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  1. Zephyr D Merkur Herrera Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Merkur Herrera, Zephyr D
    Date: Mar. 17, 2018
    Topics: Activists, Eating disorders, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Language, LGBTI community, Musicians, Schools, Sports, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transgenderism
    Description: Barista and peer advocate Zephyr D Merkur Herrera details their experiences in the trans community throughout their active adolescence and beyond. In this interview with Lorenzo Van Ness, Herrera e...
  2. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Ph. D. Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: LGBTQ Religious Archives Network
    Creator: Mollenkott, Virginia, Malkmus, Doris
    Date: Sep. 25, 2004
    Topics: Activists, Christianity, Feminism, Lesbians, Religions, Theology, Transgender people, Writers
    Description: Virginia Mollenkott speaks in this Oral History about her strictly religious upbringing, and early lesbian relationships. Virginia then discusses her activist work within the Evangelical Women's Ca...
  3. Violet Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Violet
    Date: May 10, 2019
    Topics: Capitalism, Childhood, Civil rights, Class struggle, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Furry fandom (Subculture), Gender, Gender realignment surgery, Gentrification, Health care, Hormones, Mental health, Music, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Roleplay, Sexism, Social classes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Soundcloud
    Description: Violet shares her experience of being a musician and DJ in New York’s rave scene while navigating the political landscape of gentrification. Having grown up nomadically with immigrant parents, she ...
  4. Twilight People Sound Installation

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: London Metropolitan Archives
    Creator: Twilight People
    Date: Feb. 4, 2016
    Topics: Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Identity, Religions, Spirituality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
  5. Tuesday Smillie Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Smille, Tuesday
    Date: Oct. 11, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Animal rights activists, Artists, Childhood, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Family members, Gay liberation, Gender diversity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Social classes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Visual arts, Zines
    Subject: Adele Carpenter, Ali Forney Center, Kirsten Rossi, Michelle O'Brien, Sergio Rodriguez, Silence of the Lambs, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Ursula K. Le Guin, Wangechi Mutu
    Description: (Photo of Tuesday and interviewer Michelle). Tuesday Smillie is a visual artist whose work grapples with power and violence. In this interview, Tuesday recounts her coming out in a radical queer yo...
  6. Trans Talk November 2017: A Living Legend

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Clark, Joanna, Nowling, Una
    Date: Nov. 24, 2017
    Topics: Army, Courts, Interviews, Military, MtFs, Navy, Transgender people, Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), Joanna Clark
    Description: On this month’s Trans Talk Edition of the Tenth Voice we’re going to have a special interview with a woman who is part of living transgender history. You’ve heard all about the issue of transgender...
  7. Trans Oral History: Would I Be Denied Shelter?

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project
    Date: Sep. 29, 2011
    Topics: Coming out, Discrimination, Gender identity, Intimate partner violence, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Description: Tina describes a 2 year battle to gain inclusion for trans women at a domestic violence shelter in Southern Indiana.
  8. Trans Oral History: The Courage to Be Who I Am

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project
    Date: Aug. 28, 2011
    Topics: Coming out, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender role, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Tori talks about their* process of coming out and what gave them* the strength to claim who they* are.
  9. Trans Oral History: Sexism as a Trans Man is Tricky

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, Pangborn, Alexander
    Date: Aug. 29, 2011
    Topics: Activists, Feminism, FtMs, Gender role, Lesbians, Passing (Gender), Sexism, Sexual orientation, Stereotypes, Transgender people
    Description: Alexander Pangborn describes his changing relationship to sexism as he's transitioned from being a dyke to passing as a man.
  10. Trans Oral History: Nothing Left to Tuck

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project
    Date: Oct. 12, 2011
    Topics: Colleges, Coming out, Finances, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Support groups, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Ingersoll Gender Center
    Description: Elayne discuses her 15-year process of finding community, coming out, and transitioning in LA and Seattle.
  11. Trans Oral History: Meeting Lou Sullivan

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Aug. 27, 2011
    Topics: Activists, FtMs, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, Passing (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: East Coast FtM Group, Lou Sullivan
    Description: Ben Power has been a transgender activist and community historian for more than three decades. He describes the first time he met another FTM--Lou Sullivan, the founder of FTM international--and ho...
  12. Trans Oral History: Feminist Legacy

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Aug. 28, 2011
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Feminism, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Lesbian community, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Description: Michelle O'Brien recounts how transgender activism in the 1980's and 1990's was shaped by the feminist ideals and practices that came before.
  13. Trans Oral History: Changing the Rules of the Game

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Transgender Oral History Project
    Date: Sep. 23, 2011
    Topics: Acceptance, Coming out, Conferences, Gender identity, Gender role, Partners of transgender people, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexualism
    Description: Breanna and Ryan are a transgender couple. They speak about Ryan's gradual coming out process and their struggle to stay together despite the stress and unexpected changes related to his transition...
  14. Torrey Peters Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Peters, Torrey, Lewis, AJ
    Date: Jun. 26, 2018
    Topics: Adolescence, Crossdressers, Dating, Femmes, Gender dysphoria, MtFs, Sexual relationships, Sexuality, Shame, Subcultures, Support groups, Transgender people, Writers
    Description: In an interview with AJ Lewis, Torrey Peters discusses her experience with coming into her gender identity, describing her sexuality and her feelings of shame and isolation that have come with it. ...
  15. Topher Gross Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Gross, Topher
    Date: Oct. 15, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Childhood, Colleges, Entertainers, Families, Festivals, FtMs, Gender identity, Lesbian community, Lesbian separatism, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Night life, Radical feminism, Schools, Social exclusion, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Topher Gross
  16. Tiffany Miles Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Miles, Tiffany, Ramsay, Grace
    Date: Apr. 29, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Childhood, Christianity, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Educators, Families, Friendships, Job applications, MtFs, Science fiction, Secrecy, Transgender people
    Subject: Tiffany Miles
    Description: Tiffany Miles describes growing up in conservative, religious small-town Alabama, where she lived for the first thirty-two years of her life. She discusses her complicated relationships with family...
  17. They Told Me to Call the Lesbians

