Cercle Hermaphroditos

The Cercle Hermaphroditos was a transgender advocacy organisation, founded in 1895 in New York City "to unite for defense against the world’s bitter persecution".[1] Meeting at Paresis Hall,[2] early members included Jennie June.[1] Unlike other LGBT advocacy groups, the Cercle published no pamphlets and left little evidence of its existence outside of June's autobiography; for this reason, some historians have raised questions about whether it existed at all.[3] Nevertheless, it is noted by Susan Stryker as "the first known organization in the United States to concern itself with what we might now call transgender social justice issues".[4]

References
  1. Stryker 2008, p. 71.
  2. Eskridge 2008, p. 302.
  3. Kissack 2008, p. 2-3.
  4. Stryker 2008, p. 72.

Bibliography
  • Eskridge, William (2008). Dishonorable Passions Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003. [S.l.]: Penguin Group US. ISBN 978-1440631108.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Kissack, Terence (2008). Free comrades: anarchism and homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917. Edinburgh: AK. ISBN 978-1904859116.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Stryker, Susan (2008). Transgender history. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. ISBN 978-1580052245.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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