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  1. Farewell Performance of Verdi's Aida

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Thayer, Chuck
    Date: Jan. 8, 1967
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gay bars, Latino/a/x gay men
    Subject: Black Cat Bar, José Sarria
    Description: A program for a drag performance at The Black Cat Cafe, also including a description of the club, performances, and drag artists. This was one of drag performer José Sarria's opera parody performan...

  2. Queens at Heart (1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
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    Date: 1967
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay bars, Gender affirming surgery, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Hormones, LGBTQ+ suicide, Medicalization, Sex (Act), Trans women, Transphobia
    Subject: Jay Martin
    Description: "This short pseudo-documentary offers a rare look at trans life and drag ball culture in mid-1960s New York." According to Jenni Olson, the LGBTQ historian and archivist who rediscovered the film i...