Veronica Vera

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Veronica Vera
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Occupation(s)Writer, actress
Spouse
Stuart Cottingham
(m. 2012;died 2013)
[1]
Website veronicaverawrites.com

Veronica Vera is an American human sexuality writer and actress, [2] as well as a doctor of human sexuality. [3] She is best known for the films Times Square Comes Alive , Gerard Damiano's Consenting Adults, Mondo New York , and Rites of Passion, as well as her work with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from 1982. [4]

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Vera is a former Wall Street trader [5] and is also known for running the cross-dressing school Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want to be Girls, [6] [7] on which she wrote a book, Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls, published by Doubleday in 1997. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] She has published two follow-up books: Miss Vera's Cross-Dress For Success and Miss Vera's Cross Gender Fun For All. [13] [14] She also wrote a monthly article in Adam magazine called "Veronica Vera's New York" that ran from 1983-1995. [15]

Vera's activist work includes a testimony she gave in 1983 that became part of the Meese Report. She was also a founder of the first porn star support group, Club 90. [16]

Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want to be Girls

Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want to be Girls
Company typePrivate
IndustryCourses on cross-dressing
Founded(1992 (1992), New York City, New York, United States
FounderVeronica Vera
Headquarters
New York City, New York
,
United States
Website missvera.com

Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want to be Girls is a business in New York City that provides instruction in cross-dressing founded and run by Veronica Vera. Actor Paul Dano attended the school while researching a role in the film The Extra Man . [17] [18] One of the school's most popular topics of instruction is walking in high-heeled shoes. In 2008, Vera said more than 5,000 people, including many women, had enrolled in this class in the previous 12 years. [17]

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