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Dime Novels

A collection of 19th century books that sensationally portray figures who crossdressed for various purposes.

From Institution(s): American Antiquarian Society
 

Discovery Resources

These helpful resources will aid in further research away from the digital pages of the DTA. This collection includes finding aids, overviews, and spreadsheets that will help researchers discover items that have not yet been digitized, but can be found in archives across the world.

From Institution(s): Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Sexual Minorities Archives, Digital Transgender Archive, Arizona Queer Archives, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota, California State University, Northridge, Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University, Art Gallery of Ontario, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, GLBT Historical Society, Leather Archives & Museum, Duke University, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library, LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany, Transgender Archives, University of Victoria, UCLA Film and Television Archive, The University of Winnipeg, GALA Queer Archive, Stanford University Special Collections, Texas A&M University, E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State, Queer Digital History Project, Emerson College Archives and Special Collections, Sexual Representation Collection, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, Museum of Transology, The ArQuives, Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections, John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center, London Metropolitan Archives, Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine), Brown University Library, Yale University Libraries, Frameline Distribution, Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
 

Dorris Bullard Collection

The Dorris Bullard Collection features photographs taken or kept by Dorris Bullard during her life (1908-1933). Dorris Bullard was born in Loveland, Colorado in 1908. She spent most of her life in a predominately white community in Larimer County, Colorado until her move to Los Angeles around 1932, where she tragically died at the age of 25. Little survives from Dorris’ life, except for the collection of photographs kept by family members, which feature Dorris, alone and with friends. The family wanted to include these photographs in the DTA as a means of visually representing a life lived outside of the heteronormative gender norms of the 1920’s and 1930’s.

From Institution(s): Digital Transgender Archive
 

Drag

Drag was a magazine published throughout the 1970s and 1980s by Lee's Mardi Gras Enterprises, Inc. This collection contains 29 issues published between 1971 and 1983 and a special supplement edition published in 1975. Each issue of the magazine generally includes a mix of articles, editorials, and photo spreads of drag queens. The issues featured in this collection cover a range of topics related to crossdressing and drag, such as drag balls, civil rights demonstrations, and profiles of popular drag queens.

From Institution(s): Transgender Oral History Project
 

Drag Show Programs

Spanning the globe, these drag show programs have been collected from clubs and revues in major cities including Paris, New Orleans, San Francisco, and London. The oldest of these depict female impersonators and clubs from the 1940s. Though a few of the programs are from one-time events, many of them are part of a series of recurring drag shows at venues such as Club 82, Finocchio’s, Club My O My, Le Carrousel, Madame Arthur’s Nightclub, and the Wonder Club. This collection provides a closer look into the communities that formed within drag clubs, with many names appearing in multiple programs for various clubs.

From Institution(s): Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Transgender Oral History Project, Transgender Archives, University of Victoria, JD Doyle Archives, Transas City, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center