Notable nonbinary people: Difference between revisions

Alexander, the lead singer and songwriter for electropop band Years and Years, has said, "I feel very nonbinary, and you know, I identify as gay and queer and nonbinary[...]"<ref name=alexanderout>[https://open.spotify.com/track/6kKyebFUFBo7tTvePMFJuK Years &amp; Years: Inspiring - #PlessPlayForPride] Spotify, June 7 2016</ref>

* '''Pronouns:''' he/him (assumed)

* '''Nationality:''' American

* '''Pronouns:''' v/v's

* '''Profession:''' Cabaret performer; most famous for v's cabaret character Kiki DuRane.

See our main article about [[Kate Bornstein]].

* '''Nationality:''' American

* '''Pronouns:''' ze/hir

* '''Profession:''' author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist.

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bornstein Wikipedia entry] / [http://katebornstein.typepad.com/ Kate's Blog]

* '''Nationality:''' Irish

* '''Pronouns:''' he

* '''Nationality:''' Canadian

* '''Pronouns:''' They/their

In a 2015 interview, Miley explained, “I didn’t want to be a boy, ... I kind of wanted to be nothing. I don’t relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy, and I think that’s what I had to understand: Being a girl isn’t what I hate, it’s the box that I get put into.”<ref name=cyrusout>''[http://www.out.com/music/2015/5/05/exclusive-miley-cyrus-launches-anti-homelessness-pro-lgbt-happy-hippie-foundation Exclusive: Miley Cyrus Launches Anti-Homelessness, Pro-LGBT ‘Happy Hippie Foundation’]'', out.com, May 5, 2015</ref>

* '''Profession:''' Singer, songwriter, actress

de Leve plays non-binary characters for the Geek & Sundry [https://geekandsundry.com/tag/sam-de-leve/] and Saving Throw multimedia networks. They are also a dancer [https://vimeo.com/233586263] and writer [https://medium.com/@DeLeve].

* '''Nationality:''' American

* '''Pronouns:''' They/them [https://twitter.com/chaikovsky]

Rain uses her naturally androgynous look to model for both men's and women's lines of clothing &amp; identifies as genderqueer or gender variant.

 

* '''Nationality:''' American

* '''Pronouns:''' Primarily she/her but accepts they/their or he/him depending on presentation

*'''Nationality:''' American

The Public Universal Friend was born as an English-American to a Quaker family on Rhode Island, and was assigned female at birth. This person suffered a severe illness in 1776 (age 24), and reported having died and been reanimated by the power of God as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend.

 

The Friend refused to answer any longer to the previous name, Jemima Wilkinson,<ref name="Moyer-12 Winiarski-430 Juster-MacFarlane-27-28">Moyer, p. 12; Winiarski, p. 430; and Susan Juster, Lisa MacFarlane, ''A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism'' (1996), p. 27, and p. 28.</ref> quoted [[:wikisource:Bible (King James)/Luke#Chapter 23|Luke 23:3]] ("thou sayest it") when visitors asked if it was the name of the person they were addressing, and ignored or chastised those who insisted on using it. The preacher shunned the name "Jemima" completely, having friends hold realty in trust rather than see the name on deeds and titles. Even when a lawyer insisted that the person's Will should identify its subject as having been born under the name Jemima, the preacher refused to sign that name, only making an X which others witnessed, even though the Friend could read and write.<ref name="Brekus-85">Catherine A. Brekus, ''Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845'' (2000), p. 85</ref>

 

The Friend wore clothes that contemporaries described as androgynous or masculine, chiefly black robes. The Friend preached throughout the northeastern United States, attracting many followers who became the Society of Universal Friends.<ref name="Lamphier-Welch-331">Peg A. Lamphier, Rosanne Welch, ''Women in American History'' (2017), p. 331.</ref> The Public Universal Friend's theology was broadly similar to that of orthodox Quakers, believing in free will, actively opposing slavery, and supporting sexual abstinence. The Friend persuaded followers who owned slaves to free them. The followers of the Society included people who were black. The Society's followers also included many unmarried women, who took on prominent roles in their communities, which were usually reserved for men.  

* '''Pronouns:''' No pronouns. The Friend asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns. Followers respected these wishes, avoiding gender-specific pronouns even in private diaries, and referring only to "the Public Universal Friend" or short forms such as "the Friend" or "P.U.F."<ref name="Juster-MacFarlane-27-28 Brekus-85 etc">Juster & MacFarlane, ''A Mighty Baptism'', pp. 27-28; Brekus, p. 85</ref>  

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend Wikipedia entry]

Eddie Izzard identifies primarily as a transvestite but also uses the word transgender and has stated "I am 100% boy, plus extra girl."<ref name=izzard> [http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/6888/eddie_izzard_on_atheism__transgender__and__the_invisible_bloke_upstairs__/ Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”], Religion Dispatches Magazine, March 7, 2013</ref>

The scholar Jennie June self-identified as a "fairie", "androgyne", "effeminate man", and an "invert", which were contemporary terms for gender and sexual variance. Her transition included changing her full name to Jennie June, and choosing to be castrated, in order to reduce facial hair and sexual desires that disturbed her. June published her first autobiography, ''The Autobiography of an Androgyne'' in 1918, and her second ''The Female-Impersonators'' in 1922. Her goal in writing her books were to help create an accepting environment for young adults who do not adhere to gender and sexual norms, because that was what she would have wanted for herself, and she wanted to prevent youth from committing suicide.<ref name="Meyerowitz 2010">Meyerowitz, J. "Thinking Sex With An Androgyne". ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' 17.1 (2010): 97–105. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref> June had formed the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, along with other androgynes who frequented Paresis Hall in New York City. The organization was formed in the hopes "to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution," and to show that it was natural to be gender and sex variant.<ref>Katz, Jonathan Ned. "Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found". ''Humanities and Social Sciences Online''. N.p., 10 October 2010. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref>

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_June_(autobiographer) Wikipedia entry]

In a 2009 interview O'Brien spoke about an ongoing struggle to reconcile cultural gender roles and self-described as being [[transgender]] or possible third sex. O'Brien stated, "There is a continuum between male and female. Some are hard-wired one way or another, I’m in between."<ref name=obrien1>[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/08/18/richard-obrien-society-should-not-dictate-gender/ Richard O’Brien: ‘Society should not dictate gender’], Pink News, 18th August 2009</ref> O'Brien expounded on this in a 2013 interview which covered using oestrogen for the previous decade, and identifying as 70% male 30% female.<ref name=obrien2>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21788238 Richard O'Brien: ‘I'm 70% man'], BBC News, 18 March 2013</ref>

* '''Nationality:''' British