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Jeanette Minor Comics
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Comic books, strips, etc., Transgender people Subject: Tenderloin Description: Jeanette Minor is a transgender cartoonist who, as of 2000, was living in the Tenderloin. This small collection contains one piece of pulp art and drafts for a two-page comic strip, satirically ima... -
Ari Kane Papers
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Bisexuals, Gender diversity, Transgender people Subject: Fantasia Fair Description: Ari Kane, born in 1936, is a bisexual and nonbinary counselor, gerontologist, and sexologist known for founding the Outreach Institute of Gender Studies as well as Fantasia Fair, a yearly festival ... -
Ginny Knuth papers
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Transgender people Description: Ginny Knuth (1934-1997) was a cisgender woman who volunteered extensively with San Francisco transgender organizations from 1983 until her death. She first became involved with Educational TV Chann... -
FTM Conference tapes
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Transgender people Subject: 1995 FTM Conference Description: The 1995 FTM Conference was the first international gender conference to focus on transgender men. It was produced by FTM International, a trans men’s organization founded by Lou Sullivan and chair... -
Fantasia Fair and Other Transgender Events Collection
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Transgender people Description: Fantasia Fair is a conference for transgender and gender-nonconforming people. Founded in 1975, the Fair originally positioned itself as an event for cross-dressers, but its scope expanded to keep ... -
Dodi Horvat Papers
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Authors, Lesbians, Transgender people Description: Dodi Horvat (1940-1989) was a microbiologist and mycologist who also wrote science fiction. Earlier archivists’ unattributed notes give contradictory accounts of Horvat’s name and identity, listing... -
David Iris Cameron Strachan papers
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: HIV/AIDS, Intersex people Description: David Iris Cameron Strachan is an intersex activist, a long-term HIV survivor, and a member of the Radical Faeries (“Iris” is their Radical Faerie name). Strachan has Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY chro... -
Christine Taylor Papers
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Transgender people Subject: Tenderloin Self Help Center, Transgender Nation Description: Christine Tayleur was a Canadian trans woman, social worker, and co-founder of Transgender Nation. She was active in the San Francisco transgender scene between the 1970s and the 1990s, acting as a... -
Camille Moran Paper
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Mental health, Transgender people Description: Camille Moran is a transgender poet and painter, as well as an activist who works against psychiatric abuse of queer and trans youth. As a six-year-old child in the 1950s, Moran was institutionaliz... -
Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits Records
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: GLBT Historical Society Date: Unknown Topics: Native americans, Two-spirit people Subject: Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) Description: Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) is a volunteer organization whose self-described mission it is “to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirit people within the American Indian/First N... -
Interview with Sage
Collection: Audio and Video, Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Sage Date: May 9, 2019 Topics: Baptist church, Butches, Children, Christianity, Coming out, Conferences, Discrimination, Feminism, Flags--Confederate States of America, Gender, Homophobia, Internet, Judaism, Libraries, Microaggressions, Paganism, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Rural areas, Social classes, Social justice, Taoism, Trade unions, Transgender people, Women's colleges, Youth literature Subject: American Library Association, LGBT Workers Association, Proposition 8, Stonewall 50, Tumblr Description: Sage discusses their growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, breaking from their family's religion through encountering children's and you... -
Interview with Ryann Holmes
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Holmes, Ryann Date: May 14, 2019 Topics: Activists, Anti-transgender violence, Black people, Childhood, Christianity, Dating, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Hormones, Lesbianism, Parents, Pronoun, Religions, Secondary education, Tomboys, Transgender parents, Transgender people Subject: Bklyn Boihood, Black Trans TV, Miss Major Description: In this dialogue, Ryann Holmes discusses their life with Sir Knight of BlackTransTV. Ryann co-founded bklyn boihood, an organization for transmasculine people of color. Ryann discusses being a tomb... -
Interview with Rona Love
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Love, Rona Date: Jul. 2, 2019 Topics: Arts, Bisexual community, Butches, Child abuse, Drag community, FtMs, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Judaism, Kidnappings, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Mental health, MtFs, Murders, Music, Prison guards, Prisons, Self-respect, Sexual abuse, Slang, Street violence, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning, Violence Subject: Black and Pink, Daniel Poliak, Director of Prison Justice Project, Hazel Katz, Mick King K, Parole Preparation Project, Sparkle, Tremont Description: Rona Love discusses her early childhood hardships, three decade long incarceration and experiences in psychiatric hospitals. She details abuse, violence and the extreme isolation of being a trans-f... -
Interview with Robbi Ann Mecus
Collection: Audio and Video, Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Mecus, Robbi Ann Date: Aug. 23, 2019 Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Crossdressing, Disabilities, Drag, Family members, Femininity, Forest rangers, Gay pride, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gentrification, Health care, Homophobia, Internalised homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Machismo, Masculinity, Parenthood, Passing, Police, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Sexism, Siblings, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Visibility Subject: 2017 Women's March, Bizarre Bushwick, Donald Trump, Kate Bornstein, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Second Serve, Stonewall, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), Trans Day of Action Description: In this interview, Robbi Ann Mecus describes her journey from growing up with her family, experiencing gender dysphoria in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, to living as her ... -
Interview with Raffi Marhaba
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Marhaba, Raffi Date: Feb. 26, 2019 Topics: Activists, Asylum migration, Bisexuality, Change of name, Childhood, Drugs, Gender diversity, Immigration, Language, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, Masculinity, Mental health, Microaggressions, Pronoun, Psychotherapy, Self-mutilation, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning, Transphobia, Verbal abuse
