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  1. Bradley Picklesimer Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Picklesimer, Bradley
    Date: Mar. 28, 2018
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Berdache, Drag, Drag queens, Gay discos, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTQ+ porn films, Police raids, Sexual assault, Siblings, Stonewall riots, Transitioning (Gender), Transvestites
    Subject: ACT UP, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), Bernard Jay, Bradley Picklesimer, Café LMNOP, Chi Chi LaRue, Club Agogo, Courtney Act, David Bowie, Divine, Francis Marion Picklesimer, Henry Faulkner, Jayne County, Judy Garland, Lee Angelique, Martha Lynn Stone, Miss Bradley, Sweet Evening Breeze, The Montparnasse, The Thrusters, Wade Littrell
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Bradley Picklesimer conducted by Kate Kunath on March 28, 2018 in Meally, KY. AT 20, Bradley opened his first downtown club in Lexington, KY with the help of his brother and...

  2. Carmelita Nass Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Davis, Bob
    Date: Oct. 28, 1996
    Topics: Arrests, Drag, Drag queens, Gangs, Night life, Sexuality
    Subject: Billy DeVoe, Blue Lou, Carmelita Nass, Carol Wallace, Charles Pearce, Charlotte Valenti, Danny Barker, George Buchanan, Harvey Lee, Hoyt Bass, Jim Bailey, Jimmy Calloway, Lee Carr, Li Kar, Ray Bourbon, Reed Alexander, Russell Reed, Val DeVere

  3. Donna M. Cartwright Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Cartwright, Donna M., O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Dec. 23, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Arrests, Beauty standards, Colleges, Coming out, Crossdressing, Dating, Drag queens, Ethnic relations, Events, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Labour movement, LGBTQ+ movement, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Normalization, Organisations, Secrecy, Sexuality, Social movements, Socialism, Stereotypes, Therapists, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender rights, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Brandon Teena, Christine Jorgensen, Donna M. Cartwright, Gender Right Advocacy Association of New Jersey (GRAANJ), GenderPAC, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Pride at Work, Terence Stamp, The New York Times
    Description: Donna Cartwright discusses her long history in the labor movement, as a socialist militant, in leading roles in trans rights organizing and LGBTQ organizations. She recounts her 30 years spent as a...

  4. Donna Sachet Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Sachet, Donna
    Date: Jul. 27, 2016
    Topics: Child abuse, Coming out, Drag, Drag queens, Gay bars, Gay Christians, Gay community, Gay men, Gay movement, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Lipsynching, Methodist Church, Police harassment, Stonewall riots
    Subject: ACT UP, Bette Davis, Beverly Sills, Black Cat Bar, Campus Crusade for Christ, Donna Sachet, Donna Summer, Empress of San Francisco, Fire Island, Gay Men's Chorus, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), GLAAD Media Awards, Joan Crawford, José Sarria, Juanita More, Judy Garland, Mark Leno, Miss Gay San Francisco, Perry Ellis, Shanti Project, Tavern Guild, The Celluloid Closet, Trannyshack
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Donna Sachet conducted by Mason Funk on July 27, 2016 in San Francisco, CA. Donna is a drag performer, community activist, and author. Donna has raised millions of dollars f...

  5. Fernando Feliciano Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Schroeder, Kurt
    Date: May 31, 1995
    Topics: Arrests, Bars, Drag, Drag queens, Gay community, Gay culture, Health care centres, Navy, Police, Same-sex marriage, STDs, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
    Subject: Society for Individual Rights (SIR), The Coits

  6. Francine Logandice Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Nov. 10, 1997
    Topics: Bars, Books, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Navy, Transsexual people
    Subject: A Year Among the Girls, Christine Jorgensen, Finocchio's Club, Francine Logandice, Lee Brewster, Mark Thompson, Sally Anne Douglas, Salmacis, Virginia Prince, World War II

  7. Gay Morning America Show Excerpt: Miss Fire Island 1985

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Gay Morning America
    Date: Nov. 9, 1985
    Topics: Drag performers, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Gay Morning America, Miss Fire Island
    Description: Originally aired as part of Gay Morning America Season 3, Episode 3, this is a recording of the announcement of the Miss Fire Island 1985 winners.

