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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Yee Haw!

Over 100 people attended the Colonel’s Ball, and the other events spread throughout the weekend each drew 30 to 40 people.

One of the highlights of the ball is always the silent auction, which this year contained everything from gift baskets for animal lovers to solar-powered cell-phone chargers, framed photographs of flowers and snow leopards to prints of naked men.

The Round-Up benefits the Cleveland LGBT Center, which provided 15 volunteers for the Colonel’s Ball including some board members. The Wranglers will make their check presentation at the Shed, which is their home bar.

In addition to the ball, the weekend also included dancing on Friday and Sunday nights at the Shed, a bar on Detroit Avenue, and a dance workshop on Saturday afternoon.

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