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  1. The Men in Petticoats in London

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Cosmetics, Courts, Crossdressing, Jewelry, Passing (Gender), Police
    Subject: Arthur Clinton
    Description: Alexandria Gazette (Alexandra, D.C.)

  2. In Male Attire: Remarkable Career of a Female Who Passed for a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Terra Haute Gazette
    Date: Sep. 20, 1875
    Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Dance, Female impersonators, Law, Minstrel shows, Music, Police, Theatre, Theatre groups
    Subject: Ella Seigen, John Johnson, St. Leon

  3. Impersonator Willis: Arrest of an Alleged St. Louisman in New York

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Republic Bureau
    Date: Feb. 19, 1895
    Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Gender identity, Police, Social norms, Taboos
    Subject: Charles Willis

  4. Years in Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 10, 1895
    Topics: Arrests, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Lady's maids, Parks, Police, Prisoners
    Subject: Estelle Lawrence, Reginald Culton, Violet Beacon, Violet Dell
    Description: Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, Connecticut)

  5. Six Years for Harry Mortimer: The Nimble-Fingered Female Impersonator Must Go to Prison

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Inter Ocean
    Date: Oct. 19, 1895
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Body adornment, Courts, Female impersonators, Police, Sentencing
    Subject: Harry Mortimer

  6. Woman in Prison As a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 11, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Families, Femininities, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ relationships, Police
    Subject: Burt Martin, Lena Martin
    Description: Arizona Republican (Phoenix, AZ)

  7. A Female Impersonator: Man Disguised in Woman's Apparel Arrested at Austin

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 13, 1901
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Police, Social norms, Taboos
    Subject: Edgar Edwards

  8. Not Manners of a Lady: Impersonator Wears Frills and Ruffles, but Uses Fists - Is Charged with Attack on Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 18, 1905
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Harassment, Police, Violence
    Subject: Percy Yarick

  9. Man Held on Charge of Stealing Silk Dress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 25, 1910
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Femininities, Masculinities, Police, Theatre
    Subject: La Nier Watts, Trixie

  10. Arrest Actor's Wife: Jesse Harris Is Dead of Morphine Poisoning

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Evansville Courier & Press
    Date: Nov. 6, 1911
    Topics: Actors, Arrests, Crimes, Female impersonators, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Police, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Theatre
    Subject: J.V. Thomas, Jesse Harris

  11. "Margaret" Smith Proves to Be Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 5, 1911
    Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Clothing, Female impersonators, Harassment, Police, Theatre
    Subject: Clarence Westfall, Margaret Swift

  12. Escaped Negro Convict is Captured Here as "Female Impersonator"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 21, 1913
    Topics: Arrests, Black people, Clothing, Disguise, Female impersonators, Imprisonment, Police
    Subject: Willie Harris

  13. Female Impersonator Found Guilty of Theft

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 28, 1929
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Female impersonators, Police, Theft
    Subject: Sam Jarvis

  14. Women's Clothes Bring $20 Fines

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 22, 1930
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Female impersonators, Femininities, Law, Masculinities, Police, Social norms
    Subject: Albert Cushman, Wilbur Guyette

  15. Third Sex Hold Sway at Rockland When Hamilton Lodge Holds 65th Masquerade Ball and Dance; Police Arrest Two

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 4, 1933
    Topics: Arrests, Competitions, Drag, Drag balls, Ethnic relations, Gender minorities, Police
    Subject: Annual Masquerade and Civic Ball of Hamilton Lodge, Hamilton Lodge, Jessie Parker, Joseph Carroll, Mary Anderson, The Fairies Ball

  16. Police Raiders Arrest Ten in S.F. Night Club: Patrons Rush for Exits as Officers Visit Finocchio's

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 20, 1936
    Topics: Arrests, Bars, Female impersonators, Physical violence, Police, Theatre
    Subject: Finocchio's Club

  17. Fifteen Arrested by Police as 'Fairies' Turn 'Em On

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Ray, Ebenezer
    Date: Mar. 5, 1938
    Topics: Arrests, Competitions, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Ethnic relations, Police
    Subject: Annual Masquerade and Civic Ball of Hamilton Lodge, Hamilton Lodge, The Fairies Ball

