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National Variety Artists Exotic Carnival and Ball Police Raid (2)
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: Oct. 26, 1962 Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Crossdressers, Police raids, Transgender people Description: An image capturing an event where 44 cross-dressed people, some of whom were transgender, were arrested for "indecent exposure" and "masquerading" as a result of a police raid at the National Varie... -
National Variety Artists Exotic Carnival and Ball Police Raid (1)
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: Oct. 26, 1962 Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Crossdressers, Police raids, Transgender people Subject: Manhattan Center Description: An image capturing an event where 44 cross-dressed people, some of whom were transgender, were arrested for "indecent exposure" and "masquerading" as a result of a police raid at the National Varie... -
Portrait of Frenchy
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: circa 1960 Topics: Drag, Drag queens Description: "Crossdresser/drag queen 'Frenchy,' a photo reportedly from Hamburg, Germany in 1960." -
Mountain Charley
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Transas City Creator: Charley, Mountain Date: 1861 Topics: Crossdressing, Frontier and pioneer life, Gender expression, Stealth (Transgender) Description: The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the... -
Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: Maxwell, Pat Date: Jan. 1, 1971 Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Crossdressing, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag, Gender expression, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Homophobia, Legal name change, LGBTQ+ civil rights, Queer rights, Sexism, Transgender activism, Transgender rights, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Transvestites, Women's movement Subject: Abbie Hoffman, Arthur Miller, Fems Against Sexism, Marilyn Monroe, Queens, Queens Liberation Front, Radical Queens, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), The Cockettes, The Transvestite-Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Trans lib, Transvestites and Transsexuals Description: Clipping from page 10 of Detroit Gay Liberator, volume 1, issue 8, published on January 1 1971. -
Responses to "Open Letter to Olivia Records" by Candice Margulies
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: Date: Feb. 1, 1978 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Butches, Lesbian feminism, Lesbian separatism, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ motherhood, MtFs, Queer relationships, Transsexual people Subject: Abuse, American Sign Language, Anita Bryant, Candice Margulies, Capitalism, Olivia Records, Sandy Stone Description: This clipping is from pages 15-18 of Lesbian Connection newsletter volume 3, issue 7, issued February 1, 1978. -
Tamara Rees Side-By-Side
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: circa 1954 Topics: LGBTQ+ veterans, Post-operative, Trans women Subject: Netherlands, Rees, Tamara, World War II Description: A comparison between a photo of Tamara Rees following her operation in the Netherlands with her military photo from World War II. -
Convention Confusion
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1971 Topics: LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ ethnic groups, Transsexualism, Transvestism Subject: All Souls Church, American University, Black Panthers, Gay Liberation Front, Howard University, Kays Spiritual Life Center, Ken Dudley, Revolutionary Peoples Constitutional Convention, The Nuclear Family, Third World Caucus, Third World Organization, Trinity College Description: Clipping from page 12 of Detroit Gay Liberator, volume 1, issue 8, published on January 1 1971. -
Leg Check
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Douglas, Bob Date: circa 1955 Topics: Post-operative, Striptease, Trans women Subject: Cayon, Elaine, Club Oasis, Denmark, Rees, Tamara Description: Photo from Jet Magazine depicting Tamara Rees comparing her legs with those of Elaine Cayon. They are backstage at Los Angeles night club Club Oasis. -
Shooting STAR
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: Warner, Ray Date: Jan. 1, 1971 Topics: Drag, Gender affirming surgery, Intersex conditions, Transsexualism, Women's movement Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Timi Yuro, Ziegfield Description: Clipping from pages 11 and 13 of Detroit Gay Liberator, volume 1, issue 8, published on January 1 1971. -
Coccinelle in Paris in Front of the Sacre Coeur
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: 1953? to 1975? Topics: Actors, Entertainers, French, Showgirls, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: Coccinelle, Le Carrousel Description: Coccinelle in front of the Sacre Coeur in Paris. This is near Le Carrousel, a place she performed. -
Au Carrousel
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Trans women Subject: Bambi, Le Carrousel de Paris, Paris, Pruvot, Marie-Pierre Description: A card commemorating Marie-Pierre Pruvot, also known as Bambi, and her longstanding career as a showgirl in Paris. -
Coccinelle
Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000) Institution: Transas City Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Actors, Entertainers, French, Showgirls, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: Coccinelle -
Can Men Be Women? Some Lesbians Think So!
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: House, Penny, Cowan, Liza Date: Sep. 1, 1977 Topics: Feminists, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Lesbian separatism, Medical care, Medical practitioners' statements, Transphobia, Women's movement Subject: Angela Douglas, John Money, Larry Kubic, New York Times, Olivia Records, Payne Whitney, Renee Richards, Robert J. Stoller, Sandy Stone Description: DYKE presents two conversations in print, one between editor Liza Cowan and trans-specializing psychologist Edna Lerner, and the other a response featuring Janet Meyers and Alix Dobkin. Feature ru... -
D.O.B. Says No
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: Cordova, Jeanne Date: Dec. 1, 1972 Topics: Lesbian community, Lesbian feminism, Lesbian separatism, MtFs, Transsexualism Subject: Daughters of Bilitis, Del Martin, Joanne Darcy, Lesbian Tide, McGovern, The Tide Collective Description: Clipping from pages 21 and 29 of The Lesbian Tide, volume 2, issue 5, published on December 1 1972.
