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  1. Xanthra

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Xanthra Phillippa MacKay
    Description: Round button with photograph of Xanthra Phillipa MacKay.
  2. Woman-born Transsexual

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with pink/white text on black background. The button reads "Woman-born Transsexual".
  3. Whining Works!!!

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: LGBTI rights, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with red text over white background with a small unhappy face pattern. The button reads "Whining Works!!!".
  4. We don't need balls to play

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white text on black background. This button reads "We don't need balls to play".
  5. Vegan Transsexual

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Button with black text over white and purple flower on white background. The button reads "Vegan Transsexual".
  6. Two People Posing in Toronto

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Clothing, Events, Gatherings, Halloween, Halloween costumes
    Description: Halloween in Toronto. Two people pose for the camera against a brick wall. Both have black hair or wigs. One person in white jacket, other person in black knit shawl.
  7. TS'S Against Racism

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Anti-racism, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text over faint grey word "racism" on purple background. The button reads "TS'S AGAINST RACISM".
  8. TS lives under TS control Now!

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on white and blue textured background. The button reads "TS lives under TS control Now!".
  9. Transvestites steal spotlight from the spankers, pro and con

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 20, 1960
    Topics: Bondage, Crossdressing, Gender role, Gender swapping, Leather community, Spanking
    Description: A series of letters discussing crossdressing, gender roles, and sexual practices such as the use of leather. Page two of the article is located in "Related Links"
  10. "Transvestism"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 7, 1963
    Topics: Advertisements, Crossdressing, Gay men, Personals
    Description: A newspaper personal for "discreet" men interested in crossdressing.
  11. Transsexuals Get Queerbashed Too

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Hate crimes, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Two round buttons with black text on purple background, one mottled purple. The button reads "Transsexuals get queerbashed too".
  12. Transsexuals get AIDS too (1)

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text over large grey "AIDS" on purple background. The button reads "Transsexuals get AIDS too".
  13. Transsexuals Get AIDS Too

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, Transsexual people
    Description: Round buttons with black text on purple background. The button reads "Transsexuals get AIDS too".
  14. Transsexuals for Animal Liberation

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Animals, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on blue background with large purple butterfly in centre. The button reads "Transsexuals for Animal Liberation".
  15. Transsexual Sisterhood

     
    Collection: gendertrash
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: 1995
    Topics: Drawings, Transgender community, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people, Zines
    Description: A drawing done in varying shades of purple pen and pencil crayon on yellowing paper.This image depicts four figures, presumably trans women, holding eachother by their hands and hair. Below the fig...
  16. Transsexual $ Hooker

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: LGBTQ+ sex workers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round photo with black text on yellow background. The button reads "TRANSSEXUAL $ HOOKER".
  17. Transgender Fury

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: 1977 to circa 2010
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with black text on green background. The button reads "Transgender Fury"
  18. TransFag

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Eakin, Bruce
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Gay men, Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on pink background with black and white image of face with a flower held in mouth. The button reads "TransFag".
  19. Trans Solidarity! Decriminalize sex work now

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Canadian Union of Public Employees 3903
    Date: 2001 to 2002
    Topics: LGBTQ+ sex workers, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on red background. Yellow ring around edge with stars and "CUPE 3903" in black. The button reads "TRANS SOLIDARITY! Decriminalize sex work NOW".
  20. Trans Fag

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Gay identity, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button black text on purple background. The button reads "Trans Fag".
  21. Trans Dyke

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Lesbians, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with pink text in white square on pink background. The button reads "Trans Dyke".
  22. Toronto's Leading Ladies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Competitions, Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Halloween, Photographs
  23. This Transie's Angry

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text and a red and blue starburst. The button reads "This Transie's Angry".
  24. Theory Mutilates Surgery Liberates

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with red text on black and brown background. The button reads "Theory Mutilates Surgery Liberates".
  25. The Empire Strikes Back

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white text over blue abstract design. The button reads "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK".
  26. Switch

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Sexuality, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white text on black background. The button reads "Switch".
  27. Susan Gapka Oral History, Part 2 (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Law, LGBTI rights policy, Transgender people
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: Second oral history with Susan Gapka, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/...
  28. Susan Gapka Oral History, Part 1 (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Sexology, Transgender people
    Subject: Harry Benjamin, John Money, Justin Trudeau, Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: First oral history with Susan Gapka, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/S...
  29. Subscribe to: gendertrash

     
    Collection: gendertrash
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Advertising fliers, Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people, Zines
    Subject: genderpress, gendertrash
    Description: Handbill printed on gray blue paper which reads "Subscribe to gendertrash." Handbill details gendertrash's target audience, ranging from people in transsexual and/or transgender communities, servic...
  30. STOP Violence Against the Transgendered NOW!