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Skeivt arkiv
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 6, 2018
    Topics: Gender identity, Politics, Transgender people
    Description: Stein Wolff Frydenlund has been a trans activist for many years, and speaks about his role as both a mother and a grandfather.
  18. The Robert MacNeil Report: Transexuality and Sports

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: American Archive of Public Broadcasting
    Creator: NewsHour Productions
    Date: Aug. 23, 1976
    Topics: Chromosomes, Medicalization, Official documentation, Trans women, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Forest Hills Stadium, Harry Benjamin, Renee Richards, U.S. Tennis Open, West Side Tennis Club
    Description: An episode of the Robert MacNeill Report featuring a discussion on "transexuality" and sports. The guests are Renee Richards, Dorothy Harris, Charles Ihlenfeld, and Roberto Granato.
  19. TC Tolbert: Individual Oral History Interview

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Arizona Queer Archives
    Creator: Tolbert, TC, Lee, Jamie A.
    Date: Apr. 29, 2010
    Topics: Genderqueer people, Interpersonal relations, Marriage, Poets, Queer people, Religion, Self-perception, Sexuality, Steroids, Teachers, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Oral history with TC Tolbert. He discusses his genderqueer identity, religion, marriage, and self-image.
  20. Tarald Stein Interview

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Motta, Carlos, Stein, Tarald
    Date: Nov. 12, 2009
    Topics: Activists, Career choice, Discrimination, FtMs, Gender identity, History, Law, Research, Transgender people
    Subject: Harry Benjamin
    Description: Tarald Stein, a trans man, works at the The Norwegian LGBT Association in Oslo. He is working on a project titled “Gender Diversity” , which is based on the needs of the transgender population.
  21. Sylver Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Maya, Elliott, Sylver
    Date: Jul. 28, 2017
    Topics: Alcoholism, Childhood, Christianity, Clothing, Communities, Depression, Drag balls, Drag community, Families, Gender diversity, Lesbian community, LGBTI community, Self-acceptance, Social exclusion, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Two-Spirit people, Youth organisations, Youth shelters
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylver
    Description: In this interview, Sylver describes a childhood growing up in the Bronx and a period of awakening that began after they were kicked-out of their mother’s home at 15. Sylver, having at times struggl...
  22. Susan Stryker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Oct. 22, 2019
    Topics: Activists, AIDS activists, BDSM, Childhood, Crossdressing, Ethnic groups, Historians, Homophobia, Hormones, Leather community, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Military, Mormonism, Peace movement, Social classes, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transgender studies
    Subject: Blue Jeans Day, Christine Jorgensen, Dear Abby, Gay Activist Alliance, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society, Gay Pieere, I Want What I Want, Janice Raymond, Leslie Feinberg, Patrick Califia-Rice, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ), The Transsexual Empire: the Making of the She-Male, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Victor Silverman
    Description: Susan Stryker is an esteemed author and professor of gender and women’s studies. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Oklahoma, while also spending time in Germany and Hawaii as part of h...
  23. Susan Gapka Oral History, Part 2 (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Law, LGBTI rights policy, Transgender people
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: Second oral history with Susan Gapka, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/...
  24. Susan Gapka Oral History, Part 1 (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Sexology, Transgender people
    Subject: Harry Benjamin, John Money, Justin Trudeau, Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: First oral history with Susan Gapka, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/S...
  25. Spree Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Spree
    Date: Jun. 8, 2017
    Topics: Actors, AIDS activists, Appearance, Black people, Childhood, Coming out, Faeries, Families, Femininities, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Theatre, Transgender people
    Subject: ACT UP, International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), Marsha P. Johnson, Ortez Alderman, Queer Nation, Spree
    Description: Performer, and activist Spree shares her experiences as a Radical Faerie; a member of ACT UP, The Emma Goldman Gypsy Players and The Eggplant Players; and a resident of numerous places around the w...
  26. South Africa: Woman Who Had Sex Change Is Now Happily Married; Interview With Mr And Mrs Ashley

