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  1. Alejandra Rodriguez Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Rodriguez, Alejandra, Oloya-Santiago, Tamara
    Date: Aug. 21, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Families, Hormones, Immigrants, LGBTQ+ partners, MtFs, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Community Healthcare Network (CHN)
    Description: In this oral history, Alejandra Rodriguez speaks about immigrating from Mexico to the United States as a young adult to escape the intense discrimination they were suffering. Alejandra speaks about...

  2. An Interview with Hossein Alizadeh

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Motta, Carlos, Alizadeh, Hossein
    Date: Feb. 18, 2011
    Topics: Activists, Arrests, Crimes, Discrimination, Gender identity, Law, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Middle East, Sexual orientation
    Subject: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
    Description: Hossein Alizadeh, the Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), discusses the persecution of LGBTI people in Iran thro...

  3. An Interview with Justus Eisfeld

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Motta, Carlos, Eisfeld, Justus
    Date: Jan. 24, 2011
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Health care, Social classes, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE)
    Description: Justus Eisfeld, a trans activist and co-director of the Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE), discusses the fight for transgender rights legally, socioeconomically, and in healthcare.

  4. An Interview with Kenyon Farrow

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Farrow, Kenyon, Motta, Carlos
    Date: Feb. 22, 2011
    Topics: Activists, Capitalism, Christianity, LGBTQ+ movement, Patriarchy, Poverty
    Subject: Queers for Economic Justice

  5. Beyond the Melting Pot

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Wheatley, Mickey
    Date: Summer 1989
    Topics: Activists, Demonstrations, Diversity, Gay liberation, Gender diversity, Government, LGBTI community, Normalization, Oppression, Patriarchy, Politics, Riots, Sexual diversity, Stonewall riots
    Subject: Judy Garland

  6. Buffalo Belles Vol. 6 No. 7 (July, 1997)

     
    Collection: Buffalo Belles Newsletters
    Institution: E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State
    Creator: Lorraine, Kathy
    Date: Jul. 1997
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Advice columns, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Elections, Electrolysis, Gender realignment surgery, Hair, Hate crimes, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ partners, Lobbying, Marriage, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Passing (Gender), Support groups, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Dana K. DeVilla, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Erie Sisters Riverside Gala Weekend, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Rachel Miller, The Bliss of Becoming One

  7. Chase Strangio Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Strangio, Chase, O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Oct. 12, 2018
    Topics: Activists, Gender identity, Imprisonment, Judaism, Law, Lawyers, Legal process, LGBTQ+ movement, Transgender people
    Subject: Chelsea Manning
    Description: Chase Strangio discusses their work as a leading LGBTQ legal advocate with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), including their representation of and connection to well-known former political...

  8. Chelsea Goodwin and Dr. Rusty Mae Moore Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Moore, Rusty Mae, Goodwin, Chelsea
    Date: May 4, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Coming out, Feminism, Gender diversity, Harassment, Homelessness, Housing, Paganism, Police, Politics, Subculture, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: ACT UP, Chelsea Goodwin, Christine Jorgensen, Dyke Action Machine, Queer Nation, Rusty Mae Moore, Transy House
    Description: After purchasing a house in Park Slope in the 1980's to be closer to her kids, Dr. Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin opened their home to homeless trans folk. Transy House, as it was called, aime...

  9. Come Out! No. 7 page 5

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Bedoz, Ellen
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Activists, Latino/a/x transgender people, Organisations, Transgender people, Transvestites, Youth
    Subject: Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A picture of the Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), with Sylvia Rivera.

  10. Drag Vol. 1 No. 1 (1971)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Activists, Black queer people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gender identity, Homosexuality, Letters to the editor, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Barbarella, Christine Jorgensen, John Hansen, Mardi Gras Ball, Mel Michaels
    Description: Alternative title: DRAG Queens. ; On item cover: "A magazine about the Transvestite". ; Contents: Editorial -- Drag queens demonstrate -- John Hansen as Christine -- Viewpoint -- Stomp those high h...

  11. Drag Vol. 1 No. 3 (1971)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Activists, Asian queer people, Black queer people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, Hormones, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Abbee Francois Timoleon de Choisy, Lynn Carter, Mardi Gras Ball, Toni Lee
    Description: Alternative title: DRAG Queens. ; On item cover: "A magazine about the Transvestite". ; Contents: Editorial -- News -- Telling it like it is -- Abbe de choisy -- Miss America pageant -- Hormones do...

