Brevard, Aleshia

Told with truth, humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent gender confirmation surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States. (The famous gender disorientation pioneer, Dr. Harry Benjamin, broke news of their son's transsexual diagnosis to Brevard's astonished parents.) Under the stage name Lee Shaw, Brevard worked as a drag queen at Finocchio's, a San Francisco...