Dawn: A Charleston Legend

In 1968, Gordon Langley Hall claimed he was a woman misdiagnosed as male at birth because of a genital defect. To correct this, Gordon underwent one of the first sex reassignment surgeries in the United States. Her subsequent marriage to a black auto mechanic and the mysterious birth of their daughter Natasha sent Charleston, SC society into a fury and cast serious doubts on the truth behind Dawn’s story.

Cast & Crew

Director

Ron Davis

Dawn Langley Simmons

Self (archive footage)

Alexia Jasmene

Dawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)

Mildred Simmons

Self

Natasha Simmons

Self

Stephanie Riggio Bulger

Self

John-Paul Simmons

Self (archive footage)