Count the women . . .

Three or one- Billy Tipton is a woman I'm guessing?

The lady in the foreground--her profile looks manly.

three?

The piano player is a woman.

Zero. The two women are in drag.

I say zero as well.

I'm betting zero also. But, I'm old....so what do I know?

ETA...oh crap. I just googled it.

LMAO........That's all I'm going to say.

Three. The piano player is a woman in drag, and IIRC her biography was reviewed in the NYT.

Dang.... I kind of suspected... but.... whoa. WHOA.

I played this game in the red light district in Boston, and lost............or won. Whichever.

Millicent M'Lady said:

Three or one- Billy Tipton is a woman I'm guessing?

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Brutal Mustang said:

The lady in the foreground--her profile looks manly.

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CatSlave said:

three?

The piano player is a woman.

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vixey said:

Zero. The two women are in drag.

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spamwarrior said:

I say zero as well.

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CACTUSWENDY said:

I'm betting zero also. But, I'm old....so what do I know?

ETA...oh crap. I just googled it.

LMAO........That's all I'm going to say.

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TerzaRima said:

Three. The piano player is a woman in drag, and IIRC her biography was reviewed in the NYT.

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spamwarrior said:

Dang.... I kind of suspected... but.... whoa. WHOA.

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This is an Irish wedding right?

Just the one - I know that piano, and she's a doll!

Assauer said:

Just the one - I know that piano, and she's a doll!

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I agree. Although I'm not familiar with that particular piano, myself.

I'll say two women and one man, because it's obvious that's how they preferred to be identified.

I believe Billy Tipton identified himself as a man throughout his whole life... not sure about the other two people on the cover, though.

Fascinating!
It wasn't until her death that the mortician discovered she was a woman, not a man,
and informed "his" wife and children of the fact.
No one knew her secret except a couple of cousins for all those years.

I'm assuming the kids weren't his/hers.

Wayne K said:

I'm assuming the kids weren't his/hers.

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I'm assuming s/he had a shocking set of "man boobs".

alleycat said:

I'm assuming s/he had a shocking set of "man boobs".

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Then you're assuming an awful lot about intersex conditions.

And just like that, I'm in the mood to re-read Middlesex again.

I think I've officially burned up what remained of my brain cells, because I stared at the pic long enough that I thought I saw images of women's legs in the thingymabobber in the left lower corner. I thought it was a riddle or something. Now I feel like an idgit, but I'm too tired to care much.

Wayne K said:

I'm assuming the kids weren't his/hers.

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Adopted, according to the article, because Billy was "sterile" due to a car accident.

Priene said:

Then you're assuming an awful lot about intersex conditions.

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Actually, I was just assuming people could tell the difference between a joke and someone being serious.

After reading the wiki article, I feel very sorry for Billy, who it sounds like had an unhappy life.

MM