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  1. Why I Went

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Rowley, Eddie
    Date: Sep. 15, 1985
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Heterosexuality, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Secrecy, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: Debbie Joyce
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  2. Why "Iron Mike" Became "Miss Fluffy Ruffles"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Van Duzer, Winifred
    Date: Oct. 11, 1925
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, Labour, Performing arts, Students, Theatre
    Subject: Lionel Ames
  3. Why Is S/He Doing This To Us?: An Employer's Handbook

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Cole, Dana Joyce
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Coming out, Employees, Employers, Employment policies, FtMs, Gender identity, Gender role, MtFs, Personnel management, Sexual orientation, Solidarity, Transitioning (Gender)
  4. Why The Empress Went Cool on Napoleon

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 26, 1982
    Topics: History, Hormones, Medicine, Physical characteristics, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
    Subject: Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Greenblatt
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  5. Why Transvestites Make Other People Nervous

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Kakutani, Michiko
    Date: Jan. 24, 1992
    Topics: Androgyny, Crossdressing, Drag, Gender ambiguity, Gender bending, LGBTQ+ books, Race relations, Transvestites
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Cultural Anxiety, Henry David Hwang, M. Butterfly, Marjorie Garber, Shi Pei Pu, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
    Description: This is a clipping from the New York Times that is a book review for Marjorie Garber's "Vested Interest: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety" which talks about gender variance icons in popular medi...
  6. Why Wearing Skirts Makes a Man Effeminate

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Lough, James E.
    Date: Jan. 9, 1916
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Masculinities, Psychology, Students, Theatre
    Subject: Brown Rolston, Frederick S. Jones, James E. Lough, Leroy K. Howe
  7. "Wife" Denies She Knew "Husband" Was Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 29, 1921
    Topics: Crossdressing, Marriage
    Subject: Ethel M. Kimball, James Hathaway, Louise Margaret Aechtler
  8. "Wife" Denies She Knew "Husband" Was Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 30, 1921
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, FtMs, Marriage
    Subject: Ethel M. Kimball, James Hathaway, Louise Margaret Aechtler
    Description: The Democratic Advocate (Westminster, Maryland)
  9. Wife To Fight Divorce Suit

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Nov. 12, 1969
    Topics: Courts, Divorce, Gender realignment surgery, Legal process, Medicalisation, MtFs, Physicians
    Subject: April Ashley, Arthur Cameron Corbett
  10. Wife's Loyalties Torn in Heirloom Battle

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Van Buren, Abigail
    Date: Apr. 4, 1985
    Topics: Discrimination, Gender realignment surgery, Transsexual people
  11. Wigs on Fire 1998

     
    Collection: Clothing Collection
    Institution: Wearing Gay History
    Creator:
    Date: 1998
    Topics: Drag queens
    Subject: Miss Camp America Foundation
    Description: "Wigs on Fire . . . The Resurrection MCAF 1998" Miss Camp America Foundation
  12. Wigstock Participants in Black-feathered Hat, Red and Platinum Blonde Wigs

     
    Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gay men, Manners and customs
    Description: Costumed onlookers in black-feathered hat, red and platinum blonde wigs at Wigstock. 1994.
  13. Wilder Heading for Screen with 'Psychosexual Chiller'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Beck, Marilyn
    Date: Apr. 6, 1985
    Topics: Crossdressers, Film, Tennis, Transsexual people
    Subject: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Haunted Honeymoon, Linda Yellen, Playing for Time, Renee Richards, Vanessa Redgrave
  14. Wilfred Watson in drag. Photographic postcard.

     
    Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1940 to 1949?
    Topics: Female impersonators
    Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
  15. Wilhelmina (Willy) at the Trafalgar Baths

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Gender minorities, Public facilities
    Subject: Wilhelmina
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: At the Trafalgar Baths. ‘Willy’ (Wilhelmina) ‘She was a strooi meisie …you know working on the road’.