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From outlaw to icon: Bambi on trans survival, fame, JK Rowling and the fight that isn’t over
- In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Jean-Pierre Pruvot, later known as Bambi, joined the Carrousel de Paris, a legendary cabaret and a beacon of transgender visibility in postwar Europe.
- This emergence followed decades of criminalization of homosexuality in Britain until 1967 and parts of the U.S. Until 2003, alongside dangers like high-risk surgeries only available in Casablanca and police decrees criminalizing cross-dressing in France.
- Bambi, with sisters Coccinelle, April Ashley, and Capucine, helped revive queer visibility after the Nazis violently destroyed Berlin's thriving queer scene and persecuted LGBTQ+ people during World War II.
- The Carrousel, attracting celebrities like Marlene Dietrich and Elvis Presley, was known for performers who 'would bare all' and for being a glamorous, audacious resistance against lingering prejudice despite legal risks.
- Now approaching 90 and having withdrawn from the spotlight in 1974 to avoid becoming what she called ‘an aging showgirl,’ Bambi cautions that the swift rise of wokeism may provoke backlash, urging a moment of reflection and calm before progressing further.
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Before the word ‘transgender’ existed, there was Bambi, the dazzling Parisian icon
The moment that changed queer history occurred on a sweltering day in early 1952 in Algiers. An effeminate teenage boy named Jean-Pierre Pruvot stood mesmerized as traffic halted and crowds swarmed around a scandalous spectacle unfolding in the conservative city streets as Coccinelle — the flamboyan
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