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 10, 1965
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Legal name change, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Melanie Ashley, Robin Ashley
    Description: A short interview with Melanie Ashley and Robin Ashley, in which Melanie's gender transition is discussed.
  27. Siobhan Meow Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Meow, Siobhan
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Squatter settlements, Suicidal behavior, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: An interview with Siobhan Meow discussing it's life and experiences.
  28. Sindell Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Niculescu, Sebastián Castro, Sindell
    Date: Jul. 24, 2018
    Topics: Childhood, Choir boys, Divorce, Gender dysphoria, Hormone therapy, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masturbation, MtFs, Musicians, Passing (Gender), Pornography, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel
    Description: Sebastián Castro Niculescu interviews Sindell, an entertainer who sings, dances, and performs. She talks about being married to a man whose family did not know she was trans, as well as her dreams ...
  29. Simon Chartrand Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Chartrand, Simon
    Date: Jul. 27, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Autism spectrum disorders, Childhood, Clothing, Colleges, Coming out, Community centres, Dating, Families, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Health care, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Misogyny, Physicians, Racism, Schools, Social media, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender children, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Janet Mock, Simon Chartrand
    Description: Simon Chartrand describes his experience growing up in upstate New York, being outed to family, living with chronic pain and navigating healthcare as a trans person. Simon discusses the long proces...
  30. Simo Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Simo
    Date: Aug. 1, 2023
    Topics: Farms, Feminism, Figure skating, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Queer people, Transgender people
    Description: An interview with Simo about their life and experiences.
  31. Shannon Minter Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Minter, Shannon
    Date: Aug. 7, 2017
    Topics: Christian communities, Coming out, Family members, Homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, Marriage, Parental acceptance, Small cities, Trans men, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Faith in America, Larry Jackson, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Romeo and Juliet, Shannon Minter
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Shannon Minter conducted by Mason Funk on August 7, 2016 during the Lavender Law conference in Washington, DC. As a lawyer, many of his cases have set precedents that safegu...
  32. Sawyer DeVuyst Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: DeVuyst, Sawyer
    Date: Jan. 28, 2023
    Topics: Agender identity, Faith, Hormone therapy (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: An interview with Sawyer DeVuyst, a trans identifying person from New Jersey.
  33. 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...
  34. Saje Liese Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Towne, Tyler, Liese, Saja
    Date: May 17, 2018
    Topics: Adolescence, Childhood, Divorce, Employment policies, Friendships, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Partners of transgender people, Transgender people
    Description: Saje Liese was born on Long Island and moved to NYC after 10 years of living in the country. She is a “true blue New Yorker” and tech engineer. In this interview, Saje discusses Dungeons & Dragons,...
  35. Sage Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Sage
    Date: May 9, 2019
    Topics: Baptist church, Butches, Children, Christianity, Coming out, Conferences, Discrimination, Feminism, Flags--Confederate States of America, Gender, Homophobia, Internet, Judaism, Libraries, Microaggressions, Paganism, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Rural areas, Social classes, Social justice, Soft butches, Taoism, Trade unions, Transgender people, Women's colleges, Youth literature
    Subject: American Library Association, LGBT Workers Association, Proposition 8, Stonewall 50, Tumblr
    Description: Sage discusses their growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, breaking from their family's religion through encountering children's and you...
  36. Rupert Raj Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Counseling, Electrolysis, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Medicalisation, Phalloplasty, Politics, Prisons, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Rupert Raj, Trans Health Project
  37. Robin Scott Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Scott, Robin, Towne, Tyler
    Date: Mar. 28, 2018
    Topics: Artists, Childhood, Coming out, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental health, Representation, Sexual orientation, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Weddings
    Subject: Robin Scott
    Description: Robin discusses growing up in the Upper East Side of New York, how her neighborhood has evolved over time, and her favorite areas in the city. She recalls mental issues preventing her from attendin...
  38. Roberta Wins Hill Climb

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 5, 1957
    Topics: Automobile racing, Motorsports, MtFs, Shelsley Walsh Hill-climb Race, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell, Tony Marsh, W.B. Croot
    Description: Roberta Cowell (wartime fighter pilot who had sex change operation) wearing head scarf round her head, examining the engine of her car with a mechanic in the pits, camera pans up and we look down o...
  39. Robbi Ann Mecus Oral Hisory

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Mecus, Robbi Ann
    Date: Aug. 23, 2019
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Crossdressing, Disabilities, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Forest rangers, Gay pride, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gentrification, Health care, Homophobia, Internalized homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Machismo, Masculinities, Parenthood, Passing (Gender), Police, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Sexism, Siblings, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Visibility
    Subject: 2017 Women's March, Bizarre Bushwick, Donald Trump, Kate Bornstein, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Second Serve, Stonewall, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), Trans Day of Action
    Description: In this interview, Robbi Ann Mecus describes her journey from growing up with her family, experiencing gender dysphoria in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, to living as her ...
  40. Rev. Sky Anderson Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: LGBTQ Religious Archives Network
    Creator: Anderson, Sky, Bowman, Mark
    Date: Feb. 2014
    Topics: Activists, Adoption, Childhood, Clergy, Education, Families, HIV/AIDS, Marriage, Military, Transgender people, Upbringing
    Description: In this Oral History, Sky Anderson talks about his childhood and upbringing, and realizing his gender identity. He discusses his education and how he became involved in the clergy, as well as his a...
  41. 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)
  42. Rafaela Anshel Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Arban, Courtney
    Date: Jul. 13, 2017
    Topics: Age, Child abuse, Childhood, Choirs, Clothing, Coming out, Families, Friendships, Gay identity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Judaism, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Music, Popular culture, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Privacy, Self-acceptance, Sexual assault, Sexual practices, Social workers, Stereotypes, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Gender Identity Project, Rafaela Anshel
    Description: Rafaela Anshel is a Jewish trans woman, affiliated with the Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. This interview is a reflection of Anshel’s transition. She details accounts from youth up until present ...
  43. Pat Rocco: Changes (1970)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator: Rocco, Pat, Bizarre Productions
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Femininities, Gender identity, Sexuality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Transsexuality
    Description: Short film directed by Pat Rocco focused on an interview with "Jimmy Michaels, a transgender person living in Los Angeles."
  44. Panel on Gender-Nonconforming People and AIDS

