Zelda Suplee
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Washed out, grainy 16mm film still. We see three women sitting on a couch, another woman sitting on a chair leaning toward them on the right, and a man with dark glasses sitting on a chair facing them on the left.

Washed out, grainy 16mm film still. We see three women sitting on a couch, another woman sitting on a chair leaning toward them on the right, and a man with dark glasses sitting on a chair facing them on the left.

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She was a keen nudist. With her then husband, Reed Suplee (1916-86), she owned and managed three nudist camps in the period 1930s – 1950s, and was in Doris Wishman’s Diary of a Nudist, 1961, and also in The Moving Finger, 1963 and The Parisienne and the Prudes, 1964 – all nudist films. She was the first full-frontal nude in Playboy magazine (in black-and-white). For 17 years she was editor and researcher of True Story, True Detective and Master Detective Magazine. She was a consulting sexologist, an hypnotist and one of the first to do past-life regressing, and was interested in all kinds of health and psychic phenomena. In 1965, after Reed Erickson had founded the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF), he hired Zelda to run it. From her office in New York she and lesbian feminist activist Phyllis Saperstein (they had met in a nudist camp) managed the daily operations, and the contacts with transsexuals who asked for help. Erickson made the final decisions about who and what he funded, but spent much of his time in Baton Rouge and then Mexico with his family.

A Gender Variance Who’s Who. “A Gender Variance Who’s Who: Zelda R. Suplee (1908 - 1989) Director of Erickson Educational Foundation.,” January 30, 2009. https://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/01/zelda-r-suplee-1908-1989-director-of.html.