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  1. Letter from Rupert Raj to Dr. Leah C. Schaefer (June 20, 1994)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Jun. 20, 1994
    Topics: Bisexual people, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Homosexuals, Lesbians, MtFs, Transgender people
    Subject: Leah C. Schaefer, Rupert Raj, Stanford University Gender Dysphoria Program
    Description: Letter from Rupert Raj to Dr. Schaefer about discriminatory issues within the Stanford Gender Dysphoria Program.

  2. 1987 So Proud of You, Son Merry Christmas 1988

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 21, 1988
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Lesbians, QTPOC, Roommates, Stealth (Transgender), Transfeminine people
    Subject: David Combs, Heritage of Pride, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Uplift Lighting, Willie Brashears
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.

  3. Controversy Erupts Over Drag Act

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: GAY Magazine, Skir, Leo
    Date: Mar. 12, 1973
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag performers, Lesbians, Transvestites
    Subject: Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Lesbian Liberation Committee, Liz Eden, Pudgy Roberts, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
    Description: This item is a clipping from GAY Magazine Vol. 4 No. 97 about the controversy surrounding Pudgy Roberts' drag performance at a Gay Activist Alliance meeting.

  4. Storme, Dori, and Pals Relight the Shubert

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: MacArthur, Harry
    Date: Sep. 26, 1958
    Topics: BIPOC, Black lesbians, Black people, Female impersonators, Lesbians, Racially mixed people, Studs
    Subject: Bill Daye, Chunga Ochoa, Dori D'or, Jewel Box Revue, Lynne Carter, Robbi Ross, Shubert Theater, Stormé DeLarverie, Toni Midnight, Tytanic
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to transphobic comments.

  5. On WNET and Nationwide, the Rainbow Flags are Flying

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gates, Anita
    Date: Aug. 24, 1994
    Topics: Bisexuality, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Homosexuality, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ choruses, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ people of color, Trans women
    Subject: A Day in the Life of Lady Chablis, Angels in America, Bob Dole, George C. Wolfe, Ian Mckellen, Katherine Linton, Lady Chablis, Liza Minnelli, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Melissa Etheridge, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Pat Buchanan, PBS, Rent, The Doll, The Grand Empress
    Description: New York Times article featuring mention of "A Day in the life of Lady Chablis", a segment hosted by PBS about Lady Chablis, a Black trans woman performer.

  6. Of Epic Hangovers And Hairs of Dogs

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Jay, Sarah
    Date: Dec. 28, 1994
    Topics: Black lesbians, Black LGBTQ+ people, Lesbian artists, Lesbians
    Subject: Stormé DeLarverie
    Description: A list of hangover cures, and celebrities including Stormé DeLarverie, who endorse certain ones and offer advice.

  7. Stonewall Radio 19: Peggie Ames and Transsexualism 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State
    Creator: Siegler, Bob, Ames, Peggie
    Date: Jun. 20, 1973
    Topics: Lesbians, Trans women, Transsexuality
    Subject: Stonewall Nation
    Description: In this episode of Stonewall Nation, host Bob Siegler discusses transsexuality with guest Peggie Ames.

  8. Queer Action Figures #1

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Hill, Tom, Farrell, Audra, Welch, Charlie
    Date: 1994
    Topics: BDSM, Capitalism, Gay men, Heterosexuals, Lesbians, Nude photographs, Sex (Act)
    Subject: Daughters of Bilitis, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
    Description: A zine titled "Queer Action Figures #1," created by Tom Hill, Audra Farrell, and Charlie Welch. Includes collages about sex, gender, and queerness.

  9. Queer Action Figures #3

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Farrell, Audra, Hill, Tom, Welch, Charlie
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Gay liberation, Gay men, Gender expression, Lesbian liberation, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ artists
    Description: A zine titled: "Queer Action Figures #3," created by Audra Farrell, Tom Hill, and Charlie Welch. Includes collages that explore gender, the queer community, and sexual freedom.

