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  1. Death Betrays Farmer's Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 15, 1904
    Topics: Burial ceremonies, Farmers, FtMs, Jury, Passing (Gender), Right to vote
    Subject: Joe Monahan
    Description: The Evening Statesman (Walla Walla, Washington)
  2. "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."
  3. 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"
  4. Man dressed as woman solicits officer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: May 7, 1960
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Police, Prostitution, Transgender prostitution
    Description: A newspaper article on a police officer's encounter with a crossdressing sex worker. Page two of the story is located in the "Related Links" section.
  5. How Transvestism is Linked With Corporal Punishment

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 10, 1960
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender role, Passing (Gender), Spanking
    Description: Two letters on the nature of crossdressing, specifically how it begins in children and how it is fostered.
  6. "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.
  7. Jackie Shane is Seen Between Sets in Toronto in the 1960s

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Goode, Jeff
    Date: 1960s
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Musicians, Singers, Transgender people
    Subject: Jackie Shane
  8. Halloween '65

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1965
    Topics: Competitions, Drag queens, Halloween
    Subject: Letros Tavern
  9. Halloween Crowd by Alexander Street

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Halloween, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A large crowd of people (some dressed in Halloween costumes) gathered outside of Alexander Street by St. Charles Tavern in Toronto, presumably during the annual riots.
  10. Halloween Crowd Outside St. Charles Tavern

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Halloween, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A crowd of people stand outside St. Charles Tavern in Toronto during the annual anti-trans and anti-LGBTI riots of Halloween.
  11. Halloween Crowds and Violence 1

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: People dressed up in Halloween costumes stand outside the St. Charles Tavern on Yonge Street in Toronto, which has eggs splattered on it as a result of a tradition stemming from transphobic and hom...
  12. Halloween Crowds and Violence 10

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: People pose for a photo in front of the St. Charles Tavern on Yonge Street in Toronto while a police officer stands guard by them, presumably as a result of the anti-trans riots surrounding them.
  13. Halloween Crowds and Violence 2

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A group of people stand outside of St. Charles Tavern in Toronto on Halloween. A person shows the camera their middle finger. There is a tradition of violence related to homophobia and transphobia.
  14. Halloween Crowds and Violence 3

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots
    Description: A group of people stand outside the St. Charles Tavern in Toronto on Halloween. Police are present because of the tradition of transphobic and homophobic violence.
  15. Halloween Crowds and Violence 4

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Transphobia
    Description: Two people are engaged in physical contact outside the St. Charles Tavern in Toronto on Halloween, where is a tradition of transphobic and homophobic violence.
  16. Halloween Crowds and Violence 5

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots
    Description: A person stands outside St. Charles Tavern in Toronto, where a group of people has gathered on Halloween. Broken eggshells are visible in the background, evidence of the transphobic and homophobic ...
  17. Lavender lads make woo! woo! Hallowe'en eve

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag balls, Drag queens, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender)
    Description: A newspaper article describing a queer celebration, focusing on the drag performers
  18. 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.
  19. Letters to the editor: "very old transvestite" speaks up for males who prefer femme attire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: May 28, 1966
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender diversity, Masculinities, Older people
    Description: A letter on the subject of crossdressing and men and women's clothing. Page 2 of this article can be found in the "related links" section.
  20. Jewel Box Revue: in song and sight a drag show model

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Kirby, Blaik
    Date: 1968
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Night life
    Subject: Blue Orchid, Bobby Barton, Dodie Daniels, Don Marshall, Jackie Lamarr, Jewel Box Revue, Joey Daniels, Kurt Mann, Paris Todd, Robin Rogers, Toni Lee
  21. Aiyyana Maracle fonds

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: BIPOC, Clothing, Indigenous transgender people, MtFs, Native American transgender people, Performance art, Queer people of color, Transgender artists, Transgender authors, Transgender parents, Transgender people, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Aiyyana Maracle, Anna Fuerstenberg, Banff Centre Aboriginal Arts Program, Catwalk, Chronicle of a Transformed Woman, Chrystos, Coyote and the Winter that Never Ends, Gender Möbius, grunt gallery, Half-Bred, Haudenosaunee, Jan Kudelka, Janice Toulouse, Journey in Gender, Lee Maracle, Lori Millan, Marjorie Anne Napewastewin Schutzer, Medicine Boy, Mirrha Soleil Ross, Rebecca Belmore, Reunion of Broken Parts, Shawna Dempsey, Six Nations, Sometimes the Body Just Doesn't Match the Mind, T(h)ree Stories, The Queer Series/Two Spirit Festival, Two Spirit and Trans Conference, Two-Spirit Women of First Nations Conference, Waawaate Fobister, Warren Arcan, We Are Hoh tinh oh Shon:ni, Whispers of the Grandmothers, Witch Hunts & the Trials of the New Millennium, Women and Freedom Under Attack, Writing Trans Genres Conference
    Description: Aiyyana Maracle was a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, story-crafter and storyteller. For half a century, Aiyyana was actively involved in the merging of Ogwehoweh art and culture into...
  22. Annoucement of the International Magazine of Transsexualism and Rupert Raj's Business Cards

