We Will Always Recognize Each Other
No Ordinary Man, 2020
The jazz musician Billy Tipton is something of a totem of transmasculinity, a figure of mythical proportion. Some of you know I’ve been writing (trying to write) a book inspired by him for years. He’s fascinating and incredible, and not for the reasons you think.
Tipton played regional jazz in the 1950s. He met Duke Ellington. He was mentored by the Tea…
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