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Jessica Xavier Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Xavier, Jessica M., MacCarthy, Jack Date: Jul. 5, 2022 Topics: AIDS awareness, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA), It’s Time, America!, Jessica Xavier, Leslie Feinberg, March on Washington for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Transgender Educational Association, Transgender Needs Assessment Survey (WTNAS) Description: Jessica Xavier was born in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1952. From age 7, she realized she was not a boy but struggled to find a label to define herself. At age 39, she began her medical transition. Jess... -
Jules Skloot Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Skloot, Jules, Dicken, Matthew Date: Dec. 13, 2018 Topics: Appearance, Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Educators, Genderfluid identity, Passing (Gender), Transgender people Subject: Leslie Feinberg Description: Jules Skloot talks to Matthew Dicken about his childhood and development of his gender identity, particularly his experiences with crossdressing and passing as a male at an early age. Over time, Sk... -
Julian Eltinge Has Big Reception Here
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949) Institution: Transas City Creator: Sayre, J. Willis Date: Oct. 14, 1912 Topics: Androgyny, Female impersonators, Femininities, Gender swapping, Theatre, Theatre shows Subject: Julian Eltinge -
Kate Bornstein Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Bornstein, Kate Date: Nov. 4, 2019 Topics: Activists, Actors, Buddhism, Cancer, Chat rooms, Childhood, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crowdsourcing, Cults, Death and dying, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Film, FtMs, Fundraising, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health, Health care, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Overweight people, Postmodernism, Religions, Scientology, SM, Suicide, Theatre, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, World war II, Wrestling, Writers, Youth Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, A Thousand and One Ways to Live Without Working, America Online (AOL), B'hai, Barbara Carrellas, Christine Jorgensen, Church of Scientology, Gazebo, Gender Just for the Fun of it: Compassionate Gender Strategies for Divisive Times, Gender Outlaw, Hello Cruel World, I Am Cait, Jamison Green, Laura Vogel, Lee Sullivan, On Our Backs, Power Surge, Tuli Kupferberg, We Croak Description: Kate Bornstein discusses her life as a writer and actor. Moving between growing up in a Jewish family on the New Jersey shore, studying acting in school, joining the Church of Scientology, finding ... -
Kristen Lovell Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Lovell, Kristen Date: Apr. 4, 2019 Topics: Actors, Bisexual youth, Black people, Bullying, Cocaine, Drag, Drag queens, Gay and lesbian youth, Health care, Homeless people, Jews, LGBTI community, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Women, Writers Subject: Amanda Milan, Center Lane, Chi-Chi's, Cole Cafe, Covenant House, Fenced Out, Iris House, James Street Hotel, March of Dimes, Marsha P. Johnson, Michael Bloomberg, New Neutral Zone, New York Police Department (NYPD), Octavia St. Laurent, Operation Spotlight, Rites of Passage, Stonewall mobile, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, Trans Empowerment Group, Two Potatoes Description: Kristen Lovell discusses her time working "the stroll," in the West Village in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She recounts the community, conflict and challenges faced by fellow sex workers, inclu... -
Kylar W. Broadus Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Broadus, Kylar Date: Aug. 7, 2016 Topics: Authors, Gender dysphoria, Law, LGBTQ+ activists, Political science, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Billy Tipton, Central Methodist University, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Freedom Center of Social Justice, Kylar Broadus, Lavender Law Conference, National Enquirer, National LGBTQ Task Force, Pioneer Award, Sue J. Hyde Award for Longevity in the Movement, Trans People of Color Coalition, University of Missouri School of Law Description: OUTWORDS interview with Kylar W. Broadus, conducted by Mason Funk on August 7th, 2016 outside the Lavender Law conference in Washington D.C. Kylar is a lawyer, professor, activist, public speaker, ... -
