The moment that changed queer history occurred on a sweltering day in early 1952 in Algiers. An effeminate teenage boy named ...

PARIS (AP) — Decades before transgender became a household word and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” became a worldwide hit — before visibility brought rights and recognition — there was Bambi ...

What Pruvot — who would become famous under the female stage name ''Bambi'' — witnessed was more than mere performance. It was an act of resistance from the ashes of the Nazi persecution of ...

Bambi waited cautiously until her best friends, Coccinelle and April Ashley, had safely undergone procedures from the late 50s before doing the same herself. Each night required extraordinary courage.

Marie-Pierre Pruvot, 89, known as Bambi, one of the first trans women in the world to become a public star, and a pioneer in global LGBTQ+ history, poses during an interview with the Associated ...

PARIS (AP) — Decades before transgender became a household word and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” became a worldwide hit — before visibility brought rights and recognition — there was Bambi ...

Before the Word ‘Transgender’ Existed, There Was Bambi, the Dazzling Parisian Icon PARIS (AP) — The moment that changed queer history occurred on a sweltering summer day in early 1950s Algeria.