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou, Taylor, Janet, Olsen, Mark
    Date: 1989
    Topics: AIDS activists, Alcoholism, Appearance, Body image, Child abuse, Cosmetics, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, FtMs, Gay identity, Gender realignment surgery, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Intersex people, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Oral sex, Orgasm, Passing (Gender), Penis, Recognition (Philosophy), Safe sex in AIDS prevention, Sexual practices, Sexual relationships, Sexuality, Therapies, Transgender people, Writers
    Subject: Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association
  45. Paisley Currah Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Currah, Paisley
    Date: Jun. 27, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Birth certificates, Children, Conferences, Divorced people, Feminists, Gender, Gender role, Gender studies, HIV/AIDS, Internalized homophobia, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, Marxism, Political science, Prisons, Religions, Rural areas, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, Zines
    Subject: ACT UP Ithaca, Biddy Martin, Carolyn Riccardi, Carrie Davis, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), City University of New York (CUNY), Connor Brotus, David Valentine, Empire State Pride Agenda, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Jamison Green, Jennifer Levi, Joann Prinzivalli, Melissa Sklarz, Ned Brinkley, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Pauline Park, Queens Homophile Association, Queer Nation, Roz Blumenthal, Sarah Schulman, Shannon Minter, Sierra Showman, Sophia Pazzos, Spencer Bergstedt, Susan Stryker, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), The Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), Trans Day of Action, Transgender Law and Policy Institute (TLPI), True Spirit Conference
  46. Oral History Interview with Trish Valentine

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Valentine, Trish
    Date: Feb. 25, 2016
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ support groups, Marriage, Pronouns, Public bathroom bills, Suburbs, Transgender people
    Subject: Dress Barn, Kappa Beta, Ladies and Gents of the Blue Ridge, Metropolitan Community Church, Tazi, Ted Cruz, The Red Hat Society
    Description: Oral History Interview with Trish Valentine Interviewer: Kerri Dalton (and Teddy Melnik) Interviewee: Trish Valentine Date: 25 February 2016 Location: Roanoke College, Fintel Library, 220 High ...
  47. Oral History Interview with michael munson, April 25, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Smith, Brice, munson, michael
    Date: Apr. 25, 2011
    Topics: Civil rights, FtMs, Genderfluid identity, Oral history, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: FORGE, Milwaukee LGBT Community, Pathways Counseling Center, Significant Others, Friends, Families, and Allies (SOFFAs)
    Description: michael munson (b. 1968) founded FORGE in 1994 to provide peer support primarily to those on the female-to-male spectrum and significant others, friends, family, and allies (SOFFAs). munson discuss...
  48. Oral History Interview with Meredith Leischer, May 27, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Leischer, Meredith, Smith, Brice
    Date: May 27, 2011
    Topics: Educational psychology, Family, Intersex people, Marriage, Oral history, Transgender people
    Subject: Gemini Gender Group, Pathways Counseling Center
    Description: A Milwaukee native, Meredith Leischer identifies as a transgender person and psychic hermaphrodite. Leischer discusses her marriage and family life, career in the oil industry in the 1970s and 1980...
  49. Oral History Interview with Mary Boenke

