While Ashley became an out-and-proud activist, Lear has publicly denied any assertions about her past for decades.

A new documentary tells the queer history of April Ashley and Amanda Lear, and the trans-inclusive Parisian nightclub that ...

April Ashley, a British model, actress and jet-set socialite who became known as a regal trailblazer for transgender women, undergoing gender-confirmation surgery at a time when the procedure was ...

Actress, model and activist April Ashley has been hailed as a "trans trailblazer" following her death at the age of 86. Ashley became only the second Briton to undergo male-to-female gender ...

April Ashley — born George Jamieson — underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1960, before embarking on an international modeling career and a series of high-profile romances.

Premiering on June 24, Enigma spotlights Amanda Lear, the late April Ashley and more, who “contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion," per the film's description In an ...

A trailblazing figure in the fight for transgender rights has passed away. April Ashley - model, actress, author and activist - died on Monday. She was 86. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) APRIL ...

But April Ashley's pretty face hid a secret. She had been born a boy named George Jamieson and, at the age of 25, became one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

This is April Ashley, born George Jamieson in 1935, who became the first Briton to undergo a sex change operation in Casablanca in 1960 and is finally able to legally call herself a woman, thanks ...

April Ashley was a successful model in the 60s, appearing in Vogue, before her story was sold to The Sunday People, and it emerged that she was a trans woman. Luckily for us, April went on to ...

April Ashley was born on April 29, 1935, in Liverpool and grew up in public housing. Her father, Frederick Jamieson, was a cook for the Royal Navy who was often away at sea and often inebriated ...

April Ashley was an actress, model and trans-pioneer. Born into a working class family in Liverpool in 1935, she was one of nine children, and joined the merchant navy as a teen.