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  1. 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...

  2. I’m Free

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events, Transgender people
    Subject: April Leigh, Courtney McCall, Rachel Ross, Sweet Savage
    Description: A flyer for the first "Annual Benefit Show for the April Leigh Paysinger Memorial Hospice for the Transgendered," including what appears to be a poem from April Leigh.

  3. The Beige Room… Where Men Are Women

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1963
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ musicians, Performance art
    Subject: Don Miles, Jackie Gordon, The Beige Room, Tommy Hendrix
    Description: An article including a series of photos of "The Beige Room" and its performers.

  4. Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Maxwell, Pat
    Date: Jan. 1, 1971
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Crossdressing, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag, Gender expression, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Homophobia, Legal name change, LGBTQ+ civil rights, Queer rights, Sexism, Transgender activism, Transgender rights, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Transvestites, Women's movement
    Subject: Abbie Hoffman, Arthur Miller, Fems Against Sexism, Marilyn Monroe, Queens, Queens Liberation Front, Radical Queens, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), The Cockettes, The Transvestite-Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Trans lib, Transvestites and Transsexuals
    Description: Clipping from page 10 of Detroit Gay Liberator, volume 1, issue 8, published on January 1 1971.

  5. What a World, What a World: What is "Normal" Anyway?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Ford, Nancy
    Date: Aug. 1994
    Topics: Clothing, Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Transphobia
    Subject: Concerned Parents for Normal Toys, Dorothy Lamour, Dragdoll, Robert Crodent, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert, Weekly World News
    Description: An article from Dimensions' August 1994 issue discussing the creation of Dragdoll. The text looks at criticism of the toy as well as its potential positive impact.