  10. Queers Read This!

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 2009
    Topics: Anti-Blackness, Anti-gay violence, Heterosexuals, HIV/AIDS, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ love, Queer people, Sex (Act), Transgender people
    Subject: ACT UP, Queer Nation
    Description: A zine titled "Queers Read This!," originally published in June 1990 for PRIDE NYC and republished "anonymously by queers" in July 2009. Includes texts on queer spaces, gender, and AIDS.

  11. Lucky Star

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Stein, Jessica Max, Witch Baby
    Date: Dec. 1998
    Topics: Gender expression, Genderqueer identity, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, Tattoos
    Description: A zine titled "Lucky Star" by Witch Baby aka Jessica Max Stein. Includes clippings, drawings, and journal entries by the creator.

  12. Scrapbook 09

     
    Collection: Scrapbooks and Albums
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Anderson, Adèle
    Date: 1978?
    Topics: Abortion, Clothing, Drag, Feminism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Intersex parents, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ night life, LGBTQ+ theater, Non-monogamous people, Performance art, Polyamorous people, Queer people, Sexuality, Transsexual people
    Subject: Amanda Lear, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Daisy Hyams, Erik Schinegger, Evening Mail, Evening News, Evening Standard, George Logan, Hinge & Bracket, Janet Lloyd, Jean Rook, May Fair Theatre, News of the World, Patrick Fyffe, Richmond Theatre, Sunday Mirror, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times
    Description: This scrapbook includes a wide range of clippings such as a program for the show "Hinge & Bracket," a few articles on Amanda Lear, and a piece titled "Launching the First Trisexual Disco." This ite...

  13. FTM Newsletter #22

     
    Collection: FTM International
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1993
    Topics: Butches, Crossdressers, Deadnaming, Drag queens, Femmes, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Lesbians, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, MtFs, Philosophy, Marxist, Testosterone, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: A Femme/Butch Reader, Joan Nestle, Anne Bolin, Ari Kane, Bay Times, Brat Attack No.3, Dallas Denny, David Schreier, David W. Miller, Dossie Easton, East Coast FtM Group, Edenews, Gera, H. Merle Knight, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Holly Devor (now Aaron Devor), In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage, Ingersoll Gender Center, Jameson Green, Jane Ellen Fairfax, Jason Cromwell, Jeff Shevlowitz, Leslie Feinberg, Lin Fraser, Lou Sullivan, Marjorie Garber, Matthew Windsel, Max, Michael E. Main, Monika Treut, Rene-Kadar Omiani, Short Sizes Inc, Sky Renfro, Stone Butch Blues, Stonewall, Susan Stryker, The Australian Transsexual Support Association, The Eden Society, The Spirit and the Flesh, The Transgender Caucus of the 1993 March On Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Theresa Frieden, Transgender Caucus, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Trish Thomas, Vested Interests, William A. Henkin
    Description: Issue #22 of FTM International published in January 1993. Includes discussions of past FTM gatherings, review of the show "Geraldo", a look at "Transgender Through a Socialist Lens".

  14. FTM Newsletter #14

     
    Collection: FTM International
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1990
    Topics: Drag, Drag kings, Drag queens, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy (Gender), Lesbians, Testosterone, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Alfred A. Knopf, Americans with Disabilities Act, Annette Kobak, Bay Area Reporter, Blackwell's Worst Dressed List, Brooke Shields, Carlos Bea, Castro Theater, Cathy Brown, Cecily Mackworth, Center for Special Problems, Chez Mollet Restaurant, Chris Johnson, Colette Kirby, Crystal Club, Department of Defense, Dolly Parton, Dorian Gray, Dr. Demuth, Elizabeth Montgomery, Esther Newton, Farrah Fawcett, Focus International, FTM Get-Together, Gender Dysphoria Program, Inc., George Chauncey, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay & Lesbian Past, Home for Contemporary Theater, How To Change Your Name, Hustler, IFGE Convention, Ingersoll Gender Center, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Isabelle Eberhardt, Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt, J. Sonne, James S., Jason Pirro, John Weitz, Judy Van Maasdam, Julia Roberts, Kate Bornstein, Kris Kristofferson, Lily Tomlin, Linda/Les and Annie, lnformation for the Female to Male Cross Dresser and Transsexual, Lynn Falske, Man in Charge (The Executive's Guide to Grooming, Manners and Travel), Martha Vicinus, Martin B. Duberman, Matt Doutre, Mount San Rafael-Hospital, New Anatomies, Nina de Voogd, Oregon Health Sciences University, Paper, Pat Califia, Pope John Paul II, Richard F. Docter, Roberta Marie Rodgers, Rupert Raj-Gauthier, San Francisco County Jail, She Even Chewed Tabacco, Stanford Medical School, Stanley Biber, Sybil Holiday, T.J. Furber, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, The Ecco Press, The Gender Trap, The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman, The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt, The Portrait of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Theatre Rhinoceros, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Transsexuality - Jude, Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior, Vagabond, VERA, Veruschka, Wendy Nelson, William A. Henkin, Willie Nelson, Women Make Movies
    Description: Issue #14 of FTM International published in December 1990. Includes an announcement of the third edition Lou Sullivan's handbook, responses to Rupert Raj's submission in the previous issue (Issue #...

  15. FTM Newsletter #12

     
    Collection: FTM International
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 1990
    Topics: Authors, Ball culture, Bottom surgery, Butches, Crossdressers, Dental dams, Femmes, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Intersex people, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ events, MtFs, Queer community, Queer relationships, Safer sex, Self-perception, Sex accessories, Testosterone, Transgender community, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Adam's Word, Babe Bean, Butch Femme Soiree, Claremont Counseling Center, Driftwood Lounge, Free University, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, Gender Clinic, Gender Dysphoria Trust, Gender Worker, Gertrude Stein, Get-Together, Gift Center Pavilion, Harry Benjamin INternational Gender Dysphoria Association Symposium, Hidden: A Gender, Hustler, ISE General Account Fund, Jack Bee Garland, Janus Information Facility, John Armstrong, John Money, Johnny A, Kate Bornstein, Lady Bird Johnson, Lee Nichols, Lin Fraser, Lou Sullivan, Louis Gorren, Mary Louise Medacco, Metamorphosis, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Paul Walker, Rites of Passage, Roxanne Cherry, Rupert Raj-Gauthier, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Standards of Care, Sterling Winterhalter, Steve Antonetti, The Adam Society, The Imperial Star Empire Turnabout Ball, Thomas Kelenske, Weekly World News
    Description: Issue #12 of FTM International published in June 1990. Includes an article discussing AIDS/HIV, an opinion piece on the magazine "Hustlers", and a book review of "From Female to Male: The Life of J...

  16. Andrew Kimber Citino Oral History Interview

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of South Florida
    Creator: Cyrana Wyker, Wyker, Cyrana, Citino, Andrew
    Date: Nov. 11, 2013
    Topics: Drag bars, Drag kings, Drug addiction, Gender affirming surgery, Lesbians, Trans men
    Subject: 6pak, 6S Boutique, Chiq Bar, DC Playhouse, Frank Moreno, Jimmy Emerson, Kid Rock, Michael Keeffe, Mo B. Dick, Trans*Action Florida

  17. Dykes Do Drag

     
    Collection: Clothing Collection
    Institution: Wearing Gay History
    Creator:
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Drag, Dykes, Lesbian culture, Lesbians
    Description: Purple shirt with blue and pink lettering; imaged of a high heel and statue of liberty

  18. KATZ TO US: HISTORY LIVES

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Young, Allen, Schreiber, Ron, Katz, Jonathan
    Date: Feb. 5, 1977
    Topics: Book reviews, Crossdressing, Gay men, Interviews, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ archives, LGBTQ+ books, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ people of color, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Antioch, City College, Coming Out! (play), Committee of the Gay Activists Alliance, Communism, Emma Goldman, Gay American History, Gay Community News, Gay Socialist Action Project, Harry Hay, High School of Music and Art, Jim Steakley, Jonathan Katz, Karl Marx, Lucy Ann Lobell, Lucy Terry Prince, Mattachine Society, Murray Hill, Resistance of Christiana, The Early Homosexual Rights Movement, WBAI
    Description: Interview with Jonathan Katz, author of Gay American History, and an inset review of the book. The interview covers Katz's research, thoughts on academia, personal politics, and insights into LGBT ...

  19. An Intimate Circle of Friends

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Moody, Linda
    Date: Oct. 13, 1984
    Topics: Crossdressing, Lesbian artists, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ archives, LGBTQ+ theater, Sexism
    Subject: Addie Manning, Anne Whitney, Boston Area Lesbian and Gay History Project, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Eliza Cook, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gay Community News, Hamlet, Harriet Hosmer, Janet Kahn, Macbeth, Matilda Hays, Oliver Twist, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
    Description: This article details the life and history of Charlotte Cushman and her circle of friends, many of whom were lesbians and engaged in crossdressing. There are several small typos in the article; Cush...

  20. GCN STONEWALL NATION 69~79: What Happened, Anyhow?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Stein, Cindy
    Date: Jun. 23, 1979
    Topics: Drag queens, Gay liberation, Lesbians, Police harassment, Stonewall riots
    Subject: Allen Ginsberg, Dave Van Ronk, Dick Leitsch, Donn Teal, Gay Community News, Howard Smith, Lucian Truscott IV, New York City Police Department, New York Daily News, New York Mattachine Society, New York Times, The Gay Militants, Village Voice
    Description: An account of the Stonewall Riots, originally published on page 9 of volume 6, number 47 of Gay Community News, in the Stonewall 10th Anniversary issue. The author mentions drag queens being presen...

  21. FROM STONEWALL TO THE PUERTO RICAN PRIDE PARADE: THE EPIC ROLE OF TRANSVESTITES

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Negron, Frances
    Date: Jun. 1994
    Topics: Gay men, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ people of color, Stonewall riots, Transphobia, Transvestites
    Subject: Communidad Orgullo Gay, Gay Community News, Gay Liberation Front, Latino Gay and Lesbian Coalition, Maida Tilchen, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), Pa'Fuera, Puerto Rican Pride Parade, Puerto Rico, Stonewall 25, Stonewall Rebellion, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: An overview of Puerto Rican involvement in the LGBT+ movement, especially Sylvia Rivera's involvement in the Stonewall Rebellion. Originally published on page 22 of volume 20, issues 1 and 2 of Gay...

  22. A home of our own

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: The Ad Hoc Committee to Support the Lesbian Herstory Archives
    Date: Jun. 23, 1991
    Topics: Anti-lesbian violence, Archives, Butches, Dykes, Femmes, Lesbian activism, Lesbian African-Americans, Lesbian archives, Lesbian bars, Lesbians, Lesbians of colour, Male impersonators, Persecution of lesbians
    Subject: Becky Johnson, C. Walsh Theater, First African Meeting House, Gay Community News, Jenifer Firestone, Jewel Box Revue, Joan Nestle, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Michelle Parkerson, Red Shades Affinity Group, Stormé: The Lady of the Jewel Box, Stormé DeLarverie, West Village
    Description: An article summarizing an event to benefit the Lesbian Herstory Archives, featuring a short film about Storme Delarverie and appearances from notable lesbian activists. Originally published on page...

  23. Marcus Arana Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Arana, Marcus
    Date: Jul. 26, 2016
    Topics: Biphobia, Bisexuality, Child abuse, Coming out, Feminism, FtMs, Gender identity disorder, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, Intersex genital mutilation, Intersex people, Lesbian separatism, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ night life, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Poverty, Public bathroom bills, Queer people, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Advocates for Informed Consent, Anita Bryant, Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS), Briggs Initiative, Center for Individual Responsibility, Christine Jorgensen, City College of Fresno, Claire Skiffington, Community United Against Violence (CUAV), Dan White, David Harris, David Rubin, Donald Laub, Dubcoe Park, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Human Rights Commission of San Francisco, Humboldt State University, James Green, Joan Baez, John Briggs, Larry Baskin, Lina, Marcus Arana, Octavian Haight, People's Union Co-Op Farm, Pinocchio, Queer Nation, Renee Richards, Rock Hudson, Ronald Reagan, Running Eagle, Steve Dain, Stonewall Parade, Tom Ammiano, Tom Waddell Clinic, Trans March, University of California San Francisco
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Marcus Arana conducted by Mason Funk on July 26, 2016 in San Francisco. In 1976, Marcus moved to the “queer paradise” of San Francisco, falling immediately in love with the ...

  24. Susan Stryker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Oct. 22, 2019
    Topics: Activists, AIDS activists, BDSM, Childhood, Crossdressing, Ethnic groups, Historians, Homophobia, Hormones, Leather community, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Military, Mormonism, Peace movement, Social classes, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transgender studies
    Subject: Blue Jeans Day, Christine Jorgensen, Dear Abby, Gay Activist Alliance, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society, Gay Pieere, I Want What I Want, Janice Raymond, Leslie Feinberg, Patrick Califia-Rice, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ), The Transsexual Empire: the Making of the She-Male, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Victor Silverman
    Description: Susan Stryker is an esteemed author and professor of gender and women’s studies. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Oklahoma, while also spending time in Germany and Hawaii as part of h...

  25. Rona Love Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Love, Rona
    Date: Jul. 2, 2019
    Topics: Arts, Bisexual community, Butches, Child abuse, Drag community, FtMs, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Judaism, Kidnappings, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Mental health, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Music, Prison guards, Prisons, Self-respect, Sexual abuse, Slang, Soft butches, Street violence, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Black and Pink, Daniel Poliak, Director of Prison Justice Project, Hazel Katz, Mick King K, Parole Preparation Project, Sparkle, Tremont
    Description: Rona Love discusses her early childhood hardships, three decade long incarceration and experiences in psychiatric hospitals. She details abuse, violence and the extreme isolation of being a trans-f...

  26. Robbi Ann Mecus Oral Hisory

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Mecus, Robbi Ann
    Date: Aug. 23, 2019
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Crossdressing, Disabilities, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Forest rangers, Gay pride, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gentrification, Health care, Homophobia, Internalized homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Machismo, Masculinities, Parenthood, Passing (Gender), Police, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Sexism, Siblings, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Visibility
    Subject: 2017 Women's March, Bizarre Bushwick, Donald Trump, Kate Bornstein, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Second Serve, Stonewall, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), Trans Day of Action
    Description: In this interview, Robbi Ann Mecus describes her journey from growing up with her family, experiencing gender dysphoria in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, to living as her ...

  27. Paisley Currah Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Currah, Paisley
    Date: Jun. 27, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Birth certificates, Children, Conferences, Divorced people, Feminists, Gender, Gender role, Gender studies, HIV/AIDS, Internalized homophobia, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, Marxism, Political science, Prisons, Religions, Rural areas, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, Zines
    Subject: ACT UP Ithaca, Biddy Martin, Carolyn Riccardi, Carrie Davis, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), City University of New York (CUNY), Connor Brotus, David Valentine, Empire State Pride Agenda, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Jamison Green, Jennifer Levi, Joann Prinzivalli, Melissa Sklarz, Ned Brinkley, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Pauline Park, Queens Homophile Association, Queer Nation, Roz Blumenthal, Sarah Schulman, Shannon Minter, Sierra Showman, Sophia Pazzos, Spencer Bergstedt, Susan Stryker, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), The Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), Trans Day of Action, Transgender Law and Policy Institute (TLPI), True Spirit Conference

  28. 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 ...

  29. Jeaux Henry Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Henry, Jeaux
    Date: May 22, 2019
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Being in love, Black people, Childhood, Coming out, Crossdressing, Dating, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender role, Health care, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Pronoun, Psychotherapy, Secondary education, Social media, Solidarity, Transgender archives, Transgender community, Transgender people, Visibility, Women
    Subject: Bklyn Boihood, Black Boi Complex, Black Trans TV, Callen-Lorde Health Center, General Education Development (GED), Job Corps, One Medical Group, Racquel Reid, The Lighthouse, Zocdoc
    Description: Jeaux narrates their coming into black trans boihood, from their childhood in Atlanta to their life in New York City today. As the creator of Black Boi Complex, a virtual community for masculine-of...

  30. Angal Field Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Field, Angal
    Date: May 1, 2019
    Topics: Colonialism, Family members, Film, Gay identity, Gay liberation, Gender, Gender bending, Health care, Hormones, Lesbians, Liberals, Photography, Politics, Privilege (Social psychology), Religions, Roman catholicism, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Transgender community, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Barnard University, Celina Sciamma, Tomboy
    Description: Angal Field shares their experience of being a writer, filmmaker and photographer in today’s media landscape and discusses the trappings of trans visibility. Using the medium of film to “speak back...

  31. Girl Talk, Vol. 14 No. 2 ( February, 1999)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Silk, Cyndi
    Date: Feb. 1999
    Topics: Biology, Clothing, Discrimination, Donations, Gatherings, Gay men, Gender, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hate crimes, Lesbians, MtFs, Police, Police raids, Theatre, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Alex Kordis, Ann Bozzi, Boulton & Park Gender Euphoria, Brandon Teena, Cal State Fullerton, California Dreamin', Chanelle Pickett, Christian Paige, Cynthia Phillips, Deborah Forte, Dennis Rodman, Doanld Fuller, Educational TV Channel (ETVC), Frank Santos, FTM International, Gamaliel Mireles Coria, Gary Olfers, GenderPAC, Howard Safir, Howard Yamamoto, Irvine Valley College, Jamaica Green, Jessy Santiago, JoLea Lamot, Karen Houppert, Kerry Sorrel, Lauryn Paige, Linda Phillips, Pat Riley, Peggy Santiago, Powder Puffs of California, Prez Di, Rainbow Gender Association (RGA), Riki Anne Wilchins, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Tasha Dunn, The Austin American-Statemen, The Diablo Valley Girls (DVG), The Villiage Voice, Transupport Group Center, Van Ness Prevention Divison Transgender Program, Vianna Faye Williams
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence

  32. Interview with Tiq Milan

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Milan, Tiq
    Date: Nov. 2, 2017
    Topics: Autobiographies, Bars, Black people, Butches, Children, Coming out, Discrimination, Divorce, Families, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hormone therapy, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Racism, Roman catholicism, Soft butches, Sports, Substance abuse, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transphobia, Working class
    Subject: Brian Michael Smith, Bronx Community Pride Center, Buzzfeed, CeCe McDonald, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Hetrick Martin Institute, Huffington, Lambda Legal, MTV, National Anti Violence Project, Niagara University, Power and Privilege Series, Queen Sugar, Redefining Masculinity, Rolling Stone, Source Magazine, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), The Guardian, The New Yorker, Vibe Magazine
    Description: Tiq Milan identifies as a binary black trans man who is queer identified and was assigned female at birth. He grew up in Buffalo, New York in a working-class family in the hood, Milan states. He lo...

  33. Interview with Osiris Coleman

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Coleman, Osiris
    Date: Sep. 21, 2015
    Topics: Assigned gender, Bisexuals, Black people, Change of name, Child abuse, Employment discrimination, Families, Gender realignment surgery, Heterosexuals, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Lesbians, MtFs, Ovariectomy, Phalloplasty, Pregnancy, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Curtis Crane, Janet Mock, Loren Cameron, New York City Department of Sanitation
    Description: Osiris Coleman is a 44-year-old black trans straight man. He was assigned female at birth. He grew up in West Philadelphia, going to public school for a couple of years and then to Catholic school....