  8. "Gender 101" Event Footage

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center
    Date: Sep. 23, 1993
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Gender expression, Gender non-conforming identity, QTPOC, Trans women
    Description: Footage from The Center's event, "Gender 101." The video begins with a lecture about gender nonconformity in ancient Egyptian religion and culture. Then, a panel of guests--including Rosalyne Blume...

  9. In the Life: Ep. 1701, "A New Look"

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator: Scagliotti, John
    Date: Oct. 2007
    Topics: Documentary television programs, Drag, Drag queens, Health care, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Plastic surgery, Poor women, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: DeParis Perez, Lulu, Stefanie Rivera
    Description: Segment on "Lulu Gets a Facelift": 39:21-45:40 Segment on a low-income transwoman: 45:44-56:39

  10. In the Life: Ep. 1703, "Building on the Past"

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator: Scagliotti, John
    Date: Dec. 2007
    Topics: Documentary television programs, Drag queens, Female impersonators in motion pictures, Femininities, LGBTI community
    Subject: John Leguizamo, Mary Dale, Patrick Swayze, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Wesley Snipes
    Description: Segment on "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar": 38:38-43:03

  11. In the Life: Ep. 505, "Lights, Camera, Activism! I"

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator: Scagliotti, John
    Date: Jun. 25, 1996
    Topics: Black people, Coyote--Folklore, Crossdressing, Cuna Indians, Documentary television programs, Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators in motion pictures, Gender diversity, Laguna Indians, Native american cultures, Northern Paiute Indians, Ojibwa Indians, Rappahannock Indians, Santee Indians, Teton Indians, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Beverly Little Thunder, Carole LaFavor, Inyupik, Mike Nichols, Muriel Miguel, Paula Gunn Allen, Randy Burns, Richard La Fortune, Rick McKay, Sharon Day, The Bird Cage (film)
    Description: Segment on drag in Hollywood films: 18:48-22:12; Segment on Two-Spirit people: 47:29

  12. Interview with Brian Belovitch

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Belovitch, Brian
    Date: Aug. 29, 2021
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Gay men, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ victims of bullying, Passing (Gender), Sex work, Substance abuse, Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
    Description: An interview with Brian Belovitch. Brian is a writer, playwright, performer and survivor of HIV. He identifies as a gay man of trans experience. Topics in order of discussion include: moving to Pro...

  13. Interview with Donna Ewing part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ewing, Dona
    Date: May 1, 2017
    Topics: AIDS (Disease)--Patients, Anti-racism, Assigned gender, Biology, Cannabis, Clothing, Cosmetics, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Drag queens, Drug traffic, Electrolysis, Entertainers, Ethnicity, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Immigrants, Intersex people, Investments, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Sexual practices, Strippers, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Copper Squirrel, Donald Hastings, G.I. Act, Laverne Cox
    Description: Donna Ewing is a trans woman assigned male at birth. She was 84 years old at the time of the interview. She traveled a lot and lived a reckless life, she explains. She’s been to Holland, England, C...

  14. Interview with Jeff Gaudor (Kira Stone)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Gaudor, Jeff
    Date: Apr. 21, 2020
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag families, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Substance abuse
    Subject: Miss Gay Massachusetts USofA, Miss Gay Rhode Island USofA
    Description: An interview with Kira Stone. Kira Stone is a drag persona performed by Jeff Gaudor since 2010. Gaudor identifies as a white; gay man. Topics in order of discussion include: growing up in Attleboro...

  15. Interview with Julian Vargas (Ally P Sha)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Vargas, Julian
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Harassment, Hormone therapy (Gender), Queer people, Trans men, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Ally P. Sha
    Description: An interview with Julian Vargas. Julian Vargas is a female to male trans person who performs as as drag queen named Ally P. Sha. He identifies as queer. Topics in order of discussion include: child...

