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	Billy Tipton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billy Lee Tipton (December 29, 1914 - January 21, 1989) was a United States jazz pianist and saxophonist.
		Billy was born as Dorothy Lucille Tipton in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
		The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet is a successful all-woman music group from the United States, and named in tribute to Billy Tipton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Tipton (299 words)

	dwm.com \| Books \| Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton \| Audio Sample
		Billy Tipton had come of age as a musician at the same time that technology was inventing ways to separate the musician's body from the musician's sound.
		Billy caught the multiple meanings of this clever title early in her career as a musician, and improvised on it for the rest of her life, in undetected drag.
		Billy had prepared to emerge from behind his screen like the Wizard of Oz, to dissolve the magic into wisdom, revealing by her nakedness in death that the "difference" between men and women is largely in the eye of the beholder.
	www.dianemiddlebrook.com /tipton/btexcerpt.html (3422 words)

	Billy Tipton
		Billy Tipton, (1914-1989), jazz pianist and saxophonist who lived her life as a male musician.
		Dorothy Lucille Tipton was born in December 29 1914 in Oklahoma City, USA.
		In 1933 she took a role of a male musician and finally got into a band in Kansas City.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Billy_Tipton.html (164 words)

	The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (now known as The Tiptons Sax Quartet) is an all-female, jazz saxophone quartet from Seattle, Washington.
		The name of the quartet was inspired by Billy Tipton, a jazz saxophonist, who upon his death was revealed to be anatomically female.
		Amy Denio is, with Marjorie de Muynck, the co-founder of the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Billy_Tipton_Memorial_Saxophone_Quartet (419 words)

	Billy Tipton Is Remembered With Love, Even by Those Who Were Deceived
		Tipton, who most people had assumed to be a man, who had had at least five wives and had adopted three sons, was in fact a woman.
		The news that Tipton, a pianist and saxophonist, was a woman came as a shock to nearly everyone, including the women who had considered themselves his wives, as well as his sons and the musicians who had traveled with him.
		Tipton once told her in a letter: "You are instilled so deep in my heart that you have become part of me. It would be difficult to imagine life without you.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/060298tipton-biography.html (1672 words)

	Salon Books \| Suits Me
		Tipton was intensely private, always locking the bathroom door, never turning on the lights in bed or letting her lovers touch her.
		Tipton's cover was blown only after her death from bleeding ulcers in 1989.
		Tipton left no diaries and no explanations -- just a stack of old 78s and trail of people who loved her for what she was: a good person and a gentle soul.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/05/18sneaks.html (844 words)

	Billy Tipton musician or magician?
		Billy’s greatest achievement was the secret that he held on tightly to for 56 years and was not discovered until his death in 1989.
		Billy was also known to move around quite a bit, and later it was thought that his nomad behavior was a ploy to conceal his identity.
		Billy always wore a corset around his chest and his explanation for that was that he had been injured in an automobile accident and had to wear it at all times.
	www.lezbeout.com /BillyTiptonmusicianormagician.htm (906 words)

	Billy Tipton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, nearly all of Tipton's moves are fascinating in the pure mechanics of the fraud, with the different parts of her life clicking into place like an Agatha Christie mystery novel, all clear in restrospect.
		This is not to say that Tipton's life was a complete and utter success; no life is. She ended every marriage she got into, had a habit of occasionally being absent as a father and spouse, and the necessary aspects of maintaining her male status made some parts of life very difficult indeed.
		Billy's need to avoid the spotlight means that ironically her place in Jazz, the very music she made all these difficult choices to be able to follow, was destined to be minor, at best.
	www.rotten.com /library/hoaxes/male-impersonators/billy-tipton (488 words)

	Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Billy Tipton biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook interview
		Tipton's death made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because of the scale of his deception - he had been married to five women and had reared several adopted children.
		Billy's brother was not happy about this, he was a very respectable engineer, and was embarrassed by Dorothy's life and choices and rather unforgiving of the way he thought she dishonored the family.
		Billy and Kitty were married for 18 years, and there was a series of situations revolving around physical and emotional trauma that Kitty experienced as a child that really required a physical separation.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/wood.html#DorothyTipton'syouth (4706 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's the story on the female jazz musician who lived as a man?
		Billy never removed his underwear and wore a jockstrap that Betty later speculated was fitted with a "prosthesis." He wore massive chest bindings at all times, supposedly for an old injury.
		Acquaintances said she went out with other men while she was with Billy, and while she appears to have been genuinely fond of him, in some ways this may have been a marriage of convenience for both.
		At this point Billy was living with a sometime call girl, but in the early 60s he left her for a beautiful but troubled stripper named Kitty Kelly.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a5_009.html (864 words)

