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  1. Aleshia Brevard interview, part 1

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Closeted transgender people, Drag queens, Gender-affirming surgery, Hormones, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ bars, Sex work, Trans women, Transgender academics, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Aleshia Brevard Crenshaw, Christine Jorgensen, Finocchio's Club, Harry Benjamin, Screaming Queens
    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...

  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. All Hail Vicki Marlane, Queen of the Night

     
    Collection: Vicki Marlane Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1990 to circa 2000
    Topics: Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Trans women
    Subject: Vicki Marlane
    Description: A collage, possibly composed of advertisements, dedicated to Vicki Marlane. Vicki Marlane (1934-2011) was a legendary San Francisco drag queen and transgender woman. Marlane had a long career; star...

  4. Amanda St. Jaymes interview, part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Coming out, Drag performers, Drag queens, Education, Female impersonators, Hormones, LGBTQ+ adoption, LGBTQ+ night life, Prostitution, Strippers
    Subject: 181 Club, Amanda St. Jaymes, Billy DeVoe, Center for Special Problems, El Rosa's Hotel, Finnochio's, Frolic Room, Heath Street, Screaming Queens, Tenderloin
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Amanda St. Jaymes, a trans woman who moved to the Tenderloin in December 1963 at the age of 19. St. Jaymes worked at the Chukker Club, a 1960s venue frequented by trans peo...

  5. Application for Social Security Account Number

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: U.S. Social Security Administation
    Date: Aug. 22, 1960
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Identification cards, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: John Kearns, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A copy of an application for a social security account number for Marsha P. Johnson. A letter from the Social Security Administration to researcher John Kearns in response to his request for the ap...

  6. Chi Chi LaRue Performing

     
    Collection: Bobby Smith Photograph Collection
    Institution: University of South Florida
    Creator: Pride Tampa Bay, Bentz, Donald L., Maniscalco, Rex
    Date: 2000?
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Gay pride, LGBTQ+ events, Singing
    Subject: Chi Chi LaRue, Pillage and Plunder Cruise, Pride Tampa Bay
    Description: The drag queen Chi Chi LaRue performs onstage, singing into a microphone, during the Pillage and Plunder Cruise, sponsored by Pride Tampa Bay.

  7. Coco LaChine to be Crowned Empress VII of New York at the Night of a Thousand Gowns

     
    Collection: Imperial Court of New York
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Imperial Court of New York
    Date: circa 1986 to 2000
    Topics: Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Drag community, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ events, New York (State)--Fire Island Inlet, Queens (Gay culture)
    Subject: Coco LaChine, Empress VI Saleen, Empress VII Coco LaChine, Gay Games, George Wilson, Jerry Scott, Shelly Schusteroff
    Description: Page 38 of a newsletter that is part of the Private Lives section. The page discusses the rise of Coco LaChine in the New York drag scene and her appointment as Empress VII to the Imperial Court. I...

  8. Destination Asia Flyer

     
    Collection: Imperial Court of New York
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Imperial Court of New York
    Date: circa 1986 to 2000
    Topics: Asia, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Benefit performances, Birthday parties, Drag community, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ communities, Queens (Gay culture)
    Subject: Coco LaChine, Imperial Court of New York
    Description: A single-page flyer advertising a birthday party for Empress VII Coco LaChine for the benefit of the Imperial Court.

  9. Elliott Blackstone interview, part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Allies, Drag queens, Gender-affirming surgery, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ direct action, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ riots, MtFs, Police harassment, Police raids, Presbyterian gays, Queer youth, Transgender community, Transgender community centers, Transsexual people
    Subject: Abigail Van Buren, Center for Special Problems, Compton's Cafeteria Riots, Ray Broshears, Reed Erickson, Screaming Queens, Tenderloin
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Elliott Blackstone, a retired officer with the San Francisco Police Department. In 1962, Blackstone became the department's official liaison with the LGBTQ community, and w...

  10. Felicia "Flames" Elizando interview, part 1

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Closeted transgender people, Crossdressing, Detransitioning, Drag community, Drag queens, Gay sex workers, Gender expression, Gender-affirming surgery, Hormones, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ people in the military, MtFs, Police raids, Public sex, Sex work, Transgender community, Transgender sex workers
    Subject: Chukker Club, Felicia Elizondo, Harry Benjamin, Leslie St. Clair, Screaming Queens, Tenderloin, Wendy Kohler
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Felicia Elizondo, known as Felicia Flames, who was a sex worker, drag queen, and trans woman strongly associated with San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this section, ...

  11. Felicia "Flames" Elizondo interview, part 2

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Allies, Breast augmentation, Castration, Chosen name, Drag queens, Gender-affirming surgery, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ people in the military, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Pre-operative, Stealth (Transgender), Transgender community, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    Subject: Chukker Club, Felicia Elizondo, Harry Benjamin, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Screaming Queens, Tenderloin
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Felicia Elizondo, known as Felicia Flames, who was a sex worker, drag queen, and trans woman living in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this section, Elizondo descri...

  12. Flyer for Fourth Night of a Thousand Gowns

     
    Collection: Imperial Court of New York
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Imperial Court of New York
    Date: circa 1986 to 2000
    Topics: Ballroom dancing, Benefit performances, Dance, Drag balls, Drag community, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ communities
    Subject: Night Of A Thousand Gowns
    Description: A two-page save-the-date for the fourth Night of a Thousand Gowns. Cover shows photo of a Barbie doll standing at the top of an ornate staircase, and the second page contains information about the ...

  13. Flyer for LGBT Community Center Fundraiser

     
    Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1990 to circa 2000
    Topics: Chicano/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Drag performers, Drag queens, Drag shows, Female impersonators, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ events, Queer community centers, Trans women
    Description: Flyer for LGBT Community Center fundraiser, hosted by Felicia Flames. This item comes from the Felicia “Flames” Elizondo papers (#2021-06) at the GLBT Historical Society. Felicia Elizondo, who pe...

  14. FTM Newsletter #46

     
    Collection: FTM International
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Autumn 2000
    Topics: Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Bisexual people, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Dykes, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Transgender youth
    Subject: Boys Don't Cry, Female-To-Male Transsexuals in Society, Gender Berkeley, Gender Centre, Gender Identity Project, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Standards of Care, The White Book
    Description: Issue #46 of FTM International published in Fall 2000. Includes a piece on a father and his son dressing in drag, an interview with John Torno, and a group of poems.

  15. FTMi Newsletter #52

     
    Collection: FTM International
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Autumn 2002
    Topics: Bathroom bans, Bottom surgery, Drag queens, Faeries, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ support groups
    Subject: Camp Trans, Center for Assistance, Research and Information on Transsexuality and Gender Identity (CARITIG), Faster Than Life, Female-To-Male Transsexuals in Society, Gender Identity Project, Los Angeles Gender Center, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Prevention, Action, Health, Work for the Transgendered (PASTT), Rupert Raj, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations, TGNET Arizona, The Phallus Palace, The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender, The White Book, Transgender Health Law Project, Transgender Law Center, TSC Conference 2003, WillyBoy
    Description: Issue #52 of FTM International published in Fall 2002. Includes an article on Plan Z, a piece on Camp Trans and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and tips for FTMs with acne.