been a cute trick by
Blake Edwards to give the illusion the madam was played by a female
impersonator.

POT O'GOLD
In 1941, Paulette Goddard appeared as a male dancer in this comedy.

THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATES
Bob Hope appeared in drag in this 1944 film.

THE PRODUCERS
Very funny Mel Brooks film with Christopher Hewitt as a gay director
who likes to drag it up. 1968

PROMISES! PROMISES!
1963 film starring T. C. Jones and Jayne Mansfield. See separate T.C. Jones
entry.

PSYCHO
Alfred Hitchcock film starring Anthony Perkins as a psychotic
murderer who dresses up as his mother. 1960

THE QUEEN
One of the best documentaries of its kind. A sensitive, compassionate
film capturing on film a beauty contest: the search for the best
looking female impersonator. This 1968 documentary shows the Miss
All-America Camp Beauty Pageant held at NY's Town Hall in 1967.

RAINBOW ISLAND
Eddie Bracken is one of three sailors cast away. When the native
queen lies dying he covers for native girl Dorothy Lamour, who's with
one of the other sailors. 1944

THE ROAD TO MOROCCO
Bob Hope appeared in drag in this 1942 film.

THE ROAD TO RIO
Bob Hope did a take-off of Carmen Miranda in this 1947 film.

THE ROAD TO SINGAPORE
Bob Hope appears in a sarong in this 1940 film.

THE ROAD TO ZANZIBAR
Bob Hope appears in a harem girl's outfit in this 1941 film.

SAN ANTONIO
Due to the wartime shortage of males, stunt lady Virginia Engels
played two roles in this 1945 western, a saloon hostess and an old
man who rubberishly falls down a flight of stairs during a fight
scene. 1942

SATYRICON
Fellini's 1969 film features the wedding of a hideous old man to a
beautifully painted and coiffed young boy.

SAVAGE EYE
A female divorcee drops acid and goes to a drag ball in this 1959 film.

SAYONARA
In the 1957 romantic drama Ricardo Montalban plays a delicate Geisha
girl in the all-male Kabuki theatre. Miko Taka, on the other hand, as
a member of the Matsubayashi Girl Revue, does a modern turn as a man
in top hat, white tie and tails.

SCREEN TEST I
Mario Montez impersonates Harlow in this 1965 Warhol/Morrissey production.

THE SEARCHERS
An Indian buck wears the blue dress of the little girl they have captured.
1956.

SECOND BEST SECRET AGENT IN THE WORLD
Starring Tom Adams. A spy spoof. In one scene the hero is lured to a
hotel room by a beautiful Oriental woman who turns out to be a guy
bent on killing him. I believe the "woman" agent's name was He-she. 1965

THE SEVEN FACES OF DR LAO
Tony Randall plays 8 roles including Medusa. 1964

THE SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST
Don Knotts is a timid Philadelphia dentist out west in this 1968
western. he goes through a series of misadventures, which includes a
disguise as an Indian squaw.

SHUT MY BIG MOUTH
Joe E. Brown disguises himself as a woman to elude outlaws in this
1942 film.

SKI PARTY
Starring Frankie Avalone and Dwayne Hickman. In this low budget film
frank and Dwayne dress as girls to meet the cutest girls during a
skiing vacation. Unconvincing costumes. 1965

SOLDIER IN THE RAIN
Starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen. A touching drama with
touches of bittersweet comdey. In one scene, a private dresses up to
dance with a lonely soldier. 1963

SOME LIKE IT HOT
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon. Old classic, where
Jack and Tony, fleeing the mob, join an all-girl band, led by
Marilyn. 1959

SONG OF THE ISLANDS
Jack Oakie tries to pass himself off as a native girl. 1942

A SONG TO REMEMBER
Merle Oberon played a beautiful Mme Dudevant (the notorious 19th
century French novelist George Sand) who fancied shocking her
conterporaries in male attire. 1945

SOUTH OF TAHITI
Henry Wilcoxon, Andy Devine and Broderick Crawford were made to
contribute, under duress, to the native fete on a tiny Polynesian
island. 1941

SOUTH PACIFIC
In this 1958 musical, audiences were treated to a double drag as
Mitzi Gaynor, as the sailor, sings to Ray Walston, as the native
girl, in the "Honey Bun" number.

STAR!
Julie Andrews performs "Burlington Bertie" in the 1968 film bio. See
Mother Wore Tights.

STAR-SPANGLED RHYTHM
In this 1942 wartime musical glamour girls Paulette Goddard, Dorothy
Lamour, and Veronica Lake parodied their own screen personas with "A
Sweater, A Sarong, and A Peekaboo Bang" and were then satirised in a
camp-drag rendition by Arthur Treacher, Walter Catlett, and Sterling
Holloway.

STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH
Jack Smith slums in drag in this 1959 film.

A STICH IN TIME
1963. Norman Wisdom masquerades as a nurse in order to visit a sick
orphan.

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
Veronica Lake spends much of this 1941 film disguised as a boy.

SYLVIA
Paul Gilbert played Lola Diamond, the cigar-smoking madam of a
bordello in this 1965 private eye film.

THAT MAN FROM ISTANBUL
Horst Buchholz is pressed into service as a spy and one disguise he
assumes is a woman in this 1966 film.

THEY GOT ME COVERED
Bob Hope appeared in drag in a lady's bathing suit in this 1943 film.

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
James Fox dons female attire to save Mary Tyler Moore and other
unfortunate girls from a white-slave racket operating in a Chinatown
brothel. 1967.

THREE NUTS IN SEARCH OF A BOLT
Starred T. C. Jones. See separate entry. 1964

THREE ON A COUCH
A 1966 Jerry Lewis film.

TURNABOUT
1940 comedy about a husband and wife switching bodies.

ULYSSES
Milo O'Sheahas a weird tv fantasy in this 1967 production of James
Joyce's book.

UP JUMPED THE DEVIL
Mantan Moreland poses as a maid to get a job on the estate of a wealthy
woman. 1941

UP TO HIS EARS
Jean-Paul Belmondo does a drag striptease in this 1966 film.

VIVA MARIA
Brigitte Bardot disguises herself as a man to ride trains and plant
explosives. 1965

WEST OF SONORA
Smiley Burnette, had a ball going on as the leading lady in the local
saloon's show in this 1947 western.

WEST OF THE PECOS
Zane Grey's story gave the leading lady the chance to shear her hair
and pretend she was a boy because "no woman was safe on the streets
of San Antonio". Martha Sleeper played the part in the 1934 version,
while Barbara Hale essayed the role in the 1945 remake.

WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, DADDY?
Blake Edwards' 1966 film.

WHITE CHRISTMAS
Once the leading ladies of this 1954 film finish the sassy song
"Sisters", Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye come out in camp-drag and give
it a try.

WINGED VICTORY
Jack Slate, Red Buttons, and Henry Slate entertain their buddies as
island girls in a Pacific island camp show in this 1944 film. Sascha
Brastoff also did a stage burlesque of Carmen Miranda.

YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW
Jimmy Durante does an Apache dance in this 1941 comedy.

ZAZIE DANS LE METRO
In Louis Malle's 1960 film, Zazie visits an uncle inParis who is a female
impersonator.

ZORRO'S BLACK WHIP
After her brother is killed in this 12-chapter 1944 serial, Linda
Sterling assumes his identity as "The Whip" and cleans up the
crime-ridden range.

This is hopefully a complete list of early performers who frequently performed
in drag and early (pre-1940) movies containing tv/ts themes or at least tv/ts
characters. I pulled this together from several different lists floating around,
adding some of my own. Ones marked "not verified", I have not been able to
verify either its existence or that it contains tv/ts themes/characters.
These are from "legitimate" film, etc. There are many pornographic films
produced starring she-males, showing men dominated and forced into
becoming women, etc.

A significant part of this (especially the early things) were taken from
the book "What A Drag - Men As Women And Women As Men In The Movies" by
Homer Dickens.

Any additions or corrections would be greatly appreciated.

Last Update: 1/21/90

Denise

*** Performers ***

FATTY ARBUCKLE
For sheer variety - and side-splitting humour - Fatty often dressed
as a girl.

WALLACE BEERY
Between 1914 and 1916 Beery appeared in about 30 short comedies as a
Swedish maid called "Sweedie". Also starred in "Flesh" (1930)

JACK BENNY
Starred as "Charley's Aunt" in the 1941 movie and is also well
remembered for impersonating Gracie Allen in a sketch with George
Burns.

MILTON BERLE
The father of female impersonation.

JOE E. BROWN
During his long career (1928-1963) he essayed female disguise with
great flair, comic skill, and professionalism. He played everything
from a baby girl to the hilarious Flute in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer
Night's Dream" (1935), disguised himself as a woman to elude outlaws
in "Shut My Big Mouth" (1942) and played an old woman in The Daring
Young Man (1942).

EDDIE CANTOR
In "Palmy Days" (1931) he's a patsy for a fortune-telling gang. He
takes off with the booty and hides in the ladies' bathing facilities
of a large bakery. With the gang in hot pursuit, Eddie disguises
himself as a girl and fools everyone except the sceptical gymnastic
instructor.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN
In "A Woman" (1915) he is running from two men who want to kill him and
takes refuge in an upstairs bedroom where he discovers women's
clothes.

SYD CHAPLIN
After becoming film's first Charley's Aunt, he again used female
impersonation in "The Man on the Box" (1925) and "Oh, What a Nurse!"
(1926).

CHARLEY CHASE
Appeared in drag in "Be Your Age" (1926).

CHESTER CONKLIN
Auditioned for the part of Lorelei Lee in Anita Loos' Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes (1928).

LOU COSTELLO
Often delved into the world of female impersonation as in "Lost in a
Harem" (1944) and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer" (1949).

CICELY COURTNEIDGE
Masquerades as a male guard in "The Woman in Command" (or Soldiers of the
King) (1933).

MARION DAVIES
Posed as a bellboy in "The Cardboard Lover" (1928) and a French
innkeeper and French lieutenant in "Marianne" (1929).
As Mary Tudor, younger sister of King Henry VIII, in "When Knighthood Was
in Flower" (1921), she runs away from court disguised as a boy. In "Little Old
New York" (1923) she impersonates her brother to claim a fortune. In "Beverly
of Graustark" (1926) she plays "Beverly" who impersonates her brother when
he's injured during a skiing accident.

REGINALD DENNY
In "What Happened to Jones" (1926) he joins a poker party that is raided
and escapes to a Turkish bath on ladies night, returning home in
female garb. In "Take It From Me" (1926) he has to run a department
store profitably for 3 months to inherit it. At one point he is
forced to disguise himself as a model in the store's fashion show to
evade the process server.

MARLENE DIETRICH
Wore male attire in several films including "Morocco" (1930), "Blonde
Venus" (1932), and "Seven Sinners" (1940).

JIMMY DURANTE
Played a French Revolutionary woman going to her death in "The
Hollywood Party" (1934) and did an Apache dance with Anthony Caruso in
"You're in the Army Now" (1941)

JULIAN ELTINGE
The great female impersonator of vaudeville and the theatre was
finally lured to films in 1917. He was a popular success. The plots
of his films always contained some pretext by which he could make the
transformation into female attire plausible. Films included "The
Countess Charming" (1917), "The Widow's Might" (1917), "War Relief"
(1918), and "Madame Behave" (1925).

STUART ERWIN
During the mid-thirties Paramount asked some of its most popular
stars to pose as the character they most wanted to play on the
screen. Erwin chose "Little Bo Peep".

GRACIE FIELDS
In "Shipyard Sally" (1939) she played a saloon keeper who poses as an
American singer.

FLORADORA GIRLS
Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Clifton Webb
were a quintet of Floradora girls for a charity benefit at
Hollywood's famed Masquer's Club in the late 1940's.

GORDON HARKER
In "Love on Wheels" (1932) he used female disguise to thwart thieves in a
large department store.

BOB HOPE
Makes brief appearances in a sarong in "The Road to Singapore" (1940), a
harem girl's outfit in "The Road to Zanzibar" (1941), a lady's bathing suit
in "They Got Me Covered" (1942), and an imitation Carmen Miranda outfit in
"The Road to Rio" (1948). Also appeared in drag in "The Road to Morocco"
(1942), "They Got Me Covered" (1943), "The Princess and the Pirate" (1944)
and "The Lemon Drop Kid" (1951).

T. C. JONES
Described by Time Magazine as "probably the best female impersonator
since Julian Eltinge" He appeared in 5 minor films, "Promises!
Promises!" (1963), "Three Nuts In Search Of A Bolt" (1964), "Movie
Star, American Style" (1966), "Head" (1968), and "The Name of the
Game is Kill" (1968) in which he portrays a man who masquerades as
his murdered wife.

BUSTER KEATON
Did drag in "Dough Boys" (1930) and "Sidewalks of New York" (1931).

ARTHUR LAKE
Got a lot of mileage out of female impersonation in his silent and
talkie films. In "Harold Teen" (1928) Lake as Harold disguises himself
as a girl to flirt with Mary Brian during "no date week" on campus.
In "Blondie Goes Latin" (1941) he dons female attire on a Latin
American cruise to keep an eye on Blondie. Also had a small bit of
female impersonation in "Blondie Hits the Jackpot" (1949).

HARRY LANGDON
A veteran vaudevillean, often appeared in drag.

LASSIE
Lassie was always played by a male dog.

STAN LAUREL AND OLIVER HARDY
Both injected humorous "drag" bits into their comedies before they
teamed up together and many times during their brilliant association.
Stan does a fantastic drag impersonation in "Get 'em Young" (1926).
In "Twice Two" (1933) "the boys" played themselves and their wives!
Stan was again in drag in "Jitterbugs" (1943).

BEA LILLIE
Impersonated men in several films including "Exit Smiling" (1926) and
"Are You There?" (1930).

HAROLD LLOYD
In Lloyd's first two-reeler, "Bumping into Broadway" (1919) Gus
Leonard played a snooping female as the bouncer ejects a delinquent
and her suitor Lloyd. Lloyd appeared in drag in his talkie "Movie
Crazy" (1932).

ARTHUR LUCAN
Between 1937 and 1952 this British comedian made about 20 comedies as
washerwoman Mother Riley who gets herself into - and out of - all
sorts of situations. One was "Old Mother Riley" (1939).

THE MARX BROTHERS
In "A Night at the Opera" (1935) Harpo and Chico become gypsy chorus
girls for Verdi's IlTrovatore.

ANNA Q. NILSSON
She resorted to male impersonation in several of her silent films. "Ponjola" (1923),
"Miss Nobody" (1926), and "Easy Pickings" (1927).

MABEL NORMAND
Played a World War I soldier in a 1926 two-reeler.

MARY PICKFORD
Masqueraded as a boy in many films including "Poor Little Peppina"
(1915) and "The Hoodlum" (1919).

THE RITZ BROTHERS
The made getting into drag an essential part of their antics in
several of their mad comedies. In "On the Avenue" (1937) Harry does a
parody of Alice Faye's Bowery Girl. The trio, dressed as scrubwomen,
invade the YWCA in "You Can't Have Everything" (1937). In 1938 Harry
appeared as The Queen in a burlesque of Snow White called Kentucky
Moonshine.

RUTH ROLAND
The famous serial queen of the mid-teens was in a triple-drag situation in one
melodramatic episode.

MICKEY ROONEY
Delved into amateur theatricals as Shakespeare's Juliet in "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1937).

RED SKELTON
Did a full-drag masquerade in the 1939 short "Seeing Red". In
"Bathing Beauty" (1944), in order to be near the girl he loves,
becomes one of Ann Codee's ballet pupils.

GLORIA SWANSON
Frequently did impersonations of men. Impersonated Charlie Chaplin in
"Manhandled" (1924) and "Sunset Boulevard" (1950).

THE THREE STOOGES
Either separately or en masse, these lunatic comics often got into
drag. In "Wee Wee Monsieur" (1938) the join the French Army and have
to become harem girls to survive in the land of Tsimmis. In "Rhythm
and Weep" (1946) the boys and some girl entertainers are hired for a
show, but the Stooges end up doing the girls' number.

VESTA TILLEY
The great turn-of-the-century drag artiste was not only a music hall
headliner but made several British films between 1900 and 1916.

BEN TURPIN
Films with drag included "Sheriff Nell's Tussle" (1918) and "The Shriek
of Araby" (1923).

BOBBY VERNON
One of the original Keystone Kops, he appeared in loads od one- and
two-reelers during the teens and twenties. He got into drag often.

In the early days of Hollywood women weren't allowed to do anything
dangerous. Stuntmen frequently wore dresses to double for heroines
and even for "bit" players as in disaster sequences of "San
Francisco" 1936, and "In Old Chicago" 1938.

*** Pre-1940 Movies ***

ALMOST A LADY
Marie Prevost played a fashion model in this 1926 comedy-drama that
included mistaken identity and impersonation of the same and opposite
sex.

THE AMAZING MR. WILLIAMS
Melvyn Douglas is an officer of the homicide squad who uses feminine
drag to entrap a ladykiller in this 1939 film.

THE AMAZONS
Marguerite Clark, Elsie Lawson, and Helen Greene crash an all-male
club in this 1917 film.

AS YOU LIKE IT
Elisabeth Bergner played Rosalind, the banished duke's daughter who
posed as a shepher boy in this 1936 film.

BEGGARS OF LIFE
Louise Brooks shoots her foster father in self-defence, disguises
herself as a boy, and hides among a group of drifters in this 1928
film.

BEHIND THE SCREEN
Edna Purviance, dressed as a boy, is caught kissing Charlie Chaplin in this
1916 film, and Charlie's boss is ready to fire him for being a homosexual.

BEST OF ENEMIES
Features a chorus line of "girls". 1933

BLOOD MONEY
Sandra Shaw confronts a bail bondsman in a bar in male attire. 1933.

A BOY OF FLANDERS
Jackie Coogan played a poor unwanted lad in this 1924 film. Unable to
see his girl friend because of her harsh father, he dresses up as a
girl to attend her party.

BRIGHT LIGHTS
Dorothy MacKaill does a song in formal male attire. 1930

BRINGING UP BABY
Cary Grant was forced to wear Katharine Hepburn's neglige when she
had his clothes sent to the laundry. 1938.

BROADWAY THRU A KEYHOLE
Constance Cummings and Blossom Seeley both got into chic male attire
in this 1933 film.

CAUGHT
Louise Dresser portrayed Calamity Jane as a mannish woman who leads a
man's existence in this 1931 film.

CHARLOT'S REVUE
Gertrude Lawrence got her first big break doing "Burlington Bertie"
in 1918. See Mother Wore Tights.

THE CRYSTAL CUP
Dorothy MacKaill plays a confirmed man-hater, purposely devoid of all
feminine mannerisms. 1927

CURLY TOP
Shirley Temple does an impersonation of an old man in this 1935 film.

DANGER GO SLOW
Silent star Mae Murray resorted to male impersonation when she
masqueraded as a young safe-cracker. 1918

DER FURST VON PAPPENHEIM
1927 German. Curt Bois and Mona Maris are vaudeville entertainers who
perform a drag act. Later Bois agrees to see a rich man after a
performance and the fun begins.

