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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. 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, ...
  3. HIV Prevention & Health Service Needs of the Transgender Community in San Francisco: Results from Eleven Focus Groups

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: San Francisco Department of Public Health
    Date: 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ support groups, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Sex work, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender people
    Description: A report of a study conducted on eleven focus groups to describe factors related to HIV-risk in the transgender community.
  4. The Bars Across Heaven

     
    Collection: Red Jordan Arobateau
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Arobateau, Red Jordan
    Date: 1975
    Topics: African American lesbians, Black lesbians, Lesbian fiction, Lesbians, Sex work, Transgender authors
    Description: African American underclass street players hustle to survive on the streets of Oakland, California.
  5. "Tranny Talk" episode, Summer 2001

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Boyer, Dina L.
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Church, Class actions (Civil procedure), Court proceedings, Discrimination in employment, Drag shows, Estrogen, FtMs, LGBTQ+ awards, LGBTQ+ domestic violence, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Queens (Gay culture), Racism, Sex work, Strippers, Trans women
    Subject: The Pain Game
    Description: Content Warning: Description of police brutality. This Summer 2001 episode of "Tranny Talk" features clips from drag performances, a conversation with Kitty Kastro (also known as Nadia Cabezas) ...
  6. Transaction Says: "Stop Policing Gender!!"

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1999
    Topics: LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ civil rights, Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people , Sex work, Transgender people
    Subject: Victoria Schneider
    Description: This pamphlet documents police misconduct and violence against transgender people in San Francisco, including illegal strip searches and wrongful arrests. It refers to the Victoria Schneider strip ...