Kyle Lukoff Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Lukoff, Kyle, Tennenbaum, Ric Date: Jun. 21, 2017 Topics: Body image, Body politics, Books, Change of name, Childhood, Colleges, Coming out, Eating disorders, FtMs, Health care, Hormones, Internet, Librarians, Literature, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Representation, Schools, Therapies, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Kyle Lukoff -
Lee Livingston Perine
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Creator: Perine, Lee Livingston Date: Dec. 22, 2016 Topics: Acceptance, Black people, Butch-femme relationships, Children, Coming out, Divorce, Families, Femininities, Gay identity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Marriage, Masculinities, Misogyny, Racism, Sexuality, Sports, Suicide, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transphobia, Twins Subject: Donald Trump Description: Lee Levingston Perine identifies as a black genderqueer and trans person and was assigned female at birth. They were 38 at the time of the interview. They have an older brother and a fraternal twin... -
Letter from Deborah Murphey to Rupert Raj (1990s)
Collection: Rupert Raj Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Murphey, Deborah Date: circa 1990 Topics: Legal name change Subject: Rupert Raj Description: Letter from Deborah Murphey regarding name change and immigration laws for transgender people. -
Letter from Lou Sullivan to Bet Power (October 16, 1987)
Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives Creator: Sullivan, Lou Date: Oct. 16, 1987 Topics: Crossdressing, Disabilities, FtMs, Gay culture, Hormones, Leather community, LGBTQ+ lovers, LGBTQ+ relationships, Loneliness, Newspaper columns, Self-image, Spirituality, Surgery Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Ira B. Pauly, Lou Sullivan Description: Two newspaper clippings and envelope included. -
Letter from Rupert Raj to Caryn Roberts and Janice Van Cleve (July 15, 1988)
Collection: Rupert Raj Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Raj, Rupert Date: Jul. 15, 1988 Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men Subject: Caryn Roberts, Gender Networker, International Foundation for Gender Equality, Janice Van Cleve, Rupert Raj Description: Letter from Rupert Raj to Caryn Roberts and Janice Van Cleve, thanking Roberts for submitting poetry to his upcoming anthology, enclosing the first issue of "Gender Networker," and asking for infor... -
Letter from the Cheryl A. Leeman
Collection: Rupert Raj Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Leeman, Cheryl A. Date: Unknown Topics: Subject: American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), Cheryl A. Leeman, LGBTQ+ organizations, Rupert Raj Description: Letter from Cheryl A. Leeman, Director of Membership Services at the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Leeman provides information regarding AASECT membership and i... -
Letter to Kim Elizabeth Stuart
Collection: Rupert Raj Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Gender dysphoria, MtFs, Transgender activism Subject: Ingersoll Gender Center, Kim Elizabeth Stuart, Rupert Raj Description: Letter from an unknown sender at the Ingersoll Gender Center to Kim Elizabeth Stuart thanking Stuart for the presentation at Ingersoll Gender Center. The letter writer goes on to explain how Stuart... -
Letter to Rupert Raj from Janice Van Cleve (July 21, 1988)
Collection: Rupert Raj Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Van Cleve, Janice Date: Jul. 31, 1988 Topics: FtMs, Trans men, Transgender activism Subject: Emerald City News, Ingersoll Gender Center, Rupert Raj Description: Correspondence to Rupert Raj from Janice Van Cleve concerning exchange of materials regarding Seattle's amendment to the open housing ordinance to protect the rights of transgender people. -
Looking for room to grow in Sex Roles and Sexualities
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Creator: Cottle, Ed, Grewell, Eve Date: May 5, 1984 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Drag queens, Gay community, Gender expression, Gender identity, Lesbian community, Lesbian identity, Lesbians, Letters to the editor, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Parents of transgender people, Queer transgender people, Sex (Act), Transvestites Subject: Changes, Gay Community News, Solidarity and International Socialists: A Socialist Feminist Network Description: Two letters to the editor, both from trans individuals currently in prison. Originally published on pages 14 and 15 of volume 11, number 41 of Gay Community News.