  12. Drag Vol. 1 No. 4 (1971)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Activists, Black queer people, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball, Sally Douglas, Toni Valponi
    Description: On item cover: "A magazine about the Transvestite". ; Contents: Editorial -- News -- What you always wanted to know about hormones -- Powder puff review --San Francisco scene -- Makin the scene -- ...

  13. Drag Vol. 3 No. 10 (1973)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1973
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black queer people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, FtMs, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball
    Description: On item cover: "Now! America's No.1 magazine about the transvestite!" ; Contents: News -- Debbie Hartin -- Changing sex? -- Harriet Juestis Jackson -- Are bull dykes really transvestites -- Kip Mar...

  14. Drag Vol. 3 No. 11 (1973)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1973
    Topics: Activists, Asian queer people, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Gay Parade, Mardi Gras Ball
    Description: On item cover: "The International Transvestite Quarterly". ; Contents: Drags & tv's join march -- Just like high society -- In memoriam -- Miss Joey -- Mardi Gras '73 -- Movie review -- Theatre rev...

  15. Drag Vol. 3 No. 12 (1973)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1973
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black queer people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gender identity, Letters to the editor, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball
    Description: On item cover: "The International Transvestite Quarterly". ; Contents: News -- The gold key girls --Party-time -- Famous E. Russell -- Dear drag -- In memoriam -- Coming events -- Getting together

  16. Drag Vol. 3 No. 9 (1973)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1973
    Topics: Activists, Asian queer people, BIPOC, Black queer people, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball
    Description: On item cover: "Now! America's No.1 magazine about the transvestite!" ; Contents: News -- Lee's Mardi Gras ball -- Elizabeth the queen -- Philadelphia ball -- Petry __ New York balls -- Fillian and...

  17. Drag Vol. 4 No. 14 (1974)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1974
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black queer people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Description: On item cover: "The International Transvestite Quarterly". ; Contents: Drag times -- Miss Fire Island -- Miss Stephanie -- Linda Lee -- Miss Gilded Grape -- Getting together.

  18. Ei Meeker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Meeker, Ei
    Date: Oct. 9, 2017
    Topics: Activists, AIDS organizations, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Community centres, Direct action, Educators, Families, FtMs, Gender identity, Gender role, Harassment, Health care, Help lines, HIV/AIDS, Housing, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Politics, Roman catholicism, Schools, Sex education, Sexuality, Tolerance, Transgender children, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: ACT UP, Bailey House, Ei Meeker, Terry McGovern

  19. Facing Discrimination, Organizing for Freedom: the Transgender Community

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: 2000
    Topics: Activists, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Civil rights, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Gender, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Law, Liberation movements, Personal and family law, Police brutality, Prisoners, Social exclusion, Stonewall riots, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: 1979 March on Washington, Anne Osborn, Brandon Teena, Chai Feldblum, Dallas Denny, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), FTM International, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR), International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Jane Ellen, JoAnn Roberts, JoAnna McNamara, Lavender Law Conference, Louis G. Sullivan, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Mary Frances Fairfax, Merrissa Sherrill Lynn, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), National Gender Lobbying Day, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Phyllis Randolph Frye, Sharon Stuart, Stonewall 25, Susan Stryker, The National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA), Title VII, Transgender Law Conference, Transsexual Menace, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Tyra Hunter, Virginia Prince
    Description: from the textbook CREATING CHANGE: PUBLIC POLICY, AND CIVIL RIGHTS, Edited by John D'Emilio, William B. Turner and Urvashi Vaid, St. Martins Press, 2000, ISBN: 0-312-24375-8

  20. First Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1970

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Fink, Leonard
    Date: Jun. 28, 1970
    Topics: Activists, Demonstrations, Gay pride, Stonewall riots
    Subject: Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (CSLDC), Christopher Street Liberation Day March
    Description: Participants in the CSLD march hold a banner that says "Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day." The March commemorated the Stonewall Riots, and developed into the modern-day Pride March.

