Search Constraints
Search Results
-
Photo Card of Mei Lanfang in Costume
Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing Institution: New York Public Library Creator: Date: circa 1920 to circa 1930 Topics: BIPOC, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Operas, Chinese Subject: Mei Lanfang Description: Photo card of Mei Lanfang standing in costume. -
Photo Card of Mei Leifang Kneeling
Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing Institution: New York Public Library Creator: Date: circa 1920 to circa 1930 Topics: BIPOC, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Operas, Chinese Subject: Mei Lanfang Description: Photo card of the Chinese female impersonator Mei Lanfang kneeling. -
Photograph of Mei Lanfang Holding a Staff
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: New York Public Library Creator: Date: circa 1920 to circa 1930 Topics: BIPOC, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Operas, Chinese Subject: Asian people, Mei Lanfang Description: A photograph of Mei Lanfang holding a staff in costume. -
"They Lived It "Out!"" Sample Program, 1998
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Date: 1998 Topics: BIPOC, Drag performers, LGBTQ+ events, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender victims of hate crimes Subject: Anthony Hegarty, Arlene Hoffman, Bambi Starr, Barbara Warren, Bernadett McGowen, Bianca Smith, Candis Cane, Carolyn Durrell, Coco LaChine, Dana Rose, David Valentine, Ellyn Rabinowitz, Eva Love, FTM International, Gender Identity Project, Gloria Swain’galicki, Hedda Lettuce, HighRisk Project, Ismael Pierre, Juicy Absolute, Lenny Zenith, Leslie Feinberg, Luscíous, Melissa Sklarz, Mental Health and Social Services (MHSS), Monique Reed, Morgan Gwenwald, Nora Molina, Philomena, Queen Allyson, Rae Destepano, Regan Comstock, Richard Burns, Riki Anne Wilchins, Rita Hernandez, Rosalyne Blumenstein, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center), They Lived it "Out!", Tina Sparkles Description: A sample program for the 1998 "They Lived It "Out!"" event to honor people of transgender experience hosted by the Gender Identity Project. -
Interview with Lourdes Ashley Hunter
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Hunter, Lourdes Ashley Date: Mar. 22, 2017 Topics: Activism, Activists, Assigned gender, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Bullying, Christianity, Community life, Families, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Genocide, Hair--Removal, Healing, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Liberation movements, Mentoring, Middle West, Race, Racism, Self-acceptance, Sex work, Social movements, Social work with youth, Transgender people, Violence Subject: Barack Obama, Creating Change, Ellie Ford, Islan Nettles, Laverne Cox, Queers for Economic Justice, Slyvia Rivera Law Project, Trans Justice, Trans Youth Group, TransWomen of Color Collective, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Women's March Description: Lourdes Ashley Hunter is a Black trans woman from Detroit, Michigan. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, her visions and thoughts on trans politics, and her decades of work in Black tr... -
A Photograph of Mario Montez in a Pink Dress
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: New York Public Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1968 Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ events, QTPOC, Transfeminine people Subject: Mario Montez Description: A photograph of Mario Montez and two others onstage. -
Arrest of a Notorious Character
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Date: Jul. 12, 1876 Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape Subject: Frances Thompson Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault. -
Demand Justice!!
Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ death notices, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Sex workers, Transfeminine people Subject: Andy Warhol, Hot Peaches, Marsha P. Johnson, Stonewall Rebellion Description: This item is a leaflet announcing a demonstration for Marsha P. Johnson to demand a full police investigation into her death. This item includes a clipping of a newspaper death notice for Marsha an... -
Evening Star
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Jul. 19, 1876 Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape Subject: Frances Thompson Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault. -
Frances Thompson Dead
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Public Ledger Date: Nov. 3, 1876 Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape Subject: Barbour Lewis, Ku Klux Klan Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault. -
Gladys Bentley
Collection: Academic Papers and Publications Institution: New York Public Library Creator: Young, Wilbur Date: Sep. 1938 Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ arts, LGBTQ+ musicians, Male impersonators Subject: Gladys Bentley, Ubangi Club Description: This item is an essay about Gladys Bentley written by Wilbur Young as a part of the "Sketches of Colorful Harlem Characters." This item portrays Bentley in a negative light. -
Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center Staff Photos
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Date: Jun. 5, 1996 Topics: BIPOC, Black people, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ community centers, Transfeminine people, Transgender people, Transmasculine people Subject: Arlene Hoffman, Carrie Davis, Elizabeth E. Walker, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Melissa Sklarz, Rosalyne Blumenstein, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center), Tracey Carrawante, Transgender Description: Images of the Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center staff in New York City in 1996. -
North Carolina News
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Sep. 30, 1880 Topics: Assigned female at birth, BIPOC, Black people, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ parents, Transmasculine people Description: A clipping from the Yorkville Enquirer mentioning a "colored woman who was raised as a boy." -
Sunday Night Cabaret at JR.'s Bar and Grill (1986)
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: Jan. 1986 Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Cabaret, Drag, Drag queens, Events, Female impersonators Subject: Dione Martell, JR’s Bar & Grill, Kandi Delight, Naomi Sims, Tiger LIl -
Cracks in the Tinsel Closet: Genderbending in Bombay Films
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Chadwa, Anruddh Date: Jan. 1996 Topics: Indian LGBTQ+ people, Motion picture industry--India--Mumbai, Performance art, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people Description: An article about the history of queerness in Bollywood cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s.
