Born Benjamin Edward Knox in Quincy, Florida, "Brenda Dale Knox", "Lady Chablis" was featured in the John Berendt Novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and played herself in the movie version produced by Clint Eastwood. Chablis's autobiography is Hiding My Candy.

Towards the end of the autobiography she says: "If y'think being gay is tough, try being a transie!" I might add - try being a black transie. "Benji" exhibits feminine and gay tendencies early on as he is raised by various family members. Eventually his blood parents try to whip the woman out of him. Doesn't work.

Benjamin, now living as a woman, but still keeping his "candy" (his male genitalia, which he has always kept) drifts naturally into performing, first singing and dancing, then moving into monologue - like a duck to water.