ignorant of how sexual intercourse works. The story of the many lives of Barker is told in Colonel Barker's Monstrous Regiment by Rose Collis, Virago 2001. Brighton Museum and History Centre marked his life during February 2006, as part of England's LGBT month's celebrations. "The Perfect Gentleman", one of the Queers: Eight Monologues (2017), curated by Mark Gatiss, was based on Barker. In Female Masculinity (1998), Jack Halberstam writes that Barker represented "the beginning of the emergence of a transsexual identity." References Further reading External links womenofbrighton.com Colonel Barker on the LGBT History Project English fascists English LGBT people People from Brighton People from Saint Clement, Jersey 1895 births 1960 deaths Transgender men Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom People from Climping People from Henfield 20th-century LGBT people