  16. Interview with Meredeth Vezina

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Vezina, Meredith
    Date: Jan. 13, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Baseball, Cheerleaders, Contraception, Cosmetics, Divorce, Drag queens, Endocrinology, Femininities, Football, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Military, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Psychiatry, Shame, Sports, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Wars
    Subject: Cuyamaca Woods, Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Marsha P. Johnson, Michele Bachmann, National Organization for Women (NOW), Silvia Rivera, Stonewall 25, Tracy O'Brien, Traditions Military Video Business, Trans Elders, Trans Narratives, University of California San Diego, University of California San Diego Gender Program, University of Vermont, Vietnam War Veteran Interviews
    Description: Meredith Vezina identifies as a trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She lived in Berlin, New Hampshire until she moved to Long Island, New York when she was 7. She has two much younger sist...

  17. Interview with Robert Labossier (Vilet Labossier)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Labossier, Robert
    Date: Aug. 5, 2019
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gay pride, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Empress XIII, Imperial Court of Rhode Island, Vilet Labossier
    Description: An interview with Vilet Labossier. Vilet is a drag persona performed by Robert Labossier in Rhode Island since the early 1990s. Topics in order of discussion include: developing a drag persona and ...

  18. Janice Covington Allison oral history interview 2, 2016 May 14

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UNC Charlotte Atkins Library, Special Collections and University Archives
    Creator: Allison, Janice Covington, Wright, Christina
    Date: May 14, 2016
    Topics: Drag community, Drag queens, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ support groups, LGBTQ+ veterans, Married people, Older transgender people, Trans women, Transgender community, Transgender parents, Transgender people, Transgender people in the workplace, Transgender political activists, Transphobia
    Subject: Boom Boom LaTour, Casey King, Gypsy Star, Janice Covington Allison, Kappa Beta, Oleen Love, Phoenix Transgender Support, Tiffany Storm, TransCarolina, Triad Gender Association
    Description: In this second of several interviews, Janice Covington, a transgender woman and political activist in Charlotte, North Carolina, continues to discuss her personal history and reflects on transgende...

  19. Kate Bornstein Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Bornstein, Kate
    Date: Nov. 4, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Actors, Buddhism, Cancer, Chat rooms, Childhood, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crowdsourcing, Cults, Death and dying, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Film, FtMs, Fundraising, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health, Health care, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Overweight people, Postmodernism, Religions, Scientology, SM, Suicide, Theatre, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, World war II, Wrestling, Writers, Youth
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, A Thousand and One Ways to Live Without Working, America Online (AOL), B'hai, Barbara Carrellas, Christine Jorgensen, Church of Scientology, Gazebo, Gender Just for the Fun of it: Compassionate Gender Strategies for Divisive Times, Gender Outlaw, Hello Cruel World, I Am Cait, Jamison Green, Laura Vogel, Lee Sullivan, On Our Backs, Power Surge, Tuli Kupferberg, We Croak
    Description: Kate Bornstein discusses her life as a writer and actor. Moving between growing up in a Jewish family on the New Jersey shore, studying acting in school, joining the Church of Scientology, finding ...

  20. Larry Buttwinick Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Meeker, Martin
    Date: Mar. 1, 2004
    Topics: Army, Bars, Drag queens, Gay community, Gay men, Sexual practices
    Subject: Bill Clamp, Bitch and Stitch Club, Council on Religion and the Homosexual, Henry Von Dykoff, Imperial Court, José Sarria, Maximilian Von Blisenbaugh, Society of Individual Rights (SIR), Tom Little, William Bliss

  21. Major Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Jan. 29, 1998
    Topics: Drag balls, Drag queens, Gay community, Hormones, Lesbian community, Military, MtFs, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Finocchio's Club

  22. Queens at Heart (1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1967
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay bars, Gender affirming surgery, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Hormones, LGBTQ+ suicide, Medicalization, Sex (Act), Trans women, Transphobia
    Subject: Jay Martin
    Description: "This short pseudo-documentary offers a rare look at trans life and drag ball culture in mid-1960s New York." According to Jenni Olson, the LGBTQ historian and archivist who rediscovered the film i...

  23. Quick Change Artist (1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 20, 1967
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Cabaret, Crossdressing, Drag queens
    Subject: Ricky Renee
    Description: L/S of a Rolls Royce arriving at Ricky Renee's cabaret club (it passes the Fortune Theatre) in daylight. A glamorous blonde in a fur stole gets out of the car; this turns out to really be cabaret s...

