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- ...that Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery? [1]
- ...that Marzieh Meshkini's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine year old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow? [2]
- ...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality? [3]
- ...that jazz drummer Butch Ballard was hired by Duke Ellington as a backup drummer due to the excessive drinking of his regular drummer Sonny Greer? [4]
- ...that Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I? [5]
- ...that Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France?[6]
- ...that 17th century actress Julia Glover was sold in marriage by her father for £1,000?[7]
- ...that in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft?[8]
- ...that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?[9]
- ... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?[10]
- ... that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?[11]
- ... that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple making love as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history?[12]
- ... that Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?[13]
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- ^ Appeared on Main Page April 14, 2008 — how embarrassing; this hook is actually incorrect. She was an 18th and 19th century actress. It seems noone else noticed either.
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