US EditionFrom outlaw to icon: Bambi on trans survival, fame, JK Rowling and the fight that isn’t over
- In the late 1940s and 1950s Paris and Algeria, Jean-Pierre Pruvot, later known as Bambi, became a transgender performer amid the legendary Carrousel de Paris cabaret and a conservative Algiers street spectacle.
- This emergence followed decades of criminalization of homosexuality and cross-dressing across Britain, the U.S., and France, with gender-affirming surgery limited to risky operations in Casablanca.
- Bambi joined fellow performers like Coccinelle, April Ashley, and Capucine who revived queer visibility by performing audaciously and requiring extraordinary courage in a society that labeled them travestis.
- Bambi recalled the Carrousel was "packed" with celebrities like Marlene Dietrich who saw the troupe as a "glamorous resistance" that challenged past prejudices, while transgender rights and visibility remained limited.
- In 1974, Bambi stepped away from the spotlight to avoid becoming "an aging showgirl," and today she voices caution about rapid modern activism shifts amid a legacy that helped pave the way for transgender recognition.
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Before the word ‘transgender’ existed, there was Bambi, the dazzling Parisian icon
The moment that changed queer history occurred on a sweltering day in early 1952 in Algiers. An effeminate teenage boy named Jean-Pierre Pruvot stood mesmerized as traffic halted and crowds swarmed around a scandalous spectacle unfolding in the conservative city streets as Coccinelle — the flamboyan
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