  18. Little Waltz Fooled a Cop

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Cowan, J. Harold
    Date: Nov. 21, 1945
    Topics: Arrests, Female impersonators, Police
    Subject: Edward E. Kinney, John W. White

  19. Man dressed as woman solicits officer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: May 7, 1960
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Police, Prostitution, Transgender prostitution
    Description: A newspaper article on a police officer's encounter with a crossdressing sex worker. Page two of the story is located in the "Related Links" section.

  20. The Wigs and Gowns on a Beach

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 5, 1961
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender role, Police, Wigs
    Subject: Bernie Barnard Jones, Frank Bell
    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)

  21. Court Told of Wigs in a Flat

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 11, 1962
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressers, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Police, Police raids, Wigs
    Subject: Charles Keenan, Eric Edward Beck, John O'Reilly, John Victor Hooton, Lionel Johnson, Ronald Edward Tone
    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)

  22. South of the Border

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: McIntire, W.E.G.
    Date: Sep. 1, 1963
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Criminal law, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gay men, Hormones, Immigration, Media, Police

  23. Blond Uses Sex Change as an Alibi

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Date: Aug. 8, 1967
    Topics: Arrests, Dancers, Mental health, MtFs, Police
    Subject: Andrew J. Thon, Gloria C. Schuff

  24. Blond Uses Sex Change as an Alibi (2)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Date: Aug. 9, 1967
    Topics: Arrests, Dancers, Mental health, MtFs, Police
    Subject: Andrew J. Thon, Gloria C. Schuff

  25. St. Charles Tavern Halloween Violence Article

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Hannon, Gerald
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Arrests, Crossdressers, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Police, Violence
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic and homophobic violence.

  26. SIR, GAA on Arrests- Who's to Blame?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 26, 1971 to Dec. 2, 1971
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Harassment, Police, Police raids, Transgender people
    Subject: Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Society for Individual Rights (SIR)

  27. Houston Man Wants to Pose as Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Pampa Daily News
    Date: Mar. 30, 1972
    Topics: Acceptance, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Families, Gender realignment surgery, Legal process, MtFs, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes

  28. If "It" Breaks Laws, Arrest Action is Ahead

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Brownwood Bulletin
    Date: Aug. 27, 1972
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Legal process, MtFs, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Herman Short, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes

  29. Police Re-Arrest Transsexual after Court Voids Charges

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Houston Post
    Date: Sep. 22, 1972
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Harassment, Legal process, MtFs, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Larry Sauer, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes

  30. Mayes Harassed by Police

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Nuntius
    Date: Oct. 1972
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Harassment, Legal process, MtFs, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Larry Sauer, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes

  31. Arrest Cancels Police Speakers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Date: Oct. 11, 1972
    Topics: Arrests, Gay community, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Charles N. Cooke, Dennis Crain, Transsexual Counseling League

  32. Man Files Suit Over Arrests for Clothing

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Amarillo Globe-Times
    Date: Dec. 20, 1972
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hormone therapy, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Herman Short, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes

  33. Man's Conviction of Female Role Upheld

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Houston Post
    Date: May 22, 1973
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Harassment, Hormone therapy, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Jack Treadway, Keith D. Smith, Larry Sauer, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes

  34. Richard is Now Legally Rachelle

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Corsicana Daily Sun
    Date: Mar. 12, 1974
    Topics: Arrests, Change of name, Courts, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Legal process, MtFs, Police
    Subject: Rachelle Annette Mayes, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes, Warren Cunningham

  35. Sex Change Operation Told

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Vernon Daily Record
    Date: Mar. 12, 1974
    Topics: Arrests, Change of name, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Legal process, MtFs, Police
    Subject: Rachelle Annette Mayes, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes, Warren Cunningham