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, Trans men, Transgender activism, Transgender community
    Subject: Gender Worker, International Magazine of Transsexualism, Rupert Raj
    Description: Leaflet from Gender Worker announcing a new magazine called the International Magazine of Transsexualism. It displays details of contents within as well as subscription/membership prices. The first...
  23. Article Written by Rupert Raj for The Badger

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender people's writings
    Subject: Rupert Raj, The Badger
    Description: Rupert Raj's feature article "City Can Do More... To Boost Small Businesses," published by The Badger.
  24. Biography of Rupert Raj

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, Gender transition, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender people--Identity
    Subject: Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals (FACT), Gender Worker, Metamorphosis, Rupert Raj
    Description: A biography of Rupert Raj, which includes information about his gender transition and the work he's done providing resources and support to trans people.
  25. Call for Contributers and Research Participants for Gender Worker

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics:  
    Subject: Gender Worker, International Congress on Cross-Dressing, Sex, and Gender, Rupert Raj
    Description: A call for research participants and materials for Gender Worker.
  26. Connie Merasty fonds, 1993-2015

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: The University of Winnipeg
    Creator: Merasty, Connie
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Acting, AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Drag, Drag queens, Gangs, Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ events, Prostitution, Theater, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: B.C. First Nations AIDS Society, Connie Merasty, Ginger Flame, Hectic, International AIDS Conference, Margaret Sweatman, Noam Gonick, Passing of a Legacy, Popuular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba, Red Rising Magazine, Stryker
    Description: Fonds reflects some facets of Merasty’s career in activism, including AIDS advocacy and Indigenous issues; as well as her career in performance, as a drag queen and an actor. Includes photographs d...
  27. Danny Windsor Dies at 87

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Retzloff, Tim
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, LGBTQ+ night life, Performance art
    Subject: Bobby Bruno, Danny Windsor, Danny Young, Debra Brown-Hendrickson, Disco Dolly, Doodles and Spider, Ethel Merman, Jennifer Foxx, Judy Garland, MGM, The Danny Windsor Revue, The Wizard of Oz, Totie Fields, Willis Clark
    Description: Announcement of the death of Danny Windsor. The article chronicles the trajectory of his career.
  28. Don't Be One of the Crowd

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Drag queens, Gay men, Halloween, Homophobia, Intolerance, Police, Riots, Transphobia
  29. Flyer for "Bodies and Borders...Unbound" Festival/Conference

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism, Transgender people of color
    Subject: Aiyyana Maracle, Richard Douglass-Chin, Rupert Raj, Shadmith Manzo
    Description: Flyer promoting conference "Bodies and Borders...Unbound: Poignant Lives, Powerful Voices, Transpeople of Color Speak Out." Event will feature a workshop, video documentary, and panel.
  30. Flyer for Educational Workshop

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Transgender activism
    Subject: Rupert Raj
    Description: A flyer promoting an educational event to inform transgender/transsexual people about their rights as psychotherapy clients.
  31. Flyer for Forum "Body Matters" hosted by The Social Work Anti Oppression Coalition (SWAOC)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Subject: Kyle Scanlon, Ryerson University, The Social Work Anti-Oppression Coalition (SWAOC), Trish Salah
    Description: A flyer for a forum hosted by The Social Work Oppression Coalition (SWAOC) entitled "Body Matters."
  32. Flyer for Poignant Lives, Powerful Voices

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Description: Flyer for an event called "Poignant Lives, Powerful Voices: TransPeople of Colour Speak Out." The event is a transsexual workshop curated by Rupert Raj.
  33. Flyer for Sexin' Change: Reclaiming Our Genders and Bodies

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: LGBTQ+ visibility, Transsexual people
    Subject: Rupert Raj
    Description: Flyer for "Sexin' Change," a sensitivity training workshop to increase visibility and understanding of transsexuals.
  34. Flyer for the Premier of "Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to Our Families"

