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146. Billy Tipton - Trans Jazz Icon

67 min • 9 juni 2025

It's Pride month and so it's the perfect time to tack about trans cultural icon, Billy Lee Tipton - a transgender jazz musician, who performed all over the country, had five dogs, five wives and a great sense of humour.

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