  34. Interview with Ignacio Rivera

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rivera, Ignacio
    Date: Nov. 7, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Androgyny, Artists, Assigned gender, Bullying, Children of transgender people, Coming out, Discrimination, Education, Families, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Heteronormativity, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Indigenous peoples, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ partners, Masculinities, Mental health, Misogyny, Passing (Gender), Transgender people, Transphobia, Two-Spirit people, Writers
    Subject: Amanda Rivera, New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti Violence Project, Poly Patao Productions, This Bridge Called My Back
    Description: Ignacio Rivera identifies as a transgender queer, two-spirit person who was assigned female at birth. They are an internationally known performance artist, activist, sex educator, writer, and blogg...

  35. Interview with Qui Dorian Alexander

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Alexander, Qui Dorian
    Date: Sep. 11, 2017
    Topics: Bible, Black people, Dating, Depression, FtMs, Gay men, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Imprisonment, Lesbians, Masculinities, Oppression, Parents of transgender people, Partners of transgender people, Sexuality, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Adrienne Maree, Brown Boi Project, Charlene Arcila, Emergent Strategy, Mazzoni Center, Reg Ju, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Tiq Milan, Trans Health Conference
    Description: Qui Dorian Alexander is a Puerto Rican/Black/Afro-Latinx trans-masculine non-binary FTM person who goes by he/him and they/them. At the time of this interview, Alexander was a graduate student and ...

  36. Morgan Gus Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Gus, Morgan, Honkasalo, Julian
    Date: May 20, 2018
    Topics: Communities, FtMs, Gentrification, Hormones, Lesbians, Music, Music groups, Plastic surgery, Roman catholicism, Self-acceptance, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Morgan Gus, interviewed by Julian Honkasalo, talks about growing up in a community neighborhood of New York City where their mother was supportive of gender expression. Gus remarks about the changi...

  37. Of Many Things, of Cabbages and Queens (8/1/1963)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1, 1963
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gay men, Gender realignment surgery, Homosexuality, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ partners
    Subject: EROS, Jaqueline Dufresnoy, John Browning, Samuel Barber, Sweedish National Radio

  38. Nico Fuentes Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Fuentes, Nico, O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Feb. 11, 2018
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Colleges, Depression, Direct action, Families, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Isolation, Labour, Lesbians, Politics, Racism, Sex shops, Trade unions, Transgender people
    Subject: Nico Fuentes
    Description: Nico Fuentes is a member leader in a current unionization campaign at the Pleasure Chest, a sex toy shop. Beginning with an account of growing up in a Mexican family in West Texas and Oklahoma, she...

  39. Dean Spade Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Spade, Dean, Awad, Nadia
    Date: Apr. 24, 2017
    Topics: Demonstrations, Feminists, Foster parents, Gay pride, Gender diversity, Health care, Hormones, Immigration, Imprisonment, Lawyers, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Peace movement, Spirituality
    Subject: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Audre Lorde Project (ALP), CUNY Law School, Dean Spade, FIERCE, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), National LGBTQ Task Force, Queers for Economic Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California Santa Cruz
    Description: Dean Spade relates his journey and politicization first through the support of his mother in conservative Virginia, his first tastes of feminism and increasingly his work to provide support and res...

  40. Letter to a Femme

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Jan. 1994
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Butches, Coming out, Discrimination, Drag, Drag queens, FtMs, Hate crimes, Hate speech, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ lovers, Passing (Gender), Police officers, Police raids, Prejudices, Rape, Sexual harassment, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Suicide, Transgender people
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Workers World Party
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 3 of the periodical.

  41. A Woman, Crossdressed in Black Leathers, Started the Riots at Stonewall

     
    Collection: East Coast FTM Group Organizational Records
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Lesbian Connection, FTM
    Date: circa 1989
    Topics: Battering, Crossdressing, Drag queens, FtMs, Lesbians, Police raids, Stonewall riots
    Subject: Anne Tracy, Harry Beard, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), John D'Emilio, Lesbian Tide, San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States 1940-1970, The Village Voice

