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  1. Princeton's Triangle Club Performance with Male Students Dressed as Cowboys and Dancing Girls

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1930
    Topics: Crossdressers, Dancers, Drag, Musicals, Performing arts
    Description: Title card: "Princeton's 'Fair Sex' star in show!" / high angle view of stage with men dressed as cowboys and Latina women dancing onto stage / ground level of dancers in unison with dancing feet /...
  2. Athlete Stella Walsh

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1, 1931
    Topics: Intersex people, LGBTQ+ immigrants
    Subject: 1932 Olympic Games, Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Stefania Walasiewicz, Stella Walsh
    Description: Newsreel footage of professional athlete Stella Walsh, who speaks about wanting to compete in the 1932 Olympics and becoming a U.S. citizen.
  3. Athlete Stella Walsh does stretching exercises

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1, 1931
    Topics: Intersex people, LGBTQ+ immigrants
    Subject: Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Stefania Walasiewicz, Stella Walsh
    Description: Video footage of professional athlete Stella Walsh doing exercises. Includes audio voice-over narration describing the exercises.
  4. Athlete Stella Walsh interview and athletic demonstration

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1, 1931
    Topics: Intersex people, LGBTQ+ immigrants
    Subject: 1932 Olympic Games, Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Stefania Walasiewicz, Stella Walsh
    Description: Video footage with audio of professional athlete Stella Walsh training and discussing her goal to become a naturalized citizen and compete in the 1932 Olympics for the U.S.
  5. Columbia University Student Chorus Line of Men in Women's Costumes

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1934
    Topics: Crossdressing, Dance, Drag, Performing arts
    Subject: Lyla Roberti, Mae West
    Description: VS row of stockinged chorus line legs dancing / Pan up legs to reveal that the dancers are all men in tutus and stockings / CU man in blond wig, earrings, feather boa, and hat (Mae West) sings / MS...
  6. Ex-G.I., Now a Woman, Returns to U.S.

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 1, 1953
    Topics: Army, Clothing, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Press conferences, Trans women
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen
    Description: Christine Jorgensen speaks at a 1952 New York City press conference after her gender realignment surgery. Title card: "Ex G. I., Now a Woman, Returns to U. S." superimposed over transwoman Chris...