[firebrand]

And Milton Berle wore a dress in the fifties. Clarabelle was the really first TV gender-bender in the forties, except most people didn't know it until 1960, when he said, "Goodbye, kids" in that gravelly basso voice.

Then there was that children's performer who wore lipstick, can't think of his name. Not Soupy Sales but someone like that.

And on and on.

The process of softening everyone up for the big confusion.

What movie is that where Garbo says, "I remember when men and women . . . ahhh, never mind. . . ."

[gcruse]

"The process of softening everyone up for the big confusion."

Yes, it's all part of a vast plan. I'm sure there's a well foamed-over parchment of the communist manifesto around here somewhere.