This gender bending performer is one we are presenting in a series to celebrate NYC Pride Week. Ella Wesner (1841-1917)  began as a ballet dancer in the late 1860s, and was for a time the dresser of Annie Hindle, from whom she learned the art of male impersonation. She became a hit at Tony Pastor’s singing […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:12AM on June 22, 2013