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tyneoconnell · 5 years

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Where are the Great #Transgender Celebrities of History? Like women they were ghosted by #Bigoted #victorian #Historians but as I write about the world’s first transgender celebrity Mal Frith - born #MaryFrith in 1585 & cocked-a-snook at all who judged her choice to be a man from aged 16 I am full of admiration ⚜️By 1610 Mal Frith was A household name throughout Europe & though the word transgender didn’t exist they were a growing force written about & sung about ⚜️In 1610 Famous playwrights wrote The #RoaringGirl a sellout play based on his life transgendering & Salons celebrated the mutability of gender in the #ModernAge⚜️ #Puritans wrote thousands of pages of diatribe against women living as men & burned them as witches ultimately triggering the Civil Wars ⚜️In 1642 Mal Frith the original Roaring Girl became a highwayman robbing #Puritan grandees including #GeneralFairfax & giving it to the Royalist army of #artists #poets & #LBGTQs ⚜️After 1649 #Cromwells Puritan Military Dictatorship’s #moral & racial-cleansing carried out genocides on #LGBTQs & #Irish #Scottish #Cornish & #Welsh #Celts slaughtering over 30% of the civilian population 😢Mal died in 1659 But #books plays, songs & #poetry continued to be written about him for the next 200 years ⚜️400 years later we need to remember & honour the sparkling bravery of Mal Frith & those he inspired for he claimed, demanded & fought for the right to be a man despite being born a girl! We need to reject the bigoted historians who ghosted the LGBTQs & women of history & #Celebrate & raise a glass to the original Roaring Girl Mal Frith ⚜️🥂🍾⚜️😘 (at The National Liberal Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1o6sXeg5nv/?igshid=bstb8jodkkvu

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tyneoconnell · 4 years

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I’m campaigning to re-erect the #LGBTQ monument honouring the worlds 1st #celebrity #transgender Polymath Mal Frith - erected in #stpaulscathedral in 1659 Born Mary c1587 Frith Lived dressed fought acted smoked wrote died & was buried as a man in 1659 on the 26th July - a date I’d like enshrined in the calendar for Frith was a giant of history! His extraordinary life as a #transman honoured by the monument in St Paul’s adorned with the first poem celebrating Trangender by #JohnMilton - When #InigoJones St Paul’s burned down in the Great Fire 1666 - Frith’s monument was destroyed & his grave moved to #stbrides #fleetstreet - Frith was an ardent Royalist Celebrated throughout the #Restoration & 18thC as the embodiment of the #espiritdecorps cour of the halcyon days of the Jacobean & Carolean 1603-1641 Numerous playwrights based plays on Frith’s extraordinary life! In 1642 he became a national hero for his bravery in the Civil Wars when Puritans fought against #Royalists #dandies #artistslibertarians & LGBTQs - Frith shot #Puritan #generalfairfax in the shoulder & relieving him of £4000 which he personally gifted to KingCharlesI to fund his cause. Fairfax was 2nd in command to Cromwell Puritan Army! #MalFrith embodied #queerlife bravery, eccentricity daring & individualism the Stuart monarchy nurtured from 1603 when the son of #MaryqueenofScots King JamesI Ascended to the throne after the repressive regime of Queen ElizabethI - JamesI was Britain’s first openly #queer monarch whose most controversial act was liberating the population to wear what they wanted regardless of class or gender unleashing a trend for #crossdressing & flamboyancy which enraged the vocal & violent Puritan minority & thrilled LGBTQ torchbearers of the #Baroque & #ScientificRevolution #shakespeare #sirfrancisbacon #marywroth #inigojones #maryherbert #lgbtqpride https://www.instagram.com/p/CCMP2edA6eU/?igshid=ezi79jppauyt

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