Israel Mowry Saben (March 24, 1870 – October 7, 1950) was an American essayist and journalist[1] who was an early advocate for gender and sexual diversity.
Starting in the mid-1930s, he also contributed to The Argonaut, an influential weekly publication in San Francisco.
[1] He died in San Francisco in 1950, three weeks after falling ill with a liver condition.
[1] According to journalist Channing Gerard Joseph, Saben may have been the real identity of the pseudonymous Jennie June, a non-gender-conforming writer who in 1918 published The Autobiography of an Androgyne.
[2] This biography related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer history or culture is a stub.