Taking the name of Dorothy Dandridge's role in Carmen Jones, Rupe became Australia's first Māori drag performer and from that time on lived as a woman.
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Rupe has been cited as a role model by MP Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament.
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