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In life, Billy Tipton was a musician. In death, she became tabloid fodder
Author of the article: Chris Knight
Publishing date: Apr 01, 2021 • 6 hours ago • 2 minute read • Billy Tipton at the piano in No Ordinary Man. Photo by levelFilm
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If your knowledge of transgender celebrities starts and ends with Caitlyn Jenner and Elliot Page, then this documentary about the life and death of Billy Tipton will be an eye-opener. Dorothy Lucille Tipton was born in 1914 Oklahoma. As Billy Tipton, he became a bandleader and jazz musician through the middle decades of the century. And after his death in 1989, Tipton was tabloid fodder and the subject of a biography by Diane Middlebrook when it was discovered that “she” was female.