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leprechaun

In Irish folklore, a fairy shoemaker with a hidden treasure or ‘crock’ of gold. If caught, the leprechaun must tell the location of the treasure, but he always tricks the captor into looking away for an instant, after which he has disappeared. The leprechaun's part in genuine Irish folkore is a minor one, but his importance has been greatly exaggerated in the literature of recent generations, and he has been promoted as a genial otherworld character in the tourist trade.



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Southern Comfort finds its emotional core in two relationships that reorient our notions of gender identity: Eads's love for Lola Cola, a male-to-female transsexual with a Betty Boop naughtiness and an early Streisand wig, and the father-son bond that evolved between Eads and Maxwell, a leprechaunish female-to-male transsexual with a protective hold on Eads that teetered between devoted and dysfunctional.
Southern Comfort by Stuart, Jan / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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