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Frances Hook (1847–March 17, 1908) claimed that she, disguised as a man, enlisted as a soldier in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. She stated her aliases were Pvt. Frank Miller, Frank Henderson, Frank Martin and Frank Fuller.

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the great lala coolah, or "the man-venus” was one of the biggest stars of milwaukee’s dime museum boom in the late 1890s. they were first billed in march 1897 at the columbia theater, where the advertisement read “behold the most wondrous of all monstrosities - the power form of a man combined with the delicate beauty of a woman. is it he, she or it?”. lala coolah became a national sensation, toured the united states for three decades as a part of various acts, and eventually opened a dime museum of their own. offstage, lala coolah’s name was frank fuller. fuller was born in 1870. he had reportedly been assigned female at birth and was then discovered to have male genitalia sometime between the ages of 10 and 12. according to one booklet sold at lala coolah’s shows in 1916, “a delicate operation was performed, and the male sex discovered, and from that time on the masculine portion rapidly developed, until ‘lala’ became a man on one side of the body; the lack of nourishment, however, retarded the growth of the female side.” in other words, fuller was likely intersex. fuller was married to a man when still living as a woman, but divorced shortly before beginning to live as a man. fuller died on july 8th, 1931. he was credited, at the time, as the originator of the “he-she carnival act”. sources: a history of milwaukee drag: seven generations of glamour by michail takach and b.j. daniels (the history press, 2022), image 1, image 2, image 3