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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...
  7. "G.I." Christine Returns Home

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Coronation News
    Date: Feb. 12, 1953
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, LGBTQ+ press, Military, Trans women, Transgender people, Veterans, Videos
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen
    Description: A 1953 video of a press conference featuring Christine Jorgensen upon her arrival to the United States following her surgery in Denmark
  8. News Flashes- New York- Woman of the Year (1953)

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 16, 1953
    Topics: Awards, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen
    Description: Christine Jorgenson receives an award for contribution to science for her gender realignment surgery.
  9. Christine Jorgensen Broadway Debut (1954)

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: 1954
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Theatre, Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen
    Description: Christine Jorgensen makes her debut on Broadway. Christine Jorgensen, the ex-GI who had a sex change makes her Broadway debut. New York, United States of America (USA). MS nightclub 'Latin Q...
  10. The Rejected

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: American Archive of Public Broadcasting
    Creator: KQED San Francisco
    Date: Sep. 11, 1961
    Topics: Homosexuality, Medicalization, Sexual orientation, Transsexuality
    Subject: American Psychiatric Association (APA), Anthropology, Mattachine Society
    Description: Video and transcript from "The Rejected," a program aired on KQED, San Francisco in 1961. The program purports to discuss homosexuality from a variety of viewpoints - both affirming and pathologizi...
  11. Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator: Ursin, Nikolai
    Date: 1967
    Topics: Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Trans women, Transgender culture, Transgender people
  12. Queens at Heart (1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator:
    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...
  13. Film of a 1960s drag cocktail party, picnic, and pool party

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1968 to 1969
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events
    Description: Three events. The first is an evening event described in an onscreen sign as "Cocktail Party Honoring Empress Reba: Hostesses Princess Royal Fanny & Bobby." Partygoers mingle, celebrate, and show o...
  14. Film of a 1960s drag performance

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1968 to 1969
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Empress Reba, Imperial Court of San Francisco
    Description: A drag performance at a bar, with the camera occasionally panning over the audience. The drag queens -- including Empress Reba -- lip-synch, dance, and show off men for the crowd.
  15. Film of a 1960s holiday party and Imperial Court of San Francisco event

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1968 to 1969
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Imperial Court of San Francisco
    Description: Film depicting two events. The first is a holiday party with both Christmas and Hanukkah decorations. Revelers talk, eat, and show off their drag. The second event is a very elaborate Imperial Cour...