THE DEVIL DOLL
Lionel Barrymore returns to Paris, disguised as an old lady, to track
down those who sent him to Devil's Island. 1936

DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS
Clara Bow plays a young Quaker girl who disguises herself as a boy to
stow away on a whaling vessel in 1923.

DR MABUSE DER SPIELER
Fritz Lang's 1922 German thriller gave us a glimpse of a typical
German cabaret with its deco decadence. Lil Dagover performed in male
attire.

EVE'S LEAVES
Leatrice Joy was the tomboy daughter of a freighter captain in 1926.

FINDERS KEEPERS
1928. Laura La Plante as the colonel's daughter convinces Army
private Arthur Rankin to switch clother with her so she can see her
boyfriend in the training camp before he is shipped overseas.

FIRST A GIRL
A 1935 British remake of Viktor Und Biktoria. British star Jessie
Matthews is the girl who substitutes for female impersonator Sonnie
Hale and goes on to greater glory.

FOOLISH WIVES
Erich Von Stroheim played a lecherous adventurer who gets into a
strange drag ensemble. 1922

GIRLS WILL BE BOYS
Dolly Haas appeared as a girl who posed as the grandson of a noble
misogynist in this 1934 English film.

LA GRANDE ILLUSION
A young soldier impersonates a chorus girl in Renoir's 1937 film.

HAMLET
Danish actress Asta Nielsen was not the first woman to portray Hamlet
on the screen (Sarah Bernhardt filmed the famous duel scene in 1900)
but her 1920 Danish-German coproduction was unique because it was
based on the "Saxo Grammaticus" - Shakespeare's source. This "prince"
of Denmark had been raised as a man because of reasons of State and
could not reveal her disguise - not even to Ophelia.

HIT OF THE SHOW
Gertrude Olmstead did male impersonation in this 1928 film.

KIKI
Mary Pickford is a member of a male chorus line in this 1931 film.

KING OF ALCATRAZ
J. Carrol Naish plays a convict on the lam who resorts to female
impersonation. 1938

KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR
marlene Dietrich disguises herself as a cossack in this 1937 film.

LADY ROBINHOOD
In this 1925 film, Evelyn Brent, the lovely ward of a Spanish
governor, disguises herself as the masked bandit, La Ortiga.

LAUGHING SINNERS
As a small town entertainer in this 1931 film, Joan Crawford does a
comedy dance routine in camp-drag as a farmer.

LAWFUL CHEATERS
In 1925 Clara Bow disguises herself as a boy in order to convince a
gang of crooks to reform.

LE GRANDE ILLUSION
This 1937 anti-war film features a prisoner-of-war drag chorus.

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
Mary Pickford appeared as Cedric, the title character in the 1921 film.

LITTLE WOMEN
Katharine Hepburn played the male villain in the 1933 adaptation.

THE MASQUERADER
In this 1914 film, Charlie Chaplin is fired from his job as an actor and
then disguises himself as a beautiful woman in order to get his job back.

MAYTIME
Jeanette MacDonald, as a famous singer, interprets the young page's
role from Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots in this 1937 musical.

MERRY GO ROUND OF 1938
A 1937 backstage story about a comedy foursome adopting a little
girl. Features Billie House in drag.

MOTHER KNOWS BEST
Silent star Madge Bellamy imitated Sir Harry Lauder and did a
stunning drag rendition of Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in this 1928
vaudeville film.

MONEY TALKS
Owen Moore disguises himself as a no-show female doctor he had hired for
his resort hotel. 1926.

MOUNTAIN MUSIC
In this 1937 hillbilly romp, Wally Vernon plays Martha Raye's sister
in a musical number.

MURDER
A 1930 Alfred Hitchcock film in which the murderer is a transvestite
trapeze artist.

NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE
Frankie Thomas, as Bonita Granville's ever-present companion, does
everything he can to assist the girl-detective, even if it means
masquerading in female garb. 1939

NUGGET NELL
In her delightful burlesque of the standard western hero, silent star
Dorothy Gish had a comic field day as Nugget Nell (1919). In one
scene Raymond Cannon begs Nell to save the day in a funny
role-reversal situation.

THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Only the most astute of film buffs know that the aged man in the
upstairs bedroom in this 1932 film is actually character actress
Elspeth Dudgeon.

OLIVER TWIST
Marie Doro repeated her notable stage success as Oliver in the 1916
film.

OUR GANG
In an early silent Our Gang comedy Joe Cobb and Mickey Daniels dress
up in drag.

PARAMOUNT ON PARADE
One of the hits of this 1930 all-star revue was 8-year-old Mitzi
Green who delightfully imitated Maurice Chevalier in formal male
attire.

PEGGY
Billie Burke spent much of the time in trousers in this 1915 comedy.

PEG OF OLD DRURY
Anna Neagle played Irish actress Peg Woffington, who dressed as a man
for a sword duel in this 1935 film.

PETER PAN
The title character is always played by a woman. Betty Bronson was
charming Peter in the superb silent version of 1924.

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
Marguerite Clark played the pauper boy in the 1915 film.

QUEEN CHRISTINA
Greta Garbo played the 17th century Swedish heroine with a penchant
for male attire in this 1933 film.

THE RETURN OF SOPHIE LANG
Gertrude Michael disguises herself as a male reporter in this 1936
film.

ROSALIE
As a Balkan princess attending Vassar in this 1937 film, Eleanor
Powell impersonates a West Point cadet to be near the young man she
loves.

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Leslie Howard dons many disuises to save aristocrats including an old
hag in this 1935 film.

SENORITA
Bebe Daniels disguises herself as a young Zorro-type to aid her
grandfather in this 1927 film.

SHE LOVES ME NOT
Miriam Hopkins witnesses a murder and takes refuge in a Princeton
dormitory. Collegiate Bing Crosby helps in her disguise as a male
student. 1934.

SHERLOCK HOLMES
Clive Brook adopts female disguise as the immortal sleuth in the 1932
film.

THE SILENT ACCUSER
Eleanor Boardman dons male attire to accompany her falsely convicted
boy friend to Mexico.

SING, YOU SINNERS
Fred MacMurray is Grandma while Bing Crosby is Grandpa in a musical
number in this 1938 film.

SWEET MUSIC
A group of college boys perform as chorus "girls" in the big campus
show in this 1935 film.

SYLVIA SCARLETT
Katharine Hepburn plays a girl on the lam with her father who
masquerades as his son to avoid detection in this 1936 film.

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
Mathilde Comont played the rotund Persian Prince in this 1924 film.

THIS IS THE ARMY
Alan Hale cavorts with an all-soldier group in the "Ladies of the
Chorus" production number in Irving Berlin's 1934 film.

THREE WISE CLUCKS
A 1931 short.

TREASURE ISLAND
Shirley Mason was cast as young Jim hawkins in the 1920 film.

TWO GIRLS WANTED
Janet Gaynor plays a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to get
employment in the big city in this 1927 film.

THE UNHOLY THREE
Lon Chaney and midget Harry Earles turn to a life of crime using as
their cover the disguise of "Grandmother" and "Baby" in the 1930
film.

UP THE RIVER
Arthur Treacher and Preston Foster escape prison in women's apparel
to "rub out" a confidence man who's putting the squeeze on a fellow
prisoner's mother in this 1938 film.

VIKTOR UND VIKTORIA
A 1933 German musical-comedy. Aspiring actress Renate Muller meets
vaudeville performer Hermann Thimig who does an act in a local
theatre in which he plays both the male character and the female
character. When he becomes ill one day, Renate impersonates him and
plays both parts on stage in reverse. Original version of
Victor/Victoria. Also remade into First A Girl.

THE WARRIOR'S HUSBAND
In this 1933 historical farce, Ernest Treux in the title role wears
silks and satins, with his hair and beard in corkscrew curls, while
his wife Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and sister Antiope wear the
armour and protect their land from invaders.

WEST OF THE PECOS
Zane Grey's story gave the leading lady the chance to shear her hair
and pretend she was a boy because "no woman was safe on the streets
of San Antonio". Martha Sleeper played the part in the 1934 version,
while Barbara Hale essayed the role in the 1945 remake.

WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD
A 1933 film. Two boys and a girl are unable to find work during the
Depression so they ride the rails, panhandle and steal, with the girl
passing as a boy.

WINGS OF THE MORNING
Annabella is a gypsy girl who marries a lord but who is banished upon
his death, by occult means, for four generations. She returns,
reincarnated, disguised as a boy. 1937

A WOMAN
Charlie Chaplin again impersonates a woman in this 1915 film.

ZOUZOU
The glamorous Josephine Baker appeared in this 1934 film about a
Creole laundress who romances a sailor and finally becomes a star of
the music halls.

This is hopefully a complete list of recent (post-1970) movies containing
tv/ts themes or at least tv/ts characters. I pulled this together from
several different lists floating around, adding some of my own. Ones marked
"not verified", I have not been able to verify either its existence or that
it contains tv/ts themes/characters. These are from "legitimate" film, etc.
There are many pornographic films produced starring she-males, showing men
dominated and forced into becoming women, etc.

A significant part of this (especially the early things) were taken from
the book "What A Drag - Men As Women And Women As Men In The Movies" by
Homer Dickens.

Any additions or corrections would be greatly appreciated.

Last Update: 6/4/91

Denise

ALEXINA
A 1985 French film telling the true story of a 19th-century
hermaphrodite, raised as a woman, who scandalizes a provincial French
town when "she" falls in love with another woman. It turns out "she"
is really a "he".

ALL OF ME
Lily Tomlin's soul gets put into Steve Martin's body. Very funny. 1984

AMERICAN DREAMER
An 80's movie starring JoBeth Williams and Tom Conti. JoBeth is a
housewife who enters a contest where the person who writes the best
"Rebecca Wright" (a marvelous woman detective) short story wins a
trip to Paris. The film opens with a sequence which turns out to be
her imagining the story she is writing. Rebecca captures the murderer
on a train and it turns out to be a guy disguised as a woman. 1984

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
This 1979 film opens with a black transvestite being put in jail for
attempted robbery of a taxi driver.