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white and red text on black background. The button reads "STOP Violence Against the Transgendered NOW!"
  31. St. Charles Tavern Mob Article

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Jefferson, James
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Violence
  32. St. Charles Tavern Halloween Violence Article

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Hannon, Gerald
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Arrests, Crossdressers, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Police, Violence
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic and homophobic violence.
  33. St. Charles Tavern Article

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Crossdressers, Drag, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Violence
  34. She Monster

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Eakin, Bruce
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with pink and yellow text on white background with picture of small figure in leopard print dress. The button reads "SHE MONSTER".
  35. Self-Organize! Change your sex & your workplace

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Canadian Union of Public Employees 3903
    Date: 2001 to 2002
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Labour, Labour movement, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with black text on teal background. Yellow ring around edge with stars and "CUPE 3903" in black. The button reads "Self Organize! Change your sex & your workplace".
  36. Save Public Health Care Fund Sex Reassignment Surgeries

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Canadian Union of Public Employees 3903
    Date: 2001 to 2002
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with yellow text on green background. Yellow ring around edge with stars and "CUPE 3903" in black. The button reads "Save PUBLIC Health Care FUND SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERIES".
  37. Rupert Raj Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Counseling, Electrolysis, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Medicalisation, Phalloplasty, Politics, Prisons, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Rupert Raj, Trans Health Project
  38. Reckless Masquerade!

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Tom, David
    Date: Jun. 1988
    Topics: Queer people, Transfeminine people, Transgender people, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Rupert Raj
    Description: A collection of poems relating to queer identities written by various authors. The poems were compiled by Tom and illustrated by David.
  39. Questionnaire from Rupert Raj

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: LGBTQ+ prisoners, Transgender activism
    Subject: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Gender Identity Clinic of New England (GICNE), Metamorphosis, Rupert Raj, Transgender organizations
    Description: Questionnaire from Rupert Raj requesting information on an organization's structure, and about TS convicts and ex-convicts.
  40. Positive Space

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1977 to 2010
    Topics: Bisexuals, Education, Gay men, Homophobia, Lesbians, Transgender people
    Description: A sticker that reads "lesbian gay transgendered bisexual queer POSITIVE SPACE," produced for the positive space campaign, which aimed to create spaces on campus where LGBTQ students felt comfortable.
  41. Poly gendered

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white text on black background. The button reads "Poly gendered".
  42. Police Escorts Waving Person Outside of St Charles Tavern

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1980
    Topics: Halloween, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Police, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A police officer escorts a waving person who is wearing a dress and heels away from St Charles Tavern while a crowd looks on, presumably during the annual Halloween riots in Toronto.
  43. Police Escorts Person Into St Charles Tavern

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1980
    Topics: Halloween, Homophobia, Police, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A person wearing a dress is led by a police officer into the St Charles Tavern in Toronto while others and another police officer look on, presumably during the annual Halloween riots.
  44. Police Escort Person Down a Street

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1980
    Topics: Arrests, Discrimination, Halloween, Homophobia, LGBTI community, Police, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A person is escorted down the street by three police officers during the annual Halloween riots in Toronto as someone in a car looks on.
  45. Pissed Off Transsexuals United

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with white text on black background. The button reads "Pissed Off Transsexuals United"
  46. Photo of Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillipa MacKay

     
    Collection: gendertrash
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: O'Connor, Jennifer
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Women's publishers
    Subject: Mirha-Soleil Ross, Xanthra Phillippa MacKay
    Description: Black and white photograph of Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay. They are outside on a summer day and grass and bushes are visible in the background. The two women are closely embracin...
  47. Person and Police Officer Stand Outside Charly's

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1980
    Topics: Bars (Drinking establishments), Halloween, Homophobia, Police, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A person faces away from the camera while an adjacent police officer engages with them as they stand outside a building with a sign reading, "Charly's," presumably during the annual Halloween riots...
  48. People Line the Street Behind Police Officers

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1980
    Topics: Halloween, Homophobia, Police, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A crowd lines the street as police officers block access to the street, presumably during the annual Halloween riots in Toronto.
  49. People in a Car During Halloween Riots

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Halloween, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: Four people sit in a car – three are in the backseat and one leans out the window from the front passenger seat – looking at something during the Halloween anti-trans riot.
  50. "Pansies" Bloom in Cocktail Bar

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 17, 1951
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Sexual offenses laws, Soldiers
    Subject: Bambi
    Description: A newspaper article discussing the trial of a crossdresser referred to as "Bambi."