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  1. 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)
  2. Would Rather Be Mabel: Than "Dave," and Again She Has Put on Skirts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 30, 1902
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Passing (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Dave Kyle, Ellis Glenn, John A. McElhaney, Mabel McElhaney, Samuel O. Boyce
  3. 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
  4. Women in Men's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Philadelphia Ledger
    Date: Jun. 28, 1866
    Topics: Army, Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressing, Gender role, Physicians
    Subject: Mary Walker
    Description: The Public Ledger (Memphis, Tennessee)
  5. Women in Men's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 27, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Military, Passing (Gender), Soldiers
    Subject: Bessie Finegold, Catherine Coombs, Charles D. Fuller, Chevalier D'Eon, Christian Cavanagh, Christine Jorgensen, Ella Duke, Ellis Glenn, Frank Mayne, Franklin Thompson, James Barry, Jane Westover, Julia Forest, L. M. Blaylock, Louis HErman, Louis XV, Louise Watson, Maggie Curley, Mary Talbot, Mary Walker, Minnie Briggs, Murray Hall, Otto Schaefer, Sarolta Vay, Tonina Marinello, Tony Leesa
    Description: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu, HI)
  6. Women in Men's Clothes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 27, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Burial ceremonies, Crossdressing, FtMs, Labour, Marriage, Physicians, Soldiers
    Subject: Bessie Finegold, Catherine Coombs, Charles D. Fuller, Chevalier D'Eon, Christian Cavanagh, Ellis Glenn, Frank Blunt, Frank Mayne, Franklin Thompson, James Barry, Julia Forest, Louis HErman, Louise Watson, Maggie Curley, Mary East, Mary Talbot, Mary Walker, Minnie Briggs, Murray Hall, Nora Smith, Otto Schaffer, Sarolta Vay, Tonina Marinello, Tony Leesa
    Description: The Sea Coast Echo (Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi)
  7. 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
  8. Woman Played Man Forty Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 3, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, Marriage, Sailors
    Subject: Catherine Coombe
    Description: The Abbeville Press and Banner (Abbeville, SC)
  9. 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)
  10. "Wife" Denies She Knew "Husband" Was Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 30, 1921
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, FtMs, Marriage
    Subject: Ethel M. Kimball, James Hathaway, Louise Margaret Aechtler
    Description: The Democratic Advocate (Westminster, Maryland)
  11. 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)
  12. When Wives Find Out He Wants to be a Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 7, 1974
    Topics: Adjustment, Arrests, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Marriage, Public opinion, Romantic friendships, Shame, Tolerance
    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. What is it?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 21, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Medical examinations, Prisoners
  14. '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)
  15. 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
  16. Troubled Life of Sex-Swap Thief

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Lewington, Charles
    Date: Jul. 25, 1985
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, MtFs, Theft, Transsexual people
    Subject: Crawford McGhee, Elenka McGhee
    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)
  17. Transvestite is guilty of gross indecency: enlists sympathy of court so sentence is suspended; other party is fined $100

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1963
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Description: A newspaper article describing the appearance of a number of crossdressers in court.
  18. Transsexual Sentenced for Murder

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Dallas Morning News
    Date: Sep. 8, 1979
    Topics: Arrests, Children, Courts, Gender realignment surgery, Murderers, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Demonica Wayne Derry, Ida Mae Fox, Mercy Ellison
  19. Tracey's Poison Brew, By a QC

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 10, 1981
    Topics: Arrests, Crimes, Poisoning, Transsexual people, Trials, Witchcraft
    Subject: Keith Vincent, Rosie Swale, Tracey Stamp
    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)
  20. Three Held After 1972 Killing Go Free

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 18, 1975
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Murders of LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: George Lattimore, Maxwell Confait
    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. 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
  22. The Woman Who Married the Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 17, 1842
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Marriage
  23. 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)
  24. The Trials and Troubles Of a Guy Named Lisa

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Cassidy, Joseph
    Date: Feb. 27, 1966
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Criminal law, Crossdressing, Dancers, Gender realignment surgery, Intersex people, Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Dudes N' Dolls, Lisa Hepler, Uben Sabar
  25. The Milwaukee Girl Appears in Court in Male Attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 20, 1893
    Topics: Adoption, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Masculinities, Siblings
    Subject: Annie Morris, Chief Janssen, Chief of Police McGrath, Detective Frank Miller, Frank Blunt Held, Judge Watson
    Description: Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids, Wisconsin)
  26. 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.)
  27. The Masqueraders.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: English Lord and American Consul
    Date: Jul. 5, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crimes, Crossdressing, Navy, Sodomy laws
    Subject: Arthur Pelham Clinton, C. H. Thomas, Edward I, Edward XIX, George II, John S. Fisk, Louis Charles Hurt, Martin Luther Cumming, New York World, William Summerville
  28. The Man Who Was a "Perfect Lady"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Blackmar, K.K.
    Date: Mar. 16, 1913
    Topics: Actors, Arrests, Female impersonators, Opera, Theatre
    Subject: Annie Butcher, Charles Heywood, Frank Butcher, The Great Heywood
  29. The Man Countess Again

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 29, 1891
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical examinations, Passing (Gender), Upbringing
    Subject: Marie Engelhardt, Sandor Vay, Sarolta Vay
    Description: The Sun (New York, NY)
  30. The Long Talked of Trial Begins at Parkersburg

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 9, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Forgery, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Ellis Glenn, George Hoover, Vesta Hoover
    Description: The Paducah Sun (Paducah, KY)
  31. The Fair Mabel Under Arrest

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wheeling News
    Date: Jul. 28, 1902
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Occupations, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Atwell Yost, Central Fishing Club, Dave Kyle, Earl Kline, Mabel McElhaney, Roy Moore
    Description: West Virginia Daily Oil Review (Sistersville, WV)
  32. The Charge Against "Gentlemen" Personating Women

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 4, 1870
    Topics: Arrests, Criminalization, Crossdressers, Crossdressing
  33. The Boulton Masquerade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 30, 1870
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Crimes, Gatherings, Gender, Secrecy
  34. That's Why The Lady is a Gent!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Bond, Peter
    Date: Jul. 19, 1985
    Topics: Arrests, MtFs, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Dena Steers
    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)
  35. Story of Woman "Father" of Family

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 19, 1916
    Topics: Arrests, Carpenters, Clothing, FtMs, Labour, LGBTQ+ parents, Marriage, Social exclusion, Stealth (Transgender)
    Subject: Margaret Gaffney, Robert Gaffney
    Description: Daily Capital Journal (Salem, OR)
  36. 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.
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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)
  40. She Was a Wife and Mother, But She "Married" as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Lloyd, Nicholas
    Date: May 5, 1960
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Gender dysphoria, Military
    Subject: Valerie Arkell Smith, Victor Barker
    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. She Posed as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1893
    Topics: Arrests, Families, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Smoking
    Subject: Annie Morris, Frank Blunt
    Description: Rock Island Daily Argus (Rock Island, Illinois)
  42. Sex-Change Men Ran Den of Vice

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 7, 1985
    Topics: Arrests, Bondage, Brothels, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Amanda Davies, Roselyn Mayer-Eiseman
    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. Sex-change Barman Freed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: May 6, 1980
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Amanda Stables
    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. 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)
  45. Sex Poser for Gaolers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 18, 1982
    Topics: Arrests, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Prisons, Theft, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Trials
    Subject: Raquel Ellington
    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. 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)
  47. 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.
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. Seattle Man-Woman Bares "His" Soul

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 7, 1916
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, FtMs, Gender role, Labour, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Smoking
    Subject: Margaret Hart, Robert Gaffney