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  1. Autobiography of an Androgyne

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Lind, Earl
    Date: 1918
    Topics: Female impersonators, Third gender
  2. From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: 1990
    Topics: Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Spanish-American War, 1898, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Allan Berube, Babe Bean, Harry Benjamin, Jack Garland, James H. Budd, Mary L. Haines, Masquerade laws, Richard von Krafft-Ebing
    Description: A book written by Lou Sullivan detailing the life of Jack Bee Garland. The book excerpts numerous historical sources and reproduces a number of images.
  3. From Masculine to Feminine: And All Points In Between

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Stevens, Jennifer Anne
    Date: 1990
    Topics: Crossdressing, Hormones, Partners of transgender people, Trans women, Transfeminine people
    Description: A guide to gender expression and transition for transfeminine people.
  4. Hormones and Me

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Douglas, Sally
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Estrogen, Hormone therapy (Gender), Top surgery, Transfeminine people
    Description: HORMONES AND ME is a short book about transfeminine medical transition, with a focus on hormone therapy. It describes the thought process one should go through, considering breast surgery, potentia...
  5. I Never Asked to Be Born: The Carol Durrell Story

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Durrell, Carol
    Date: circa 1990 to circa 2000
    Topics: Black transgender people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ musicians, Police entrapment of LGBTQ+ people, Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people , Trans women
    Subject: Carol Durrell
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to child abuse and sexual assault. The autobiography of Carol Durrell (1945-2012), later known as Carolyn D. Rothschild, a ...
  6. Mountain Charley

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Charley, Mountain
    Date: 1861
    Topics: Crossdressing, Frontier and pioneer life, Gender expression, Stealth (Transgender)
    Description: The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the...
  7. Oh, What a Drag! The Life and Career of Wacky Jackie Phillips, Finnochio's Riotous Redhead

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Dewsnap, James
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Celebrities, Clothing, Comedians, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Drag performers, Drag queens, Drag shows, Female impersonators, Gender roles, Homosexuality, Jails, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, LGBTQ+ theater, LGBTQ+ youth, Passing (Gender), Queens (Gay culture), Traffic accident victims
    Subject: Beige Room, Bobby Lane, Bobby Raye, Carroll Wallace, Cleo Stafford, Colonial Club, Elton Paris, Finocchio's Club, Flash Gordon, Halloween, Jack Long, Jackie Phillips, Jean Barrios, Jean LaMar, Kara Montez, Kitty Carlisle Hart, LaVerne Cummings, Les Lee, Lonnie Harper, Mardi Gras, Poppy Lane, Ray Saunders, Ricki San Juan, Russell Reed, Rusty Parkor, Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Hart
    Description: The autobiography of Jackie Phillips, longtime comedy queen at Finocchio's, as told to and ghostwritten by James Dewsnap. Book recounts Jackie's personal life and career development both pre- and p...
  8. Sex Life of a Transvestite

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Murdock, Larry
    Date: 1964
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Transsexualism
    Subject: Charles Prince, Leonard A. Wheeler, Sexology, Transvestia, Turnabout
  9. [S**-M***]: The Sex-Reversal True Life Story of COCCINELLE

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wade, Carlson
    Date: 1963
    Topics: Gender expression, Gender-affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ night life, MtFs, Trans women
    Subject: Coccinelle
    Description: A biography by the pulp sexologist Carlson Wade of Coccinelle, a French nightclub performer and transgender icon. It tells the story of her childhood, dysphoria, transition, marriage, and entertain...
  10. Stone Butch Blues

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Authors, Butches, Chest reconstruction surgery, Classism, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag queens, Feminism, Femmes, Gender expression, Gender non-conforming people, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Labor, Labor movement, Labor unions, Lesbian liberation, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ social processes, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Police harassment, Queer rights, Sexual harassment, Stone butches, Stonewall riots, Testosterone, Trans women, Transgender rights, Transmasculinity, Transphobia
    Subject: Alison Bechdel, Assata Shakur, CeCe McDonald, Chrystos, Eileen Myles, Emanuel Xavier, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Holly Hughes, Jess Goldberg, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Halberstam, Lambda Literary Award, Michael M. Hernandez, Stonewall Book Award, Susan Stryker
    Description: Originally published in 1993 by Firebrand Books, "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg is a novel that centers around protagonist Jess Goldberg and Jess' relationship to sexual and gender identity...
  11. The female-impersonators : a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Lind, Earl, Werther, Ralph
    Date: 1922
    Topics: Androgyny, Homosexuality, Intersex people
    Subject: Autobiography of an Androgyne, Earl Lind, The Riddle of the Underworld
  12. Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators: Celestial and Human (Facsimile Edition)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Bulliet, Clarence Joseph
    Date: 1956
    Topics: Amazons, Bible, Christianity, Circumcision, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag queens, Eroticism, Femininities, History, Homophobia, Judaism, Masculinities, Music, Mythology, Passing (Gender), Poets, Psychology, Sexuality, Sportspersons, Theatre, Transphobia, Visual arts
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Antoine Francois Derues, Bernard S. Talmey, Farinelli, Freud, Girolamo Crescentini, Havelock Ellis, Julian Eltinge, Julius Caesar, King Charles II, Leonardo da Vinci, Memories of the Kaiser's Court, Michelangelo, Oscar Wilde, Penal Code of 1889, Queen Elizabeth I, Raphael de la Chapelle, Secret Life of the Kaiser, Shakespeare, The Dark Ages, Witches' Sabbath, World War I
    Description: Contents: At the shrine of Venus Castina --The hero in woman's dress -- Achilles. Hercules, Samson -- The gods in fine laces -- Love of the philosophers -- Orgy of the Caesars -- Versatility of Sat...