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  1. Mei Lan-Fang: Foremost Actor of China

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese
    Subject: Mei Lanfang
    Description: A book about Mei Lanfang, a female impersonator, and her contribution to Chinese Opera. The book is autographed and inscribed by Mei Lan-Fang to Prof. Albert R. Lovejoy. There are many sepia photo...

  2. Mei Lan-Fang: Chinese Drama

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1930
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese
    Subject: Mei Lanfang
    Description: A souvenir program from Mei Lanfang's first American tour, 1930. The program includes articles about Chinese drama, costumes, stage properties, musical instruments, and synopsis of touring repertoi...

  3. A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Wellcome Library
    Creator: Parsons, James
    Date: 1741
    Topics: Intersex, Medicalization
    Subject: Androgyni, Hans Sloane, The Royal Society of London
    Description: This scientific treatises on intersex people presents a historical and biological overview. While motivated by reductive understandings of bodies and reproducing objectifying understandings of inte...

  4. From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: 1990
    Topics: Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Spanish-American War, 1898, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Allan Berube, Babe Bean, Harry Benjamin, Jack Garland, James H. Budd, Mary L. Haines, Masquerade laws, Richard von Krafft-Ebing
    Description: A book written by Lou Sullivan detailing the life of Jack Bee Garland. The book excerpts numerous historical sources and reproduces a number of images.

  5. Glossographia

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Blount, Thomas
    Date: 1656
    Topics: Transfemininity, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Sir Thomas Browne
    Description: On the page with the signature Rr4v, the words "Transection" and "Transfeminate" are defined. Both terms are attributed to "Dr. Br." in reference to the physician and influential writer Sir Thomas ...

  6. The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language (Vol. IV. Scream--Zythum)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Ogilvie, John
    Date: 1883
    Topics: Transfemininity, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Sir Thomas Browne
    Description: On page 414, the words "Transexion" and "Transfeminate" are defined. Both terms are attributed to "Sir T. Browne" in reference to the physician and influential writer Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxi...

  7. Stone Butch Blues

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Authors, Butches, Chest reconstruction surgery, Classism, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag queens, Feminism, Femmes, Gender expression, Gender non-conforming people, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Labor, Labor movement, Labor unions, Lesbian liberation, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ social processes, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Police harassment, Queer rights, Sexual harassment, Stone butches, Stonewall riots, Testosterone, Trans women, Transgender rights, Transmasculinity, Transphobia
    Subject: Alison Bechdel, Assata Shakur, CeCe McDonald, Chrystos, Eileen Myles, Emanuel Xavier, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Holly Hughes, Jess Goldberg, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Halberstam, Lambda Literary Award, Michael M. Hernandez, Stonewall Book Award, Susan Stryker
    Description: Originally published in 1993 by Firebrand Books, "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg is a novel that centers around protagonist Jess Goldberg and Jess' relationship to sexual and gender identity...

  8. Journal of a Transsexual

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Feb. 1980
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Hair, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ employment, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Misgendering, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Public bathrooms, Sexual identity, Social norms, Transsexual people, Voice, Working class writings
    Subject: Bob McCubbin, Dorothy Ballan, Feminism and Marxism, In the Spirit of Stonewall, Leslie Feinberg, New Jersey Supreme Court, Robert Frost, The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal, The Road Not Taken, Workers World Newspaper, Workers World Party
    Description: A short theoretical piece in the form of a memoir by Leslie Feinberg, published in 1980. This work was Feinberg's first public attempt to put forward a political stance on trans liberation outside ...

  9. Transvestism Today

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Podolsky, Edward, Wade, Carlson
    Date: 1960
    Topics: Childhood, Criminal law, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Heterosexuality, History, Homosexuality, Medical sciences, Parents of crossdressers, Partners of transgender people, Psychologists, Psychology, Sexual excitement, Sexual orientation, Transsexual people, Transsexualism, Underwear
    Subject: Alfred Kinsey, Bambi, Bernhard Berliner, Burma, Carlos Eduardo Sosa, Chevalier D'Eon, Christine Jorgensen, Coccinelle, David O. Cauldwell, Edwin W. Hirsch, Francois Timoleon de Choisy, George W. Henry, Harry Benjamin, Hasty Pudding Club, Havelock Ellis, Hugo Beigel, Jack Lemmon, Kabuki Theatre, Kenneth Walker, Kitt Russell, Magnus Hirschfeld, Margaret Mead, Mario Costello, Mary Anne Talbot, Otto Fenichel, Powdered Wig Society, Ray Leen, Tony Curtis, Transvestism Today
    Description: Summary reads: "An individual who derives pleasure from wearing clothes of the opposite sex is called a 'transvestite.' When a man wears female clothing, complete with bloomers, brassiere, slip and...

  10. The female-impersonators : a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Lind, Earl, Werther, Ralph
    Date: 1922
    Topics: Androgyny, Homosexuality, Intersex people
    Subject: Autobiography of an Androgyne, Earl Lind, The Riddle of the Underworld

  11. Der erotische Verkleidungstrieb (Die Transvestiten)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hirschfeld, Magnus
    Date: 1912
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Paraphilias, Sexology, Sexual excitement, Social and behavioural sciences

  12. Die Transvestiten: eine Untersuchung über den erotischen Verkleidungstrieb mit umfangreichem casuistischen und historischen Material

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hirschfeld, Magnus
    Date: 1910
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender identity, Psychology, Sexology, Sexual excitement, Social and behavioural sciences

  13. Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sullivan, Louis G.
    Date: 1985
    Topics: Crossdressers, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hormone therapy, Passing (Gender), Sexual relationships, Transsexual people
    Subject: A Man Like Eva, Alan L. Hart, Calamity Jane, Charley Wilson, Colonel Sir Victor Barker, I Want What I Want, Jack Bee Garland, James Barry, Mary Walker, Milton B. Matson, Murray H. Hall, Ralph Kerwinieo, Sylvia Scarlett, Vesta Tilley, Yentl
    Description: Published in 1985 and authored by L. Sullivan, “Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual” is a handbook that provides general advice for those who identify along the female-t...

  14. Sex Life of a Transvestite

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Murdock, Larry
    Date: 1964
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Transsexualism
    Subject: Charles Prince, Leonard A. Wheeler, Sexology, Transvestia, Turnabout

  15. The Fifth Sex: The Forbidden World of the Hermaphrodites

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Kling, Janet, Dylan, Bob
    Date: 1969
    Topics: Intersex, Intersex people
    Subject: World War I, World War II
    Description: Contents: Bob Dylan: A Case of Penis Identity -- Janet Kling: Case of the Well Hung Girl -- Bob Dylan: Case of the Orgey at Cripple Creek -- Janet Kling: Case of the Reluctant Thighs -- Bob Dylan: ...