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Boenke, Mary M.
    Date: Oct. 6, 2016
    Topics: Civil rights, Depressions--1929, Housing, Lesbians, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Our Trans Children, PFLAG, Ricketson LGBT Memorial Library, Trans Forming Families, Transgender Network
    Description: Interviewer: Mariana Araujo Interviewee: Mary Boenke Date: 6 October 2016 Duration: 1:01:49 Transcription prepared by: Erin McWethy, Chelsea Hutton, and Mariana Araujo
  50. Oral History Interview with Loree Cook-Daniels, January 30, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Smith, Brice, Cook-Daniels, Loree
    Date: Jan. 30, 2011
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, FtMs, LGBTI community, Oral history, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin, FORGE, Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee, Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, Significant Others, Friends, Families, and Allies (SOFFAs)
    Description: Loree Cook-Daniels has been an active member in the Milwaukee LGBT community, affiliated with FORGE, Diverse and Resilient, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, SAGE Milwaukee, and the Lesbian Alli...
  51. Oral History Interview with Jolie McKenna, May 18, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: McKenna, Jolie, Smith, Brice
    Date: May 18, 2011
    Topics: Family, Identity, Intersex, Oral history, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin
    Description: Jolie McKenna (b. 1961), who identifies as inter-sex and transsexual, is the executive director at the LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin in Racine and a part-time teacher for Women and Children’s ...
  52. Oral History Interview with Jay Botsford, May 26, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Smith, Brice, Botsford, Jay
    Date: May 26, 2011
    Topics: Coming out, Gender identity, Intergenerational relationships, Oral history, Social work, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin, Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, Project Q
    Description: Jay Botsford (b. 1982) identifies as genderqueer and trans. Botsford describes zir experiences coming out and transitioning, and zir role as coordinator of Project Q, the youth development program ...
  53. Octavia Leona Kohner Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Kohner, Octavia Leona
    Date: Mar. 27, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Anarchism, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Feminists, Gender identity, Isolation, Labour movement, LGBTI community, MtFs, Political movements, Solidarity, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Working class
    Subject: Babeland, Octavia Leona Kohner
    Description: Octavia Leona Kohner was active in the successful unionization campaign at Babeland, a NYC sex toy shop. Here, she recounts her upbringing in a working-class family in Staten Island, and describes ...
  54. Nogga Schwartz Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Adorian, Kristen, Schwartz, Nogga
    Date: May 26, 2018
    Topics: Atheism, Coming out, FtMs, Gender diversity, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Immigrants, Internalized homophobia, Internet forums, Judaism, Language, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Online dating, Patriarchy, Social media, Transgender people
    Subject: Planet Out, Topher Gross
    Description: Kirsten Adorian interviews Nogga Schwartz, an Israeli immigrant who came out as trans as a teenager. He talks about lack of parental acceptance as an adolescent and the importance of the trans comm...
  55. Nick Mule Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario, Ki Namaste, Nick Mule, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Rainbow Health Network
  56. Naomi Clark Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Clark, Naomi
    Date: Mar. 3, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Bathrooms, Beauty standards, Change of name, Childhood, Coming out, Dating, Discrimination, Educators, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Internet forums, Isolation, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, MtFs, Oppression, Politics, Representation, Social networking websites, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Video games--Design, Work situation
    Subject: Judith Butler, Lambda Legal, Naomi Clark, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Naomi Clark describes her work with hte Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the on-line trans and queer community Strap-On.org, and her career in video game design. She begins her oral history with her chil...
  57. Nancy Nangeroni Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Nangeroni, Nancy
    Date: Feb. 8, 2018
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Coming out, Conservatives, Family members, Feminism, Gender dysphoria, Genderqueer people, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ chosen families, LGBTQ+ radio, Medicalization, Motorcycling accidents, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Public bathroom bills, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender people, Transgender political activists, Transgenderism, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Adrienne Lynch, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Bathroom Act, Bay Windows, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Brandon Teena, Caitlyn Jenner, Chanelle Pickett, Christine Jorgensen, Deborah Forte, Donald Trump, Emily Rooney, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), GenderTalk, Gordene Olga Mackenzie, Gunner Scott, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Holly Boswell, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Kate Bornstein, Lynn Conway, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), Merissa Sherrill Lynn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Nancy Nangeroni, Napoleon Hills, Renee Richards, Riki Anne Wilchins, Rita Hester, Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE), The Village Voice, Think and Grow Rich, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Transgender Nation, Transgender Tapestry, Transsexual Menace, Virginia Stephenson, Yvonne Cook-Riley
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  58. Morgan Gus Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Gus, Morgan, Honkasalo, Julian
    Date: May 20, 2018
    Topics: Communities, FtMs, Gentrification, Hormones, Lesbians, Music, Music groups, Plastic surgery, Roman catholicism, Self-acceptance, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Morgan Gus, interviewed by Julian Honkasalo, talks about growing up in a community neighborhood of New York City where their mother was supportive of gender expression. Gus remarks about the changi...
  59. Moira Airington and Nicole White Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Towne, Tyler, Airington, Moira, White, Nicole
    Date: Apr. 15, 2018
    Topics: Acceptance, Ambulance drivers, Childhood, Colleges, Coming out, Discrimination, Educators, Families, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Parents of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Moira Airington, Nicole White
    Description: Moira Airington and Nicole White are a married couple who both identify as trans women. They discuss their experience with family, education, and the working world, as well as the story of how they...
  60. Melissa Sklarz Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Sklarz, Melissa, Tennenbaum, Ric
    Date: Jul. 5, 2017
    Topics: Bathrooms, Civil rights, Crossdressing, Elections, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Homelessness, Hormones, Isolation, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Lobbying, MtFs, Night life, Politics, Public facilities, Public sex, Representation, Schools, Stigmatisation, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, GenderPAC, Kate Bornstein, Laverne Cox, Melissa Sklarz, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Riki Anne Wilchins, Stonewall Democrats
    Description: Melissa Sklarz was the first transgender elected official in New York, having been a judicial delegate since the 1990s. She has served on many trans rights legislative committees, including the Sto...
  61. Meet The Girl Who Became A Man (1937)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: 1937
    Topics: FtMs, Gender identity, Masculinities, Transgender people
    Subject: Peter Alexander
    Description: Peter Alexander, interviewed in Sydney, born and brought up as Mavis Higgins in New Zealand, speaks of his sex change from female to male. He discusses the aspects of his personality when younger w...
  62. McKenzie Wark Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Wark, McKenzie
    Date: Jun. 20, 2019
    Topics: Abortion, Bisexuality, Childhood, Children, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Femininities, Gay men, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Hormones, Immigration, Journalists, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mardi gras, Marxism, Masculinities, MtFs, Peace movement, Pronoun, Punk, Sexuality, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Transitioning (Gender), Upbringing, Writers
    Subject: Christen Clifford, Kathy Acker, Macquarie University, The New School of Social Reserach, Ugenia College, University of Technology Sydney
    Description: McKenzie Wark discusses their career as a cultural critic, journalist, academic, and author. They came of age as a radical and writer in underground counterculture scenes in Australia, moving to Ne...
  63. Martine Stonehouse Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Human rights, Law, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Martine Stonehouse
  64. Marsha Botzer Full Interview

