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'Los Angeles' correspondence for The Queen
Collection: The Queen (1968) Production Institution: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Creator: Allen, Lewis M., Laemmle, Greg, Robinson, Chris Date: Unknown Topics: Drag pageants, Drag queens, Drag shows, LGBTQ+ cinema, LGBTQ+ films, LGBTQ+ theater, Title contests Subject: The Queen (Film) Description: Executive producer Lewis M. Allen’s files for the documentary film The Queen (1968)—a behind-the-scenes look at the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant in New York City— including correspond... -
Los Angeles Permits Female Impersonation
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: Jan. 10, 1940 Topics: Actors, Female impersonators, Law, Police Subject: Julian Eltinge -
Man-Turned-Girl Held in Forgery
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: The Associated Press Date: Aug. 28, 1955 Topics: Bail, Forgery, Gender realignment surgery, Jails, Theatre Subject: Tamara Edel Rees -
"Margaret" Smith Proves to Be Man
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: Dec. 5, 1911 Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Harassment, Police, Theatre Subject: Clarence Westfall, Margaret Swift -
Marsha P. Johnson Interview with Jim Kepner
Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries Creator: Kepner, Jim, Johnson, Marsha P. Date: Jan. 9, 1988 Topics: AIDS death and dying, AIDS memorial quilts, Black transgender people, Coming out, Drag queens, Gay bars, Gay movement, Gay pride, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Mental health, Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Sex work, Transfeminine people, Transphobia, Transvestites Subject: ACT UP, Angela Davis, Ed Murphy, Jim Kepner, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera Description: A video interview with Marsha P. Johnson conducted by Jim Kepner at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, CA on January 9, 1988. Topics they discuss include Marsha’s participati... -
Media Notes
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Commondenominator, Lois, Dragazine Date: 1994 Topics: AIDS death and dying, Crossdressers, Drag community, Drag families, Drag queens, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ magazines, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ plays, Performance art, Stonewall riots, Transgender community Subject: Divine, Dragazine, House of Deva, Imperial Court, Nicole Ramirez Murray, Pristine Condition, The Cockettes Description: This clipping comes from Vol. 1 Issue 07 of Dragazine, where Lois Commondenominator discusses drag queens on television and in pop culture, mentions upcoming pride contests and parades, and celebra... -
Men dressed in drag
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: Los Angeles Public Library Creator: Date: Nov. 1, 1949 Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing Description: Men festively dressed as women are shown during an unidentified event taking place at 3rd Street and Main in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph dated November 1, 1949. -
Men in Costume, Vertigo Nightclub
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: Los Angeles Public Library Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Clubs, Drag, Night life Subject: Vertigo Description: Group of men wearing costumes at Vertigo. The men wear bikini tops, floral skirts and headpieces decorated with various fruits. -
Mexican American boy dressed as Carmen Miranda
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: Los Angeles Public Library Creator: Date: circa 1945 Topics: BIPOC, Children, Crossdressing, Halloween, Mexican American children Subject: Carmen Miranda, Hispanic People, Jesse Gonzalez Description: Jesse Gonzalez dressed as Carmen Miranda for Halloween costume, circa 1945. -
Mexican American boy dressed as girl
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: Los Angeles Public Library Creator: Date: 1945 Topics: Children, Crossdressing, Halloween, Mexican American children Subject: Gilberto Perez, Hispanic People Description: Gilberto Perez dressed in Halloween costume, circa 1945. -
Mia Yamamoto Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Yamamoto, Mia Date: Apr. 17, 2017 Topics: Asian American transgender people, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Japanese American lawyers, LGBTQ+ veterans, Trans women, Transphobia Subject: Aiden Aizumi, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Black Lives Matter (BLM), Christine Jorgensen, Civil Rights Movement, Concentration Camp, Cornel West, Donald Trump, Ellen Kameya, Emililo Aguinaldo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fred Korematsu, Frederick Douglass, Gordon Hiranbayashi, Harold Kameya, Harvey Milk, Ho Chi Min, Jacqueline Nquyen, Jamison Green, Marsha Aizumi, Mia Yamamoto, Mitsuye Endo, UCLA Law School, Vietnam War Description: OUTWORDS interview with Mia Yamamoto conducted by Mason Funk on April 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA. At age 60 she came out as publicly as transgender. Since then, she has been an ardent advocate and ... -
Mirage Volume 1, Number 2
Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries Creator: Date: 1974 Topics: Anti-transgender legislation, Crossdressing, FtMs, Lateral transphobia, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ magazines, LGBTQ+ newsletters, LGBTQ+ prisoners, MtFs, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Title contests, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender press, Transsexual people, Transvestites Subject: Miss Gay America 1974, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), Patsy's Pageant, Stonewall, The Transvestite, Transexual, Female Impersonator and Gender Identity Program, Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Vicky Gay Williams Description: Issue of Mirage Magazine discussing international and national news. The issue discusses gender-affirming surgery denial from psychiatrists, issues with the legal and medical system, and personal e... -
Mob Pursues Man in Woman's Dress
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Nov. 28, 1910 Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Physical violence Subject: E. C. Heffner, H. F. Pederson, Joe Swanson, L. B. Delano, Tom Ferrell, Walter Waller -
Moonshadow (1975)
Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries Creator: Date: 1975 Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Gender affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, MtFs, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: Colette Goudie, Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael, Transsexual Action Organization (TAO) Description: Moonshadow newsletter issue from 1975 discussing arrests of transgender women, interactions with police, female impersonation and anti-gay laws, LGBTQ+ activism by the Transsexual Action Organizati... -
Moonshadow (August 1973)
Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries Creator: Transsexual Action Organization Date: Aug. 1973 Topics: Black transgender people, Gender affirming surgery, Klinefelter syndrome, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ newsletters, Transgender community, Transsexual people, Transvestites Subject: Daughters of Bilitis, Harry Benjamin, Lee Brewster, Queens Liberation Front, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera Description: An August 1973 issue of Moonshadow that discusses sex change surgeries, conflicts between transsexual liberation and other organizations, and provides lists of transsexual organizations.
