(8) The 1970 movie, “Little Big Man,” with Dustin Hoffman also depicts a Native American “two-spirit” or “berdache.” (9) The award-winning 2011 movie, “Albert Nobbs” starring Glenn Close playing a Victorian woman who goes through 19th century life as a man. (7) Two black cowboys decked out in “woollies.” Circa 1913. (6) Shown later with sheared hair, Lobdell lived as a man for 60 years and married a woman. (5 & 6) Joseph Lobdell in his youth, circa 1853, dressed in Indian attire, although he was born female as Lucy Ann Lobdell to a white working-class family in New York State. We’Wha was biologically male but engendered with a female spirit. (4) We’Wha, a Zuni “berdache” (two-spirit) of New Mexico, circa 1871-1896. (3) A Navajo two-spirit couple in New Mexico in the 1860s. Pioneer woman Regina Sorenson and three other women dressed in men’s suits. (2) Photo taken on the Minnesota frontier. Men wore a bandana around their neck or arm to indicate they were the “ladies of the dance.” Date/place unknown. PHOTOS: (1) Cowboy Stag Dance in the Old West.
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