CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS LP TRANSGENDER GAY INTEREST

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CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS

VINTAGE 1958 55 MIN. INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINE BY NIPSEY RUSSELL

ISSUED IN THE USA

33 RPM LP

Label:  J RECORDS 1 

This rare record is nearly an hour long interview conducted in 1958 with Ms. Jorgensen by Nipsey Russell, who struggles mightily to think up euphemisms for sex. "Have you ever had any sincere entreaties for a romantic interlude?" he asks with typical formality. She articulates ideas about gender and homosexuality that sound well ahead of her time, while also projecting a demure model of femininity that seems distinctly of the 1950's. It's a bravura persona that manages to be radical and conservative at the same time. An interesting and surprising fact is that the interviewer was “Mr. R. Russell,” is comedian Nipsy Russell!

VINYL = VG++

 COVER = FRONT IS VERY GOOD WITH MILD WEAR, THERE IS 2"  SEAM SPLIT AT THE TOP EDGE AND 3/4" BOTTOM CENTER.   THE BACK IS TANNING AND FOXING FROM AGE.

Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989) was the first widely-known individual to have sex reassignment surgery—in this case, male to female. Jorgensen was born George William Jorgensen, Jr., the second child of George William Jorgensen Sr., a carpenter and contractor, and his wife, the former Florence Davis Hansen. Jorgensen grew up in the Bronx and later described herself as having been a "frail, tow-headed, introverted little boy who ran from fistfights and rough-and-tumble games". Jorgensen graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in 1945 and shortly thereafter was drafted into the Army.  After being discharged from the Army, Jorgensen attended Mohawk College in Utica, New York, the Progressive School of Photography in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Manhattan Medical and Dental Assistant School in New York City, New York. Jorgensen briefly worked for Pathé News. Returning to New York after military service and increasingly concerned over (as one obituary called it) his "lack of male physical development", Jorgensen heard about the possibility of sex reassignment surgery, and began taking the female hormone ethinyl estradiol on his own. He researched the subject with the help of Dr. Joseph Angelo, a husband of one of Jorgensen's classmates at the Manhattan Medical and Dental Assistant School. Jorgensen intended to go to Sweden, where the only doctors in the world performing this type of surgery at the time were to be found. At a stopover in Copenhagen to visit relatives, however, Jorgensen met Dr. Christian Hamburger, a Danish endocrinologist and specialist in rehabilitative hormonal therapy. Jorgensen ended up staying in Denmark, and under Dr. Hamburger's direction, was allowed to begin hormone replacement therapy, eventually undergoing a series of surgeries. During this first round of surgeries in Copenhagen, Jorgensen was castrated. According to an obituary, "With special permission from the Danish Minister of Justice, Jorgensen had his testicles removed first and his still-undeveloped penis a year later. Though technically a eunuch, Jorgensen received large doses of hormones, which led to changes in his body contours and fat distribution, and, with help from the American ambassador, had his passport changed to identify him as female and began life as a woman."[citation needed] Several years later Jorgensen obtained a vaginoplasty, when the procedure became available in the U.S., under the direction of Dr. Angelo and a medical advisor Harry Benjamin. Jorgensen chose the name Christine in honor of Dr. Hamburger. She became a spokesperson for transsexual and transgender people. A media sensation developed on December 1, 1952 when the New York Daily News carried a front-page story (under the headline "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty") announcing that in Denmark, Jorgensen had become the recipient of the first "sex change". This claim is not true, however, as the type of surgery in question had actually been performed by pioneering German doctors in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Danish artist Lili Elbe and "Dorchen", both patients of Dr Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin, were known recipients of such operations in 1930-31. What was different in Jorgensen's case, however, was the added prescription of hormone therapy. When Jorgensen returned to New York in February 1953, she became an instant celebrity. There has been serious speculation that Jorgensen leaked her story to the press, but in any case, the publicity created a platform for Jorgensen, who used her publicity for more than fame. New York radio host Barry Gray asked her if 1950s jokes such as "Christine Jorgensen went abroad, and came back a broad" bothered her. She laughed and said that they did not bother her at all. However, another encounter demonstrated that Jorgensen could be offended by some queries: Jorgensen appeared on an episode of The Dick Cavett Show, in which the host offended her by asking about the status of her romantic life with her "wife", and she walked off the show; because she was the only scheduled guest, Cavett spent the rest of that show talking about how he had not meant to offend her. Following her vaginoplasty, Jorgensen planned to marry John Traub, a labor-union statistician, but the engagement was called off. In 1959, she announced her engagement to Howard J. Knox, a typist, in Massapequa, New York, where her father had built her a house after her reassignment surgery. The couple was unable, however, to obtain a marriage license because Jorgensen's birth certificate still listed her as biologically male. In a report about the broken engagement, The New York Times noted that Knox had lost his job in Washington, D.C., when his engagement to Jorgensen became known. During the 1970s and 1980s, Jorgensen toured university campuses and other venues to speak about her experiences. She was known for her directness and polished wit and once demanded an apology from Spiro T. Agnew, the U.S. vice president, when he called another politician "the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party". Jorgensen also worked as an actress and nightclub entertainer and recorded a number of songs. In summer stock, she played Madame Rosepettle in the play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. In her nightclub act, she sang several songs, including "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and at the end made a quick change into a Wonder Woman costume: as she later recalled in her act, Warner Communications, owners of the Wonder Woman character's copyright, demanded that she cease and desist from using the character, which she did, substituting a new character of her own invention, "Superwoman" which was marked by the inclusion of a large letter 'S' on her cape. Jorgensen continued her act, performing at Freddy's Supper Club on the upper east side of Manhattan until at least the Fall of 1982 when she performed twice in the Hollywood area—once at the Backlot Theatre adjacent to the discothèque Studio One and later at The Frog Pond restaurant. She was noted for her impressions and stories of Marlene Dietrich and Tallulah Bankhead often told stories about Judy Garland, Jeanette MacDonald and other stars who befriended her.  Among her closest friends were Bea Arthur and Charles Pierce. the legendary gay female impressionist well know for his Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Mae West impressions among others.  In 1984, Jorgensen returned to Copenhagen to perform her show and was featured in Teit Ritzau's Danish transsexual documentary film Paradiset ikke til salg (Paradise not for sale). Jorgensen said in 1989, the year of her death, that she had given the sexual revolution "a good swift kick in the pants". She died of bladder and lung cancer at age 62.

Visual Grading Is as Follows:

MINT .. Literally Perfect Record, Shiny Gloss, No Marks, Beautiful Condition.

MINT- .. Very Clean, Light Paper Marks... A Great Record for Most Any Collector.

VG+ .. Light Scratches Only, Should Play Well with Only Occasional and Minimal Surface Noise at Times.

VG .. A Nice Record, Looks Used with Some Scratches. Plays with Some Surface Noise.

VG- .. Rough with Scratches and has Some Surface Noise , but Will Play without skips.

G .. Plays Quite Rough, Has Multiple Scratches, Very Noisy.

P .. Poor Condition. Good only for those who will accept any copy to fill in their collection.

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