  36. Sex Change 'Wonderful'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Big Spring Herald
    Date: Mar. 13, 1974
    Topics: Arrests, Change of name, Courts, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Legal process, MtFs, Police
    Subject: Rachelle Annette Mayes, Richard Anthony Mayes, Toni Rachelle Mayes, Warren Cunningham

  37. Pressmats Clippings c. 1980

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1980
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Police, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: Transsexual Action Organization (TAO)
    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)

  38. Um apelo da tradicional família Mesquita: prendam, matem e comam os travestis!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Grupo Dignidade
    Creator: Penteado, Darcy
    Date: May 1980
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Arrests, Imprisonment, Oppression, Persecution of transgender people, Police, Police brutality, Prostitution, Racism, Transphobia

  39. Womanspace Sisternews (October-November 1980)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Gay News
    Date: Oct. 1980 to Nov. 1980
    Topics: Arrests, Drag, Gay pride, Police, Politicians, Theft
    Subject: Mary Whitehouse, Robert Airton, Thurrock Committee for Homosexul Equality

  40. Sex-Change April Clobbered a Cop

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Hill, John
    Date: Nov. 30, 1980
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, MtFs, Police, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: April Ashley
    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)

  41. Tumblebugs and T.H.E.M.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Smathers, Dee
    Date: Dec. 19, 1980
    Topics: Arrests, Bars, Crossdressing, Drag, Gay community, Gay rights, Harassment, Liberation movements, Police, Police raids, Stonewall riots
    Subject: David Patterson, North American Conference of Homophile Organizations in Chicago, Percy Foreman, Promethian Society, Ray Hill, Rita Wanstrom, Texas Homophile Educational Movement (T.H.E.M.), Tumblebugs

  42. Day A Fireman Wore a Mini

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Higgins, Stuart
    Date: Jan. 30, 1981
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Fire fighters, Police
    Subject: Keith Rees
    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)

  43. Why Fireman Wore Mini-Skirt

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Young, Sydney
    Date: Jan. 30, 1981
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Fire fighters, Police
    Subject: Keith Rees
    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)

  44. Beyond reasonable doubt?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Price, Christopher, Caplan, Jonathan
    Date: Nov. 14, 1981
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Arrests, Arson, Courts, Crossdressers, Homosexuality, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Police
    Subject: Ahmet Salih, Antony Ahmet, Colin Lattimore, Henry Fisher, Maxwell Confait, Ronald Leighton, Steve Fletcher, Tony London
    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). Content Warning: T...

  45. Sex op Linda's 'strip' protest

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 10, 1983
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Harassment, Imprisonment, MtFs, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Linda Gold
    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)

  46. Nothing Like a Dame!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: May 9, 1983
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Police, Transsexual people
    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)

  47. 'Vice girl' Deborah Hart caused more than a little confusion after police arrested 'her' for soliciting men in Soho

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 15, 1984
    Topics: Arrests, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Deborah Hart
    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)

  48. Leslie Perez Tells the Rest of Her Previously Untold Story

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: This Week in Texas (TWT)
    Date: Mar. 2, 1990
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Homophobia, Legal process, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Police, Politics, Prostitution
    Subject: Frank Brisco, Herman Short, Leslie Douglas Ashley, Leslie Perez

  49. Sex, Gender and Revolution

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Bell, Bee
    Date: Mar. 1994
    Topics: Abortion, Appearance, Arrests, Butches, Class struggle, Communities, Crimes, Demonstrations, Discrimination, Drag kings, Drag queens, Economics, Employment discrimination, Femininities, Femmes, Gender diversity, Identity, Intersex people, Labour, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Normalization, Oppression, Patriarchy, Peace movement, Police, Racism, Rape victims, Religious right, Sexual harassment, Sexual roles, Sexuality, Social control, Social exclusion, Social movements, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Unemployment
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Drag King Dreams, Gay American Indians, Larry Gilbert, Leslie Feinberg, Mike Chitwood, Newsweek, Operation Rescue, Rodney King, Stone Butch Blues, The New York Times, Transgender Warriors: A History of Resistance from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, Workers World Party
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 1 of the periodical.