  21. Imani Henry Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Henry, Imani
    Date: Mar. 8, 2019
    Topics: Abuse, Activists, Afro-caribbeans, Arrests, Black people, Christianity, Cults, Discrimination, Gay pride, Gender minorities, Middle class, Peace movement, Police, Racism, Religions, School facilities, Slavery, Social media, Street violence, Transgender people, Violence, Working class, Youth
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Student Organization, Boston Tech, Christine Lewis, Domestic Workers United, Emerson College, English High, Equality for Flatbush, ICE, James Dobson, Keith Kyler, Ken Livingston, Kimani Grey, Latin Academy, Latin Boston, Malcolm X, National School Walkout Day, Patrick Dorsman, Peoples Monday, Rodney King, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell, Trish Marinara, University of Massachusetts - Lowell (UMass Lowell)

  22. In Your Face No. 1 (Spring 1995)

     
    Collection: In Your Face
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wilchins, Riki Anne
    Date: Spring 1995
    Topics: Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Demonstrations, Health care, LGBTQ+ people of color, Lobbying, Politics, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexual people
    Subject: 1995 NOW National Conference, American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), Brandon Teena, Congressional Leadership Conference on Human Rights, Cynthia Davis, Davina Anne Gabriel, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Veterans of America (GLBVA), Hannah Blackwell, Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), It's Time America, Karen Kerin, Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, Melanie Erin Spritz, Nancy Nangeroni, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), National Organization for Women (NOW), National Transgender Educational Action Coalition, NC Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgendered Pride, San Antonio Equal Rights Political Caucus for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendered (SAERPC), Sarah DePalma, Susan Kimberly, Transsexual Menace, United States Congress, Virginians For Justice

  23. In Your Face No. 2 (Fall 1995)

     
    Collection: In Your Face
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wilchins, Riki Anne
    Date: Autumn 1995
    Topics: Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Conferences, Courts, Demonstrations, Lobbying, Politics, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: 1995 NOW National Conference, Alison Laing, Brandon Teena, Deborah Forte, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP), Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), GenderPAC, Grassroot Queers, Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), Imperial Court, It's Time America, Janet Aiello, Karen Kerin, Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, Matthew Witten, National Gender Lobbying Day, National Organization for Women (NOW), National Transsexual and Transgender Health Conference, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Renaissance Education Association, Inc., Riki Anne Wilchins, Sandra S. Cole, Sean O'Neill, Southern Comfort Conference, The National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA), Tonye Barreto-Neto, Transgender Law Conference, Transgender Officers Protect and Serve (TOPS), Transsexual Menace, Tyra Hunter, United States Congress

  24. In Your Face No. 3 (Summer 1996)

     
    Collection: In Your Face
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wilchins, Riki Anne
    Date: Summer 1996
    Topics: Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Classification of diseases, Demonstrations, Gender dysphoria, Lobbying, Politics, Transphobia
    Subject: Alison Laing, American Civil Liberties Union Gay Rights Project (ACLU), American Psychiatric Association (APA), Birdie Jo (Chris) Hoaks, Brandon Teena, Brenda Ludgate, Chanelle Pickett, Christian Paige, Church Arson Prevention Act, Dana Priesing, Deanna Wilkinson, Deborah Forte, Elizabeth Birch, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP), Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), GenderPAC, Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA), Human Rights Campaign (HRC), International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), John Stossel, Joy Shaffer, Marcello Palma, Margaret Diedre O'Hartigan, Marisa Richmond, Miranda Stevens, Nancy Miscenti, National Gender Lobbying Day, Norm MacDonald, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Riki Anne Wilchins, Rodney Dale Neadeau, Sandra S. Cole, Saturday Night Live, Sean O'Neill, Shawn Keegan, Silicon Valley Gender Association, Transsexual Menace, Tyra Hunter, United States Congress

  25. In Your Face No. 4 (Spring 1997)

     
    Collection: In Your Face
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wilchins, Riki Anne
    Date: Spring 1997
    Topics: Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Classification of diseases, Demonstrations, Gender dysphoria, Health care, Intersex rights, LGBTI community, Lobbying, Media, Police brutality, Politics, Prisoners, Schools, Sexual violence
    Subject: American Psychiatric Association (APA), Bi-Net USA, Brandon Teena, Candice Sue Penn, Chanelle Pickett, Crystal Marie Schwenk, Deborah Forte, Gender Shock, GenderPAC, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), It's Time America, Janice Ricks, Logan Smith, Matthew Stickney, Nancy Buermeyer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), National Gender Lobbying Day, National Organization for Women (NOW), Phyllis Burke, Queer Nation, The Advocate, The New York Times, Transgender Officers Protect and Serve (TOPS), Transsexual Menace, United States Congress

  26. In Your Face No. 5 (Spring 1998)

     
    Collection: In Your Face
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wilchins, Riki Anne
    Date: Spring 1998
    Topics: Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Aversion therapy, Black people, Classification of diseases, Demonstrations, Gender dysphoria, Intersex rights, Lobbying, Media, Police brutality, Politics
    Subject: Abner Louima, Alan Walker, American Psychiatric Association (APA), Dana Priesing, Demit Demir, GenderPAC, Hermaphrodites With Attitude (HWA), International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), Intersex Society of North America, Nadia Frey, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF), National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), National Organization for Women (NOW), Rene Ouellet, Sabrina Robb, Title IX, Transgender Officers Protect and Serve (TOPS), Transsexual Menace