ANGEL
Starring Dick Shawn. Dick plays May a street walking transvestite who
befriends the parentless Angel in this sex murder shocker. Also has a
couple of other TV prostitutes. 1984

ANOTHER CHANCE
Has a scene where a dog, trained to pickup girls, picks up a tv.

APARTMENT ZERO
A 1989 black comedy thriller about a twisted relationship between two men
who share an apartment in Buenos Aires. It's awash in sexual paranoia and
death squad politics. Stars Colin Firth and Hart Bochner. One of the
supporting characters in the apartments in a sad, ladylike tv.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS
A 1986 film starring John Candy and Eugene Levy as an ex-cop and a
lawyer who take jobs as security guards. Features John Candy in drag.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WAYS
A really poor 1988 comedy that I suspect went straight to video.
Philip Quast stars as Wally who in trying to recover his stolen
banana-shaped bus goes through all kinds of crazy adventures and
impersonates everything from Elvis to a geisha.

AVENGING ANGEL
Sequel to Angel. 1985

BACHELOR PARTY
Starring Tom Hanks. Look for the Marilyn lookalike, who's also a
BMW mechanic. 1984

BACK TO THE FUTURE II
In this 1989 sequel Michael J. Fox portrays not only Marty but also
Marty Jr. and - briefly - Marty's daughter Marlene.

BANANAS
1971. Cut from the final print was a scene in which Woody Allen
masqueraded as a bewitching senorita.

BETTY BLUE
A French movie. Near the end the male lead dresses as a woman in
order to visit the female lead in the hospital. 1986

BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
Russ Meyer's Epic. One of the male characters turns out to have
breasts. 1970

BREAKOUT
Starring Charles Bronson and Robert Duvall. Action packed, violent
prison escape movie, with Duval the imprisoned son of an American
millionaire, who at one point tries impersonating a woman to escape. 1975

BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY
Starring Michael J. Fox. Stressed for success story of the excesses
of city life. Look for Stevie! 1988

BULL DURHAM
A 1988 film starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon. A rookie
pitcher, "Nuke" Laroosh wears Susan S's garter belt under his uniform
when he's pitching after becoming convinced it helps his control.

BUSTING
A 1974 film with Eliot Gould and Robert Blake as a pair of vice cops.
There's a courtroom scene involving two transvestites.

CABARET
Starring Joel Gray and Liza Minnelli. Includes a female impersonator
played by a professional female impersonator named Ricky Renee who
was American but had been residing in Germany for a number of years.
There had been an article about him several years before in the old
"Female Mimics" magazine (now "Female Mimics International"). Also in
one sequence, the mc (Joel Grey) dresses up as a woman for a skit. 1972

CALIGULA
The infamous 1979 Penthouse movie starring Malcolm McDowell and Peter
O'Toole. At one point, Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) decides he is no
longer content to be the god Caligula. He wants to be a goddess too,
so he declares he is the incarnation of Venus and starts appearing in
public dressed as the goddess. He also has a sex romp, as Venus, with
a young boy. Screenplay was by Gore Vidal.

CALL ME
Thriller starring Patti Charbonneau. A black tv is killed by a bad cop at
the beginning of the movie.

CAT o' NINE TAILS
Starring James Franciscus and Karl Malden. A violent murder mystery
with a dynamite scene in a gay bar full of delectable queens. 1971

THE CHRISTINE JORGENSEN STORY
A fairly low-budget, somewhat poorly made attempt to capture the
original sex-change's own story for the screen. Based on her
autobiography. Eddie Frank played George as a child, John Hansen
played Christine as a grownup. 1970

CIRCUS
This is a wonderful film for lots of reasons but one scene in particular
stunned me. It showed a circus family performing equestrian acrobatics and
it was apparent that the star was the little girl, who must have been about
10. She was so pretty, with blonde hair and wearing a beautiful dress,
riding on a horse. A rope tied to a harness around her waist protected her
from injury if she fell. Well, she did fall and as she swung through the
air her long blonde hair fell off!!! It was a wig and she was actually a
little boy. It was all part of the act.

CLEO/LEO
Erstwhile erotica director Chuck Vincent produced, wrote and directed this
1989 "sex reversal" comedy. Leo is a cigar-chomping, male-chauvinist
factory owner who falls into the river after being shot by a "pig" hating
woman. He later crawls out of the water as Cleo, a sexy, gentle woman who
lets him see how the other half lives and what a jerk he had been. Cleo
starts taking over more and more and eventually falls in love with Bob.
Unfortunately, Cleo got hired as a secretary at Leo's old company and had
been trying to buy up all the stock. His/her evil nephew has her kidnapped
and thrown into the water at, you guessed it, the same place Leo fell in
earlier. Needless to say, Leo crawls back out a changed man. Much more
sensitive and gentle due to Cleo's influence, he's actually still in love
with Bob. Since Leo's alive, the woman who shot him is released and she
waits in his apartment and empties her gun into him. Unexplainedly Cleo is
at her desk again the next day and everyone lives happily ever after. Jane
Hamilton stars as Cleo and Scott Baker as Leo. Not great but we'd all be
glad to come back looking like Cleo, I imagine. The only "drag" scene is
after Cleo is thrown in to drown and Leo crawls back out in Cleo's clothes.

THE COCA-COLA KID
In this 1985 film, Eric Roberts is tricked into attending a party with a
bunch of guys in drag.

COME BACK TO FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN
A 1982 film, based on the play, with Karen Black as woman at reunion who no
one can recall. She turns out to be a transsexual who was once Joe, the only
male member of the fan club. The irony rests in the fact that the women have
built their lives and their dreams around men, how to attract them, how to
keep them, how to bring them back, while the only man in the film has spent
his life learning how to be a woman.

COMING TO AMERICA
Eddie Murphy's recent hit, with Arsenio Hall as Eddie's date. 1988

THE COVER GIRL AND THE COP
A 1989 tv-movie starring Julia Duffy. I didn't see it, but I was told
there was a scene where a woman was diguised as a man.

CRIMES OF PASSION
Anthony Perkins again wore a dress in this 1984 movie.

CROCODILE DUNDEE
Has a tv customer in a bar. 1986

CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER
Starring Ted Wass. The replacement for Clouseau impersonates a female
for an assignment. 1983

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
Paul Jabora, as a female impersonator, thoroughly embarrasses Donald
Sutherland in this 1974 film.

DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID
Steve Martin plays James Cagney's mother in one scene. 1982

DEATHSTALKER
Movie with Barbi Benton in it. Swords and Sorcery. All the great fighters
are going to the castle to fight, to see who is the best. This is a ploy by
the evil sorcerer to kill all the great fighters. Deathstalker is among
them. At the castle, the sorcerer has a princess held captive (Barbi
Benton). He changes one of his henchmen into her, so that he/she can go and
kill him, when his guard is down.

DECEPTIONS
A 1990 (video release only?) film starring Harry Hamlin, Robert Davi, and
Nicollette Sheridan. Hamlin and Davi are cops who investigate the accidental
shooting of Sheridan's husband. Turns out to be a very twisted and elaborate
murder scheme, which includes an actor dressing as a pretty blonde, the
supposed "other woman."

DESPERATE LIVING
Ducking a murder rap, a deranged heiress and her obese maid flee to
the monarchy of Queen Carlotta. No Divine in this one, but does
include transvestism, the depiction of which is very demeaning and
offensive. 1977

DOG DAY AFTERNOON
Starring Al Pacino. Based on actual events. Pacino attempts,
unsuccessfully, to hold up a bank to obtain the money necessary for
his transexual girl friend's sex change operation. 1975

DR. CALIGARI
A bizarre 1990 film about an unusual sex therapist. She injects brain fluid
from a nymphomaniac into a man, turning him into a transvestite.

DR. JECKYL AND SISTER HYDE
Starring Martine Bestwicke. The ultimate tv/ts fantasy! Martine plays
Sister Hyde, who emerges when the doctor experiments with female
hormones. The transformation scenes are very, very well done, and the
surrounding story, involving the search for the Ripper is suspensful. 1972

DR. OTTO AND THE RIDDLE OF THE GLOOM BEAM
Jim Varney's first movie. (I suspect it was never released to the
theatres.) A really silly, bad movie. Varney plays numerous
characters, including an old woman. 1986

DRAGNET
In the 1988 film, at the end Tom Hanks rides up on the back of a
beautiful female cop's motorcycle. When he gets off she asks if he'll
be over that night and he says he has to, he's wearing her underwear.

DRAGONSLAYER
A 1981 Fantasy-Adventure. Caitlin Clarke plays a woman who posed as
a boy because the kingdom in which she lived (and the reason she
wanted the wizard) had a yearly lottery to select a victim for the
dragon in order to leave the kingdom in peace. She had been raised as
a boy by her father although she was a woman in order to escape the
lottery.

DRESSED TO KILL
Starring Michael Caine and Nancy Allen.A Brian Depalma thriller about
a knife wielding blonde, a vulnerable victim, and the always present
psychiatrist. 1980

DUTCH TREAT
A low budget 1987 comedy starring David Landsberg and Lorin Dreyfuss. While
passing themselves off as music business executives, a pair of cruise ship
entertainers become involved with a popular European singing group. Early on
they are doing a knife-throwing act with Landsberg as the target, in full
harem-girl dress.

ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS
Ernest P. comes to the rescue and saves Christmas. 1988 film has
Ersnet (Jim Varney) dressing as an old woman to help find Santa
Claus' replacement.

