• 3.5: Transgender History and the Media: interview with Mehitabel Glenhaber

  • Oct 1 2024
  • Length: 40 mins
  • Podcast

3.5: Transgender History and the Media: interview with Mehitabel Glenhaber

  • Summary

  • In 1954, during a legal battle over her right to perform in Boston, actress and singer Christine Jorgensen visited the Paul Revere House. This episode’s guest, Mehitabel Glenhaber, wrote a Revere House Gazette article about these events. Interpreter Cal shares how her training as a historical archaeologist informs how she answers her favorite visitor questions.

    • Photo: Christine Jorgenson walking into Paul Revere's home
    • Photo: Christine Jorgenson outside Boston Information center
    • Photo: Christine Jorgenson inside Paul Revere's house, kneeling beside a rocking cradle
    • Book: Christine Jorgensen, a Personal Autobiography by Christine Jorgensen
    • Information on Paul Revere House membership and Gazette subscription
    • Information on archeological work done at the Paul Revere House, 1980s-2010s
    • Book: Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780 by Phyllis Whitman Hunter

    https://www.paulreverehouse.org/

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