Allen, Mariette Pathy

Mariette Pathy Allen (Alexandria, 1940) is a photographer for the transgender, genderfluid, and intersex communities and a writer. She has published five books, Transformations: Cross-dressers and Those Who Love Them (1989), Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade (1994), The Gender Frontier (2004), TransCuba (2014) and Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand (2017). She is an activist for gender consciousness and reflects positivity towards underrepresented communities.