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  1. Donna M. Cartwright Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Cartwright, Donna M., O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Dec. 23, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Arrests, Beauty standards, Colleges, Coming out, Crossdressing, Dating, Drag queens, Ethnic relations, Events, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Labour movement, LGBTQ+ movement, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Normalization, Organisations, Secrecy, Sexuality, Social movements, Socialism, Stereotypes, Therapists, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender rights, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Brandon Teena, Christine Jorgensen, Donna M. Cartwright, Gender Right Advocacy Association of New Jersey (GRAANJ), GenderPAC, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Pride at Work, Terence Stamp, The New York Times
    Description: Donna Cartwright discusses her long history in the labor movement, as a socialist militant, in leading roles in trans rights organizing and LGBTQ organizations. She recounts her 30 years spent as a...
  2. Drag Special Supplement (1975)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1975
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black queer people, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: 82 Club, Eulenspiegel Society, Lynn Carter
    Description: Contents: News -- To be or not to be -- Eulenspiegel society -- Drag clubs and artists -- Chicago -- Where to see drag.
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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 -- ...
  6. Drag Vol. 2 No. 8 (1972)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: On item cover: "Now! America's No.1 magazine about the transvestite!" ; Contents: News -- Queens with balls -- Salmacis society -- Drag yearbook -- Coming events -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans -- Get...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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
  10. 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...
  11. 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.
  12. Drag Vol. 4 No. 15 (1974)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1974
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball
    Description: On item cover: "The International Transvestite Quarterly". ; Contents: News -- Confide -- Rita Ohape -- Mardi Gras -- Getting together.
  13. Drag Vol. 4 No. 16 (1974)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1974
    Topics: Activists, Asian queer people, BIPOC, Black queer people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Description: On item cover: "The International Transvestite Quarterly". ; Contents: News -- West coast drag -- National cotillion -- Linda Lee's S.F. -- Zulman -- 82 Club Obituary -- Candy Darling obituary -- G...
  14. En Femme Magazine No. 14 (Oct. 1989)

     
    Collection: En Femme Publications
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: En Femme Publishing
    Date: Oct. 1989
    Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, LGBT, Politics, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Description: On item cover: "Dee Dee Invite U 2 New Hope!" Contents: Greetings from down under: column by Joanne Wilson -- Meeting yang, a brand with a message!: by Angela Gardner -- Growing up with Bobby, part...
  15. En Femme Magazine No. 18 (June 1990)

     
    Collection: En Femme Publications
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Creative Design Services
    Date: Jun. 1990
    Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Description: On item cover: "Special Third Anniversary International Issue". ; Contents: Conversations with an alien: Miss Phaedra Kelly - Great Britain -- Instinct, conditioning or genetics: Joanne Wilson - Au...
  16. En Femme Magazine No. 20 (Oct. 1990)

     
    Collection: En Femme Publications
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Creative Design Services
    Date: Oct. 1990
    Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland
    Description: Contents: My wonderful world -- Shopping -- Video review: Wonderland -- Special report, Miss Gay Pennsylvania pageant -- Book review: from female to mail -- Update, Sarah Luiz -- Resources -- Subsc...
  17. En Femme Magazine No. 21 (Dec. 1990)

     
    Collection: En Femme Publications
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Creative Design Services
    Date: Dec. 1990
    Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Description: Contents: My wonderful world -- The crossdressed spirit of hallowe'een -- Uniform games -- Video review: metamorphosis -- Service review: Jumelle -- Special report, International queen'90 -- Specia...
  18. En Femme Magazine No. 3 (Nov.-Dec. 1987)

     
    Collection: En Femme Publications
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: En Femme Publishing
    Date: Nov. 1987
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Fantasia Fair
    Description: On item cover: "Devoted to the world of transvestism." ; Contents: Letter from the editor -- Letters to the editor -- Halloween! -- TV interview: a talk with Tina and her family, interview by Robyn...
  19. 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 ...
  20. 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...
  21. 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...
  22. 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.
  23. Les Girls: Boys Will Be Girls Vol. 1 No. 4

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Holly Publications
    Date: 1981
    Topics: Activists, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Asian transgender people, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Hispanic LGBTQ+ people, Hispanic transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Bambi, Danny La Rue, Holli White, Kirk Weill, Rocio, Sulka
    Description: Contents: Rocio -- Bambi -- Holli White -- Michelle -- Danny LaRue -- Kirk Weill -- Sulka -- Amanda Winters.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.