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The Lady Chablis, transgender 'Midnight' star, dies at 59
Fox News ^ | 9/8/16 | AP

Posted on 09/08/2016 12:45:43 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog

The Lady Chablis, the transgender performer who became an unlikely celebrity for her role in the 1994 best-seller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," died Thursday in Savannah. She was 59. Chablis' sister, Cynthia Ponder, confirmed she died at Candler Hospital. A close friend, Cale Hall, said Chablisdied from pneumonia and had been in the hospital for the past month. A modern, nonfiction take on Southern Gothic storytelling, author John Berendt's "Midnight" thrust Savannah into the pop-culture spotlight. And the sassy, blunt-spoken Chablis rode the book's popularity to a level of fame that was rare for transgender performers at the time. "The legacy that she wanted to leave was one of 'believe in who you are and never let the world change who you are,'" Ponder said. "Love yourself first and respect yourself first and others will love and respect you." Chablis insisted on playing herself in the 1997 "Midnight" movie directed by Clint Eastwood. That same year she published an autobiography, "Hiding My Candy." Berendt's book had no shortage of quirky, true-life characters — a voodoo priestess, a man who tied live flies to his lapels and a piano player with an encyclopedic command of 6,000 songs. Chablis was easily the most popular, Berendt said Thursday.

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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; mutilation; obituary; theladychablis; transgender
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To: xzins
Point taken. We all bear the image of God, although that image may be tarnished beyond recognition, and in that regard were all emanate from Him.

My point is that the leftist revisionists use this to justify our position to him, regardless of chosen behavior.

41 posted on 09/08/2016 2:40:39 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: fwdude

We are in agreement.


42 posted on 09/08/2016 2:43:11 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Pneumonia is a common death from HIV.


43 posted on 09/08/2016 2:47:33 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: xzins

Those who major in “all God’s children” also tend to be universalists. After all, how could God consign one of his own children to Hell?


44 posted on 09/08/2016 2:48:01 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Rest in peace.


45 posted on 09/08/2016 2:54:40 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: fwdude

I agree. I’m a “whosoever will” believer in Christ, but I think that “whosoever won’t” is in big trouble.


46 posted on 09/08/2016 2:55:27 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Celerity

It points out an important fact that strikes at the heart of feminism:

Men are better than women at everything...including being a woman.


47 posted on 09/08/2016 3:52:06 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: OpusatFR

I agree. Genuinely Lovely person.
Rest In Peace


48 posted on 09/08/2016 4:23:50 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Well I read the book first and then did research on the people.It never occurred to me the writer was gay too.Saw the movie and hated it.Saw the movie 10 years later and got it.My favorite scene was Lady Chablis walking into the Black debutante dance.The girls were dressed in all white.He walked in with a blue sparkle dress and the guys were falling all over him not knowing he wasn’t a she.You could see mental illness there.Clint Eastwood decided to let him portray himself.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Theatrical Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAe1nvnR2A


49 posted on 09/08/2016 4:24:26 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: AppyPappy

Well, good for you. At one time, I thought that you were a mensch.

Not now.


50 posted on 09/08/2016 4:26:02 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

I must have missed where in the article it says the person in question was gay.


51 posted on 09/08/2016 4:28:32 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: bicyclerepair
....Let he who is free from sin cast the first stone.....

God knows, I 'd be at the end of the line.

52 posted on 09/08/2016 4:40:44 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: fatima
Haven't seen it for many years, but remember I did enjoy it - just the title alone - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - is so sumptuous and mystical - how could it miss?.....
53 posted on 09/08/2016 4:40:51 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Spirit of Liberty

What part of LGBTQ do you not understand, Governor Johnson?


54 posted on 09/08/2016 4:46:57 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Among his rewards . . .

Miss Gay World 1976

Now I’ll go take a shower for even responding to your silly post.


55 posted on 09/08/2016 4:51:40 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: xzins

Scriptural ignorance is one of the great signs of a nation’s decadence.


56 posted on 09/08/2016 4:57:12 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Thanks, douche.


57 posted on 09/08/2016 5:26:46 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: trisham

I know dat......I was showing my respects at HIS passing using HIS stage persona because I was too lazy to go look up HIS name.........;)


58 posted on 09/08/2016 6:08:17 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

ping


59 posted on 09/08/2016 6:29:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

thanks for ping ES. Had not heard of movie or him/her..


60 posted on 09/08/2016 10:27:44 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't Tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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