  24. Regina Elizabeth McQueen Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Jul. 17, 1997
    Topics: Alcoholism, Anti-transgender violence, Bars, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hormones, Labour, MtFs, Transgender people, Transgender prostitution, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Center for Special Problems, Christine Jorgensen, Francine Logandice, Gina Elizabeth McQueen, Imperial Court, Regina Elizabeth McQueen, Salmacis, Society of Individual Rights (SIR)

  25. Renee Imperato Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Imperato, Renee, Kalin, Betsy
    Date: Jan. 23, 2021
    Topics: Ball culture, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ veterans, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Racism against Black people, Sex work, Transfeminine people, Transgender disabled people, Transgender political activists, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    Subject: 220 Club, House of Sally, Leslie Feinberg, Paris Is Burning, SAGE Advisory Council, World Worker's Party
    Description: Renee Imperato was born on May 8, 1948 in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City. Renee describes the first 30 some years of life as living as an “unconscious male impersonator.” Renee fought in ...

  26. Sandra Mesics Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Mesics, Sandra
    Date: Jan. 14, 2019
    Topics: Childhood, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Family members, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Insurance, Journalists, Mardi gras, Marriage, Peace movement, Pronoun, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Steel industry and trade, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Angela Douglas, Betty Johnson, Bobby Ray, Brandy Alexander, Christine Jorgensen, David Wesser, Divine, Eddie Joe Stark, Elizabeth Coffey, Empathy Press, Eromin (Erotic Minorities) Center, Fantasia Fair, Gay Liberation Front, Harry Benjamin, Image, Jack O'Brien, John Money, John Ronald Brown, Lee Brewster, National Enquirer, National Insider, Neptune Productions, Pink Flamingos, Pudgy Roberts, Rachel Harlow, Radical Queens, Reed Erickson, Richard Finocchio, Stonewall Rebellion, The Daily Collegiate, The Transsexual Phenomenon, Third World Communications, Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, Transvestia, United Transvestites Transsexual Society (UTTS), Virginia Prince, Zelda Suplee
    Description: andra Mesics is a registered nurse and midwife and has been the director of St. Luke’s School of Nursing since 2004. In this conversation with AJ Lewis, Sandy describes accessing hormones and surge...

  27. Shannon Harrington Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lewis, AJ, Harrington, Shannon
    Date: Jul. 26, 2017
    Topics: AIDS organizations, Bars, Childhood, Discos, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Events, Friendships, Fundraising, Gay community, HIV/AIDS, Labelling, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ people who use substances recreationally, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mafia, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Night life, Performing arts, Transgender community, Travel, Wigs
    Subject: Bailey House, Boy Bar, Dorian Corey, God's Love We Deliver, International Chrysis, Lee Brewster, Shannon Harrington, Wigstock
    Description: Shannon Harrington is a wig master, hair chaser, and make-up artist who has been living in New York City for over 30 years. In this interview Miss Shannon provides meaningful and nuanced insight in...

  28. "They Lived It 'Out!'" and Other Gender Identity Project Footage

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Gender Identity Project
    Date: 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ memorials, Trans women, Transgender community centers
    Subject: Arlene Hoffman, Carolyn Durrell, Coco LaChine, Eva Love, Gender Identity Project, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Richard Burns, Riki Anne Wilchins, Rosalyne Blumenstein
    Description: This video begins with retake shots for a Center project featuring Riki Anne Wilchins, then transitions to "They Lived It 'Out!'", a show at hosted by Rosalyne Blumenstein in honor of late trans fr...

  29. "They Lived It 'Out!'" Event Footage

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 23, 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ memorials, Trans women, Transgender community centers
    Subject: Arlene Hoffman, Carolyn Durrell, Coco LaChine, Eva Love, Gender Identity Project, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Richard Burns, Rosalyne Blumenstein
    Description: This video shows "They Lived It 'Out!'", an event at The Center hosted by Rosalyne Blumenstein in honor of late trans friends and role models. Includes performances from Coco LaChine, Bianca Smith,...

  30. Tony Manriquez Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Romesburg, Don
    Date: Oct. 15, 2000
    Topics: Discos, Drag queens, Prostitution, Strippers
    Subject: Finocchio's Club, Lester La Monte, Lili St. Cyr, Lucien Phelps, Tani de Molina, Tony Manriquez