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Maria Teresinha Gomes (1933, Funchal – 2007) also known as a generala was a Portuguese woman notable for spending nearly 20 years successfully pretending to be a male army general. Gomes was born on the Portuguese island of Madeira and ran away from home at the age of 16. Her parents gave her up for dead while Teresinha made her way to Lisbon. Gomes' general's uniform was a costume made by a Lisbon tailor for the 1974 carnival. She used the name General Tito Aníbal da Paixão Gomes, the name of a brother of hers, who died as a baby.

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  • Maria Teresinha Gomes, coneguda també com a General Tito, va ser una dona portuguesa que va ser coneguda al seu país per haver simulat ser un home durant divuit anys, període durant el qual es va fer passar per general de l'exèrcit, advocat, agent de la CIA i funcionari de l'ambaixada estatunidenca, fins que va ser descoberta el 1992, jutjada, i condemnada per usurpació d'identitat i per estafa. (ca)
  • Maria Teresinha Gomes, conocida también como General Tito, fue una portuguesa que saltó a la fama en su país por haber simulado ser un hombre durante dieciocho años, periodo durante el cual se hizo pasar por general del ejército, abogado, agente de la CIA y funcionario de la embajada estadounidense, hasta que fue descubierta en 1992, juzgada, y condenada por usurpación de identidad y estafa. (es)
  • Maria Teresinha Gomes (1933, Funchal – 2007) also known as a generala was a Portuguese woman notable for spending nearly 20 years successfully pretending to be a male army general. Gomes was born on the Portuguese island of Madeira and ran away from home at the age of 16. Her parents gave her up for dead while Teresinha made her way to Lisbon. Gomes' general's uniform was a costume made by a Lisbon tailor for the 1974 carnival. She used the name General Tito Aníbal da Paixão Gomes, the name of a brother of hers, who died as a baby. Gomes was revealed to be biologically a woman in 1992. She had used her invented position of authority to persuade neighbours to hand over part of their savings for investment. High returns were promised, but never forthcoming. The resulting trial also revealed that Teresinha had posed to others as a lawyer and an employee at the US embassy. Teresinha was eventually given a suspended three-year sentence. She retreated to a village near Alenquer where she died, too poor to pay for her own funeral, in 2007. A nurse called Joaquina "Quininha" Costa became Gomes' companion, sharing a house with her for 15 years. At Gomes' trial, Costa claimed that they never shared a bedroom, and that she never suspected that Gomes may have been a woman. (en)
  • Maria Teresinha Gomes (1933, Funchal - 2007, Alenquer), que se identificava como Tito Aníbal Paixão Gomes, e denominado coloquialmente como Generala, foi burlista e arguido num julgamento que se tornou mediático por viver quase 20 anos sob a identidade de um general do exército de sexo masculino. (pt)
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  • Maria Teresinha Gomes, coneguda també com a General Tito, va ser una dona portuguesa que va ser coneguda al seu país per haver simulat ser un home durant divuit anys, període durant el qual es va fer passar per general de l'exèrcit, advocat, agent de la CIA i funcionari de l'ambaixada estatunidenca, fins que va ser descoberta el 1992, jutjada, i condemnada per usurpació d'identitat i per estafa. (ca)
  • Maria Teresinha Gomes, conocida también como General Tito, fue una portuguesa que saltó a la fama en su país por haber simulado ser un hombre durante dieciocho años, periodo durante el cual se hizo pasar por general del ejército, abogado, agente de la CIA y funcionario de la embajada estadounidense, hasta que fue descubierta en 1992, juzgada, y condenada por usurpación de identidad y estafa. (es)
  • Maria Teresinha Gomes (1933, Funchal - 2007, Alenquer), que se identificava como Tito Aníbal Paixão Gomes, e denominado coloquialmente como Generala, foi burlista e arguido num julgamento que se tornou mediático por viver quase 20 anos sob a identidade de um general do exército de sexo masculino. (pt)
  • Maria Teresinha Gomes (1933, Funchal – 2007) also known as a generala was a Portuguese woman notable for spending nearly 20 years successfully pretending to be a male army general. Gomes was born on the Portuguese island of Madeira and ran away from home at the age of 16. Her parents gave her up for dead while Teresinha made her way to Lisbon. Gomes' general's uniform was a costume made by a Lisbon tailor for the 1974 carnival. She used the name General Tito Aníbal da Paixão Gomes, the name of a brother of hers, who died as a baby. (en)
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  • Maria Teresinha Gomes (en)
  • Maria Teresinha Gomes (pt)
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