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  1. Kewpie: Daughter of District Six

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator: District Six Museum, GALA
    Date: 2019
    Topics: Beauty contests, Beauty shops, Drag, Drag balls, Exhibitions, Hairdressers, LGBTQ+ museums, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Performance, Segregation
    Subject: Billy Biggs, Brian Armino, District Six, District Six Homecoming Centre, Jenny Marsden, Kewpie, Mavis, Moffie, Salon Kewpie, Sister, Tina Smith, Ursula Hansby
    Description: This publication follows the exhibition, Kewpie: Daughter of District Six, curated by Jenny Marsden and Tina Smith, first held at the District Six Homecoming Centre, 21 September 2018–30 March 2019.
  2. Kewpie Photographic Collection, ca. 1950s to 1980s.

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: 2017
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Gender diversity, Photographs
    Subject: Kewpie
    Description: The collection consists of over 700 of Kewpie's personal photographs (including duplicates), the vast majority of which have captions that were provided by Kewpie during the accessioning proces...
  3. Dungeon Collection

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: 2015
    Topics: Clubs, Ethnic groups, Gay culture, Night life, Photographs
    Subject: Ronnie Oelofsen
    Description: The Dungeon Club was one of Johannesburg’s longest running gay clubs, located in the Three Castles Building on the corner of Marshall and Goud Streets in the CBD (207 Marshall Street). The building...
  4. Sally Gross

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 2014
    Topics: Buddhism, Government, Human rights, Intersex, MtFs, Religions
    Description: This collection consists of documents from the personal belongings of Sally Gross donated to GALA on her death in 2014 by her brother. The collection reflects her transition from living as a man to...
  5. Elise van der Merwe Collection

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 2005
    Topics: Letters, Military, MtFs, Photographs, Transgender people
    Subject: Elise van der Merwe
    Description: Elise van der Merwe is a MTF transgendered person, who told her story in the Afrikaans media in 1982 (series A). Elise received many letters from individuals who read her story, and these letters...
  6. Oral history project on coloured lesbians and gay men in Johannesburg and its surrounds (2005)

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator: Manion, Anthony
    Date: Aug. 2005
    Topics: Ethnic groups, Gay men, Lesbians, Oral history
    Subject: 'Dinkey' Bougard, Agnes April, David John du Plessis, Hazel Harris, Ivan Evans, Judith Bennett, Judy Mattera, Mary Louw, Naazlie Johnson, Sandra Meyer
    Description: At the centre of the collection are the eleven oral history interviews conducted for the project (series A). These provide insight into the cultural identity of the coloured lesbian and gay commu...
  7. Monwabisi Diniso Collection, 1996 to 2001

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 2003
    Topics: Bars, Family members, Friends, Initiation, Photographs
    Subject: Monwabisi Diniso
    Description: The collection consists of colour reproductions of 37 of Diniso's personal photographs. Subjects include Diniso undergoing initiation, friends and family, Miss Gay Eastern Cape 2000, and the ...
  8. The aVersion Project, 1982 to 2001

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator: Martin, Karen
    Date: 2000
    Topics: Abuse, Apartheid, Health care, Homosexuality, Human rights, Media
    Subject: Graeme Reid, Jeanelle de Gruchy, Mikki van Zyl, Sheila Lapinsky, Simon Lewin
    Description: Research report on human rights abuses of gays and lesbians in the South African Defense Force by health workers during the apartheid era. Includes final report and executive summary, interviews (...
  9. The Oral History Project, c. 1940s to 2000

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator: Gevisser, Mark
    Date: Jul. 1999
    Topics: Gay men, Interviews, Lesbians, Oral history
    Subject: Alan Fennell, Allwynne, Andrew Wichman, Ann Levett, Bernhard Leeman, Beryl, Bienne Nel, Bob Haber, Brian Stanley, Charles Stodel, Charlie Arendse, Colin Lang, Cyrll Schewitz, Dallas Le Page, David Booysen, Dennis Dingle, Ernest Thorp, Francis Radebe, Harold Fransman, Ivan Agherdine, Joan Schubotz, Joe Garmeson, John Henrick, John Ramsdale, John Whiteley, Joy Heald, Judith Henderson, Julie Mullard, Kewpie, Lionel Clark, Mansoer Saban, Marion Menzies, Michelle Bruno, Monty Lewis, Pat Rule, Selwyn Hurwitz, Shay McClaren, Sheila Elliot, Truus Palmer
    Description: A1 consists of more than 52 interviews on audio cassette with lesbians and gay men older than 60 at the time of the interview. Some of the interviews have been transcribed, and include some photogr...
  10. Mark Griffin Collection, 1982 to 1986

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1999
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, HIV/AIDS, Photographs
    Subject: Bette Midler, Boylesque Show, Greg Reichmann, Le Parisienne Supper Club, Mark Griffin, Matthew Ronin, Miss East Coast, Neil Starr, Stargazer
    Description: This collection is named in remembrance of Mark Griffin, who died in 1987 from AIDS related causes. The material was donated by Neil Starr and Spencer Pillai, friends of Mark Griffin. Most of the...
  11. The Kindest Cut

     
    Collection: South Africa Media Coverage (via Gender Dynamix)
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator: Foster, Gavin
    Date: Sep. 1996
    Topics: Acceptance, Coming out, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Military, Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Addington Hostpital
  12. Inside a Man's Body (October 31, 1993)

     
    Collection: South Africa Media Coverage (via Gender Dynamix)
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 31, 1993
    Topics: Acceptance, Depression, Families, LGBTQ+ relationships, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Michelle Emmerich
  13. Kewpie Sitting in her Beauty Salon

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator:
    Date: 1993?
    Topics: Beauty operators, Gender minorities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Kewpie, Salon Kewpie
  14. When Husbands Wear the Panties: Transsexual Tales

     
    Collection: South Africa Media Coverage (via Gender Dynamix)
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator: The Phoenix Society
    Date: Aug. 1990
    Topics: Acceptance, Aversion therapy, Crossdressers, Drag balls, Gender identity, Gender role, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, James C. Coleman, The Phoenix Society, The Transgender Phenomenon: You and Your Dual Gender
  15. "It's Over, Daddy– You're A Woman Now..." (November 17, 1988)

     
    Collection: South Africa Media Coverage (via Gender Dynamix)
    Institution: Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
    Creator: Parker, Edward
    Date: Nov. 17, 1988
    Topics: Acceptance, Children of transgender people, Gender realignment surgery, LGBTQ+ relationships, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Michelle Evert