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Botzer, Marsha, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Feb. 19, 2020
    Topics: Community life, Labor movement, LGBTQ+ activism, Medical care, Self-help groups, Transgender activism, Transgender people
    Subject: Ingersoll Gender Center
    Description: Oral history with Marsha Botzer. Discussion of the founding of Ingersoll Gender Center, Botzer's activism, and her work with marginalized communities.
  65. 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
  66. Luce Lincoln Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Lincoln, Luce
    Date: Jul. 25, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Anarchism, Appearance, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Families, Film, Gender diversity, Immigrant youth, LGBTI community, Passing (Gender), Schools, Self-acceptance, Transgender people, Travel, Youth organisations
    Subject: Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Luce Lincoln
    Description: Luce Lincoln discusses the identity clashes of his white and Philippine lineages. Learning more about his Philippine culture, and Philippine gender expression, expanded his self-understanding and m...
  67. Kyle Katz Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Yesner, Lenni, Katz, Kyle
    Date: Apr. 29, 2017
    Topics: Butches, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Night life, Single parent families, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Kyle Katz
    Description: In this interview Kyle Katz speaks about their childhood, growing up in Boston, coming to New York, and the role that timing, books and community have played in how they identify, and understand th...
  68. Kimberly Nixon Full Interview (Audio Only)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Nixon, Kimberly, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Jun. 29, 2020
    Topics: Air pilots, Human rights, Law, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ community centers, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Trans women, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: Oral history with Kimberly Nixon discussing her work as a pilot and the legal cases she pursued. Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to non-consensual sexual a...
  69. 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 ...
  70. K. Kerimian Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Kiermian, K.
    Date: Aug. 3, 2023
    Topics: Androgyny, Family members, Gender identity, Sexual orientation, Transgender people
    Description: An interview with K. Kerimian about their life and experiences.
  71. Jules Skloot Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Skloot, Jules, Dicken, Matthew
    Date: Dec. 13, 2018
    Topics: Appearance, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Educators, Genderfluid identity, Passing (Gender), Transgender people
    Subject: Leslie Feinberg
    Description: Jules Skloot talks to Matthew Dicken about his childhood and development of his gender identity, particularly his experiences with crossdressing and passing as a male at an early age. Over time, Sk...
  72. Jude Patton Full Interview

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Patton, Jude, Taylor, Evan
    Date: Dec. 19, 2019
    Topics: Communication, Family, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ communities, Medical care, Trans men, Transgender activism, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, J2CP, Stanford University, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: Oral history with Jude Patton who discusses his activism and work with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
  73. Joanne and Julie Nemecek Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Nemecek, Julie, Nemecek, Joanne
    Date: Jul. 17, 2017
    Topics: LGBTQ+ Baptists, Marriage, Transgender people
    Subject: Bethel College, Christine Jorgensen, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Joanne Nemecek, Julie Nemecek, Michigan Equality, PFLAG, Renee Richards, Roberts Wesleyan College, Soulforce, Spring Arbor University, Susan Stanton
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Joanne and Julie Nemecek, conducted by Mason Funk on July 17, 2017 in their home in Spring Arbor, Michigan. Julie is a proud grandmother, Presbyterian church elder, and publ...
  74. Janice Covington Allison oral history interview 4, 2021 June 16

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UNC Charlotte Atkins Library, Special Collections and University Archives
    Creator: Allison, Janice Covington, Wright, Christina
    Date: Jun. 16, 2021
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Anti-transgender violence, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Gender identity, Genderfluid people, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ veterans, Older transgender people, Public bathroom bills, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender political activists, Transgender rights, Transphobia
    Subject: HB2, Janice Covington Allison
    Description: In this fourth of several interviews, Janice Covington Allison, a transgender woman and political activist for transgender rights in Charlotte, North Carolina shares her reflections on gender expre...
  75. Janice Covington Allison oral history interview 3, 2019 September 18

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UNC Charlotte Atkins Library, Special Collections and University Archives
    Creator: Allison, Janice Covington, Wright, Christina
    Date: Sep. 19, 2019
    Topics: Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, LGBTQ+ suicide, LGBTQ+ veterans, Older transgender people, Sexual orientation, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender political activists, Transgender rights, Transphobia
    Subject: Democratic Party, Flip Benham, Janice Covington Allison, LGBTQ+ Democrats, North Carolina General Assembly, Transgender Political Caucus
    Description: In this third of several interviews, Janice Covington Allison, a transgender woman and political activist in Charlotte, North Carolina shares her political activist history, her role in the North C...
  76. 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...
  77. Janice Covington Allison oral history interview 1, 2016 April 9

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UNC Charlotte Atkins Library, Special Collections and University Archives
    Creator: Allison, Janice Covington, Wright, Christina
    Date: Apr. 9, 2016
    Topics: Detransitioning, Gay community, Gender identity, Hormones, LGBTQ+ veterans, Older transgender people, Retransitioning, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender people in the military, Transgender-owned businesses
    Subject: Imperial Court of San Francisco, Janice Covington Allison, Lavender Panthers
    Description: In this first in a series of interviews, Janice Covington, a transgender woman and political activist in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses her formative years and her early adult life. She recal...
  78. Interview with Venus DeMars part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: DeMars, Venus
    Date: Sep. 12, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Film industry, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Marriage, Masculinities, Mental health, MtFs, Music groups, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Pronoun, Rock music, Sexuality, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Human Rights Act
    Description: Venus de Mars identifies as a male to female trans female and assigned male at birth. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1960 and had surgery as a baby to appear more male. She came out as trans ...
  79. Interview with Venus DeMars part 1

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: DeMars, Venus
    Date: May 3, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Autobiographies, Breast, Bullying, Cosmetics, Counseling, Crossdressing, Depression, Hormones, Marriage, MtFs, Musicians, Nose--Surgery, Pronoun, Puberty, Transgender people
    Subject: City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Venus de Mars
    Description: Venus de Mars was born in 1960 and grew up as a closeted trans kid, describing herself as a “little boy with a secret.” She didn’t grow up female since she was assigned male at birth but feels comp...
  80. Interview with Vanessa Sheridan

