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The posthumous publication in 1972 of Diane Arbus's groundbreaking  An Aperture Monograph contains a now infamous photograph titled: A Naked Man Being A Woman. Knowing him only as a cross-dresser she'd seen often in Washington Square Park who went by the name Bruce Catherine or Catherine Bruce, depending, and who told her amusing stories, she labeled the back of the contact prints of her photographs of him using the double name. His real name was Bruce Wright, my second oldest brother. I first saw him dressed as a woman when I was ten years old and he was sixteen.          (click on book cover to find out more)