With the purchase of this black-and-white, 5 × 8 in. newswire photo of Jack Starr in 2017, I began my journey into creating my small but very cool QPA—Queer Photo Archive, which features an array of other gender-nonconforming, trans, and queer pioneers (please visit TSQ*Now at www.tsqnow.online to see more images and info). This particular photo also prompted me to embark on an ambitious exploration into the life of this amazing person. Days and nights of research (especially looking at newspaper accounts of the era) yielded a decades-long account of the life of a gender rebel who was repeatedly arrested over the course of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s for wearing men's clothing. There were numerous aliases—Jacques Moret was the other most popular one, but Jack Starr was the most enduring. Jack's exploits unfolded primarily in Montana. In the repeated front-page accounts of the various arrests and trials, Jack comes...

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