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  1. II Femminiello

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Bonito, Giuseppe
    Date: 1740 to 1760
    Topics: Arts, Canvas, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender diversity, Gender minorities, Painting, Painting, Italian, Portrait painting, Italian, Third gender, Transvestites
    Description: "This recently-discovered painting from eighteenth-century Naples is a testament to the city's exceptional social acceptance of local transvestites known as femminielli. The term, which might be tr...
  2. Kit Cavanagh

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1706
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ people in the military
    Subject: Kit Cavanagh
    Description: Engraved reprint proof depicting Kit Kavanagh (also known as Christian Cavanagh, Christian Davies, Mother Ross, and other names), an Irish soldier who served as a man during the Nine Years' War.