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: South Asian queer people
    Subject: Rupert Raj
    Description: Flyer for the premier of "Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to our Families," a documentary exploring the lives and sexualities of Queer South Asians and their families in the West.
  35. Flyer for Towards a Transpositive Health Care Model Workshop

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Description: Flyer for an event called "Towards a Transpositive Health Care Model: Developing Clinical Sensitivity and Cultural Competence in the Effective Support of Transsexual and transgender People."
  36. Flyer for Training Workshop on Transpositive Mental Healthcare

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Subject: Rupert Raj, Susan Gapka
    Description: Flyer describing a training workshop by Rupert Raj and Susan Gapka for professionals, educators, researchers, and students on developing sensitivity and cultural competence to support transgender p...
  37. Friends in Drag

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Friendships, Gatherings
    Subject: Doug Wilson, John Goodwin
    Description: Group of 8 people sitting in a living room. They appear to be dressed in costume. Several people are holding each other while others lie on the couch.
  38. Halloween in Toronto Queen City of Canada

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Competitions, Drag queens, Halloween, LGBTI community
  39. Leaflet from Lesbian + Gay Film and Video Festival

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Description: Flyer for lesbian + gay film festival advertising a film called "Rupert Remembers" about Rupert Raj's activism and personal memories of transgender spaces.
  40. Letros Tavern, The Nile Room

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Bars, LGBTI community, Night life
  41. Letter from Dallas Denny to Rupert Raj (May 23, 1994)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Denny, Dallas
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Transgender activism
    Subject: AEGIS, Chrysalis Quarterly, Dallas Denny, Qwer Quarterly, Rupert Raj
    Description: Letter from Dallas Denny to Rupert Raj thanking him for sending a copy of Qwer Quarterly, and updating Raj on the development of an all-FtM issue of Chrysalis Quarterly.
  42. Letter from Dr. Betty Steiner to Abram Szpirglas (January 12, 1987)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Steiner, Betty W.
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, MtFs, Trans women
    Subject: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Rupert Raj
    Description: Notes and correspondence from a psychiatric consultation given by Dr. Betty Steiner of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry.
  43. Letter from Dr. Tom Mazur to Rupert Raj

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Mazur, Tom
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, MtFs, Transgender activism, Transgender newsletters, Transgender people
    Subject: Metamorphosis, Rupert Raj
    Description: Letter from Dr. Tom Mazur, Director of Psychoendocrinlogy at the Children's Hospital of Buffalo, accepting Rupert Raj's invitation to join the Metamorphosis Board of Professional Advisors.
  44. Letter from Elaine Barrie to Rupert Raj

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Barrie, Elaine
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, MtFs, Transgender people
    Description: Letter from Elaine Barrie to Rupert Raj, in which Elaine sends a poem for consideration. Elaine also inquires generally about Rupert Raj's identity and asks about the transsexual scene in Toronto.
  45. Letter from Rupert Raj to Phoebe Smith

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men
    Subject: Gender Worker, Phoebe Smith, Rupert Raj, The TS Voice
    Description: Letter from Rupert Raj to Phoebe Smith congratulating Smith on recieving a "Gender Worker Award," plaque. Raj also provides a response to a letter printed in the last issue of The TS Voice.
  46. Letter from Timothy Blaeser to Rupert Raj

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Blaeser, Timothy
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Transgender activism, Transgender people
    Subject: Metamorphosis, Rupert Raj
    Description: Letter from Timothy Blaeser, research assistant at the University of Minnesota requesting permission to include Raj's journal in the university library.
  47. Lifestory

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender authors
    Subject: Rupert Raj
    Description: Rupert Raj writes an essay on his life story. He writes about his family history and background, recounts his experiences in school, and as a trans person in medical and psychiatric systems. He des...
  48. Not Quitting the Game - Just Switching Sides

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men
    Subject: Gender Worker, Metamorphosis
    Description: Rupert Raj writes about his burnout regarding his work with Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation and his decision to take a step back from running the organization. He assures everyone that h...
  49. Notice from Rupert and Michelle Raj-Gautier on Gender Consultants

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism, Transgender people's writings
    Subject: Gender Consultants, Gender Worker, Rupert Raj
    Description: Notice from Rupert and Michelle Raj-Gautier saying that Gender Worker is changing to Gender Consultants. They add that they will be introducing three new services to their main plan.
  50. Open Letter from Rupert Raj

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: FtMs, Psychology, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Surveys, Trans men
    Description: Received by Lou Sullivan