I have an uncle named Lavern, John Wayne's real name was Marion. I had a friend named Kim (male) when I was a kid. Heck, if you can name your kid North, Blue, River or Leif then what's wrong with Beverly for a boy?

Most names that aren't flowery and frilly started out as boys names. Karen, Aaron/Erin, Shannon, Carey, Casey, Jean, Jessie, Mackenzie, etc. In my opinion it doesn't matter. Names are all made up at some point. They don't have genitals they're just sounds we make up.

There's lots of names like that. Dana, Keegan, Alex, Chrisit's annoying to me, too. I intensely dislike unisex names.

There's male Beverly in Dead Ringers and another in GTA 5 video game

Another stupid point of this film.
No need to have a woman's name for a guy here, just confuses some folks.
Maybe it's the people that are stupid and ignorant, not
the point
.
Swing away, Merrill.Merrill, swing away

Another stupid point of this film.
No need to have a woman's name for a guy here, just confuses some folks.

Shirley used to be a man's name too

Beverley Randolph the eighth Governor of Virginia.
Beverly Briley mayor of Nashville
Heck, I even know a couple of guys named Lavern

Beverley Randolph the eighth Governor of Virginia.
Beverly Briley mayor of Nashville
Heck, I even know a couple of guys named Lavern

Yep, originally a boy's name. "Whitney" was also originally a boy's name too. Nowadays, you'd be hard-pressed to find a man named Whitney.
Sister, when I've raised hell, you'll know it!

"I have never known it to be a man's name"
You should get out more.

There are a lot famous men with ambiguous names..
Terry Bradshaw
Tracy Morgan
Dana Carvy
Rosey Greer
Leslie Nielson
Stacy Keach
Lindsey Buckingham
Jackie Gleason
Jamie Fox
(Fictional) Ashley Wilkes
G - A - F - (low)F - C

Now, it is a woman's name, but in the past it was just a name.
Families who felt names were very important and named kids a certain way, may have given a surname as a child's first name. So the boy was named Beverly, which was perhaps his mother's maiden name.
Jessica Simpson named her daughter Maxwell!

Yes, it's a man's name. As is Marion. Jaime. and on and on. some names are ambiguous.
Swing away, Merrill.Merrill, swing away

Beverly is originally a sir name, then was a boy's name, and is now mostly a girl's name. This is a common pattern for many girl's names: Tracy, Stacy, Ashley, Evelyn, etc all originated as sir names, which became popular boy's names. WASPs often give their boys family names as a way to pass on blue blood names, historically.

I knew a woman named
Graham
and another woman named
Bruce.

I work with a guy named Shannon, once dated a guy named Lynn, and used to work with a guy named Eunice (yes, seriously).

And then there is Carroll O'Conner. Lot's of men's names, especially of English origin, that many decades later were given to women too. This became so common and male usage declined to the point that some folks think of some names as exclusively female. Google is your friend.

Evelyn
Funny thing is that the famous British writer Evelyn Waugh's own wife was called Evelyn too. They were referred to by their friends as He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn to avoid confusion.

I watched Killer Joe coincidentally just the day before this movie and was quite shocked to think that a woman could write a movie that harsh and horrendous especially towards some of the female characters. So was quite relieved to see that Tracey was actually a man.

Wow, I, too, thought Tracy was a woman!
FYI Beverly is more common as a man's name in England than a woman's.

"Males with unisex names turn up in the Arts"?????
Um, the ones you've HEARD of havethat's why you've heard of them. Confirmation Bias at work!

Well, I assumed Tracy Letts, who wrote the play on which this was based and
who wrote the screenplay, was a woman, which was why the women's roles were so
intense and the male roles much less so. I figured only a woman would create such
vicious female characters, and I was very much surprised to watch the DVD extras
and discover "Tracy" was a guy.
Beverly is one of those unisex names that apparently originated as a boy's name,
but gradually became almost exclusively female over the past century or so. Hillary, Evelyn, Vivian, and Meredith are other examples of this. One theory about
the name Beverly is that it fell out of favor around the turn of the century due
to a best-selling novel of that era,
Beverly of Graustark
, in which the title character was female.
Males with unisex names often turn up in the arts (authors Hillary and Evelyn Waugh, composer Meredith Wilson), so maybe the character in the film changed his
name to Beverly to match his career as a poet.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.

I should have said "usually".it's like Frances and Francis, generally speaking.

These actresses might disagree:
http://www.imdb.com/find?ref_=nv_sr_fn&q=marion&s=nm