Billy Tipton: Reluctant Trans Icon
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Billy Tipton: Reluctant Trans Icon
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In 1989, jazz musician Billy Tipton died from a bleeding ulcer. Examinations of his body revealed a startling reality: Billy was assigned female at birth. From 1935-1989, Billy lived as a male jazz musician, husband, and adoptive father of three boys. The revelation of Billy’s transmasculine persona in death was fodder for the tabloid media in a time of ignorance about transgender lives. Today, Billy is revered as a pioneer of the trans experience and a talented jazz icon.
- "A Final Tribute to Billy Tipton." FTM, Issue 07 (March 1989)
- “Billy Tipton” topic in Digital Transgender Archive
- Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano (1957) (YouTube)
- "Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton" By Diane Wood Middlebrook · 1998 (Google Books)
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Artwork: Brittany Schall
Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod