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  1. Renee Imperato Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Imperato, Renee, Kalin, Betsy
    Date: Jan. 23, 2021
    Topics: Ball culture, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ veterans, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Racism against Black people, Sex work, Transfeminine people, Transgender disabled people, Transgender political activists, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    Subject: 220 Club, House of Sally, Leslie Feinberg, Paris Is Burning, SAGE Advisory Council, World Worker's Party
    Description: Renee Imperato was born on May 8, 1948 in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City. Renee describes the first 30 some years of life as living as an “unconscious male impersonator.” Renee fought in ...
  2. Gay Morning America Show Excerpt: Miss Fire Island 1985

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Gay Morning America
    Date: Nov. 9, 1985
    Topics: Drag performers, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Gay Morning America, Miss Fire Island
    Description: Originally aired as part of Gay Morning America Season 3, Episode 3, this is a recording of the announcement of the Miss Fire Island 1985 winners.
  3. 1982 Was a Great Year! Can 1983 Be Any Better?

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1982
    Topics: Black transgender people, Christmas, Drag queens, Gay men, LGBTQ+ sex workers, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: David Combs, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Uplift Lighting, Willie Brashears
    Description: The 1982 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. The author des...
  4. 1995 Xmas Letter

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 23, 1995
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, Gay pride, Indigenous transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: AIDS Memorial Candlelight Parade, Bob Hooker, Christopher Street Festival, Cocoa Rodriguez, Edward Lacey, Marsha P. Johnson, Mothers March Against AIDS, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, Uplift Lighting, Willie Brashears
    Description: The handwritten draft of the 1995 issue of an annual newsletter written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker, in which he provides updates on his life and business, including obituary note...
  5. Update & Report to All Concerned from Randy Wicker on Marsha's Death

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jul. 12, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Bill Dobbs, Jeremiah Newton, John Gray, Marsha P. Johnson, Queer Nation, Randy Wicker, Sergeant John Mullally
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains homophobic language.
  6. Update Following March on the Sixth Precinct

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jul. 24, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Anti-Violence Project, Bill Dobbs, Jeremiah Newton, John Gray, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Sergeant John Mullally, Stonewall Inn, Susan Lori
    Description: An update on the status of the investigation into the death of Marsha P. Johnson and her friends' attempts to hold investigators accountable.
  7. Certificate of Death for Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 9, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Marsha P. Johnson's death certificate with the original, highly contested cause of death.
  8. Birth Registration Certificate for Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 27, 1945
    Topics: Birth certificates, Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Marsha P. Johnson's birth certificate issued by the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey
  9. Pride Parade Letter from Peter Dvarackas to Randy Wicker

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Dvarackas, Peter
    Date: Jul. 6, 1987
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay pride, HIV/AIDS, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: ACT UP, Harvey Fierstein, Hell Fire, Man Hole, Marsha P. Johnson, Peter Dvarackas, Randy Wicker, Rev. John McNeill, Sybil Bruncheon
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains racist and transphobic language.
  10. Sylvia Sidney in a White Dress

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The History Project
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1945
    Topics: Drag bars, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ night life
    Subject: Sylvia Sidney
    Description: Photograph of the legendary Boston drag performer, Sylvia Sidney, in a white fluffy dress.
  11. A Letter Written by Randy Wicker to Ali

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Nov. 3, 1982
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Willie Brashears
    Description: A Thanksgiving letter from Randy Wicker to Ali based in Cairo, Egypt. Wicker discusses how he first became roommates with Marsha P. Johnson through Willie Brashears.
  12. Gay Asian Party: A Benefit Event for HIV/AIDS Education

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Korean Lesbian and Gay Organization
    Date: May 1991
    Topics: AIDS awareness, AIDS education, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Entertainers, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Singers
    Description: An event program for a HIV/AIDS education benefit hosted by the Korean Lesbian and Gay Organization.
  13. Here's to Marsha

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Ballard, Roland
    Date: Nov. 25, 1995
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, Gay pride, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Gay Liberation Front
    Description: A letter from Roland Ballard to Randy Wicker containing a photograph of Marsha P. Johnson at the New York City 1987 Pride Parade.
  14. The Marsha P. Johnson March

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Miller, Bobby
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A collage featuring a poem about Marsha P. Johnson and a photograph of her smiling at the camera wearing a headdress of feathers and flowers.
  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.