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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RIP.
If anything, this thread is a fascinating insight into the conservative mind.
People say we are not diverse in our viewpoints. They are wrong!
It’s not a great thread until the name calling begins.
Lady Chablis was a man.
Exactly. He was a man playing the part of a woman.
Thank you.
Well yeah, until someone pulls down his panties and sees the candy.
I liked the book a lot. The author, however, does take liberties in the book, as he discloses in the Afterword. From wikipedia:
The book's plot is based on real-life events that occurred in the 1980s and is classified as non-fiction. Because it reads like a novel (and rearranges the sequence of true events in time), it is sometimes referred to as a "non-fiction novel" or "faction", a subgenre popularized by Truman Capote and Norman Mailer. (Booksellers generally feature the title in the "true crime" subsection.)The author also uses pseudonyms for some of the characters in order to protect their privacy.
You who has shown such heartlessness towards the less fortunate!
“Some are children of Satan. Jesus said so.”
The irony is that Jesus here is referring to the Hypocritical Holy men of his generation who strained a gnat while swallowing a camel. A evil sinner named Chablis helplessly pushed to the ground by a angry mob in a righteous fever. Eager to mete out gods vengeance!
These Hypocrites tried to lay a trap for him with their ‘laws’. Jesus stepped in the middle of it and called them out saying “Who’s here that hasn’t sinned in their lives can cast the first stone!”
We are called to spread the Good News. Healing and light. Not Darkness and judgement. Don’t look to me to cast the first stone. But you go ahead.
That’s the way I see it anyway.
peace out!
We cannot obey the gospel if we don't judge (make distinctions.)
“Sir, we are called to judge, despite the revisionism of the left. If that is “casting stones,” then blame Jesus. “
Oh Don’t try to justify it to me...
Go ahead and cast your stone.
Calling out sin and “casting stones” are not the same thing.
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