"Nashville, Tennessee, USA"@en . . . "1971-02-20"^^ . . "Addams grew up in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, the child of the leaders of a religious group she characterizes as a \"fundamentalist Christian cult\". Growing up she played the fiddle. She served as a combat medic in the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. During her last year in the military, she came out as a transgender woman. Addams chose the name \"Calpernia\" from the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar (a variant spelling of Caesar's wife Calpurnia) and from its appearance on a tombstone in the film The Addams Family."@en . . . . "actress, author, musician, activist & spokesperson"@en . "Calpernia Addams"@en . . . . "Addams grew up in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, the child of the leaders of a religious group she characterizes as a \"fundamentalist Christian cult\". Growing up she played the fiddle. She served as a combat medic in the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. During her last year in the military, she came out as a transgender woman. Addams chose the name \"Calpernia\" from the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar (a variant spelling of Caesar's wife Calpurnia) and from its appearance on a tombstone in the film The Addams Family. Addams was a performer at a club called \"Connections\" in 1999 when she met and dated Barry Winchell, an Army private who was training at a nearby military base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Winchell was harassed and ultimately murdered by fellow soldiers after rumors of his amorous relationship with Addams circulated around the army base. The New York Times article entitled \"An Inconvenient Woman\" refers to the manner in which some political groups attempted to portray the relationship between Addams and Winchell as \"homosexual\", so they could exploit Winchell's murder in order to protest the U.S. military's \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy regarding sexual orientation. In the Times article, 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.\" Their relationship and Winchell's murder were depicted in the 2003 film Soldier's Girl. Addams was portrayed by Lee Pace."@en . "1679529"^^ . . . "Calpernia Addams"@en . . . .