	Amazon.ca: Suits Me : The Double Life of Billy Tipton: Books: Diane Wood Middlebrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma in 1914, and reborn as Billy Tipton in 1933, Billy passed as a man until death at age 74.
		When jazz entertainer Billy Tipton died in 1989, the news accounts didn't focus on his achievements in life as a musician, but rather that he was biologically a woman.
		Taking her cues from Billy himself, Middlebrook does not portray her subject as a lesbian or a transgendered person or a crossdresser, but rather as a person determined to be a successful jazz musician, but who ultimately walked away when the spotlight became too bright to conceal the charade.
	www.amazon.ca /Suits-Me-Double-Billy-Tipton/dp/0395957893 (1758 words)

	Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Tipton initially assumed a male identity as a way to secure work as a singer and musician.
		Undeniably, however, Tipton's years of travel and impersonation gave him the skills necessary to successfully pass as a man, both in private and in society.
		Middlebrook's biggest hurdle in drawing Billy's life was the paucity of existing source materials: few people kept his letters, and he left little documentation other than a few recordings and scrapbooks.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1998fall/tipton.shtml (687 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books
		Tipton, meticulous, good-tempered, and family-centered, was 74 when she died, still a devoted parent, still interested in and committed to her 20-year-old son, who lived nearby.
		Tipton had expressed a wish to be cremated immediately after her death, but no cremation could avert revelation.
		Middlebrook insists that Tipton's reluctance to leave her home in Spokane, Wash., toward the end of her life and disappear, as a female, back to the Midwest, in the company of her two devoted cousins, was sheer vanity.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/diane_wood_middlebrook.htm (736 words)

	MISCMEDIA.COM: Tipton Bio Never Drags
		Billy Tipton, a nostalgic pop-jazz pianist and fixture of Spokane society for over three decades, died in 1989 and was revealed by doctors to have been a woman all along.
		At several points, Middlebrook (a onetime Spokanian herself) accepts the argument that Billy (born Dorothy Tipton in 1914) was a closeted lesbian who only dressed as a man to make it in the jazz business and/or because nobody in her world would accept A Strong Woman.
		Tipton wasn't a jazz great and probably knew he'd never be one, but he died a success at becoming something, and someone, he wanted against all odds to become--and without benefit of surgeries, shots, or hormone pills.
	www.miscmedia.com /tipton.html (543 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Billy Tipton
		Billy Tipton (December 29 1914 - January 21, 1989) was a United States jazz pianist and saxophonist.
		Around 1933 she took a role of a male musician and finally got into a band in Kansas City, Missouri.
		He told each of his wives that he had been in a grave car accident that had left him with unhealed ribs, genital disfigurement and sterility.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Billy_Tipton (418 words)

	Suits Me: Double Life of Billy Tipton \| Press For Change
		Billy Tipton was a jazz performer who played in clubs throughout the Midwest of the US for nearly 50 years.
		Only with Tipton's death in 1989 was it revealed that the five-times-married father of three boys was biologically female.
		Diane Wood Middlebrook's biography describes the transformation of Dorothy Tipton, a white Oklahoman who was not allowed to play jazz because she was a girl, into Billy Tipton, a male pianist and bandleader.
	www.pfc.org.uk /node/1386 (267 words)

	HRC \| Billy Tipton
		Jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Okalahoma as Dorothy Tipton.
		Tipton died in 1989 and was outed as biologically female by the coroner.
		Tipton was careful to leave behind as few legal documents as possible.
	www.hrc.org /Template.cfm?Section=Coming_Out_as_Transgender&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=21877 (220 words)

	Amazon.de: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton: English Books: Diane Wood Middlebrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kitty Tipton Oakes, the last of several women who had lived as common law wives with jazz musician Billy Tipton (1914^-89), couldn't have chosen a more perceptive and frank biographer than Middlebrook, author of an acclaimed portrait of poet Anne Sexton, to tell the curious tale of Tipton's life.
		Only in death was it revealed that "he" was a "she," as the final curtain dropped on Dorothy Lucille Tipton's spectacular and nervy 54-year impersonation of a man--the popular pianist, saxophonist, and bandleader Billy Tipton.
		Diminutive and immaculately groomed, Tipton was talented and ebullient, as well as ambitious and disciplined, managing to conceal her gender from nearly everyone around her, from her band members to most of the women she loved, and her adopted sons.
	www.amazon.de /Suits-Me-Double-Billy-Tipton/dp/0395957893 (1587 words)

