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  1. Performer's Awards of Detroit Records, 1974-2008 Finding Aid

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Paljusaj, Lauren
    Date: Sep. 20, 2021
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gay bars, LGBTQ+ events, Male impersonators
    Subject: Boblo Island, Bois Blanc Island, David Marshall, Performer's Awards of Detroit (P.A.D.), USA Pageantry, Vicki Martin
    Description: The Performer's Awards of Detroit Records (1974-2008) consists of materials relating to the Performer's Awards of Detroit (P.A.D.), an organization that promoted gay entertainment in Detroit, Michi...
  2. Marlow Monique Dickson Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Dickson, Marlow Monique
    Date: Jun. 19, 2021
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag performers, Female impersonators, Older transgender people, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Crystal LaBeija, Jewel Box Revue, Josephine Baker, Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: OUTWORDS guest interviewer Zackary Drucker interviewed Marlow Monique Dickson in Chicago in 2021. In the 1960s, Marlow moved from Chicago to New York, performing in bars around Greenwich Village. S...
  3. Interview with Jeff Gaudor (Kira Stone)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Gaudor, Jeff
    Date: Apr. 21, 2020
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag families, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Substance abuse
    Subject: Miss Gay Massachusetts USofA, Miss Gay Rhode Island USofA
    Description: An interview with Kira Stone. Kira Stone is a drag persona performed by Jeff Gaudor since 2010. Gaudor identifies as a white; gay man. Topics in order of discussion include: growing up in Attleboro...
  4. Interview with Robert Labossier (Vilet Labossier)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Labossier, Robert
    Date: Aug. 5, 2019
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gay pride, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Empress XIII, Imperial Court of Rhode Island, Vilet Labossier
    Description: An interview with Vilet Labossier. Vilet is a drag persona performed by Robert Labossier in Rhode Island since the early 1990s. Topics in order of discussion include: developing a drag persona and ...
  5. Oral History Interview with Miss Grace Kelly

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Kelly, Miss Grace
    Date: Feb. 24, 2018
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Bondage, Christianity, Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members, Female impersonators, Gender expression, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ night life, Pageants, Sex work, Sexuality
    Subject: Body Image, Carolyn Sue Wilson, City Market, Jefferson Center, Kristina, Lady Bunny, Miss Gay Roanoke Pageant, Murphy's, Neely O'Hara, Pride in the Park, RuPaul's Drag Race, Salem Avenue, The Horoscope, The Park, The Trade Winds, Tim Clark
    Description: Interviewer: Ashleigh Griffin; Princess Carter Interviewee: Miss Grace Kelly Date: 24 February 2018 Duration: 1:41:40 Transcription prepared by: Ashleigh Griffin
  6. Joe H. Hernandez Scrapbook, 1943-1965

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Poffinberger, Alice
    Date: Apr. 2017
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Female impersonators, Gay men--United States, Printed ephemera, Scrapbooks
    Subject: Joe Hernandez, San Antonio General Depot
    Description: This collection comprises a commercially produced scrapbook (12 x 14.5 inches) containing 50 black-and-white and 102 color photographs, ranging in size from 3.5 x 5 inches to 8 x 10 inches. Hernand...
  7. Guide to the Mama Galore Drag Photograph Album, 1980s-1995

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
    Date: Sep. 2015
    Topics: Female impersonators, Homosexuality
    Subject: Mama Galore
    Description: Collection comprises a photograph album featuring 405 color photographs (ranging in size from 2.5" x 3.5" to 4" x 6", primarily 3.5" x 5") and black-­and-­white publicity stills documenting members...
  8. Vicki Marlane Photographs and Artifacts

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: GLBT Historical Society
    Date: Jan. 2014
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gay pride, Transgender people
    Subject: Aunt Charlie's Lounge, Forever's Gonna Start Tonight, Vicki Marlane
    Description: "The Vicki Marlane Photographs and Artifacts document Marlane’s personal life in the 1970s and 1980s and her performance work in the 1990s. There is a small amount of material on her early career. ...
  9. The Battle of the Bette Davis Impersonators

