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  1. A Dictionary of Gender Identity

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bonnell, Charles
    Date: Sep. 20, 1975
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag kings, Drag queens, Eroticism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Medicalization, Passing (Gender), Scientific literature, Sex cinemas, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Gay Community News, The Queen's Vernacular
    Description: A short article in volume 3, issue 12 of Gay Community News, providing definitions for terms used by the gender noncomforming community in the 70s. Originally printed on page 17.
  2. Dressing the Part: Two Approaches to Drag

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Schneiderman, Jo, Leigh, Joanna, Lynn, Merissa Sherrill
    Date: May 5, 1984
    Topics: Camp (Gay culture), Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag bars, Drag community, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay community, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Sexual assault, Transsexual people
    Subject: Eve's Garden, Fire and Ice Review, Gay Community News, Jacque's, Norell, Roberta Dearborn, Tiffany Club, Tina Lea
    Description: A compilation of interviews with drag queens, transsexual women, and crossdressers. Touches on the drag scene in Boston, presenting and passing as a woman, the threat of sexual assault, and relatio...
  3. London's Ideal of Ideals: Ella Shields

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 19, 1928
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag kings
    Subject: Ella Shields
  4. Men Just Wanna Be Girls (Provincetown Arts Magazine 1991)

     
    Collection: Fantasia Fair: Miscellaneous Documents
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Randolph, Sarah, Provincetown Arts Magazine
    Date: 1991
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Femininities, Feminism, FtMs, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Lesbians, Transsexual people
    Subject: Fantasia Fair
    Description: Handwritten note on back of page 4: "This appeared in P-Town Arts Magazine 1991."
  5. Out of the CLOSET–with style

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Carroll, Felix
    Date: Oct. 21, 1999
    Topics: Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Brenda Vida, Dallas Denny, Fantasia Fair, Jayne Robinson, Lisa Mitchell, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, Unitarian-Universalist Meetinghouse
    Description: A clipping about Fantasia Fair in Provincetown, Massachusettes and the people who attend it.
  6. Stands by Her Man: Wife Supports His Crossdressing (October 23, 1986)

     
    Collection: Fantasia Fair: Miscellaneous Documents
    Institution: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
    Creator: Barber, Bonnie
    Date: Oct. 23, 1986
    Topics: Acceptance, Crossdressers, Married people
    Subject: Fantasia Fair
  7. Transvestite Conference Offers New Experience

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator: Boynton, Dan
    Date: Oct. 30, 1975
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Cosmetics, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag balls, Electrolysis, Family members, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Marriage, Masculinities, Partners of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Self-image
    Subject: Brandy Alexander, Crown & Anchor, Fantasia Fair, Sandy Mesics, Wilma June Sharman
  8. TV Watching in P'town

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Damon, Bill
    Date: Nov. 15, 1975
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gay culture, LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender culture, Transvestites
    Subject: Ariadne Kane, Fantasia Fair, Gay Community News
    Description: A short article covering Ariadne Kane's first Fantasia Fair (national transvestite convention), held in Provincetown. Originally published on page 5 of volume 3, number 2 of Gay Community News.