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  1. A Gay Interview

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Van, Eddie, Perry, H. L.
    Date: Apr. 15, 1977 to Apr. 21, 1977
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gay community, Homosexuality, Interviews, Police, Police raids, Transgender people

  2. Aleshia Brevard interview, part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Closeted transgender people, Drag community, Drag queens, Gender-affirming surgery, Hormones, Legal status, LGBTQ+ fashion, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, MtFs, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transitioning status
    Subject: Aleshia Brevard Crenshaw, Alice Cooper, Finnochio's, Harry Benjamin, LaVerne Cummings, Screaming Queens, Stormé DeLarverie
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Aleshia Brevard, an actor, model, author, theatre professor, and trans woman. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Brevard worked at Finocchio's drag revue as a Marilyn Monro...

  3. Buddy Fisher, the Nation’s Joy-Boy, and Carl Osborne, Denny Lynch, Treg Brown entertain Myrna Kennedy and Francis Renault

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (Pre-1950)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Hollywood Filmograph
    Date: Jul. 30, 1932
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ arts
    Subject: Buddy Fisher, Carl Osborne, Denny Lynch, Francis Renault, Myrna Kennedy, Treg Brown
    Description: A newspaper clipping including a photo of Buddy Fisher, Carl Osborne, Denny Lynch, Treg Brown as they entertain Myrna Kennedy and Francis Renault.

  4. Carroll Revue: America's Foremost Female Impersonators (1956)

     
    Collection: Drag Show Programs
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Wallace, Ruth
    Date: 1956
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Striptease
    Subject: Blue Note Night Club, Finocchio's Club, Latin Quarter, Rendevous Club, Solomon's Club, Starlite Room, Tivoli Circuit, Tivoli Theatre, Tropics Room

  5. Club Flamingo Hollywood (1947)

     
    Collection: Drag Show Programs
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Club Flamingo
    Date: 1947
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Striptease
    Subject: Carroll Davis, Carroll Wallace, Chris Bailey, Francis Blair, Francis Stillman, Harvey Lee, Jackie Maye, Jan Vidra, Johnny Mangum, Mickey Mercer

  6. Female Mimics International Vol. 28 No. 5

     
    Collection: Female Mimics International
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: MAGCORP, the Magazine Corporation of America
    Date: 1998
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discos, Drag, Drag queens, Gender bending, MtFs, Nude photographs, Photographic models, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: Aid for AIDS, Battle for the Tiara, The Red Dress Party
    Description: Also known as Female Mimics International and F.M.I. Female Mimics International. ; On item cover: "The original magazine for men who enjoy dressing like women." ; Contents: The red dress party -- ...

  7. Francis Renault-Greatest Female Impersonator Since Palmy Days of ‘Eltinge’

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (Pre-1950)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Hollywood Filmograph
    Date: Jul. 30, 1932
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ arts
    Subject: Armstrong, Ben Turpin, Billy Daniels, Buddy Fisher, Buddy Fisher Famous Dance Orchestra, Charles Beynon, Dewey Lynch, Esther Brodelet, Eugene Stark, Francis Renault, Halche von Rhoden, Julian Eltinge, Marion Duvol, Melba Snowden, Phelps, Stark's Bohemian Cafe, Treg Brown, Valeda Duncan, Vangie Kirby
    Description: Newspaper clipping announcing a performance of Francis Renault at Stark's Bohemian Cafe.

  8. Hi-Ho Silverlake

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: McQuaid, Peter
    Date: Aug. 22, 1999
    Topics: African American LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Blackface entertainers, Drag performers, Drag queens, Gay political activists, Gentrification, Lesbian political activists, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ night life
    Subject: Andrew Dibben, Ann Magnuson, Beck, Bibbe Hansen, Black Fag, Buff Chandler, Channing Hansen, Jackie Goldberg, Jorjee Douglass, LGBTQ Fashion, Madonna, Mattachine Society, Mimi Pond, Neal Guthrie, Ron Athey, Spaceland, Stone Fox, Sweet P, Vaginal Davis
    Description: New York Times article on music and fashion in Silverlake and the Hollywood area. It includes many mentions of LGBTQ+ performers, bands, etc.

  9. My Comrade, Winter 1991

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Simpson, Les
    Date: Winter 1991
    Topics: Armenian gay men , Drag queens, Feminists, Latino/a/x gay men, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Alfredo Viloria, Ande Whyland, Ben Thornberry, Danielle Wills, David Dalrymple, Leigh Bowery, Linda Simpson, Patricia Field, Randy Rattray, Robin Byrd, Tommie Sael
    Description: An issue of My Comrade/Sister, featuring photographs as well as articles about gay life, personal essays and articles about drag. There are also profiles about Robin Byrd and Lady Bunny, as well as...

  10. The Female Impersonator #4

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag balls, Drag queens, Drag shows, Female impersonators, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ magazines, LGBTQ+ relationships
    Subject: Genie Dee, National Cotillion, Paris in the Spring ball, Rene Del Rio, The Little Parrot
    Description: An edition of the Female Impersonator Magazine with photos from The Paris in the Spring ball, an article with makeup tips, letters to the editor as well as an article and accompanying photographs f...

  11. Thing Magazine No. 10

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Ford, Robert, Adkins, Trent
    Date: Summer 1993
    Topics: AIDS activists, Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ arts, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ magazines, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ people of color, Pornography, QTPOC
    Subject: ACT UP, Erin Krystle, Hector Xtravaganza, Jamoo, Jazzmun, Joan Jett Blakk, Lady Bunny, Linda Simpson, Lovely Carol, Lypsinka, RuPaul, Stonewall, Vaginal Davis
    Description: Issue No. 10 of Thing magazine, a Chicago-based publication dedicated to Black LGBTQ+ life, art, and politics. This issue contains discussions of the queer music scene, reviews of music albums, int...