  42. Femme Shark Communique #1

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, Mahmood, Zuleikha
    Date: 2008
    Topics: Body image, Butches, Classism, Eating disorders, Ethnic groups, Feminism, Femmes, Group leaders, Healing, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental disorders, Prisons, Racism, Self-image, Sex industry, Sexual violence, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Assatta Shakur, Born in Flames, Chrystos, Girl fight, Gloria Anzaldua, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Marlon Riggs, Michelle Obama, Sylvia Rivera, The Fat Femme Mafia, Tongues Untied, Young Soul Rebels

  43. Letter from Bet Power to Pam Parker (June 24, 1987)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Jul. 24, 1987
    Topics: FtMs, HIV/AIDS, Lesbians, Masculinities, Self-acceptance, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Pam Parker
    Description: Handwritten notes on both pages. Phone number has been redacted.

  44. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (July 24, 1987)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Jul. 24, 1987
    Topics: Alcoholism, Buddhism, Clothing, Crossdressers, Femmes, FtMs, Gatherings, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Labelling, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ lovers, Masculinities, Menopause, Self-acceptance, Self-image, Shamanism, SM, Spirituality, Support groups, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: B Group, Ben Power, Bet Power, International Ms. Leather, Lou Sullivan, Outrageous Women, The Lesbian and Gay Pride Rally
    Description: Included with the letter is a speech given by Bet.

  45. Renaissance News, Vol 7. No. 8 (August 1993)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Aug. 1993
    Topics: Activists, Anti-semitism, Butches, Censorship, Clothing, Coming out, Counseling, Crossdressing, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Femininities, FtMs, Gender role, Gender swapping, Herstory, Lesbians, Letters, LGBTQ+ radio, Marriage, Marxism, Mixed-orientation marriage, MtFs, Politics, Popular culture, Pornography, Self-image, Soft butches, Sports, Transsexual people, Upbringing
    Subject: Leslie Feinberg, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Qwonta Jones, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Workers World Party

  46. Guide to the Pauline Layton Papers, 1967-1999

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
    Date: Apr. 11, 1998
    Topics: Bisexuality, Bullying, Gay college students, Gender identity, Hate crimes, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Lesbians, Transsexualism, Transvestism
    Subject: Ben Curtis, Cornell University, Pauline Layton
    Description: Pauline Layton is a native Ithacan who studied mathematics at Cornell, but later became a musician, writer, and videographer. Member of Cornell's Student Homophile League, 1968-1970; member of Univ...

  47. Guide to the Cornell University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center Records, 1991-2007

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
    Date: 2003
    Topics: Bisexuality, Bisexuals, Gay college students, Gay liberation movement, Gays, Gender identity, Homosexuality, Lesbians, Transsexuals
    Subject: Carlisle Douglas, Cornell University, Cornell University. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, Ellis Hanson, Gwendolyn Dean, Susie Lerner
    Description: The collection contains files on the establishment of the Resource Office in 1994-1995 and its activities and events through 2010; annual and monthly reports; files on fall retreats; files on the p...

  48. Guide to the Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Coalition records, 1967-1999

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
    Date: 1991
    Topics: Bisexuality, Gay college students, Gay liberation movement, Gays, Homosexuality, Lesbians
    Subject: Cornell Gay Liberation, Cornell Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals of Color, Cornell Lesbian, Bisexual and Questioning Women, Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Coalition, Cornell University Gay Liberation Front, Cornellesbians, Gay People at Cornell, Janis Kelly, Jearld Moldenhauer, Robert Roth, Student Homophile League of Cornell University, Victoria Mead
    Description: Correspondence, logbooks, financial records and accounts, newsletters, bibliographies, minutes, lists, and broadsides of and pertaining to gay student groups at Cornell University. Includes twenty ...

  49. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 8 No. 8 (August 1994)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Aug. 1994
    Topics: Appearance, BDSM, Children, Civil rights, Clothing, Conservatism, Crossdressing, Fantasies, Fetishism, Gender identity, Gender role, HIV/AIDS, Lesbians, Masculinities, Prisoners, Psychotherapy, Representation, Stonewall riots, Television, Therapies, Transsexual people, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Stonewall 25