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Since transsexuals burst on the scene in the 1950s, when a G.I. went from George to Christine Jorgensen, journalists have periodically revisited the subject in tones varying from the dryly medical to the hotly sensational. But today many forms of gender nonconformity have actually become mainstream. In the past five years, several movies, plays, tabloid shows and famous cross-dressers like RuPaul have moved drag from the fringes of gay culture to prime time. Even Teletubbies, a show for toddlers, features Tinky Winky, a boy who carries a red patent-leather purse...
...Jorgensen, an ATF agent and deputy executive director of the National Association of Treasury Agents, disagrees. "It just really sends the wrong message to the public," he says. And with the start of the latest congressional investigation of Waco, public perception has again become a matter of intense concern. If history is any guide, this new round of scrutiny will once again blow the agency into a period of angst and self-doubt. "We've always been defensive," says Charlotte ATF agent in charge Paul Lyon. "We have always been susceptible to light breezes--it doesn't even take...
...Captain David Berkoff earned the Brooks and Stowell trophies as the team's most outstanding swimmer and most improved senior. Ken Johnson received the Jorgensen award for the most improved junior on the Crimson squad...
...freshest ) and most promising woman sprinter, a square-rigged stormer named Angel Myers, from Americus, Ga., who had qualified in ba timlibthree events, was banished for a drug violation. She claimed that tests misread a birth-control drug as a steroid. But she was out, replaced by Butterflyer Janel Jorgensen and Freestyler Jill Sterkel (who thus made her fourth Olympic team...
...hunt for a house began about three years ago, when Mrs. Reagan's friends Betsy Bloomingdale and Marion Jorgensen began a surreptitious search in the area. But word got around the real estate circuit, and the women were besieged by eager brokers. When a social acquaintance of Jorgensen's telephoned her to say that her elderly, recently widowed niece might want to part with her St. Cloud home, Jorgensen and Bloomingdale found what they -- and the Reagans -- had been looking for. In August 1986, Wall Management quietly bought the house and leased it back to the widow, who has since...