ESCAPE
Starring Timothy Bottoms. In this made for television film, Tim plays
an American who is caught smuggling drugs, and convicted to a dismal
mexican prison. He escapes, helped by his wife, by masquerading,
quite convincingly, as a pretty young woman. 1980

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Woody Allen's hilarious spoof of Dr. Ruben's book by the same name
includes one segment about transvestism, featuring Lou Jacobi as the
tv. 1972

THE EXPERTS
A 1989 farce with John Travolta and Arye Gross kidnapped by the KGB to tutor
their agents in American culture. Gross briefly dresses as a woman to help
them get to a plane for escape.

FAKE OUT
Starring Pia Zadora. The blonde in the car chase near the end is a
guy. 1982

FAST BREAK
Gabe Kaplan is a high school basketball coach who convinces Mavis Washington
to disguise herself as "Bobby" in order to play on the team.

FATAL GAMES
In this 1983 low budget flick, Sally Kirkland plays a transexual javelin
thrower who goes on a wild murdering rampage.

FELLINI SATYRICON
Alain Cuny as Lica the bride weds young Encolpio. 1970.

FEMALE TROUBLES
Divine plays two roles, Dawn Davenport and Earl Peterson, and gets to
fall in love with himself in this John Waters film. 1974

FIND THE LADY
Comedy with John Candy as a bumbling detective trying to find a kidnapped
lady. Much of the action centers around a night club where one of the
performers, who is also involved in the kidnapping, is a female impersonator.

A FINE MESS
Starring Howie Mandell and Ted Danson. Howie dresses up as the maid. 1986

FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES 1971
Homosexuality in prison is the theme. Michael Greer played Queenie,
an uninhibited homosexual who entertains fellow prisoners with a drag
show.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Starring Roger Moore. Action packed spy adventure with Roger, as
usual,attempting to save the world. Good action, funny dialogue,
terrific locations and scenery,includingthe bevy of Bond Girls, one
of whom is a post-operative transsexual in real life. 1981

FRANKENHOOKER
Very bizarre cultish movie about a guy who collects parts of hookers to
reconstruct a body for his fiancee who was chopped to bits by a runaway
lawnmower. The twist at the end is his head being put on a rebuilt body that
in mostly parts from women.

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN
Has Chrisopher Lee, I think in it. He is a scientist who believes that you
can trap a persons soul after death in an electrical field. He does this to
a man who was wrongly killed. He then waits for a body. It turns out to be
the woman he was with the night he was accused of killing someone. She was
pretty, but somewhat crippled. The doctor fixes that and puts the soul of
the man in the womens body. The soul of the takes control of the body and
kills the people who were really responsible for the murder.

FREEBIE AND THE BEAN
Starring James Caan and Alan Arkin. A cops and robbers chase film
with a murderously beautiful hit "lady" played by Chris Morley. 1974

FUN WITH DICK AND JANE
Starring George Segal and Jane Fonda. Dick and Jane are suddenly
unemployed memebers of the middle class who eventually turn to crime.
Very funny, with one scene where Dick, in line at the unemployment
office meets a transsexual fired for wearing a demure skirt to work. 1977

FUZZ
On a stake-out in a park hoping to snare a rapist, Burt Reynolds and
Jack Weston disguise themselves as nuns. 1972.

GHOST
1990 film starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, and Whoopi Goldberg. Swayze
dies and gets in touch with "fake" spiritualist Goldberg to help girldfriend
Moore. One scene where Swayze takes over Goldberg's body.

GLITCH
A really dumb film about 2 guys planning to rob a Hollywood producer, but
get involved with 2 other guys planning the same thing, some mafia men after
some money they laundered, and end up posing as the producer and his
assisstant for a casting call for lucious women. At the end they dress as
girls in an effort to escape.

THE GODDESS OF LOVE
1988 TV movie starring Vanna White. David Leisure poses as a blonde
woman to aid some crooks in stealing the statue of Venus.

GOING UNDERCOVER
1988 film starring Chris Lemmon and Lea Thompson. Third rate private-eye
Lemmon is hired to keep an eye on rich brat Thompson during a trip to Europe
- during which she's kidnapped. On an earlier stake-out he and a buddy are
trailing a beautiful blonde. After they trail her to a hotel, she comes out
of the building in black lace lingerie and starts shooting at them, but as
she comes into the light she's really a he.

THE GOLDEN GATE MURDERS
Starring David Jansen. David portrays a San Francico cop who helps a
visting nun solve a murder. The nun ends up at one point in a seedy
bar, where she is surprised by the bars "Chanteuse", one of
Finnochio's stars in a cameo role. 1979

GOOD-BYE CRUEL WORLD
Dick Shawn plays a reporter who decides to kill himself but first wants to
visit and make a video of his zany assortment of relatives. His twin brother
is an opera-singing drag queen.

GUNS
A 1990(?) "drive-in" movie features Chu Chu Malave and Richard Cansino as
transvestite hitmen.

HAIRSPRAY
The Last Divine movie. 1988

HARD WAY
1991 Michael J. Fox and James Woods film. Trivial scene where the "party
crasher", the psycho Woods is after, has killed a local transvestite.
Included only for completion.

HAUNTED HONEYMOON
A poor comedy, with Dom Deluise as chunky drag queen. 1986

HAWAIIAN HEAT
A pilot for a short-lived tv series, with tv informer, in dark seedy
bar.

HER LIFE AS A MAN
A 1984 TV movie, starring Robyn Douglas, based, loosely on article in
playboy. A woman disguises herself as a man in order to get a job as a
sportswriter.

HE'S MY GIRL
Hi Camp hi jinks, as black rock promotor, poses as white friend's
girlfriend in order for friend to win trip to Hollywood. 1987

THE HIDDEN
Fast moving, and entertaining sci fi, with aliens taking over human bodies.
The bad alien starts off with men's bodies, then very obviously goes
searching for a woman's body. It succeeds then escapes a trap. Within 5
minutes of escaping it has sex with a guy off the street and kills him.
It is obviously turned on by being in a woman's body. Then it very
erotically fondles its body's breasts. 1987

HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD
Low budget crime story, with many transgendered characters. Look for
the hitchhiker. 1986

HOLLYWOOD ZAP
A really poor movie about a Southern nerd going to LA to search for his long
missing father. At one point he dresses as a nurse to gain access to a
hospital's records. The kicker is that his dad turns out to be a transsexual
nun. Not worth seeing at all.

HOT CHILD IN THE CITY
Look for the Boy George clone, whose "split personality is all over
his/her face.

HOUSE CALLS
Walter Matthau plays a sexually aggressive widowed doctor who
discovers one morning, in a young woman's apartment, that his clothes
have disappeared and he has to resort to her attire in order to get
home. 1978.

HUSTLING
Starring Lee Remick. Miss Remick play an investigative reporter who
becomes involved in the lives of two street prostitutes. One of the
many people in their lives is a homosexual "queen" who competes with
the real girls for tricks. 1975

I WANT WHAT I WANT
Starring Anne Heywood. Based on the novel of the same name. a
sensitive story of man who simply wants to be a woman, and the
complications that result. 1972

I WANT TO BE A BEAUTY QUEEN
Divine (the actress, not the adjective) comedy

IF LOOKS COULD KILL
A 1991 James Bond spoof starring Richard Grieco. In one scene he's at a
casino baccarat table. He puts on some x-ray specs to check out the cards.
He takes a glance around the table and one gorgeous woman is actually a man
underneath her clothes. Very minor scene.

IN A YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS
A 1978 German film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder features an
extrodinary performance by Volker Spengler in the difficult role of a
pathetic transexual conceived and abandoned by his mother while her
husband was in a prison camp.

JO JO DANCER, YOUR LIFE IS CALLING
Richard Pryor autobiography. There was a stripper at the club where
Richard Pryor worked and one nite he impersonated her and her act and
wound up gettingh fire. 1986

JOSHUA THEN AND NOW
There was a scene where one guy is telling his friend his secret for
staying faithful to his wife. He wears lacy women's panties. Whenever
he is tempted to stray, all he has to do is think about how he would
explain his panties to this woman and that puts an end to it. 1985

JURY DUTY
An ABC movie planned for the 1989-90 season is an all-ABC star comedy
with Bronson Pinchot playing four roles, from the defendant to a
Geraldo Rivera-type reporter to a woman.

JUST ONE OF THE GUYS
Another girl to boy transformation. Terri changes schools and poses as a boy
in order to write a story for her school newspaper. 1985

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Starring William Hurt. 1985

THE KREMLIN LETTER
Starring Patrick O'Neal and George Sands. A confusing spy yarn with
Sands as an aging drag queen. 1970

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
the french classic involving a gay couple's female impersonator club,
a surprise visit by the son one of them never knew he had, and the
son's engagement to the minister for public morality. Very funny,
some very good scenes. 1978

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES 2
A somewhat disappointing sequal involving a gangleaders attempt to
get the club and the owner's escape to avoid the hired killers trying
to aid the takeover. 1980

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES 3
A third sequel. 1985

THE LADY IN QUESTION
In Charles Busch's hilarious spoof of WW II spy movies, the
actor/playwright plays the leading lady.

LADY LIBERTY
Starring Sophia Loren. A fair comedy whose plot revolves around
Sophia's attempts to bring an italian sausage into the U.S., with a
cameo by a famous female impersonator who has appeared in many Warhol
movies. 1972

THE LAST DRAGON
A kung fu musical with a largely black cast, featuring a shemale
theater goer. 1985

LAW OF DESIRE
A Spanish film by director Pedro Almodevar. Gay-oriented film features
Carmen Maura as a transsexual. 1987

LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN
Hubert Selby Jr.'s book has been made into a movie and features a
scene at a TV party in which the hero picks up a TV hooker named
Georgette and played by Rosanna Arquette's brother Alexis.

