Nation & World News Before the word ‘transgender’ existed, there was Bambi, the dazzling Parisian icon The moment that changed queer history occurred on a sweltering day in early 1952 in Algiers ...

Once Dietrich, the starry queer icon, arrived at the tiny Madame Arthur cabaret alongside Jean Marais, the actor and Jean Cocteau 's gay lover. “It was packed,” Bambi recalled.