内容摘要：Libby filed a federal lawsuit against Fecteau in March, arguing the censure violated her right to free speech.

Libby filed a federal lawsuit against Fecteau in March, arguing the censure violated her right to free speech.

In 1950s Paris, though, Bambi bought hormones casually over-the-counter, “like salt and pepper at the grocery.”“It was much freer then,” but stakes were high, she said.

Sisters were jailed, raped, driven into sex work. One comrade died after botched gender reassignment surgery in Casablanca.“There was only Casablanca,” she emphasized, with one doctor performing the high-risk surgeries. Bambi waited cautiously until her best friends, Coccinelle and April Ashley, had safely undergone procedures from the late 50s before doing the same herself.Each night required extraordinary courage. Post-war Paris was scarred, haunted. The Carrousel wasn’t mere entertainment — but a one-fingered salute to the past in heels and eyeliner.

“There was this after-the-war feeling — people wanted to have fun,” Bambi recalled. With no television, the cabarets were packed every night. “You could feel it — people demanded to laugh, to enjoy themselves, to be happy. They wanted to live again … to forget the miseries of the war.”In 1974, sensing a shift, Bambi quietly stepped away from celebrity, unwilling to become “an aging showgirl.” Swiftly obtaining legal female identity in Algeria, she became a respected teacher and Sorbonne scholar, hiding her dazzling past beneath Marcel Proust and careful anonymity for decades.

Despite what she’s witnessed, or perhaps because of it, she’s remarkably skeptical about recent controversies around gender. This transgender pioneer feels wokeism has moved too quickly, fueling a backlash.

She sees U.S. President Donald Trump as part of “a“We’d say, ‘Do it for Dave.’ ”

Associated Press writers Jaimie Ding in Los Angeles and Rio Yamat in Las Vegas contributed.INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Natalie Grant, a nine-time Grammy nominee and five-time GMA Dove Awards Female Vocalist of the Year, will perform the national anthem Sunday before the Indianapolis 500.

“Natalie’s emotional and stirring rendition of the national anthem in front of the grandstand sellout crowd will be an unforgettable moment during pre-race ceremonies for the Indy 500,” IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles said Wednesday. “The national anthem pays honor to the country we love and gets us one step closer to the final, dramatic and electric moments leading up to the start of the Indianapolis 500.”Grant’s most recent project “Seasons” debuted at #1 on the Christian Billboard charts and featured cross-genre collaborations that included Mary Mary, CeCe Winans, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Jonathan McReynolds and others. Her single “Step By Step” — a Whitney Houston cover featuring Dolly Parton — went Top 10 at Mainstream AC Radio.