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  1. The Name of the Game Proudly Presents "Sir Lady Java's Dance and Show"

     
    Collection: Sir Lady Java
    Institution: Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: African American transgender people, Black LGBTQ+ people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transgender people of color
    Subject: Sir Lady Java
    Description: A promotional card for Sir Lady Java's Dance & Show at The Name of the Game bar.
  2. The Naughty "Gay White Way" Satisfies the Great White Way

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 13, 1907
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag kings, Singers
    Subject: Hetty King, Minnie Lindon
  3. "The Naughty Liz Lyons, Rated X", promotional photograph

     
    Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of Washington Libraries
    Creator: Ricardo
    Date: circa 1946 to 1956
    Topics: Drag, Drag performers, Female impersonators, Trans women, Transfemininity
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Liz Lyons
    Description: Photograph of Liz Lyons posing with a long, open leg sparkly dress and a feathered border, autographed by Lyons. Handwritten in the bottom right corner is "Ricardo Chicago".
  4. The Naughty Nightclub

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Brewster, Wentworth
    Date: Aug. 13, 1975
    Topics: Cabaret, Clothing, Cosmetics, Crossdressing, Exotic dancers, Female impersonators, Gender realignment surgery, Mardi gras, Strippers, Theatre, Tourism
    Subject: Bunny Bates, Charles Pierce, Charro Lane, Chriss Collins, Club My-O-My, Jim Bailey, Laurie Lane, Lee Meadow, Marty Allen, Po-Ko-Ke-No Club, Randy St. Ray, T.C. Jones, Yvonne DeCarlo
  5. The Network News, Vol.1 No.6 (May, 1984)

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 1, 1984
    Topics: Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ cartoons, LGBTQ+ dating applications, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Fantasia Fair, The Human Outreach and Acheivement Institute
    Description: The Network News monthly newsletter including: information regarding a legs contest with photos and a voting response page, a party on June 16th, discussion on a vacation to Provincetown, June news...
  6. The New and Smart Club My-O-My Proudly Presents The World's Most Beautiful Boys in Women's Attire (1951)

     
    Collection: Drag Show Programs
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Waters, Pat
    Date: 1951
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Striptease
    Subject: Bobby Drake, Cleo Stafford, Del Le Roy, Gene La Marr, George Rache, Jimmy Callaway, Johnny Castro, Keni Marlo, Rickey Paige
  7. The New and Smart Mr. Pat Waters Club My-O-My Proudly Presents The World's Most Beautiful Boys in Women's Attire (1948)

     
    Collection: Drag Show Programs
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Waters, Pat
    Date: 1948
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Striptease
    Subject: Billy Richards, Don Dache, Gene Abbott, Gene La Marr, Jimmy Callaway, Mario Del Mar, Paul Russell, Rickie Paige, Van Parker
  8. The Next Man I Marry

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Ashley, April
    Date: Feb. 15, 1970
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Gender role, Hormones, Law, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, MtFs, Petitions, Sexuality, Transsexual people
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  9. The Nun Ensign

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Lull, Francisco Ferrer
    Date: 1970
    Topics: LGBTQ+ people in the military, Nuns, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Antonio de Erauso
    Description: Watercolor drawing by F.F. Lull after portrait by Lt. Colonel J.L. de Villar in Madrid Army Museum. The image depicts Basque soldier Antonio de Erauso, a former nun who lived as a man and fought in...
  10. The Of Strippers Is Really A... Guy!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Main, N.
    Date: Sep. 18, 1966
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Gender realignment surgery, Strippers, Striptease, Stripteasers, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Bunny Darlene, Joi Lansing
  11. The official 1995 drag king calendar

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Marty, Catherine J.
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Calendar, Drag kings, Trans men
    Subject: Carlos, Elvis Herselvis, Jordy Jones, Mack, Mike, Nicola, Rochelle, Skeeter, Stafford, Steak, Teri, Texas Tomboy
    Description: Annual drag king calendar of 1995.
  12. The Official Dragqueen Handbook

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1980 to 1990
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Hispanic LGBTQ+ people, White LGBTQ+ people, Zulu (African people)
    Description: An album featuring pictures of drag queens, accompanied by blurbs describing stereotypes about them.
  13. The Old Soldier a Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 25, 1896
    Topics: Agricultural occupations, Assigned gender, Burial ceremonies, Death and dying, Passing (Gender), Soldiers
    Subject: Otto Schaffer
    Description: Mexico Weekly Ledger (Mexico, MO)
  14. The One & Only Adrian Ames Show

     
    Collection: Victoria Fernandez/Vicki Starr Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1965
    Topics: Female impersonators, Latino/a/x transgender people, Strippers, Trans women
    Subject: Vicki Starr, Victoria Fernandez
    Description: Undated advertisement for a performance at the Frolic Room, a venue in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, featuring Victoria Fernandez, who performed as Vicki Starr. Best known as a stripper, Fer...
  15. The Opposite Sex is Neither

     
    Collection: AEGIS Publications
    Institution: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 1995
    Topics: Androgyny, Gender identity, Gender role, Genderfluid identity, Plays
    Subject: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, Kate Bornstein