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  1. 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 ...
  2. Sandra Mesics Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Mesics, Sandra
    Date: Jan. 14, 2019
    Topics: Childhood, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Family members, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Insurance, Journalists, Mardi gras, Marriage, Peace movement, Pronoun, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Steel industry and trade, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Angela Douglas, Betty Johnson, Bobby Ray, Brandy Alexander, Christine Jorgensen, David Wesser, Divine, Eddie Joe Stark, Elizabeth Coffey, Empathy Press, Eromin (Erotic Minorities) Center, Fantasia Fair, Gay Liberation Front, Harry Benjamin, Image, Jack O'Brien, John Money, John Ronald Brown, Lee Brewster, National Enquirer, National Insider, Neptune Productions, Pink Flamingos, Pudgy Roberts, Rachel Harlow, Radical Queens, Reed Erickson, Richard Finocchio, Stonewall Rebellion, The Daily Collegiate, The Transsexual Phenomenon, Third World Communications, Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, Transvestia, United Transvestites Transsexual Society (UTTS), Virginia Prince, Zelda Suplee
    Description: andra Mesics is a registered nurse and midwife and has been the director of St. Luke’s School of Nursing since 2004. In this conversation with AJ Lewis, Sandy describes accessing hormones and surge...
  3. 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...
  4. Shannon Harrington Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lewis, AJ, Harrington, Shannon
    Date: Jul. 26, 2017
    Topics: AIDS organizations, Bars, Childhood, Discos, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Events, Friendships, Fundraising, Gay community, HIV/AIDS, Labelling, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ people who use substances recreationally, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mafia, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Night life, Performing arts, Transgender community, Travel, Wigs
    Subject: Bailey House, Boy Bar, Dorian Corey, God's Love We Deliver, International Chrysis, Lee Brewster, Shannon Harrington, Wigstock
    Description: Shannon Harrington is a wig master, hair chaser, and make-up artist who has been living in New York City for over 30 years. In this interview Miss Shannon provides meaningful and nuanced insight in...
  5. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 12 No. 8 (August 1998)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Aug. 1998
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Events, Gender identity, MtFs, Support groups
    Subject: Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts, PFLAG'S Transgender Special Outreach Network (TSO )
  6. Renaissance News & Views, Vol.10 No.11 (November 1996)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Nov. 1996
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressers, Drag queens, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
  7. Renaissance News & Views Vol. 10, No. 1 (January, 1996)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Jan. 1996
    Topics: Acceptance, Anti-discrimination law, Appearance, Books, Clothing, Coming out, Cosmetics, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Dermatology, Drag, Drag queens, Family members, Femininities, Fetishism, Film, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Government, Hormone therapy, Intersex, Literary criticism, Manicuring, Masculinities, Mastectomy, MtFs, Music videos, Night life, Passing (Gender), Prejudices, Psychiatry, Shaving--Equipment and supplies, Social norms, Sports, Support groups, Television, Transgender community, Transgender people, Underwear
    Subject: Chicago Gender Society, Deirdre McCloskey, Diana Ross, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Howard Stern, Jennifer Richards, John Leguizamo, Judith Butler, Jumpstart, Karlota Baltzis, National Association of Family Based Services (NAFBS), RuPaul, Sandra Bem, SPY, Standards of Care, Terrence Stamp, The Village Corset Shop, Tracey Ullman, Transgender Alliance, Transgender Tapestry, UJIMA
  8. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 9 No. 11 (November 1995)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Nov. 1995
    Topics: Activists, Androgyny, Breast, Children of transgender people, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag queens, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Ethnic groups, Exhibitionism, Families, Fantasies, Femininities, Fetishism, Film, Gender identity, Gender role, Human rights, Intersex, Law, LGBTQ+ relationships, Lingerie, Lobbying, Masculinities, Military service, Native american cultures, Passing (Gender), Police, Politics, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Research, Self-image, Swimwear, Television, Transgender community, Transgender people, Victims of hate crimes
    Subject: American Psychiatric Association (APA), Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), Kitty Cole, Second Sex Agency, Transgender Officers Protect and Serve (TOPS), Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Tyra Hunter
  9. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 9 No. 5 (May 1995)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: May 1995
    Topics: Appearance, Christianity, Clothing, Couples, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Events, Fundraising, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, Internet, Married people, Misogyny, Religions, Reviews, Sexism, Transgender community, Transsexual people
    Subject: California State University of Northridge (CSUN), Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, Grace & Lace Letter, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Kate Bornstein, The Central Oklahoma Transgender Alliance (COTA)
    Description: NY Girls & Partners; Visions & Attitudes;
  10. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 8 No. 12 (December 1994)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Dec. 1994
    Topics: Appearance, Bondage, Clothing, Comic strips, Coming out, Corruption, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersex, LGBTI rights, LGBTQ+ movement, Mangas, Media, Money, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Politics, Prisoners, Prisons, Self-acceptance, Slang, Stonewall riots, Transgender community, Transgenderism, Transsexual people
    Subject: American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), HBO, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), MIPCOM, National Organization for Women (NOW), Ranma, SHOWTIME, White Like She
  11. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 8 No. 11 (November 1994)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Nov. 1994
    Topics: Appearance, Bondage, Censorship, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, FtMs, Letters, Letters to the editor, Media, Passing (Gender), Police, Politics, Public opinion, Religious organisations, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: American Family Association (AFA), Coalition Helping to Insure Lives for Dignity (CHILD), PBS
  12. Renaissance News, Vol. 8 No. 1 (January 1994)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Jan. 1994
    Topics: Appearance, Arts, Books, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Dating, Drag queens, Events, FtMs, Gatherings, Gender role, Gender studies, Letters, Letters to the editor, LGBTQ+ relationships, Media, MtFs, Photography, Reviews, Self-acceptance, Self-image, Subcultures, Transgender studies, Transsexual people, Visual arts
    Subject: Frank Zappa, From Masculine to Feminine and All Points In Between, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Jennifer Stevens, Magnus Hirschfeld, RuPaul, Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress
  13. Renaissance News, Vol 7. No. 10 (October 1993)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Oct. 1993
    Topics: Bisexuality, Civil rights, Clothing, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag queens, Events, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Genetics, HIV/AIDS, Homosexuality, Lesbians, Lesbophobia, LGBTI community, Lingerie, Partners of transgender people, Racism, Self-respect, Stonewall riots, Transgender community, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Women's music festivals
    Subject: Garden State Gender Coalition, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Spouses & Partners International Conference for Education (SPICE)
  14. Renaissance News, Vol. 7 No. 2 (February 1993)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Feb. 1993
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag queens, Gender dysphoria, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Law, LGBTI community, Passing (Gender), Transgender people, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Workshops
    Subject: International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation
  15. Death of a Drag Queen Follow-up