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Doyle, J.D.
    Date: Jul. 28, 2013
    Topics: Female impersonators, Musicians
    Subject: Bette Davis
    Description: In order: Arthur Blake, from "Curtain Time," 1957 TC Jones, from "Himself," 1959 Charles Pierce, from "Live at Bimbos," 1971 Ty Bennett, from "Queen for a Day," circa 1961 Jimmy James, from "T...
  10. Finding Aid to the Ralph W. Judd Collection on Cross-Dressing in the Performing Arts

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: ONE Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
    Date: 2007
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Male impersonators, Transvestism, Vaudeville
    Subject: Charles Pierce, Jim Bailey, Julian Eltinge, Karyl Norman, Ralph Judd
    Description: The collection consists of materials collected by Ralph Judd relating to the history of cross-dressing in the performing arts. The collection is focused on popular music and vaudeville from the 189...
  11. Chi Chapter Tribune Vol. 38 Iss. 09 (September, 1999)

     
    Collection: Chi Chapter Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Peters, Denise
    Date: Sep. 1999
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Beauty standards, Children, Clothing, Coming out, Cosmetics, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Elections, Families, Female impersonators, Femininities, Film, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Harassment, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ relationships, Music festivals, Passing (Gender), Photographs, Prejudices, Sexual orientation, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Travel
    Subject: Cher, Chicago Gender Society, Fall Harvest, Great Lakes Council of Gender Groups, Holiday En Femme, How the West was Fun, Kevin Kline, Positive Attitudes Living Side by side (PALS), Rachel Miller, Stadt Hallenfast, Tri-Ess Odyssey, Virginia Prince, Will Smith
    Description: Periodical name changed from "The Chi Tribune" starting with Vol. 36 No. 2 (February, 1997)
  12. Chi Chapter Tribune Vol. 36 Iss. 10 (October, 1997)

     
    Collection: Chi Chapter Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Peters, Denise
    Date: Oct. 1997
    Topics: Acceptance, Christianity, Clothing, Cosmetics, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Diversity, Drag queens, Elections, Families, Female impersonators, Femininities, Film, Gender identity, Government, LGBTQ+ partners, Passing (Gender), Politics, Spirituality, Support groups, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Affirming Baptist Convention, Barbara McCoy Getz Judy Simmons, Candace D. Mahne, Carol Rodgers, Chicago Gay Men's Chorus, Chicago Gender Society, Different for Girls, Fraternal Order of Police, Laura Ashley, Leslie Rigoulot, Mark Werle, Marsha Jackson, Mary Ann Foster, Positive Attitudes Living Side by side (PALS), Puttin on the Ritz, Ramada O'Hare, The Baton Club, The Great Lakes Gender Leadership Conference, Tommy Gun's Garage, Transformations, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
    Description: Periodical name changed from "The Chi Tribune" starting with Vol. 36 No. 2 (February, 1997)
  13. Buffalo Belles Vol. 5 No. 1 (January, 1996)

     
    Collection: Buffalo Belles Newsletters
    Institution: E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State
    Creator: Lorraine, Kathy
    Date: Jan. 1996
    Topics: Charity, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Femininities, Performing arts, Sexuality, Support groups, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Big Sisters, Carl Jung, Dame Edna Everage, Dolly Parton, Nanuel Puig, Night Out in Buffalo, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Spring Fling, Virginia Prince
  14. Miss Corpus Christi America pageant

     
    Collection: Victor Lopez and Rudy Cardona Photograph Collection
    Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
    Creator: Lopez, Victor
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Female impersonators, Pageants
    Description: The pageant was produced by Texas Crown Productions and was part of the Miss Gay Texas America pageant, the largest and oldest pageant system for female impersonators in the state of Texas.
  15. Miss Corpus Christi America pageant

     
    Collection: Victor Lopez and Rudy Cardona Photograph Collection
    Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
    Creator: Lopez, Victor
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Female impersonators, Pageants
    Description: The pageant was produced by Texas Crown Productions and was part of the Miss Gay Texas America pageant, the largest and oldest pageant system for female impersonators in the state of Texas.