Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons
Dawn Langley Simmons strolls along Fifth Avenue in New York, November 21, 1968.
Dawn Langley Simmons with her future husband John Paul Simmons, December 16, 1968.
Dawn Langley Simmons with her future husband John Paul Simmons a few months before their marriage in Charleston, South Carolina, October 1968.
Cover of Uncensored magazine with cover story about Dawn Langley Simmons and John Paul Simmons’s marriage, issue and year unknown.
Excerpt from Uncensored magazine on the cover story about the marriage of the Simmons
Part 1: Excerpts from cover story of Uncensored magazine about the marriage of the Simmons and other insights into Dawn Langley Simmons biography.
Part 2: Excerpts from cover story of Uncensored magazine about the marriage of the Simmons and other insights into Dawn Langley Simmons biography.
Part 3: Excerpts from cover story of Uncensored magazine about the marriage of the Simmons and other insights into Dawn Langley Simmons biography.
Dawn Langley Simmons before her gender reassignment surgery at her home in Charleston, South Carolina, 1962.
Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (1922 – September 18, 2000) was a successful English author and biographer. As a young adult, she became close to British actress Dame Margaret Rutherford, who became her adoptive mother. Later, Simmons wrote Rutherford’s biography. After gender reassignment surgery in 1968, Simmons married her previous chauffeur in the first legal “interracial” marriage in South Carolina. The couple’s marriage was also a statement in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King a few months earlier.