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sheridan, Vanessa
    Date: Jul. 12, 2016
    Topics: Assigned gender, Black people, Coming out, Families, Fundamentalism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homophobia, Law, LGBTQ+ partners, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Performing arts, Racism, Religions, Socioeconomic characteristics, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Chaz Bono, City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Crossing Over, HB2, Jerry Springer Show, Laura Jane Grace, Laverne Cox, Liberating the Transgendered Christian, Maury Povich, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Pulse Night Club, RuPaul, The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace, Virginia Prince, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
    Description: Vanessa Sheridan identifies as transgender and was assigned male at birth. She knew she was different from the age of 2 or 3 but didn’t understand what it meant at the time since she had no framewo...
  81. Interview with Ty Yule

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Yule, Ty
    Date: Aug. 20, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Bullying, Businesses, Butches, Coming out, Family members, Femininities, FtMs, Gay culture, Gay pride, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intolerance, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Punk, Same-sex marriage, Self-destructive behavior, Social movements, Soft butches, Suicidal behavior, Testosterone, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Women's bars
    Subject: ACT UP, Cher, Queer Nation, The L Word
    Description: Ty Yule identifies as a trans man or trans person assigned female at birth. He started transitioning 4 years ago at the time of the interview at age 41. He was born in Minnesota, then moved to Iowa...
  82. Interview with Thalia Hernandez

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hernandez, Thalia
    Date: Aug. 3, 2020
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Gender non-conforming people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Non-binary people, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender political activists, White transgender people
    Subject: Equality Virginia
    Description: An interview with Thalia Hernandez, a white and Latinx non-binary trans woman, trans activist, and advocate based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director ...
  83. Interview with Tamara Urban

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Urban, Tamara
    Date: Jan. 22, 2017
    Topics: Child sexual abuse, Dating, Electrolysis, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Hypospadias, Intersex, Murder, Suicide, Transgender people
    Subject: Board of Directors of Equality South Dakota, Trans Action South Dakota, Trans Justice Funding Project
    Description: Tamara Urban identifies as a transsexual female and was assigned male with an intersex condition when she was born in 1953. She was 63 at the time of the interview. She grew up in Sioux Falls and F...
  84. Interview with T. Aaron Hans

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hans, T. Aaron
    Date: Feb. 25, 2017
    Topics: Activists, AIDS activists, Bullying, Coming out, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Family members, Femininities, FtMs, Gay identity, Gay pride, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Identity, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Medication, Passing (Gender), Social norms, Sports, Transgender community, Transgender people, Voice therapy (Gender)
    Subject: Creating Change, Gay and Lesbian Antiviolence Program, Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Minnie Bruce Pratt, National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Shadow Morton, Title IX, Trans Youth Support Network, Trump Administration
    Description: T. Aaron Hans describes themselves as a butch transmasculine person. Ze has worked for 20 year as a national organizer for LGBTQIA justice and has worked with and been party of organizations such a...
  85. Interview with Sam Ames

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ames, Sam
    Date: Jan. 17, 2020
    Topics: Civil disobedience, Civil rights lawyers, Harm reduction, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ youth, Sexual reorientation, Transgender activism, Transgender people, Transmasculine people, White transgender people
    Subject: Our Family Coalition, Trans Lifeline, Unitarian Universalist Church
    Description: An interview with Sam Ames, a white transmasculine civil rights attorney, anti-conversion therapy activist, and theologian based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the in...
  86. Interview with Ryan Li Dahlstrom

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Dahlstrom, Ryan Li, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Mar. 28, 2016
    Topics: Activists, Communities, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, LGBTI community, Liberation movements, Race relations, Transgender people, Violence
    Subject: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Board, Gender Blur, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Transgender Youth Support Network
    Description: Originally from Minnesota, Ryan Li Dahlstrom is a community builder and leader, who has helped found, build, and be a part of organizations such as Gender Blur, Trans Youth Support Network, Astraea...
  87. Interview with Rickke Mananzala

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mananzala, Rickke
    Date: Nov. 19, 2019
    Topics: BIPOC, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ youth, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender youth
    Subject: Borealis Philanthropy, FIERCE, Fund for Trans Generations
    Description: An interview with Rickke Mananzala, a trans activist and community organizer. At the time of this interview, he was the Vice President for Strategy & Programs with Borealis Philanthropy, working wi...
  88. Interview with Rex Labeau

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Labeau, Rex
    Date: Aug. 30, 2020
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Asexuality, Autistic people, Bisexuality, Genderqueer people, Legal name change, Non-binary people, Public health, Transgender activism, Transgender people, Transphobia, White transgender people
    Subject: Borderlands, Unitarian Universalist Church
    Description: An interview with Rex Labeau. Rex lives in Newport; Rhode Island and is an artist and activist. They work in public health and are an active Unitarian Universalist and member of the Channing Memori...
  89. Interview with Renae Pagel

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Pagel, Renae
    Date: Aug. 23, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Anxiety, Augmentation mammaplasty, Change of name, Coming out, Crossdressing, Depression, Electrolysis, Estrogen, Friendships, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ relationships, Medication, Progesterone, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Renae Pagel identifies as female and was assigned male at birth. She grew up in Cannon Falls, Minnesota on a hobby farm on 25 acres with horses, chickens, ducks, a goat, and a few pigs. She has fiv...
  90. Interview with Rachel Schroeder