	Billy Tipton: Self-Made Man
		Tipton, a saxophone and piano player who led popular dance bands in the 1940s and early ’50s, made his career traveling through small towns on the Southwest and Northwest jazz circuits.
		Tipton eventually settled down in Spokane, Washington, married a former stripper named Kitty and adopted three sons.
		In 1989, at age 74, what Tipton thought was emphysema turned out to be a hemorrhaging ulcer.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9705/9705fea601.shtml (248 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Billy Tipton
		Billy Tipton was actually born Dorothy Lucile Tipton in Oklahoma City.
		Billy Tipton was careful to leave as little legal documents as possible.
		All of Billy's wives stressed the fact that Billy was not fond of physical affection, and they simply accepted that as part of the relationship.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biot2/tipt1.html (749 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Tipton, Billy (1914-1989): Spokane's Secretive Jazzman
		The discovery that Tipton had successfully masqueraded as a man for more than 50 years was initially a local “human interest” news item, but one with enough lurid mystery that it subsequently sparked international headlines, TV news coverage, magazine essays, a biography, and countless academic and bar-room gender identity debates.
		Dorothy Lucille Tipton was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, but when her parents divorced at age four, she was sent to live with an aunt in the great jazz town of Kansas City, Missouri.
		Tipton carried on playing local gigs at rooms like the Green Monkey and the Tin Pan Alley, helping younger musicians get work through the booking agency that he eventually ended up owning, and retiring from performing in the 1970s only after arthritic fingers made it difficult to play.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=7456 (1388 words)

	Billy Tipton's Life as a Man
		It wasn't until Tipton died in 1989 that most of those closest to him learned the truth -- that the person they called husband and father, the meticulously dressed bandleader, the teller of funny stories and crude jokes was, and always had been, a woman.
		Her book delivers a lively account of the woman inside the man without judging Tipton, managing at once to be empathetic and critical of the deception Tipton practiced for her whole adult life.
		Billy Tipton was born Dorothy Lucille Tipton in 1914 in Oklahoma City, ``to which she returned in 1933 to be reborn as Billy, a self-made man,'' Middlebrook writes.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/06/28/RV88643.DTL (998 words)

	Amazon.com: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton: Books: Diane Wood Middlebrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Between her birth in Oklahoma and his arrival in Spokane, Tipton somehow made the transformation from an eccentric saxophone- and piano-playing young woman to a married husband, father, bandleader, and talent agent.
		She concludes, correctly I think, that Tipton initially became a male impersonator primarily to get a job in the male-dominated jazz circuit and eventually grew so comfortable in the role that what may have begun as a career choice gradually became a social choice.
		Tipton's double life was well-known in Oklahoma, and his success as a father and businessman certainly hinged on keeping his profile within the confines of the Northwest.
	www.amazon.com /Suits-Me-Double-Billy-Tipton/dp/0395654890 (2539 words)

	seeking Billy Tipton - mHB message boards
		AN FTM or BUTCH TO PLAY Dorothy / Billy Tipton: Born Dorothy, at an early age, Dorothy / Billy feels he must live his life as Billy, male, in order to be true to himself.
		Billy develops skills as a pianist/vocalist and becomes an accomplished musician continuing to hide his identity until his death.
		It is inspired by the true story of Billy Tipton, an accomplished musician, husband, father who spent his life successfully hiding his true identity as a woman.
	www.myhusbandbetty.com /community/showthread.php?p=41312 (276 words)

	Anecdote - Billy Tipton - Billy Tipton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Until his death in 1989, Billy Tipton was a popular jazz musician in Washington.
		Following Tipton's funeral, his children were in for a surprise.
		[Tipton's ruse was motivated by legitimate ambition; When he embarked upon his career in jazz, female performers were generally relegated to the role of "girl singer."]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=18328 (182 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Suits Me: Double Life of Billy Tipton: Books: Diane Wood Middlebrook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Middlebrook, whose biography of Anne Sexton was noted for its controversial use of tape recordings and notes made during the poet's psychiatric treatment, was approached by Kitty Tipton Oakes, one of Billy's former wives, to write this biography.
		Much to her credit is the amount of personal research she undertook: she writes with the authority of scores of interviews with those involved in the life (lives?) of Billy (Dorothy) Tipton.
		I think, had Billy Tipton been around today, we may have been able to spot the differnce.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Suits-Me-Double-Billy-Tipton/dp/1860497632 (918 words)

	Theatre Puget Sound - AUDITION: Billy Tipton Search - TPS audition listing service - Seattle auditions, seattle ...
		We are searching for the part of "Billy Tipton" If you are not familiar with him you could google the name.
		Billy was a woman in her 20's that thought of herself as a man. I need a woman 20-30 that can play a man. Music is a plus.
		Billy was a jazz singer that really became a man in his eyes as well as others.
	tpsonline.org /auditions/auddb.php?Aud_ID=2092 (542 words)

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