A painting of a fair-haired man in a purple suit, a negative-image female figure behind him (clearly a painting of the trick photo sold of him at the time he was in Kew Asylum). The background is a huge Pride flag. Part of a new mural of Edward de Lacy Evans, a trans man hounded by the press (including the Bendigo Advertiser) in 1879. Picture: TOM O'CALLAGHAN. From a 2023 article in the Bendigo Advertiser, entitled, 'This newspaper helped destroy life of trans man Edward de Lacy Evans', by Tom O'Callaghan
Evans died in Melbourne Immigrants Home in 1901, still under his deadname & forced to wear dresses.
2006 AQA #QueerHistory walk described him as "passing herself off as a man"
2023 Bendigo Advertiser (below): 'This newspaper helped destroy life of trans man Edward de Lacy Evans'
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