  27. Interview with Andrea Abi-Karam

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Abi-Karam, Andrea
    Date: Jun. 21, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Anti-fascism, Body image, Capitalism, Childhood, Counterculture, Depression, Divorce, Family members, Gender minorities, Gentrification, Health care, Hormones, Insurance, LGBTQ+ poetry, Masculinities, Neofascism, Oppression, Physicians, Prisons, Psychiatrists, Religions, Suburbs, Surgery, Tattoos, Terrorism, Transgender people, Zines
    Subject: Ana Mendieta, Elizabeth Bishop, Ghost Ship Fire, GQ, Maryanne Moore, Mills College, New York Police Department (NYPD), Nighboat Books, Sister Spit, Spraytan, Sylvia Plath, They/Them

  28. Interview with Elle Hearns

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hearns, Elle
    Date: Feb. 7, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Bullying, Christianity, Coming out, Gay identity, Gender role, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Sexual assault, Suicide, Transgender people, Verbal abuse, Violence
    Subject: Anita Moore, Betty Skinner, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Brittany Nicole Kidd-Stergis, Cemia Dove, Cherno Biko, Dom Mockings, Erin Lange, GetEQUAL, John Crawford, Lourdes Ashley Hunter, Marsha P. Johnson Institute, Michael Brown, Michael David Battle, Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellowship for Black Trans Women, Sylvia Rivera, TGNCF, Tiffany Edwards, Trans Justice Funding Project, TransWomen of Color Collective, Tras Health Care Summit, Wriply Bennet
    Description: Elle Hearns identifies her gender as Black and her assigned birth as Black. She’s also identifies herself as a black trans woman. She was always tiny, she says, but in her mind, she was always big....

  29. Interview with Ignacio Rivera

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rivera, Ignacio
    Date: Nov. 7, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Androgyny, Artists, Assigned gender, Bullying, Children of transgender people, Coming out, Discrimination, Education, Families, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Heteronormativity, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Indigenous peoples, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ partners, Masculinities, Mental health, Misogyny, Passing (Gender), Transgender people, Transphobia, Two-Spirit people, Writers
    Subject: Amanda Rivera, New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti Violence Project, Poly Patao Productions, This Bridge Called My Back
    Description: Ignacio Rivera identifies as a transgender queer, two-spirit person who was assigned female at birth. They are an internationally known performance artist, activist, sex educator, writer, and blogg...

  30. Interview with Imara Jones

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Jones, Imara
    Date: Apr. 25, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Ageism, Black people, Capitalism, Childhood, Future, Gender identity, Gentrification, Journalists, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marxism, Mass media, Politics, Representation, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Audre Lorde, Black Trans Future, Color Lines, David French, Donald Trump, Free Speech Television, Governor's House, Happy Birthday, Marsha, Marsha Clark, Marsha P. Johnson, Morehouse College, New York Women's Studies Association Conference, Pose, Saidiya Hartman, The Anti-Violence Project (AVP), The Last Sip, The New York Women's Foundation, Tourmaline, Tovia Smith, Trans Slash
    Description: Imara Jones reflects on the challenges and rewards of producing independent media for diverse millennial audiences, including her talk show The Last Sip and her docuseries Translash. She addresses ...

  31. Interview with Jules Gleeson

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Gleeson, Jules
    Date: Nov. 4, 2019
    Topics: Academics, Activists, Anime, Arab-Israeli conflict, Black people, Capitalism, Childhood, Comic books, strips, etc., Coming out, Communism, Cults, Discrimination, Feminism, Gay clergy, Gay men, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Health care, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Immigration, Internet, Intersex, LGBTI community, Liberation theology, Literature, Night life, Peace movement, Physical affection, Police, Racism, Right-wing extremists, Roman catholicism, Sexual harassment, Social media, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Amnesty International Club, Anti-Scientology, British National Party, Donald Trump, Fairy Tales, Group of Eight (G8), Hillary Clinton, Historical Materialism Conference, Jesus College Cambridge, Julius, King's College London, New York Police Department (NYPD), Osteoporosis, Palestine, Stonewall, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Werewolf The Apocalypse

