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  1. San Francisco Minstrels!

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Peabody Essex Museum
    Creator:
    Date: May 12, 1874
    Topics: Female impersonators, Minstrel shows, Theater
    Subject: A. Smidt, Beaumont Read, Billy Birch, Birch, Wambold, and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, C. Henry, Charley Backus, D. S. Wambold, E. Kirwan, J. Wills, Johnson & Powers, Joseph Norrie, Mechanics Hall, S. Watts, T. A. E. Richardson, T. P. Jones, The Great Ricardo, W. Blakeney, W. S. Mullaly, W. Schwab
    Description: Advertisement for event featuring minstrel and female impersonation act The Great Ricardo
  2. Screampuff magazine clipping, 1998

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 29, 1998 to Nov. 12, 1998
    Topics: Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), LGBTQ+ fashion
    Subject: Joan Jett Blakk
    Description: A cover and clipping from the 1998 Halloween edition of Screampuff commemorating Enrique and detailing locations and information about Screampuff clubs and bars. In addition, they have a small exce...
  3. Seize the Time

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Transsexual Action Organization
    Date: circa 1970
    Topics: Lesbianism, MtFs, Transgender activism, Transsexualism, Transvestites
    Subject: Transsexual Action Organization (TAO)
    Description: This is a draft of the April Transsexual Action Organization newsletter, which includes information about welfare, transsexualism, and male-to-female lesbianism.
  4. TAIT’S Presents RAE BOURBON and COMPANY

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: B.B.B. Cellar Cafe, Boris Kramarenki, Flora Shime, Girls Will Be Boys, Millie Burdett, Rae Bourbon, Tait's
    Description: An advertisement for TAIT's featuring "Rae Bourbon and Company." Includes the night's program.
  5. Tales of Raided Party

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Jones, Jordy, Stafford, S
    Date: circa 1990 to circa 1999
    Topics: LGBTQ+ people, Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Jordy Jones, Stafford
    Description: Two letters to the editor responding to a newspaper editorial about a New Year's Eve police raid on a private party in San Francisco. The writers dispute the newspaper’s account, describe the event...
  6. The Angel, the Vixen, the Eunuch & the Clown flier

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Jones, Jordy
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Drag
    Description: A two-sided flier for an event called The Angel, The Vixen, the Eunuch, & the Clown: A Dragsploitation Carnival. The flier was designed by Jordy Jones in 1996 and the event was most likely from the...
  7. The Beige Room

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Female impersonators, Gender expression, Performance art
    Subject: The Beige Room
    Description: A poster advertising "The Beige Room," stating: "Three Female Impersonator Revues Nightly."
  8. The Black Cat

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ night life
    Subject: Black Cat Bar
    Description: A drawing and advertisement of the Black Cat Bar.
  9. The Black Cat Cafe

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1972
    Topics: LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ night life
    Subject: Black Cat Bar, Travis Dirk
    Description: A piece of ephemera advertising the Black Cat Cafe. Includes the tagline: "Bohemia of the Barbary Coast."
  10. The Butterfly Project — AIDS Project East Bay (APEB)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: AIDS Project East Bay (APEB)
    Date: circa 1990 to circa 1999
    Topics: Gender identity, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Transgender people
    Description: This is a folded brochure from AIDS Project East Bay (APEB) in Oakland, California. It promotes the Butterfly Project, a program that supports transgender people in Alameda County. The brochure exp...
  11. The Drag Rag: A Piedmont Boutique Magazine and Catalogue, 1994

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Summer 1994
    Topics: Drag queens, LGBTQ+ fashion
    Subject: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
    Description: The Drag Rag is a combined magazine and catalog for readers to browse and shop clothes from the Piedmont Boutique. The Piedmont Boutique was opened in 1972 and is still open in 2025. This premier e...
  12. The Even Exchange Issue 16, September 1996

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1996
    Topics: Hormone therapy (Gender), Intersex community, Klinefelter syndrome, LGBTQ+ support groups, Testosterone
    Description: The Even Exchange Issue 16 (September 1996) is published by Klinefelter Syndrome and Associates, a nonprofit organization for men and boys with Klinefelter Syndrome. This issue reports on the first...
  13. The Motherlode

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag bars, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ bars
    Subject: LA LA, Tacky Drag Shows, The Motherlode
  14. 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.
  15. The Third Annual Miss ETVC Cotillion

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Events
    Subject: Educational TV Channel (ETVC), ETVC Cotillion
    Description: Item originally collected by Lou Sullivan.