Veronica Vera

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Veronica Vera
Born
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] 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. [3]

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Vera is a former Wall Street trader [4] and is also known for running the cross-dressing school Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want to be Girls, [5] [6] on which she wrote a book, Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls, published by Doubleday in 1997. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

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 . [12] [13] 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. [12]

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  6. "At Miss Vera's, the Mirror Reveals a Changed Man". Los Angeles Times . December 23, 1993. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
  7. Tabor, Mary B. W. (October 11, 1995). "Book Notes". The New York Times .
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  13. "At Miss Vera's, the Mirror Reveals a Changed Man". Los Angeles Times. December 23, 1993. Retrieved January 7, 2011.