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  1. The Darktown Strutter's Ball

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Thornton, Timmie, GAY Magazine
    Date: Feb. 15, 1971
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Timmie Thornton
    Description: "The Darktown Strutter's Ball" by Timmie Thornton from from "GAY Magazine" Volume 2 Issue 44. This article discusses Timmie Thornton's experience in the drag scene.
  2. Why does she do it?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Stearns, Alan
    Date: Apr. 1992
    Topics: Clothing, Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Feminism, Gender roles, LGBTQ+ bars, Masculinities, Pageants, Queer people
    Subject: La Cage Aux Folles, Limelight, Paris Is Burning
    Description: A clipping from the April 1992 issue of "Our Paper," titled: "Why does she do it?" discussing drag and queer stereotypes.
  3. STONEWALL: IN SPIRIT AND FLESH

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Bell, Bee
    Date: Jul. 1994
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ culture, Stonewall riots, Transgender people
    Subject: Dennis Ferrante, Village Voice
    Description: A clipping from the July 1994 issue of "Apex," titled: "STONEWALL: IN SPIRIT AND FLESH" including an interview between Bee Bell and Dennis Ferrante discussing the Stonewall riots and drag.
  4. The Bitch’s Christmas

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Mosher, A. L.
    Date: Oct. 1971
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Empress of San Francisco, Halloween Beaux Art Ball, José Sarria, Tavern Guild of San Francisco
    Description: An article by A. L. Mosher about the Halloween Ball at the Tavern Guild of San Francisco, published October 1971.
  5. forum GRAFFITI

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 26, 1974
    Topics: Bathrooms, Bisexuality, Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Gay men, Lesbians, Sexism
    Subject: Charles Street Meeting House, Gay Community News, Jesus, Richard M. Nixon
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains racist and homophobic language.
  6. Dressing the Part: Two Approaches to Drag

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Schneiderman, Jo, Leigh, Joanna, Lynn, Merissa Sherrill
    Date: May 5, 1984
    Topics: Camp (Gay culture), Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag bars, Drag community, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay community, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Sexual assault, Transsexual people
    Subject: Eve's Garden, Fire and Ice Review, Gay Community News, Jacque's, Norell, Roberta Dearborn, Tiffany Club, Tina Lea
    Description: A compilation of interviews with drag queens, transsexual women, and crossdressers. Touches on the drag scene in Boston, presenting and passing as a woman, the threat of sexual assault, and relatio...
  7. Divine

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Divine, Holland, David
    Date: Nov. 13, 1976
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gender identity in the theater, Motion pictures, Off Off-Broadway theater, Theater
    Subject: Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Babs Johnson, Divine, Female Trouble, Gay Community News, John Waters, Multiple Maniacs Mondo Trasho, Museum of Modern Art, Pink Flamingos, Roman Candles, Shakespeare, Tom Eyen, Women Behind Bars
    Description: An interview with Divine, the drag queen and actor. Originally printed on page 9 of Volume 4, number 2 of Gay Community News. Photography by Deborah Irmas.
  8. 'THE QUEEN' - NEW TV MOVIE

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Ruffin, Gene
    Date: Sep. 8, 1968
    Topics: Beauty contestants, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Film, Homosexuality
    Subject: Andy Warhol, Ava Gardener, Betty Grable, Frank Simon, Grove Press, Larry Rivers, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Finochio, Rita Hayward, Terry Southern
  9. Beauty Contest Winner Turns Out To Be A Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Katz, Nathan
    Date: Aug. 5, 1968
    Topics: Beauty contests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Gaye Bradley, Geoffrey Hawthorne, John French, Virginia Bone
  10. Toronto's Leading Ladies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Competitions, Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Halloween, Photographs
  11. Forty Minutes (BBC2): 'Lol – A Bona Queen of Fabularity.'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 25, 1981
    Topics: Comedians, Documentary films, Drag, Drag queens
    Subject: Lorri Lee
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  12. The World of Drag

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Wilson, Des
    Date: 1980 to 1982
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Performing arts, Theatre shows
    Subject: Evadne Hinge, George Logan, Hilda Bracket, Jerry Courbrinck, Kenneth Smith, Perri St. Claire, Rhythm and Black, Rogers and Starr
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  13. Friday TV

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Clough, David
    Date: May 27, 1983
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Performing arts
    Subject: Belles, Martyn Hesford, Robert Gary
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  14. London Drag Show Revolting

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1965
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Pageants, Prejudices
    Subject: Roger Hall
  15. Miss Destiny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay culture, Gender identity, Homosexuality, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Transsexual people
    Subject: City of Night, John Rechy, Miss Destiny
  16. A Gay Interview

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Van, Eddie, Perry, H. L.
    Date: Apr. 15, 1977 to Apr. 21, 1977
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gay community, Homosexuality, Interviews, Police, Police raids, Transgender people
  17. A Streetcar Named Desire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Francis, Miller
    Date: Dec. 18, 1972
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Feminism, Film, Homosexuality, Misogyny, Reviews, Sexual revolution
    Subject: A Streetcar Named Desire, Oscar Wilde, Salome, Tennessee Williams
  18. Dancer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Harjo, Joy
    Date: 1985
    Topics: Dance, Drag, Drag queens, Ethnic relations
    Subject: Carmen Cocoa
  19. All About Yves

