Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sándor Vay redux

Sándor Vay

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Original – We can't say their true preferred gender for certain when their passing as male gave them many, many benefits - which is why historians tend to be very careful with assigning people as transgender. This really shows in our article on them. Sándor Vay or Sarolta Vay was a Hungarian poet and journalist. Vay worked as a male journalist both before and after the sensational trial for their marriage to "another" woman in 1889. The case drew the attention of noted sexologists of the period, including Havelock Ellis and Richard von Krafft-Ebing, who used it to explore female inversion in the emerging field of sexology. During their lifetime, they were well respected as an author of historical articles on notable figures and cultural topics related to Hungary. Many of their works have been posthumously republished and are considered an important part of their country's literary heritage.

Reason

Last nomination barely failed to reach quorum. The 1910s were a bit of a photographic nadir - I think the ability to get faster photographs won out over quality for a while, and prints weren't amazing, but this is decent for the time, even having a bit of character to it. Think it's a rather good image from a very underrepresented country, and depicts someone who is both an important Hungarian poet and writer, and an important person in LGBT history.

Articles in which this image appears

Sándor Vay

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Unknown, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator - Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.5% of all FPs} 21:31, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 02:13, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
• Support - DreamSparrow ^Chat 15:59, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
• Support ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 10:58, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 18:42, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Promoted File:Sándor Vay - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:52, 24 September 2020 (UTC)