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Accommodation! Or a Field Day! A scene in Hyde Park the Grand Review Day, June 4, 1799
Collection: Art Works Institution: Brown University Library Creator: Woodward, George Moutard Date: 1799 Topics: Caricatures and cartoons, Crossdressing, Urination Description: Original unsigned pencil drawing for engraved caricature after Woodward, published June 19, 1799; pipe-smoking canteen worker in feminine clothing extending skirt to afford concealment to young uri... -
Åce Rothing Interview
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Motta, Carlos, Rothing, Åse Date: Nov. 2, 2009 Topics: Acceptance, Bisexuality, Discrimination, Femininities, Heteronormativity, Homosexuality, Law, LGBTI rights, Masculinities, Sex education, Sexual assault, Sexuality, Transgender people, Transsexualism Description: In this oral history conducted by Carlos Motta, researcher Åce Rothing discusses her experiences doing research on sex education in Norwegian schools and the implications of the reproduction of het... -
Aching to Be a Prima Donna, When You’re a Man
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Canby, Vincent Date: Mar. 13, 1991 Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag balls, Drag families, Drag queens Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Pepper Labeija, Venus Extravaganza, Willi Ninja Description: A description of the film "Paris is Burning", and a brief explanation of the ball culture explored in the film that acknowledges prominent individuals. -
ACT UP San Francisco letter
Collection: Victoria Schneider Papers Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: Swindell, Todd Date: Feb. 27, 1998 Topics: HIV/AIDS, Intersex people, Law, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people Subject: ACT UP San Francisco, Hajime Tada, Victoria Schneider Description: A letter from ACT UP San Francisco, an AIDS activist group, supporting Victoria Schneider's lawsuit against the city. They say she was brutally mistreated by city employees and that this is part of... -
ACT UP Speaks Up
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Perez, Leslie Date: Apr. 28, 1989 Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS organizations Subject: ACT UP, David Fowler, Leslie Douglas Ashley, Leslie Perez, Norman Guttman -
ACT UP-ers Almost Arrested at Rally
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Montrose Voice Date: Oct. 13, 1989 Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Demonstrations, Politics Subject: ACT UP, Leslie Douglas Ashley, Leslie Perez, Paul Doyle, Ron Wilson, Sylvia Ayres -
Activists Demo for Murdered Transsexual Chanelle Pickett
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: GenderTalk Date: Feb. 27, 1997 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Gender transgression, LGBTQ+ activists, Murder--Investigation, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Trials (Murder)--Massachusetts Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Nancy Nangeroni, William C. Palmer Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence. -
"Activists from Around the World" Event Invitation
Collection: Audre Lorde Project Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: The Audre Lorde Project, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) Date: Mar. 3, 1998 Topics: Asian LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ events Description: An invitation to "Activists from Around the World" event held by The Audre Lorde Project and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights campaign. -
Actors dressed as a clowns, performing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Collection Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
Actors (female impersonator on left) at San Quentin State Prison, Marin County, California, circa 1915
Collection: Prison Photographs Institution: Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library Creator: Date: circa 1915 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Prisoners, Prisons Description: Actors (a female impersonator on left) pose for a portrait at San Quentin State Prison, circa 1915. San Quentin State Prison opened in 1852, making it California’s oldest prison. Inmate labor built... -
Actors gathered around a man in drag. Photographic postcard by The Fancy Dress Studio, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Collection Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919 Topics: Female impersonators Description: A group of men dressed in ragged working clothes gather round a matronly figure in drag as a cook with apron and mob cap. One of the men (third from left) is dressed as the popular music-hall perfo... -
Actors in "Madame Lloyd's choir and orchestra". Process print, 190-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Collection Creator: Date: 1900 to 1909? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Actors in pantomime in Brighton: S. West playing King Robert of Remlaf and H. Taylor in drag as Queen Aggie of Remlaf. Photographic postcard.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Collection Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Amateur theatricals in Brighton. The Queen was a popular Dame figure in pantomime. Identities of cast members from pencil inscription on verso of print catalogued. Remlaf is a palindrome of Falmer,... -
Actors in the pantomime "Sindbad" at Drury Lane. Photographic postcard, 1907.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Collection Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1907 Topics: Female impersonators Description: The four men, two in drag, pose on a piece of stage furniture. A superb group of dames at Drury Lane in 1907. Having established Drury Lane Theatre as the foremost venue for pantomime, the producer... -
Actors, one in drag, performing on stage as "The Curios". Photographic postcard, ca. 1918-1920.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Collection Creator: Date: 1918? to 1920? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The man in drag is wearing white and stands to the right of the stage, with a line of men in white suits, all adopting the same pose of pointing towards the man in drag. Some of the men's faces are...
