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Model, dancer and socialite who was one of the earliest people to undergo gender realignment surgery

She modeled for Vogue, partied with John Lennon and Mick Jagger, and married into minor nobility, all while fighting for legal recognition of her gender.

Apr 18, 2021 In 1865 a Scottish sugar planter in Hawaii wrote to an American businessman in Yokohama: “Could any good agricultural laborers be obtained from Japan … to serve like the Chinese under a contract for six or eight years?” The American said he’d see. The gravestone of Myles Fukunaga stands in Mo’ili’ili Japanese Cemetery in Honolulu. | JOEL ABROAD / VIA FLICKR The ragtag band he assembled — “mere laborers,” he said, “picked out of the streets of Yokohama, ...