LE SOUFFLE AU COEUR
In Louis Malle's 1972 film, a young boy's identification with his mother
takes the form of putting on her makeup and wearing her robe. In one scene
he lays out her underwear and dress on the bed and falls on the bed in an
ecstasy of incestuous love.

LIFE OF BRIAN
Monty Python's 1978 film features Peter Cook in drag as Brian's mother, as
well as a male transvestite who is convinced that he should have been born a
woman. Also has a group of women (played by men) put on fake beards so that
they can attend a public stoning.

LIQUID SKY
A bizarre 1983 film starring Annie Carlisle and Paula Sheppard. An
alien lands on a NYC rooftop and observes the punky neighbors while
seeking a narcotic-like chemical produced by humans during sex. Carlisle
plays both a woman and an androgynous male. She also gives herself a
blow-job in one-scene!

THE LONGEST YARD
A prison is forced to field a team of convicts against the guard's
semi-pro football team. The mean machine, or the prisoner's team is
boosted by a trio of female impersonators who sing, and a group who
cheer them on to victory. 1974

LUST IN THE DUST
A Divine movie. 1985

MALIBU EXPRESS
Has female impersonator Michael Andrews (I think) going to a club
called the "Screaming Cockatoo" to meet another tv. 1985

THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT
A 1989 TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel starring Stephanie
Zimbalist, Edward Woodward, Tony Randall, Ken Howard, and Simon
Dutton. A murder mystery which involves a mysterious "man in a brown
suit". The killer disguised himself as a woman sometimes.

THE MAN WHO LIVED AT THE RITZ
A 1988 TV movie adaptation of A. E. Hotchner's novel about American
artist Philip Weber, whose life is disrupted when Nazi Reichsmarshall
Hermann Goering moves into the swanky Paris hotel. Goering (?) likes
to relax in women's clothes.

MASCARA 1987
A Belgian film starring Michael Sarrazin and Charlotte Rampling.
Sarrazin investigates a transvestite's lurid murder. Rampling helps
point out the crossdressers as she watches her brother sink into
psychosis as he's fallen in love with a hermaphrodite.

MEATBALLS II
John Laraquette plays one of the leaders at the competing military camp.
He has a closet full of fancy dresses and Flash, the main character, ends
up boxing in the inter-camp match, wearing one of the dresses.

ME, I'M YOU
A Japanese made-for-tv movie. Two high-school kids take a
tumble down some stairs. In the process, their personalities switch
bodies.

MIRACLE MILE
A 1989 drama starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. Edwards answers a
wrong number and gets advance warning that the "big one" is going to happen in
an hour. One of the customers in the diner where he gets the phone call is a
tv played, pretty well, by Danny de la Paz.

THE MISSOURI BREAKS
Lawman Marlon Brando, in one of his wild attempts to get outlaw Jack
Nicholson, dons a woman's disguise in this 1976 western drama.

MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE
An irreverant comedy satirical, sarcastic, yet often touching and
always original. The players often dress as woman, and often quite
convincingly so. 1983

MOON OVER PARADOR
While Shooting this 1988 film in Rio director Paul Mazursky decided
to shoot some scenes ahead of schedule, of the part of star Richard
Dreyfuss's mother (in the film) but co-star Judith Malina wasn't
available, so Mazursky, a former actor, slipped into a 'powerful'
black dress, support hose and high heels. "God they (the heels)
killed me but I liked the hose," said Mazursky. (Reported in the
Transvestian.)

MOVING
Starring Richard Pryor. Mildly funny movie about his adventures moving to
Boise, Idaho. He hires a kid to drive his SAAB who is a little too
good to be true. Turns out he has a multiple personality disorder.
The first one we see is a woman. The actor looked fairly good. 1988

MS .45
In this 1981 film Zoe Tamerlis gets raped twice, gets her "revenge" by
murdering every male in sight. Near the end, at a Halloween party, there is
a man dressed as a bride.

MULTIPLE MANIACS
From the "Calvalcade of Perversions" to Divine's tragic rape by a
giant lobster, something to offend everyone. 1970. Divine is also raped by a
man wearing a dress.

MURDER ME, MURDER YOU
Pilot for the Mike Hammer tv show, with tvillainess. 1983

MUTANTS IN PARADISE
A really cheap, poor 1988 film. A scientist tries to create the world's
first radiation-proof man. One scene where a Russian spy masquerades as a
secretary. Very poor job, not intended to pass.

MYRA BRECKENRIDGE
Starring Raquel Welch. Based on the bizarre novel by Gore Vidal.
Raquel portrays a transexual who attempts to take over an aging
producer's studio, and who is haunted by her dead male persona. 1970.

NEVER TO YOUNG TO DIE
Adventure film, with former Kiss member, Gene Simmons, as a murderous
hermaphrodite. 1986

A NEW LIFE
Starring Alan Alda and Ann Margret. Dating after divorce, and the
shemale dangers! 1988

NIGHTHAWKS
A Sylvester Stallone cop movie. One scene has Stallone disguised as a woman
to trap the bad guy. Doesn't really do drag, just puts on a wig and gown
to look like a woman from the back. 1981

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3
Freddie's back this time in the naked body of a sexy nurse. 1987

NINJA 3, THE DOMINATION
Sexy aerobibod possessed by life force of male ninja. 1984

NOBODY'S PERFECT
It's Tootsie-with-teens as Lowe stars as a lovesick kid who'll do anything
to get his tennis-playing dreamgirl ... anything. Stephen becomes Stephanie
and joins the women's tennis team to win the girl - love, set, and match!

NOBODY'S PERFEKT
A 1981 comedy with Robert Klein, Alex Karras, and Gabe Kaplan as 3
messed up guys who decide to sue the city after their car is wrecked
by a pothole. Klein's character has multiple personalities, one of which
is a woman.

NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS
A 1979 Disney production.

NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
A 1991 film with Chevy Chase and Demi Moore as Manhattan yuppies who detour
into a time-forgotten trashville, where they are persecuted and prosecuted
by local potentate Dan Aykroyd. John Candy plays a constable and also the
Justice of the Peace's granddaughter, Eldona Valkenheiser.

NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLETT
Starring Valerie Bertinelli and Billy Dee Williams. A cop story. One
of the lead cops dresses as a woman and apprehends a crook who is
also dressed as a woman. 1987

NUNS ON THE RUN
A 1990 film with Eric Idle and Rodney Coltrane as criminals on the run,
posing as nuns.

ONCE BITTEN
Vampire comedy, with unsuspecting male virgin hit on by shemale! 1985

ONE POLICE PLAZA
A police drama starring Robert Conrad. There is a scene where a tv
prostitute is being questioned.

OUR MISS FRED
A 1971 British wartime comedy starred England's foremost female
impersonator, Danny La Rue. Never released in the US.

OUT FOR JUSTICE
A 1991 Steven Seagal film. One scene with an aging tv in jail.

OUTRAGEOUS
Craig Russell stars as a gay hairdresser from Toronto with a gift
for mimicry which eventually brings him to NYC as a female
impersonator. 1977

PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE
Pee Wee dresses up in one scene. 1985

PENITENTIARY 3
Low budget prison flick with Jim Bailey as prison king's gun moll. 1987

PERFECTLY NORMAL
A 1991 Canadian comedy starring Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley and Deborah
Duchene. A standard odd-couple buddy-comedy formula: introvert and extrovert
clash, bond, achieve happy medium. Turner (Coltrane) manipulates Renzo
(Riley) for his own benefit but also tries to bring him out of his shell and
make him dream a little bigger. It all converges at La Traviata, with Renzo
on stage in a dress and blond wig, singing an aria while his girlfriend and
hockey pals look on, pleasantly surprised.

PERSONAL SERVICES
Naive working woman stumbles into a career as a madam, and becomes
bolder as her business prospers. One customer is a transvestite. 1987

THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
Starring Michael Pare and Nancy Allen. A sci fi flick with Pare
catapulted forward 40 years in the future to 1983. A terrific scene
where the old-fashioned male meets a new-fashioned shemale. 1984

PINK CHIQUITAS
A really bad 1986 film starring Frank Stallone. A meteor crashes into the
earth and emits sounds which turn all the women into raving nymphomaniacs.
There is a really effeminate gay who is also affected and joins the women in
a celebration decked out in drag and stays in (very poor) drag the rest of
the film.

PINK FLAMINGOS: A TRIP THROUGH DECADENCE
Follows two families vying for the title of "filthiest people alive."
Edith Massey is unforgettable as the retarded egg lady, and Divine's
legendary dog-doo nosh almost pales beside the chicken-fuck sequence.
1972

PINK NARCISSUS
A 1971 film.

PINK PANTHER MOVIES - VARIOUS
Starring Peter Sellers. Farsical slapstick humor, often very funny.
The humor often centers on the inspector's confusion, and he is often
confused by female impersonators. One has a TV hitlady, another has a
tough-guy female impersonator, most have at least one TV in the cast.
In the last one the inspector, this time played by Ted Wass,
impersonates a female for an assignment.

POLICE ACADEMY 3
Third in the Police Academy series. This one (and possibly other?)
has Bubba Smith in drag. 1986

POLYESTER
Humiliated by her philandering husband, sluttish daughter and
crazed son, Francine Fishpaw (Divine) seeks redemption in the
arms of stud puppet Tab Hunter. 1981

PRIVATE PARTS
In Paul Bartel's 1973 film, John Ventantonio plays George, who is supposed
to be a cross-dressing female.

