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  1. The Robert MacNeil Report: Transexuality and Sports

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: American Archive of Public Broadcasting
    Creator: NewsHour Productions
    Date: Aug. 23, 1976
    Topics: Chromosomes, Medicalization, Official documentation, Trans women, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Forest Hills Stadium, Harry Benjamin, Renee Richards, U.S. Tennis Open, West Side Tennis Club
    Description: An episode of the Robert MacNeill Report featuring a discussion on "transexuality" and sports. The guests are Renee Richards, Dorothy Harris, Charles Ihlenfeld, and Roberto Granato.
  2. West Berlin: Boys Were Girls And Girls Were Boys At The Carnival Time Transvestites Ball. 1976

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd.
    Date: Jan. 27, 1976
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Gender expression, Transvestites
    Subject: Carnival Time Transvestites Ball
    Description: Transcript and video of participants in The Carnival Time Transvestites Ball in West Berlin, 1976.
  3. Aunty In The Drawing Room

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Comedy, Crossdressing, Drag
    Description: Man dressed in drag as formidable middle aged woman sitting gesticulating into camera. Fragment of a comedy - 'Aunty In The Drawing Room". Man dressed in drag as formidable middle aged woman ...
  4. Chez Nous Part I

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Chez Nous, Marlow La Fantastique, Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: A performance at Chez Nous with a brief introduction to the performers, including Marlow Monique Dickson, who began performing there in 1968.
  5. Chez Nous Part II: Marlow's Performance

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Chez Nous, Marlow La Fantastique, Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: A video of Marlow Monique Dickson performing at Chez Nous in Berlin. She began performing there in 1968.
  6. Chez Nous Part III

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Chez Nous, Marlow La Fantastique, Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: A video of a group performance at Chez Nous featuring Marlow Monique Dickson, who began performing there in 1968.
  7. Dan Nicoletta LGBT San Francisco at the San Francisco Public Library

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Drag, Photographs
    Description: Photos and stories from childhood and 1970s gay culture in San Francisco. This is the book release event for "LGBT San Francisco," which documents 40 years of local LGBT community.
  8. Pat Rocco: Changes (1970)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator: Rocco, Pat, Bizarre Productions
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Femininities, Gender identity, Sexuality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Transsexuality
    Description: Short film directed by Pat Rocco focused on an interview with "Jimmy Michaels, a transgender person living in Los Angeles."
  9. Danny O'Connor, Who Became Canary Conn

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1969
    Topics: MtFs, Singers, Transgender people
    Subject: Canary Conn
  10. Austria: Former Austrian Woman Champion Skier Begins Training For Men's Ski Events - After Sex Change. 1968

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd.
    Date: Jun. 24, 1968
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Trans men, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: 1968 Winter Olympics, Erik Schinegger
    Description: Video footage of professional skier Erik Schinegger training and at home.
  11. 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...
  12. 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.
  13. 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...
  14. Film of Empress Reba events, Imperial Court of San Francisco, circa 1968-1969 [1]

     
    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: Empress Reba, Imperial Court of San Francisco
    Description: Film depicting two different events. In the first, people drink, celebrate, flirt, and play music in what appears to be a gay bar. A large sign promotes the election campaign of the future Empress ...
  15. Film of Empress Reba events, Imperial Court of San Francisco, circa 1968-1969 [2]

     
    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: Empress Reba, Imperial Court of San Francisco
    Description: Film depicting two events. The first is a formal occasion with some participants in drag, including Empress Reba; the second is a more informal Halloween party, with some of the same participants i...
  16. Quick Change Artist (1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 20, 1967
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Cabaret, Crossdressing, Drag queens
    Subject: Ricky Renee
    Description: L/S of a Rolls Royce arriving at Ricky Renee's cabaret club (it passes the Fortune Theatre) in daylight. A glamorous blonde in a fur stole gets out of the car; this turns out to really be cabaret s...
  17. 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
  18. Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 644 - Quick Change Artist, Master Drivers And Railway Vicar 1967

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: 1967
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: Ricky Renee
    Description: Video clips from an outtake real featuring cabaret performer Ricky Renee.
  19. 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...
  20. South Africa: Woman Who Had Sex Change Is Now Happily Married; Interview With Mr And Mrs Ashley

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 10, 1965
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Legal name change, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Melanie Ashley, Robin Ashley
    Description: A short interview with Melanie Ashley and Robin Ashley, in which Melanie's gender transition is discussed.
  21. 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...
  22. Roberta Wins Hill Climb

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 5, 1957
    Topics: Automobile racing, Motorsports, MtFs, Shelsley Walsh Hill-climb Race, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Roberta Cowell, Tony Marsh, W.B. Croot
    Description: Roberta Cowell (wartime fighter pilot who had sex change operation) wearing head scarf round her head, examining the engine of her car with a mechanic in the pits, camera pans up and we look down o...
  23. 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...
  24. 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.
  25. "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