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Newman, Andy
    Date: Oct. 20, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Description: A short follow-up article that conveys new information about the circumstances surrounding Marsha P. Johnson's death.
  16. Death of a Drag Queen

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Newman, Andy, Hoboken Reporter
    Date: Jul. 19, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental health, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is an article in the Hoboken Reporter that describes Marsha P. Johnson's death and provides an overview of her life. A version of page two of the clipping annotated by Randy Wicker is als...
  17. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson Standing in a Window with a White Flower Headpiece

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 27, 1990
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Same-sex marriage, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A photograph of Marsha P. Johnson smiling and wearing a floral headpiece made up of large white flowers and strings of pink pearls. Her dress is light blue with gold sequin detailing. She's dressed...
  18. Photographs of Marsha P. Johnson Wearing a White Floral Headpiece and Blue and Gold Sequined Top, Sitting in Randy Wicker's Apartment

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 27, 1990
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ weddings, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Photographs of Marsha P. Johnson wearing a white flora headpiece and a blue and gold sequined top. She's in Randy Wicker's apartment in Hoboken, New Jersey, dressed for Randy's wedding to his partn...
  19. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson in a Yellow T-Shirt

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 14, 1986
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A photograph of Marsha P. Johnson wearing a yellow t-shirt that reads "New York 1985." She is sitting at a table with a cake in front of her. The back of the photograph reads "Malcolm 'Marsha P. Jo...
  20. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson in a Yellow T-Shirt, Laughing

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 14, 1986
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A photograph of Marsha P. Johnson wearing a yellow t-shirt, looking over her shoulder and laughing. The back of the photograph reads "'Marsha' P. Johnson 6/14/86, Hoboken, N.J."
  21. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson Feeding an Easter Egg to Her Friend

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 22, 1984
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Easter, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A photograph of Marsha P. Johnson in a black, formal gown feeding a dyed Easter egg to a friend who is resting in her lap.
  22. Season's Greetings 1984

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1984
    Topics: Black transgender people, Burlesque (Theater), Christmas, Drag queens, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, New Year, QTPOC, Roommates, Sex work, Transfeminine people
    Subject: David Combs, George Flimlin, Jack Nichols, Jim Kepner, Marsha P. Johnson, Michael Toy, Randy Wicker, Uplift Lighting
    Description: The 1984 issue of an annual newsletter written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker, in which he provides updates on his life and business, the household, and close friends. This issue inc...
  23. Here's Laughing with You - 1983

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 21, 1983
    Topics: Black transgender people, Christmas, Drag queens, Gay men, New Year, QTPOC, Sex work, Transfeminine people
    Subject: David Combs, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Willie Brashears
    Description: Content warning: This item contains nudity and racist language.
  24. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson Wearing Tinsel on Her Head, Posing with "Santa," and Others

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1983
    Topics: Black transgender people, Christmas, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A Polaroid of Marsha P. Johnson wearing tinsel on her head. She's seated next to someone dressed as Santa, and three others.
  25. Photographs of Marsha P. Johnson Wearing Tinsel on Her Head, Posing with Others by a Christmas Tree

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1983
    Topics: Black transgender people, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Two Polaroids of Marsha P. Johnson wearing tinsel on her head. She's posed with "Santa," and another person by a Christmas tree, holding a decoration.