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Schroeder, Rachel
    Date: Feb. 23, 2016
    Topics: Anxiety, Bisexual identity, Bisexuality, Body building, Child custody, Children, Counseling, Crossdressing, Depression, Divorce, Electrolysis, Family members, Femininities, Gay pride, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), Intolerance, Lesbian identity, Marriage, Medication, MtFs, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Self-acceptance, Social exclusion, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Janitorial Company, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
    Description: Rachel Schroeder identifies as trans was assigned male at birth. She grew up in Burnsville, Minnesota in a trailer park and worked on her grandparent’s farm. She experimented with crossdressing at ...
  91. Interview with Oliver Schminkey

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Schminkey, Oliver, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Aug. 18, 2015
    Topics: Coming out, Dating, LGBTQ+ poetry, Polyamory, Sexuality, Students, Transgender people
    Description: Oliver Schminkey is a non-binary transgender person who attends Macalester College. They describe the troubles they face with faculty, dating, family and finding work as a non-binary person. Schmin...
  92. Interview with Nicole Vanderheiden

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Vanderheiden, Nicole
    Date: May 17, 2017
    Topics: Air force, Assigned gender, Bisexual women, Bisexuality, Bullying, Children of transgender people, Coming out, Conservatism, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Evangelisation, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Isolation, Law, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Military, Passing (Gender), Religions, Self-repression, Sexual assault, Sexuality, Shame, Surgery, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Alic Bitney, CeCe McDonald, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, HB2, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Martin Luther King Jr., Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Queer Veterans Support Group, Reese Rathgen, SPARTA, Sylvia Rivera, Vote No Campaign
    Description: Nicole Vanderheiden identifies as a bisexual woman and was assigned male at birth. She was born in Marquette, Michigan and has 3 brothers who she got along with as a kid. Her parents relocated to D...
  93. Interview with Nichole Moravec

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Moravec, Nichole
    Date: Mar. 30, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Bathrooms, Binders (Materials), Bullying, Colleges, Coming out, Divorce, Family members, Gender diversity, Internet, Intersectionality (Sociology), Lesbian identity, Masculinities, Pronoun, Sexuality, Social advocacy, Therapies, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Mumbletech
    Description: Nichole Moravec is 23 and grew up in Faribault, Minnesota. Their parents divorced when they were fifteen. They were assigned female at birth and identify as non-binary and genderqueer. To them bein...
  94. Interview with Neno Miller

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Miller, Neno
    Date: Nov. 29, 2016
    Topics: Assigned gender, Bathrooms, Bisexuality, Body image, Bullying, Change of name, Clothing, Coming out, Femininities, Gay identity, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Journalists, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Politics, Reading, Sexual orientation, Stonewall riots, Therapies, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Affordable Care Act, University of Minnesota
    Description: Neno Miller identifies as genderqueer, non-binary, trans masculine, and also with the term gender fuck. They were assigned female at birth. Miller grew up in Medford, Wisconsin, which is an isolate...
  95. Interview with Nathan Levitt

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Levitt, Nathan
    Date: Sep. 7, 2019
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ health care centers, LGBTQ+ health education, Nurse practitioners, Social justice, Trans men, Transgender people, White transgender people
    Subject: Rachel Bluebond-Langner
    Description: An interview with Nathan Levitt, a white trans man and family nurse practitioner. At the time of this interview, he worked in the office of Dr. Rachel Bluebond-Langner, who specializes in gender-a...
  96. Interview with MJ Robinson

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Robinson, MJ
    Date: Sep. 9, 2020
    Topics: Children's books, Gender non-conforming identity, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Non-binary people, Prison abolition movements, Queer people, Transgender people, White transgender people
    Description: An interview with MJ Robinson. MJ is an artist; educator and activist. They identify as queer; nonbinary and white. Topics in order of discussion include:: moving to Providence after college; livin...
  97. 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...
  98. Interview with Melissa Harl

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Harl, Melissa
    Date: Jan. 30, 2017
    Topics: Boy Scouts, Change of name, Clothing, Coming out, Conformity, Discrimination, Educators, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Marriage, Music, Sexuality, Socialisation, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Gender Odyssey, Kate Bornstein, Macalester College, Smiley's Family Clinic, Stonewall 25, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: In this oral history Melissa Harl shares her story as a female with transgender experience and history. Growing up in Mequon, WI, a suburb of Milwaukee, she discusses her childhood, her realization...
  99. Interview with Maxwell Poessnecker

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Poessnecker, Maxwell
    Date: Jul. 6, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Bullying, Clothing, Coming out, Counseling, Families, Feminism, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Lesbian identity, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Pronoun, Separation, Sexual orientation, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Queer for Career
    Description: Maxwell Poessnecker is a 26-year-old queer trans masculine guy who was assigned female at birth. They use they/them pronouns, but predominately also use he/him pronouns depending on the space they ...
  100. Interview with Marlene Somers

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Somers, Marlene
    Date: Sep. 23, 2015
    Topics: Children, Clothing, Coming out, Family members, Gender identity, Gender identity--Law and legislation, Gender realignment surgery, Grandchildren, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Military, Psychotherapy, Retirees, Sexuality, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Clark institute, Tretter Collection Autogynephilia
    Description: Marlene Somers has lived nearly her entire life in Minneapolis, a life she describes as, “two lives at once,” fluctuating between presenting as female and male. Marlene is not out to anyone in her ...