there was an "interesting" article about tipton in the nytimes on tuesday (2 june). and it would appear that, with his first wife anyway, he had sex using a prosthetic device. his wife, betty cox, believed that she had had a miscarriage when she didn't conceive.
i say "interesting" because the article is really a long promo piece for a new biography by diane middlebrook. from what i can tell, middlebrook's view of gender is basically a bad (but not wholly unusual) reading of _gender trouble_. as in all those "makeover narratives" on jenny jones, social mobility there is really just a function of appearance, and so one's ability to "move" successfully just depends upon one's willingness to obey the conventions of dress required at a particular moment. (this is an ideologeme of what evan watkins calls "technoideological coding" in his very smart book "throwaways".)
i don't know about the other questions. but i'd also like to know if claire booth luce dropped acid.
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