PRIVATE SCHOOL
Starring Mathew Modine and Phoebe Cates. A semi-funny, semi-stupid
animal house clone with the men of the Freemount Academy dressing up
to visit the girls of Cherryvale. 1983

Q & A
It features several queens. I recognized one of the ladies as being
"for real." She did a very good job of acting. (WR)

RAN
Akira Kurosawa's 1985 Japanese masterpiece. The old warlord's
jester(?) is played by Peter, who is the most celebrated female
impersonator in Japan.

RAW DEAL
A muscular thriller, with Arnold Schwarzenegger busting up female
impersonation club. 1986

REAL MEN
A CIA spy spoof comedy (and not a great movie) with James Belushi and
John Ritter. About the mid-way point in the movie, the two visit
James' parents. They are greeted by James' mother who informs James
that his father just got back from the hospital and that he looks
great. James and his mother leave John in the living room and go
into the kitchen. At that point a tall, very sexily dressed woman
comes down the stairs and finds John. She starts making eyes at him,
goes to him, embraces him, and pushes him backwards onto the couch
where she proceeds to kiss and fondle him. Suddenly James and his
mother appear from the kitchen and decorum returns to the two on the
couch. James spies the lady on the couch and goes over, greeting his
"father." James then proceeds to explain to John about his father's
mid-life crisis and trip to Sweden for "the OP." 1987

The woman speaks softly and has a somewhat husky voice. She is
played in the movie by Dyanne Thorne. Some people think she might be
a ts.

RED HEAT
1988 police action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi.
One of the Russian criminals is killed in the hospital by a fairly
attractive nurse who is really a man.

A REFLECTION OF FEAR
In William Fraker's 1973 film, Sondra Locke plays a psychotic young girl who
is eventually revealed to be a male raised as a girl by his mother.

REVENGE OF THE NERDS
Jocks as cheerleaders. 1984

RIDERS OF THE STORM
A film starring Dennis Hopper and Michael J. Pollard that revolves
around a plot to make a man in drag (Nigel Pegran) president. 1986

RIFKIN: DETECTIVE
Starring Ron Liebman. A well done amusing detective story nicely
combining story and action. Rifkin collars one wrong doer in La Cage
Au Folle female impersonator club, and encounters a few of the bars
patrons on the dance floor.

RISKY BUSINESS
Starring Tom Cuise. A very funny comedy about a high school boys plans
for getting laid and into Princeton (not necessarily in that order)
and how his plans for both go awry and come together. Look for
Jackie, the call "girl". 1983

THE RITZ
Jery Stiller is put into drag by the clientele at a gay bath-house.
1976. Paul Price, Jack Weston, and F. Murray Abraham also mime to an
Andrews Sisters record in a gay bath-house contest.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
The classic cult film starring Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and
Tim Curry as the "sweet transvestite from Transyvania". Barry
Bostwick also appears in garter belt, etc. 1975

ROLLER BLADE WARRIORS: TAKEN BY FORCE
A low-budget 1989 film about female soldiers in the post-apocalyptic future.
in the opening a boy is drugged, dressed up, fairly convincingly, in wig,
makeup, and a pretty nightgown, and offered as a sacrifice to some mutated
creature who feeds on females.

THE ROSE
Starring Bette Midler. The semi-biographical story of a
self-destructive rockstar. One of the characters is the M.C. at the
Queen Mary in Santa Monica, a female impersonator club. 1979

SECOND SERVE
Renee Richards autobiography. TV (no pun) Movie. 1988

SHADEY
It's principal character was a TS but the subject of transsexualism
was not the subject of the show. He was given a talent which he
could sell, namely being able to transfer thoughts to film by
holding the camera to his head. He sold this ability to people in
"intelligence" in order to get money for his upcoming surgery. 1985

SHARKEY'S MACHINE
Michael Andrews plays a hooker named Rachael/Ralph who gets brought in
with a group of street hookers early in the film. 1981

A SINFUL LIFE
Anita Morris, Rick Overton, and Dennis Christopher star in this really weird
film centering around a sexy lady and her retarded (?) daughter and their
strange neighbors, one of whom is a tv. 1989

SLAMMER GIRLS
A really bad spoof of women's prison movies. A reporter goes undercover to
expose things but it's done very silly. He has a moustache and all he does
is put on a wig.

SMALL KILL
In an upcoming horror flick, Gary Burghoff, MASH's Radar, portrays an old
lady.

SOMETHING SPECIAL
Little girl gets wish, and becomes little boy. 1986

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
I remember seeing this on tv. It was about a carnival that came to town that
was evil. It was their to get bodies/souls. One of the people caught was a
man who paid to see a harem of beautiful women. He was later seen in the
carnival as the bearded woman. This was based a book by the same title.

SPIES, LIES, AND NAKED THIGHS
A silly 1988 made-for-tv comedy about the search for an assassin who
uses cookie cutters and food-processor blades. Stars Harry Anderson,
Ed Begley, Jr., and Linda Purl. The assassin, Hilda, turns out to
actually be her brother Gunther, who has a split personality. In the
revealing scene Brent Carver is Hilda/Gunther, although earlier in
the movie Hilda was actually played by Maria Mayenset.

SPLITZ
A really poor battle-between-the-sororities movie involving an all-girl rock
band. The girls of the band dress up the dean's husband and take pictures to
blackmail the dean. One of the girls is from a mob family and one of the
guys in the family dresses up as a girl to get into the girls' locker room.

SPRING FEVER USA
A pretty cheaply-made 1989 tittilation movie. Very little plot, lots of
pretty women. There is one interesting scene. The male lead and a female
helper are searching for his kidnapped girl friend. They're in some store
and he tells two young salesgirls he wants some lingerie. They get pretty
excited and start talking back and forth about all the things they can do
with him. They seem rather disappointed to learn that he wants it for his
friend, not himself.

STICKY FINGERS
A 1988 movie starring Helen Slater and Melanie Mayron. A modern
retelling of Some Like It Hot. Two financially-starved musicians
spend some drug money and then go on the run from the drug people.
There is a scene where one of their friends dresses up as a man
complete with moustache and a cop who works in drag to catch the drug
runner.

STIR CRAZY
Starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. A very funny comedy with
George Stanford Brown dressing very realistically to escape from
prison with Richard and Gene. 1980

STITCHES
Medical comedy with interns as nurses. 1985

STRIPPED TO KILL
Erotic little 1987 thriller, in a strip club. Kay Lenz is a cop who goes
undercover as a stripper to find a murderer. The stripper Roxanne turns out
to really be her own brother Eric. Roxanne/Eric is played by Pia Kamakahi.

STUFF STEPHANIE IN THE INCENERATOR
A very strange 1990 video release. Very bizarre story about 3 rich people
who role-play a "game" each year. One guy plays Robert/Roberta throughout
this year's game.

THE STUNT MAN
Starring Peter O'Toole. An interesting, confusing film, where nothing
seen should be believed. Reality and fantasy collide and merge in
this stylish film involving a seemingly crazy producer and his new
stuntman, a man with a past. One of the scenes has a beautiful "girl"
who surprises the young stuntman. 1980

SUMMER LOVERS
Starring Daryl Hannah. A light, entertaining story of a young
American couple who drift into a menage-a-trois with a comely Greek
anthropologist. A sub plot involves a producer filming a movie in the
Isles, Starring a shemale. 1982

SURRENDER
A 1987 movie starring Michael Caine and Sally Field. Caine plays a
writer who thinks all women are out to rob him. A street hooker robs
him early in the movie. Late in the movie he finds the same hooker
and lures her to his house intending to rob her get revenge. He
discovers she is really a he.

THE SURROGATE
A 1984 whodunit about a couple who turn to a sex surrogate to solve
their marital problems. Shannon Tweed stars as one member of the
couple and top female impressionist Jim Bailey stars as her best
friend.

SWITCH
An upcoming Blake Edwards film starring Ellen Barkin as a male chauvinist
who dies and comes back as a beautiful woman. She has to put up with all
the male b.s. she dished out in her previous life.

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
A 1990 release from Walt Disney's new Hollywood Pictures. Jim Belushi
plays an escaped con who finds over-organized businessman Charles Grodin's
Filofax and assumes his identity. One scene calls for Belushi to dress
like a woman and he says it had a profound impact. He wore fake nails,
heels, dress - and bean bags on his chest. "I was the ugliest woman on
the face of the earth. Thank God I have a son." He was annoyed at "the
way the guys on the set were looking at me and making cracks. Now I see
what women have to put up with. It's tough." Reported in USA Today 2-22-90.

TANGO AND CASH
A 1989 release starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell and the top
two cops in LA who use very different methods and are forced to work
together. The previews show Kurt Russell in drag.

THE TENANT
Starring Roman Polanski. Roman plays the tenant, a shy, withdrawn man
who's personality, and later, physical appearance are overcome by the
"spirit" of a woman, when he moves into her apartment after she has
committed suicide. From the book by Roland Topor. 1976

THAT SINKING FEELING
The low-budget first feature by ill Forsyth, the director of "Gregory's
Girl," "Local Hero," "Housekeeping" and "Breaking In." "That Sinking
Feeling" is a shaggy dog of a movie, about a group of unemployed
adolescents' loopy heist of a plumbing supply warehouse. Contains a
character who for the purposes of plot has to dress up like a girl. Unlike a
film like "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," for example,where Jeff Bridges oh so
reluctantly dons drag in order to divert the night watchman, Forsyth has the
wit to make his character a latent TV who enjoys becoming a girl. I've never
seen Tvism expressed so innocently, so free of the smirking judgment we're
used to and that's exactly the root of Forsyth's gentle humor: he laughs
with a loving eye.

THEATRE OF BLOOD
Diana Rigg plays the daughter of a hammy Shakespearean actor uses
several male disguises to aid him as he seeks revenge on 8 critics
who denied him a top theatrical award in this 1973 film.

