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TsChitChat 2011-12-25 P1 'Getting Bully + Coming Out + Carmen Rupe Tribute'
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TsChitChat team sharing their own experience growing up as a gay teen, and also dedicated the show for Transgender iCon Carmen Rupe, who is Gay right, Anti-discrimination and HIV/AIDS activist.
*** Carmen Rupe ***
Transgender icon Carmen has died in Sydney aged 75 after months of poor health.
She died in St Vincent's Hospital of kidney failure on Thursday morning, the Gay NZ website reports.
Born in Taumarunui in 1935 as Trevor Rupe and one of a family of 13, she moved to Sydney to become a sex worker in the 1950s.
It was while working in Kings Cross as the first Maori drag queen that she took on the name that would see her become a heroine to the gay community.
Carmen also performed in Les Girls in Kings Cross and at the first openly gay bar, The Purple Onion.
She returned to Wellington in the 1960s to develop sex venues at a time when homosexuality and prostitution were illegal.
The best known was Carmen's International Coffee Lounge, decorated flamboyantly with avant-garde art and tropical fish.
Carmen was discreet about who was drinking coffee while arranging their heterosexual, gay, transsexual, or drag queen encounters.
"We had plenty of famous people but I'm terrible with names - although I always remember sizes," she said in an interview in 2001.
The entrepreneur and entertainer made an unsuccessful bid for the Wellington mayoralty in 1977, on platforms which were radical at the time.
She campaigned for hotel bars to be open till midnight or even 2am, the drinking age to be lowered to 18, prostitution to be made legal, homosexual acts to be decriminalised, abortion to be decriminalised and nudity on some beaches.
All these are now legal.
Carmen returned to Sydney and despite being in poor health in later years, she never failed to push boundaries.
In 2008 she led the Decade of the Divas float at the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras aboard her red mobility scooter, topless.
Following hip surgery earlier this year, Carmen was admitted to hospital several times.
Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says Carmen was a cheerful and colourful personality.
"I admired her strength in living her life on her terms and standing up against discrimination."
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TSCHITCHAT 2 months ago
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TSCHITCHAT 2 months ago
this is such a fabulous episode and you both look BEAUTIFUL!!! I love listening to your stories, I don't get the chance to hear many stories from transsexual women who have been out for as long as you two, and I appreciate your insight. This is my newest favorite youtube channel <3
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@PapayaKaia Thk U so much 4 ur support. TsChitChat is trying to raise a voice about Transgender ppl, & sharing our view in a more positive way(not pretentious + righteous), even in a most difficult situation.
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Hi, welcome 2 TSChitChat, a Transgender Channel, set up by transgenders 4 transgenders & all trans-friendly people wherever you are in the world.
We are very happy to hear any positive feedback & comments fr you. Feel free to drop me a line, if you have any creative ideas, suggestions or topics you are interested in & passionate about.
Subscribe, enjoy our videos, tips, & leave us your comments.
Fr TsChitChat team - Love, Joy & Peace... Don't forget Express Yourself !!!!
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