  32. Interview with Lourdes Ashley Hunter

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hunter, Lourdes Ashley
    Date: Mar. 22, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Assigned gender, Black people, Bullying, Christianity, Families, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Genocide, Hair--Removal, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Liberation movements, Self-acceptance, Transgender people, Violence
    Subject: Barack Obama, Creating Change, Ellie Ford, Islan Nettles, Laverne Cox, Queers for Economic Justice, Slyvia Rivera Law Project, Trans Justice, Trans Youth Group, TransWomen of Color Collective, Women's March
    Description: Lourdes Ashley Hunter is a black trans woman who was born in 1976 in Detroit, Michigan where they* lived for twenty-six years. They are a gender non-conforming, non-binary gender abolitionist and s...

  33. Jamie Bauer Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Bauer, Jamie
    Date: Jun. 5, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Age, Childhood, Civil rights, Clothing, Coming out, Dating, Demonstrations, Ethnic groups, FtMs, Gay rights, Gender diversity, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Lesbian community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Liberation movements, Politics, Racism, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Therapists, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Work situation
    Subject: ACT UP, Anita Bryant, Jamie Bauer, Women's Pentagon Action
    Description: Jamie Bauer recounts their childhood and adolescence growing up in New York City’s Stuyvesant Town, resisting family pressure to conform to normative gender expressions and discovering butch femme ...

  34. JD Davids Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Davids, JD
    Date: Mar. 11, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Childhood, Coming out, Demonstrations, Employment discrimination, Families, Feminism, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Housing, Internet, LGBTI community, Politics, Pregnancy, Schools, Sports, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender parents
    Subject: ACT UP, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), JD Davids, Project TEACH
    Description: JD Davids, a writer, health activist, and communication strategist, recounts his experiences as a member of the Philadelphia HIV/AIDS activist movement and subsequent move to New York City. A Phila...

  35. Joseph L. Norton Papers

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator: Gianfrancesco, Kim, Bennett, Carolyn
    Date: Jul. 20, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Counselors, Educators, Gay community, Gender identity, Letters, Research, Sexuality, Transgender people
    Subject: Joseph L. Norton
    Description: The Joseph L. Norton Papers include notes, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, publications, and other materials documenting Norton's work as a SUNY Albany professor, a counselor, a teacher, an...

  36. Josephine Perez Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Keyes, Anna, Perez, Josephine
    Date: Mar. 23, 2018
    Topics: Abuse, Activists, Childhood, Coming out, Drag, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Housing, LGBTI community, MtFs, Organisations, Police, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual orientation, Street violence, Substance abuse, Transgender community, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
    Description: Josephine Perez is a trans* advocate who emphasizes a need for better law enforcement protections for transgender women. Josephine experienced sexual violence on multiple occasions and became a sex...

  37. 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 ...

  38. Kate Doyle Griffths Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Griffiths, Kate Doyle
    Date: Apr. 9, 2019
    Topics: Activists, AIDS organizations, Biphobia, Black people, Black studies, Class struggle, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Divorce, Education, Family members, LGBTQ+ parents, Peace movement, Politics, Pronoun, Queer theory, Racism, Social classes, Socialism, Strikes and lockouts, Trade unions
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Betsy Esch, Bob Hasegawa, Caddyshack, City University of New York (CUNY), Donna Cartwright, Elizabeth Esch, Greengrocer Organizing Campaign, Haverford College, Henrietta Hudson's, International Socialist Organization (ISO), Jules Gleeson, Julie Kushner, Limelight Disco, Occupy Wallstreet, Solidarity, Student Peace Coalition, Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Fund, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), United Automobile Workers (UAW), United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), UPS Strike
    Description: "Kate Doyle Griffiths discusses their politicization as a socialist, bringing an anthropological lens to their political, personal and sexual life. Griffiths reflects on growing up in Housten, Texa...

  39. Kiara St. James Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, St. James, Kiara
    Date: Mar. 6, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Black people, Childhood, Christianity, Civil rights, Drag queens, Education, Families, Femmes, Foster families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Night life, Organisations, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Transgender community, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Housing Works, Kiara St. James, New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG)
    Description: Kiara St. James is the CEO and a co-founder of New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she recalls the experiences throughout her life that inform her activism and advocacy today as a tr...