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Goldsby, Jackie
    Date: Summer 1989
    Topics: Butches, Dance, Drag, Drag queens, Families, Femmes, Gay men, House music, Soft butches, Vogueing
    Subject: Paris Is Burning
  20. London Drag Show 'Revolting'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1, 1965
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Drag shows, Entertainers, Female impersonators
    Subject: Lord Ranelagh Public-House, Roger Hall
  21. The Queen (October 19, 1970)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Francis, Miller
    Date: Oct. 19, 1970
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Film, Gay liberation, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Reviews, Sexuality
    Subject: The Queen (Film)
  22. Phaggot Phliques presents The Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Latimer, Da
    Date: Jun. 28, 1968
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Film, Homophobia, Reviews
    Subject: Jack Doroshaw, The Queen (Film)
  23. Somewhere Between the Two by Jay Little

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1956 to Oct. 1956
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Fiction, Gay characters, Gay community, Reviews
    Subject: Jay Little, Somewhere Between the Two (Book)
  24. Gay Film Comes Out

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Thomas, J.N.
    Date: Sep. 15, 1978 to Sep. 21, 1978
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Film, Male impersonators
    Subject: California Outreach Group, Gary Grant, John Hurt, Katherine Hepburn, Quentin Crisp, Six of One, Half-Dozen of the Other Film Festival, Sylvia Scarlett, The Naked Civil Servant (Film)
  25. Reflections on the Death of a Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Dubois, Blanche
    Date: Nov. 18, 1972
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Capitalism, Drag, Drag queens, Fascism, Gay liberation, Hate crimes, Homophobia, Marxism, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Transphobia
    Subject: Cabaret (Film), Liza Minnelli
  26. Gender-fuck Is the Name of the Game

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Green, Jim
    Date: May 25, 1973 to May 31, 1973
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender diversity, Gender role, Liberation movements, Passing (Gender), Sexual assault, Social justice, Transgender people
    Subject: Glitters Galore, Lady Greyhound, Manicure (Organization)
  27. The Queen (May 10-16, 1968)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Harlow
    Date: May 10, 1968 to May 16, 1968
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Gender realignment surgery, Homosexuality, Transsexual people
    Subject: Harlow
  28. Slyvester Changes His Tune 'We've Come of Age'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Bryan, John
    Date: Jul. 8, 1977 to Jul. 14, 1977
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Homosexuality, Music
    Subject: Anita Bryant, Sylvester James, Jr.
  29. Krishna

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 22, 1971 to Jan. 28, 1971
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Misogyny, Racism
    Subject: Krishna
  30. Oh Diana!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Neil, Carl
    Date: Apr. 5, 1985
    Topics: Awards, Drag, Drag queens, Fundraising, Musical theatre
    Subject: Diana Awards, Kendall Hamilton, Tower Theatre
  31. Letter to a Femme

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Jan. 1994
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Butches, Coming out, Discrimination, Drag, Drag queens, FtMs, Hate crimes, Hate speech, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ lovers, Passing (Gender), Police officers, Police raids, Prejudices, Rape, Sexual harassment, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Suicide, Transgender people
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Workers World Party
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 3 of the periodical.
  32. Stonewall: In Spirit and Flesh

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Bell, Bee
    Date: Jul. 1994
    Topics: Androgyny, Celebrities, Clothing, Clubs, Cosmetics, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Drag, Drag queens, Gay men, Gender realignment surgery, Lesbians, Patriarchy, Police, Police raids, Stonewall riots, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Ferrante, Dennis, The Village Voice
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 1 of the periodical.
  33. Rudy Presents: Eddie Lee's Glamour Boys

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 31, 1954
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens
    Subject: Eddie Lee, Joe Dare, LaVerne Cummings, Rudy's Blue Star, Tod Allen
  34. The Midnight Snoop

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: McLean, Donald
    Date: Apr. 1, 1972
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Theatre
    Subject: Ann Farrell, David Kelsey, Finnochio's, LaVerne Cummings, Terry Taylor
  35. Jackie Maye at the Farewell Party at the Melody Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 31, 1950
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Night life, Parties
    Subject: Jackie Maye
  36. Glade Proudly Presents "Boys Will Be Girls"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 15, 1967
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Theatre shows
    Subject: Prince Hanalei
  37. The Gayest Show in Town at the Melody Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 10, 1950
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Theatre shows
    Subject: Bobby Brennan, Bobby Johnson, Jay Page, Rae Sinclair, Sandy Beach, The Melody Club
  38. Texas' Oldest Gay Bar is Over 32 Years Old

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Cohen Darbonne, Sheri
    Date: Sep. 26, 1986
    Topics: Bars, Drag, Drag queens, Fundraising, Gay community, Night life
    Subject: The Exile
  39. "Just" Marion & Lynn's Presents in Concert: Mr. Tiffany Jones

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 26, 1982 to Apr. 1, 1982
    Topics: Concerts, Drag, Drag queens
    Subject: Tiffany Jones
  40. Tallulah's: Open 9PM Nightly

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: May 25, 1984
    Topics: Bars, Drag, Drag queens
    Subject: Tasha Kohl, Tiffany Jones
  41. Tiffany Jones: Congratulations and Good Luck from the State of Texas

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 20, 1980 to Jun. 26, 1980
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens
    Subject: Tiffany Jones
  42. The Club Bath Chain Features Tiffany Jones

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 13, 1974
    Topics: Baths, Drag, Drag queens
    Subject: Club Baths, Tiffany Jones
  43. Hollywood's Favorite Female Impersonator the One and Only...Adrian Ames

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 30, 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: Adrian Ames