Name	Calpernia Addams
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	20 February 1971,
Place of Birth	Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Famous for

Addams was born and raised as a boy in Nashville, Tennessee in a strict Christian fundamentalist household. Addams enlisted in the United States Navy as a teenager and served four years as a field medical combat specialist. She was stationed first in the Middle East during the Gulf War and later at Adak, Alaska.

Afterward, Addams returned to Nashville and began performing in a drag burlesque revue. She also began to compete in pageants for drag performers. During that time she also began to live full-time as a woman. Having played fiddle since childhood, she played in various celtic and traditional music bands, some of which were published on compact disc.
Film

The 2003 film "Soldier's Girl" is based on a tragic event in Addams' life. In 1999, Calpernia Addams began dating an Army private named Barry Winchell who was training at the nearby military base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Winchell was harassed by fellow soldiers when rumors of his amorous relationship with Calpernia Addams began to circulate around the army base.

After various soldiers taunted and pressured Winchell about his relationship with Addams, two soldiers conspired, and one of them murdered Winchell in his sleep on the Fourth of July, 1999. Private Calvin Glover pled guilty to murdering Barry Winchell.

Winchell was apparently murdered because Glover and fellow soldier Specialist Justin R. Fisher detested Winchell's romantic relationship with Calpernia Addams. Glover was court-martialed and sentenced to life in prison. Fisher reached a plea agreement on lesser military charges and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

Addams was thrown into the national spotlight after Barry Winchell was murdered. Some political groups attempted to make his murder an issue about the military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy regarding sexual orientation. However, both Winchell and Addams appear to have considered their relationship heterosexual.

The New York Times article title 'Inconvenient Woman' refers to the manner in which some political groups attempted to portray the relationship between Calpernia Addams and Barry Winchell as 'homosexual', so they could exploit Winchell's murder in order to protest U.S. military policies.

In the Times article, Calpernia Addams said of the affair:

"I do feel like I was an awkward element for everybody involved. I didn't want to be anybody's anything, really, except Barry's girlfriend. And that was already taken away from me."