  40. Kim Watson Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Watson, Kim
    Date: Jun. 18, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Adoptive parents, AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Childhood, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members, Gender, Health care, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersex, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental health, Parenthood, Psychiatry, Social service organisations, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Writers
    Subject: ACT UP, Addicts' Rehabilitation Center (ARC), AIDS WATCH, Bright Point, Bronx Lebanon, Carmen Vasquez, Community Kinship Life (CK Life), Empire [State] Pride Agenda, Escuelitas, HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPG), Marti Adult Day Program, Odyssey House, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Pose, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stonewall, The Modern-Day Woman, The Monster, Two Potatoes
    Description: Kim Watson is co-founder of CK Life, author of The Modern Day Woman, and trans advocate and leader. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Barbados as an intersexed woman, her years of home...

  41. Lee G. Brewster's Mardi Gras Ball

     
    Collection: Drag Show Programs
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: Feb. 16, 1974
    Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: 82 Club, Chris Moore, Jewel Box Revue, Pudgy Roberts, Queens Liberation Front, Robin Rogers
    Description: The Mardi Gras Ball was an annual drag ball hosted in New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s by drag queen and crossdressing activist Lee G. Brewster.

  42. Les Girls: Boys Will Be Girls Vol. 2 No. 1

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Holly Publications
    Date: 1981
    Topics: Activists, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Asian transgender people, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Claudia Passot, Hans Crystal, Tiny
    Description: Contents: The girls of Singapore -- Madame Arthur's -- The queens of Hawaii -- Tiny - the toast of New York -- Transformation, 1960's style -- Claudia Passot - Parisian sensation.

  43. Les Girls: Boys Will Be Girls Vol. 2 No. 2

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Holly Publications
    Date: 1981
    Topics: Activists, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Asian transgender people, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Fanny Lamour
    Description: Contents: Singapore - an exotic odyssey -- Fanny Lamour - New York sensation -- The queen Mary -- The Les Girls party on Bugis street -- The road to Singapore - my story.

  44. Lix Z Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Z, Lix
    Date: Jul. 17, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Anarchists, Archives, Black people, Body adornment, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Drag, Education, Eroticism, Exhibitionism, Fetishism, Gay pride week, Gender diversity, Heterosexuals, Leather community, Police, Punk, SM, Trade unions, Transgender community, Writers, Zines
    Subject: Blue Stocking, DIY Spaces, FTP Gay, Happy Fun Hideaway, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Maya Songbird, Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC), Queer/Trans Zinefest (QTZFest), Silent Barn, Socrates Sculpture Park, Telepathic Children, Time is the Thing a Body Move Through, Trans Play Party

  45. Lorena Borjas Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Borjas, Lorena, Van Ness, Lorenzo
    Date: Jun. 11, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Deportation, Friendships, Hormones, Human rights, Immigrants, LGBTQ+ partners, MtFs, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Lorena Borjas Community Fund, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
    Description: (Entrevista en Español) Lorena Borjas habla con Lorenzo Van Ness sobre su vida como activista de los derechos de las mujeres trans inmigrantes indocumentadas y trabajadoras sexuales en Jackson Heig...

  46. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the Pride March, 1973

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Fink, Leonard
    Date: Apr. 24, 1973
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Clothing, Demonstrations, Latino/a/x transgender people, Transgender people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Pride, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (background) at the fourth annual Pride march, inspired by the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Johnson and Rivera were prominent figures during the riots, and influential ...

  47. Marsha P. Johnson at a Demonstration at St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1970

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wandel, Richard C.
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Christianity, Demonstrations, Religions, Transgender people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, St. Patrick's Cathedral
    Description: During a protest at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Marsha P. Johnson holds a sign that says, "Jesus Loved John the Beloved."

  48. Marsha P. Johnson at Gay Liberation Front's Demonstration at Bellevue Hospital, 1970

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wandel, Richard C.
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Demonstrations, Transgender people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Marsha P. Johnson sits outside of Bellevue Hospital, holding a sign that says, "Power to the People."

  49. Marsha P. Johnson at the 1982 Pride March

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Fink, Leonard
    Date: 1982
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black people, Black transgender people, Gay pride, LGBTQ+ people of color, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transgender people of color
    Description: Marsha P. Johnson at the 1982 Pride March, inspired by the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Johnson herself was a prominent figure during the riots, and an influential community leader in the West Village.

  50. Marsha P. Johnson at the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1974

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Fink, Leonard
    Date: Jun. 30, 1974
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Clothing, Demonstrations, Stonewall riots, Transgender people
    Subject: Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (CSLDC), Christopher Street Liberation Day March, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Marsha P. Johnson at the 1974 CSLD march, inspired by the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Johnson herself was a prominent figure during the riots, and an influential community leader in the West Village.