Thursday, June 12, 2008

Baby Dee: Cleveland’s Harp Playing Transgender Legend

by Jacob Anderson-Minshall
The San Francisco Bay Times

Fifty-something classically- trained musician, Baby Dee - who just began releasing albums this decade - has an eclectic resume (including stints as go-go girl and circus freak).

“All that stuff about my life - the oddities and stupidities of it, I find incredibly boring,” insists Dee now.

“At first,” Dee acknowledges about her carnival act, “I really, really hated having…half my body be perceived as male. But after the first week I got to enjoy it. I’d catch a man’s eye as a girl and then whirl around…and I’d be the guy and say, ‘What the fuck are you looking at, you fucking faggot?’ It was great fun!”

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