Digital Transgender Archive
A call to action from Victoria Schneider's attorneys, asking for women to come forward who were arrested but not strip-searched by San Francisco police in order to establish that the police were treating different groups of people differently. This item comes from the Victoria Schneider papers at the GLBT Historical Society. Schneider is an intersex activist and former sex worker best known for her 1997 lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, concerning an unlawful strip search during her booking at the San Francisco County Jail.
- Identifier
- f4752h181
- Collection
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Victoria Schneider Papers
- Institution
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GLBT Historical Society
- Creator(s)
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Clarence & Snell Law Firm
- Date Created
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circa 1997
- Dates Covered
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Jun. 13, 1996
- Genre
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Ephemera
- Subject(s)
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Victoria Schneider
- Places
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California
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San Francisco County
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San Francisco
- Topic(s)
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Intersex people
Law
LGBTQ+ activists
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Protest movements
Transphobia
- Resource Type
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Text
- Language
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English
- Rights
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Copyright undetermined
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