2022-05-20 23:45:31
Transgender Speculation
ZARAH LEANDER - THE (successless) DRAG QUEEN
She was very beautiful and feminine, but she was also very tall, and she had broad shoulders and a deep voice.
This made some people speculate whether she truly was born a female, or if she had a sex change before becoming a film star. While this may seem like it would have been years before this was possible,
the first attempt at performing a sexual reassignment surgery took place in Germany in 1930 with the Danish painter Lili Elbe.
While the Nazi party looked down on homosexuality, they were also extremely interested in conducting experiments on the human body. So it is not totally out of the realm of possibility.
However, this rumor is just that- a rumor. While she may not have been born with gender-normative traits, Zarah Leander is an example that masculine traits in a woman can still be beautiful, and this was all the more reason for homosexual men to identify with her. One prevalent theory is that with her deep voice, it was easier for gay men to imagine that there were two men singing a love song to one another, and that helped them to identify with her so strongly.
One of the best examples of her voice is with songs like “Ave Maria”, which is a song that typically has so many high notes, it’s normally sung by a soprano.
Zarah Leander always sang between baritone and bass, which is so deep, it is normally not possible for female vocal cords to sing that low. Because of his, Leander’s arrangement of “Ave Maria” is a go-to song for men to sing at drag shows.
https://historycollection.com/in-nazi-germany-drag-queens-loved-actress-zarah-leander/
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