Old enough to remember #UK having a sense of fair play about it. [Sorry #AprilAshley you were treated horrifically as you were both beautiful and #Trans ]
I just don't have any sense that the #BBC remembers this in its cack handed blundering haste to bin a presenter to insulate their reputation.
Day 20: April Ashley MBE 🏳️⚧️
A true pioneer & one of the first Britons to transition surgically. From a VOGUE model to a legal trailblazer, her 2004 win for the Gender Recognition Act changed history. A life of glamour, grit, and unapologetic truth. 👑 #LGBTHistoryMonth #AprilAshley
![Former Man Takes Husband on Gibraltar
April Ashley, British model who was once a man, was married here Tuesday night to the son of a British lord.
Miss Ashley, 28, born in Liverpool underwent the last of a series of sex-change operations in Casablanca in 1960.
She married Arthur Corbett, 43, who owns a night club at Marbella on Spain's Sun Coast, Mr. Corbett is the son of Lord Rowallan [1963].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3jfofsqidk7uegozoa4hvsx/bafkreidbyxcjs4s2onadv3ttjxppobbstwnb5d7rafthgmpxzbmnupz7uu)
Former Man Takes Husband on Gibraltar April Ashley, British model who was once a man, was married here Tuesday night to the son of a British lord. Miss Ashley, 28, born in Liverpool underwent the last of a series of sex-change operations in Casablanca in 1960. She married Arthur Corbett, 43, who owns a night club at Marbella on Spain's Sun Coast, Mr. Corbett is the son of Lord Rowallan [1963].
Book Front Cover "April Ashley's Odyssey", a biography by Duncan Fallowell, was published in 1982
Never of course forgetting magnificently stoic Ms #AprilAshley treated with enormous cruelty by the 1960s Sunday papers. Spectacularly awful. Raised awarness.
Prices for her pre loved and now rare biography vary - limited copies.
Reprints are imo long overdue.
www.abebooks.co.uk/signed-first...
April Ashley (1935-2021), English transgender model, actress and author
Died #otd April Ashley (1935-2021), English transgender model, actress and author, 4 years ago today #AprilAshley life story...
Mark Weston his wife and their good friend 1930s
Mark Weston his wife. Warming, non judgemental reporting from 1930s
Dr James Barry was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, then served first in Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently in many parts of the British Empire. 1789 to 1865 Outed only after an unwanted Post Mortem
Theodore Hoffman 1902 the Bell Boy who never thought himself other than the man he lived successfully as.
History is in agreement. Fell into polite, non threatening curiosity with & undertone of hurrah for them. #AprilAshley she was living well until the predecessor's to today's media barons tore into her. She recovered over time and died a majestic, beautiful icon of perseverance & fuck establishment!
Just feels like we're back in the late 90s; earlier too if we take in #JuliaGrant late 70s, yet further back taking in #AprilAshley 60s #MarkWeston 30s & onward into a deeper past where secrecy & discretion hid a factual reality: "It takes all sorts to make a world." Dignity, tolerance & respect. 💘🙏
We're SO excited to reveal April Ashley's Personal Papers as our newest collection, and we really want to hear from our communities as to what you want to see happen next!
Book onto a First Look event at: www.eventbrite.com/e/april-ashl...
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbthistory #trans #aprilashley #transhistory
Enigma, the latest documentary directed by Alum Zackary Drucker (BFA 2005 Photography and Video), is now streaming on HBO!
https://link.sva.edu/4gvfwzO
#sva #svanyc #svaalumni #documentary #enigma #aprilashley #amandalear
April Ashley and Marie Pierre Pruvot surviving shamelessly.
Mr Mark Weston with wife Alberta in their garden August 1936
Christine Jorgensen article in 1970
Christine Jorgensen transitioned December 1952 found out last week she was banned from the forerunner to the Johhny Carson show by the host.
Playing a losing game. Trans women I've known have stood with their cis fellowship fighting against violence and misogyny as long as I've known them personally and back to #AprilAshley done down viciously by male press barons in inglorious 60s headlines. History has been better, and will be again.
April Ashley was a trailblazing figure in transgender history, known for her courage and resilience in a time when public understanding of transgender issues was almost nonexistent.
#aprilashley #TransgenderHistoryMonth #transpioneers #TransRightsMatter #TransVisibilityDay
#6wordreviews #sixwordreviews #6wrenigma #enigma #amandalear #aprilashley #trans #documentaryfilm #docfilm #max #documentaries #maxoriginal #documentary
🌹 I cried for April Ashley.
I questioned Amanda Lear.
I thanked Zackary Drucker.
And I wrote this because silence is never neutral.
Visibility is not a trend—it’s a responsibility.
📝 My thoughts after watching Enigma
#TransRights #Enigma #AprilAshley #TransHistory #VisibilityMatters #LGBTQ+
Watching "Enigma" (2025). Documentary about April Ashley and Amanda Lear. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
imdb.com/title/tt3496...
#EnigmaHBO #AprilAshley #AmandaLear #LGBTQ
ICONS
My portraits of April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Both in private collections
#aprilashley
#amandalear
English model and trans pioneer April Ashley was BOTD in 1935. #aprilashley #translivesmatter #bornonthisday
April Ashley
Died #otd April Ashley, English transgender model, actress and author, 3 years ago today #AprilAshley www.outlived.org/person/april-ashley-143098
