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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... -
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. -
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... -
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 ... -
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... -
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... -
Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967)
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Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 644 - Quick Change Artist, Master Drivers And Railway Vicar 1967
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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... -
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. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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. -
"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