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  1. 7th Circuit Rules Prison Not Required to Provide Treatment for Gender Dysphoria

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Jan. 1998
    Topics: Bottom surgery, Estrogen, Gender dysphoria, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Trans women, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Tasha Maggert
    Description: Content warning: This item contains homophobic language.
  2. 8th Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Treatment Denial for Transvestite Prisoner

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Summer 1996
    Topics: Drag, Gender identity disorder, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Medicalization, Prisons, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexualism
    Subject: Merlin Long
    Description: Excerpt from Lesbian/Gay Law Notes detailing the 1996 Long v. Nix case.
  3. A Compassionate Approach to Activism

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Farmer, Dee
    Date: circa 1988 to circa 2005
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Gender equality, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Queer activism
    Subject: DC Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gay Men, Dee Farmer
    Description: Article written by Dee Farmer on BIPOC LGBTQ+ activism, discussing topics of AIDS, sex, and social justice.
  4. A Real Nightmare - Transgender Behind Bars

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: T
    Date: Jun. 25, 2001
    Topics: Anti-LGBTQ+ violence, Fairies (Gay culture), Harassment, Homosexuals, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Transphobia
    Description: Letter from a transgender inmate recounting her experience of harassment and difficulty navigating the California prison system through the narrative of an unlikely love-story.
  5. Advocates for Transgender Prisoners Challenge Discrimination at Vacaville State Prison

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 21, 1998
    Topics: AIDS activists, Anti-transgender discrimination, Gender expression, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Prison reform, STDs, Transgender people, Transgender victims of rape
    Subject: Karen Shain, Prison Health Care Reform, Scott Cozza
    Description: Press release on petition for prison reform for transgender people, demanding improvements in treatment for individuals with HIV/AIDS and mental health support.
  6. AIDS: Power, Prisons, & Pressure

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Farmer, Dee
    Date: Sep. 1992
    Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS awareness, BIPOC, Black transgender people, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ prisoners
    Subject: ACLU National Prison Project, ACT UP, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Dee Farmer, Federal Prison Industries, Judy Greenspan, PWA Coalition Newsline
    Description: Article from the September 1992, issue #80 of the PWA Coalition Newsline by Dee Farmer. Discusses AIDS/HIV activist organizations and prison reform.
  7. Albert McLeod fonds, 1983-2013

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: The University of Winnipeg
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: AIDS periodicals, Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ movement, LGBTQ+ newsletters, LGBTQ+ obituaries, LGBTQ+ poetry, LGBTQ+ press, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: A Talking Leaf, Aboriginal Voices, Albert McLeod, Alice B. Kehoe, American Indian Community House (AICH), Assembly of First Nations, buffalo hide, Colors, Egale Canada, En Route, Gaasiiganish, icon, in the wind, Intertribal Two-Spirit News, Keesaywatissivin, Mirror, Na Too Ta Win, Native North American Lesbian and Gay Literature, Outwords, Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba, Roger Eagle-Elk, Sabine Lang, Shenandoh, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, The Lambada Letter, The Sacred Fire, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, The Zuni Man-Woman, Thunder Magazine, Two Eagles, Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality, Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc., Walter L. Williams, We Are Part of a Tradition: A Guide on Two-Spirited People for First Nations Communities, We Are Part of a Tradition: A Report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Wesley Thomas, Will Roscoe, xtra!
    Description: The collection is arranged into eight series. The first series contains published textual records, the second series contains non-published textual records, the third series contains records from v...
  8. Alert on Conditions for Transgender Inmates in California Medical Facility

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 16, 1996
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ support groups, Transgender activism, Transgender community
    Subject: California Medical Facility (CMF), Joseph Bick, Scott Cozza
    Description: A call for support by social worker Scott Cozza about conditions for incarcerated HIV-positive and transgender people at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.
  9. Amnesty International Adopts Gay and Lesbian Prisoners of Conscience and Missouri Will No Longer Isolate HIVers

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1988 to circa 2005
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners
    Description: Two small article clippings, the first being about legislation about gay and lesbian prisoners of conscience, and the second about HIV-positive prisoners being re-integrated with other prisoners.
  10. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1992
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners
    Subject: Dee Farmer
    Description: Court document detailing the appeal decision for Dee Farmer's case.
  11. Arrest of Miss Denyse

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: J.S.M.
    Date: Jan. 1884
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Miss Denyse
    Description: Brief letter to the editor of the Phoenix, an amateur newspaper ran out of Brooklyn, NY. The author, going by the initials of J.S.M., discusses the recent arrest of a Miss Denyse for dressing in ma...
  12. 'chosen' 'trap'?

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Neutzel, David
    Date: Jul. 8, 1987
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Letters to the editor, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Masculinities, MtFs, Sexuality, Transgender people, Transgender youth
    Subject: Avon Park Correctional Institution, Gay Community News
    Description: A letter to the editor of Gay Community News from a prisoner at Avon Park Correctional Institution. Originally printed in volume 15, issue 3. Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensiti...
  13. Clippings from Transsexuals in Prison

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1983
    Topics: LGBTQ+ prisoners, Transgender activism
    Subject: Rupert Raj, Transsexuals in Prison
    Description: A clipping from an issue of Transsexuals in Prison about prisoners experience being transgender.
  14. Clippings on Issues Facing the Incarcerated Transgender Community

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Cozza, Scott
    Date: Dec. 9, 1996
    Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS education, Allies, Coming out, Gender-affirming surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Medicalization, Prostitution, Sexual assault, Stealth (Transgender), Transgender community, Transphobia
    Subject: American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), California Medical Facility (CMF), Cindy Chandler, Inprisonment Law Moderator, International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), Jackie Thorne, Judy Greenspan, Laura Elizabeth Skaer, Loren Jones, Martine Aliana Rothblatt, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Scott Cozza, Sharon Ann Stuart
    Description: Correspondence between Scott Cozza and Judy Greenspan, with clipped articles covering various aspects of incarcerated transgender experiences.
  15. Convict Seeks New Life - As a Woman

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Hazle, Maline
    Date: Oct. 2, 1974
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ prisoners, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Carmen Davis, Rupert Raj
    Description: A newspaper article clipping from the San Jose Mercury discussing Carmen Davis's desire to seek gender-affirming surgery after being released from prison.