THEY STILL CALL ME BRUCE
This martial arts satire has Bruce posing as a Japanese woman in a
massage parlor. 1987

THREE FUGITIVES
A 1989 film starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short as men on the run
with a little girl. Since the police are looking for 2 men and a
little girl, Martin Short dresses as a woman part of the time.

THREE MEN AND A BABY
Hit comedy with Ted Danson posing as baby's mom. 1987

THREE WOMEN
A 1977 Robert Altman film. Not verified.

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT
Starring Clint Eastwood & Jeff Bridges. An interesting film, half
crime story, half character study. Jeff and Clint play partners in
crime whose path across the country is marked by strange
aquaintenances, and ultimate tragedy. Jeff plays a convincing blonde
temptress, to lure a security guard astray. 1974

THE TIGER IS LOOSE
Starring Eli Wallach. Based on the play. Eli Wallach plays a lonely
mailman who's attempts to kidnap a lovely mate are largely
unsuccessful. One of his potential kidnap victims turns out to be a
fetching female impersonator.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Mel Brooks film with Jewish man posing as woman to avoid gestapo. 1983

TOKYO POP
A 1988 film about an American girl who goes to Tokyo to sing in a
rock and roll band. The first person she finds in Tokyo who speaks
English is an effeminate tv/ts. Also later in the film at a new wave
club there is a rock singer performing who has very long, very
femininly styled hair and an outfit that is very feminine looking.

TOO OUTRAGEOUS!
Sequel to Outrageous. 1987

TOOTSIE
Starring Dustin Hoffman. The modern classic, with Dustin an
unemployed actor who becomes Dorothy to get a job. The
transformation has to be seen to be believed. A very funny, engaging
film. 1982

TORCH SONG TRILOGY - Harvey Firestein
A 1988 movie starring Harvey Fierstien and Matthew Broderick about the
pre-aids gay lifestyle. From the play of the same name. The basic
story is about a drag queen's search for love and respect in his
life.

TOTAL RECALL
1990 SF adventure with Arnold Schwarzeneger as a victim of memory erasure.
He wears an elaborate female-head construct as part of a disguise to enter
the Mars colony.

THE TOY
Richard Pryor found a reason to wear a dress in the comedy. 1982

TRANCERS (FUTURE COP)
A cop from the future, travels in time, and from his body to a young
girl's. 1985

TRASH
A 1970 Warhol/Morrissey film, featuring Warhol's favorite female
impersonator, Holly Woodlawn.

TRENCHCOAT
Starring Margot Kidder and Robert Hays. An action spy comedy
involving novelist Kidder involved unwittingly in international
intrigue, with a female impersonator, and a female impersonation
club, playing an integral part of the twisted plot. ( believe it or
not, a Disney Film with female impersonators) 1983

TRICIA'S WEDDING
This 1970 film presents "The Cockettes", a collection of female
impersonators.

THE TRIPLE ECHO (AKA SOLDIER IN SKIRTS)
Starring Brian Deacon as a reluctant soldier who is hidden by a
sympathetic farm woman, by posing him as her sister. He is reluctant
at first but begins to adapt into the role a little too much. 1973

TUCKER AND THE HORSE THIEF
A Showtime children's special. A young girl poses as a boy in Gold
Rush-era California, but eventually reveals her true self.

TUNE IN TOMORROW
A 1990 release, has Peter Falk dressing in a number of costumes, one of
which is a French Maid's uniform. Very bad drag!

200 MOTELS
In Tony Palmer's 1971 film, Flo (Marv Volman of Flo and Eddy) plays himself
and also does a drag imitation of a blonde groupie infatuated with rock
musicians.

UP IN SMOKE
Tommy Chong wears false breasts to facilitate hitchhiking and Cheech Marin
wears a tutu and sings about being a queen who wears panty hose. 1978

VIRGIN MACHINE (DIE JUNGFRAUENMASCHINE)
Your typical foreign film about a woman who ends an affair with her
brother and takes up with a pretty male impersonator. In this film
directed by Monika Treut, Ina Blum plays Dorothee Muller, a German
journalist whose experiences with the opposite sex have convinced her
that men and women "are victims of their biology." In search of
"romantic love," she movies from Berlin to San Francisco, where she
becomes "sisters" with Dominique, a hunky Hungarian, and gamely dives
into the world of all-female bliss. On the streets of SF, she meets
Susie Sexpert, a lesbian so notorious she even has a dildo named
after her. At Susie's prodding, Dorothee attends a female strip show
that's for ladies only, and she quickly surrenders to the charms of
the star attraction, a male impersonator-cum-sex therapist named
Ramona.

VICE VERSA
1988 comedy with Judge Rheinhold and Fred Savage, father and son, switching
places. Near the end of the film the bad guys, a man and a woman, goof and
end up switching places with each other.

VICTOR/VICTORIA
Starring James Garner and Julie Andrews. A woman masquerades as man
playing a female impersonator. Also has Robert Preston in drag. 1982

WELCOME TO 18
A 1987 teen titillation yarn about 3 girlfriends who spend their
first summer out of high school experiencing life in the fast lane in
Nevada. Has some cross-dressing by one guy.

WHAT A DRAG
Not verified.

WHITE MISCHIEF
A 1988 movie about a British colony in Kenya's Happy Valley during
the early days of WWII. The residents are into all kinds of kinky
things. There is one scene where everyone attending a dance is
cross-dressed.

WHO IS HARRY CRUMB?
A 1989 film with John Candy playing a "master of disguise", one of
which is apparently a woman. (I've only seen the newspaper ads.)

THE WHOOPEE BOYS
A 1986 comedy starring Michael O'Keefe and Paul Rodriguez about two
crazy guys who try to fake their way into a group of society people.
At the end, Paul Rodriguez poses as a bride and actually marries one
of the society guys who has been hassling them, while O'Keefe runs
off with the real bride.

WITCHBOARD
A horror flick, with evil spirit of male axe murderer taking over
lush female body of Tawny Kitaen. 1985

WITHOUT A CLUE
A 1988 Sherlock Holmes satire starring Michael Caine and Ben
Kingsley. Leslie Giles, the daughter of the man who is kidnapped and
forced to counterfeit money turns out to be an impostor. The real
Leslie turns out to be a transvestite.

THE WOMAN INSIDE
Starring Gloria Mannon. A somewhat soapy tale with Mannon playing a
vietnam veteran who comes back from the war with one goal: to become
the woman inside. This movie tracks her progress, and her change.
Some of the cast members are actual tv's and ts's. 1981

WOMEN IN REVOLT
Andy Warhol's 1972 film was a mad comment on women's lib. The three
heroines of the film were female impersonators.

THE WOMEN'S CLUB
1987 film with Michael Pare as a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who
supplements his income by fulfilling the sexual fantasies of Beverly Hills'
most affluent women. Near the end his friend, an aspiring actor is working
on a part in drag and runs around in a dress and wig for quite a while.

WONDERLAND
Two 16-year-old boys run away looking for adventure, but get into trouble
after witnessing a murder at a Liverpool transvestite club, The Fruit
Machine.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
Starring Robin Williams. Based on the novel by John Irving. An
honest, emotional novel of growing up male, and female in a male
dominated world. John lithgow was nominated for an Oscar for his
performance as the transexual Roberta. 1982

YENTL
Barbara Striesand stars as a young Jewish girl who disguises herself
as a boy in order to study the Talmud. 1983

YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE
A hospital spoof movie starring Sean Young. A mobster's son, played
by Hector Elizondo, goes drag to get into the hospital to see him. He
gets more into the drag as the movie goes on. The ending credits say
he went on to run a female impersonator club. 1982

ZORRO, THE GAY BLADE
A pivotal scene in the book and movie has the gay Zorro dressed as a
beautiful?? woman. 1981

Chevalier Publications
Box 194
Tulare, CA 93275
(This is Virgina Prince's. I'm not certain she/he's still in business.
I picked up four or five of the chapbooks from "A Different Light" a
gay bookstore in Silverlake (LA) a few years ago, but they no longer
carry them. They are, for the most part, set in 50s settings, and are
generally Transvestite fantasies.)

Sandy Thomas
P.O.Box 1327
Studio City, CA 91604
(These were at the same bookstore above on my most recent visit. There
were a bunch of different titles, so I assume they are recently
published. Most are real Transsexual fantasies.)

[Tim Kuehn]

I found this 260K article in rec.arts.books. Do with it what you will.
(I punted it from my system.)

In article <46...@inews.intel.com> bew...@winona.intel.com (Bob Ewoldt) writes:
>Following is version 4 of a list of books, theater, movies, tv shows, short
>stories, etc that contain some short of gender "confusion". The request had
>been originally for gender transformations/mutations/swapping. This has
>expanded to include transvestites, transexual, cross dressing, and any other
>similiar concept. This list in the most part was not compiled by me. I
>recieved the bulk of this from dnic...@goddess.csc.ti.com (Dan Nichols).
>He already has these lists compiled. I added some to them.
>
>This list has not been error corrected in any way. If I waited that long
>I would have never got to posting it. Any addition, modification, would be
>accepted

The first modification - DO NOT POST ARTICLES > 50K in size to the net! It
severely breaks certain news machines, not to mention taking an unexcusable
amount of time to send through 2400 baud newslinks.

Take a browse through news.announce.newusers. You need a miss-manners
lesson on proper posting behavior!

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[Derek Oldfather]

>>This list has not been error corrected in any way. If I waited that long
>>I would have never got to posting it. Any addition, modification, would be
>>accepted

TK> The first modification - DO NOT POST
TK> ARTICLES > 50K in size to the net! It
TK> severely breaks certain news machines,
TK> not to mention taking an unexcusable
TK> amount of time to send through 2400 baud newslinks.

Especially since he cross posted it to several areas.

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