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  1. A Dictionary of Gender Identity

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bonnell, Charles
    Date: Sep. 20, 1975
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag kings, Drag queens, Eroticism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Medicalization, Passing (Gender), Scientific literature, Sex cinemas, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Gay Community News, The Queen's Vernacular
    Description: A short article in volume 3, issue 12 of Gay Community News, providing definitions for terms used by the gender noncomforming community in the 70s. Originally printed on page 17.
  2. Androgyny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 8

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: D'Arthur, Shava
    Date: Jul. 1978
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender identity, Gender-affirming surgery, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ suicide, Medicaid, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Description: Androgyny Journal Number 8 (July 1978) is a monthly publication by Gender Media Publications in association with the Southern California Gender Identity Group. The main feature is "The Nowhere Girl...
  3. Ariadne Kane Speaks of the Transsexual Experience

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: SB, Kane, Ariadne
    Date: Jan. 31, 1976
    Topics: Drag queens, Feminism, Gay community, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Interviews, Police harassment, Sex (Body), Transgender activism, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transvestites
    Subject: Ariadne Kane, Cycle Sluts, Divine, Fantasia Fair, Gay Community News, New England Conference on Alternate Sex and Gender Lifestyles, Skag Drag
    Description: An interview with Ariadne Kane, a self described transgenderist who organized events and conferences for the transgender and transvestite communities. Originally published on pages 10 and 11 of vol...
  4. Astounding transvestite tales (Book 35)

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Princeton University Library
    Creator: Slavik, Charles
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Gender expression, Gender transgression, Transgender community, Transgender fiction, Transvestites
    Description: An issue of "Astounding Transvestite Tales" which includes a number of stories detailing different gender transgressive practices.
  5. Because We Need Funny Books

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Curzon, Dan
    Date: Jan. 3, 1976
    Topics: Gay men, Interviews, LGBTQ+ books, Pornography, Racism, Transvestites
    Subject: Dan Curzon, Gay Community News, John Parke Custis Press, Something You Do in the Dark, The Misadventures of Tom McPick, Walt Disney
    Description: An interview with author Dan Curzon, author of a humorous book about a "seventeen year old vegetarian Gay" who has misadventures, variously involving bestiality, a gang, and a transvestite. Curzon ...
  6. Birchette Belles Guild Magazine

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Birchette Belles
    Date: circa 1970
    Topics: Estrogen, Hormones, Trans women, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Description: Issue of the Birchette Belles Guild Magazine circa 1970s. Articles include: You Can Change Your Husband to be Two People, My Brother & I, Beaumont Society Conference 1975: A Thesis about the use...
  7. CHRIS: Gay Prisoner in Bellevue

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Bell, Arthur, Rivera, Sylvia
    Date: Nov. 14, 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Black gay men, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Homosexuality, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ activism, Medical care, Transvestites
    Subject: Arthur Bell, Bellevue Hospital, Chris Thompson, Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Clipping from pages 1-2 and 7 of Gay Flames, issue 7, published November 14, 1970.
  8. Come Out! No. 7 page 5

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Bedoz, Ellen
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Activists, Latino/a/x transgender people, Organisations, Transgender people, Transvestites, Youth
    Subject: Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A picture of the Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), with Sylvia Rivera.
  9. Controversy Erupts Over Drag Act

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: GAY Magazine, Skir, Leo
    Date: Mar. 12, 1973
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag performers, Lesbians, Transvestites
    Subject: Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Lesbian Liberation Committee, Liz Eden, Pudgy Roberts, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
    Description: This item is a clipping from GAY Magazine Vol. 4 No. 97 about the controversy surrounding Pudgy Roberts' drag performance at a Gay Activist Alliance meeting.
  10. Fag Rag Clippings

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Summer 1972
    Topics: LGBTQ+ communities, Transvestites
    Subject: Fag Rag
    Description: These are clippings from Fat Rag, a Boston periodical that includes an article on transvestites.
  11. Female Impersonators #1

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Winter 1969
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag community, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ fashion, LGBTQ+ films, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Transvestites
    Subject: Bunny Lake, Chickee Ramos, Christine Jorgensen, Holli White, Miss Fire Island, Moorish Stevens, Robin Rogers
    Description: Female Impersonators magazine edition with photos of drag queens at various competitions; articles about these contests and the people in them, including tips for female impersonators to improve th...
  12. Female Mimics National Cotillion 1973

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Female Mimics
    Date: 1973
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag pageants, Drag queens, Erotica, Female impersonators, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ magazines, Transfemininity, Transvestites
    Subject: Brandy Lee, Kim Christy, National Cotillion
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to homophobic/transphobic violence and sexual assault (p. 60). Female Mimics edition featuring photography of queer perform...
  13. Female Mimics No. 1, Winter 1970-71

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Female Mimics
    Date: Winter 1971
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Drag shows, Erotica, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ magazines, Transfemininity, Transvestites
    Subject: 82 Club, Brigette Dior, Christine Jorgensen, Danny La Rue
    Description: Female Mimics edition featuring photography of queer performers in drag, erotic photography, photography of female impersonator Danny LaRue and written erotica pieces.
  14. Female Mimics No. 2, Spring 1971

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Female Mimics
    Date: Spring 1971
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Drag shows, Erotica, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ magazines, Transvestites
    Description: Female Mimics issue featuring photography of trans people and crossdressers in club settings, including depictions of erotica and burlesque.
  15. Female Mimics Vol. 5 No. 2 1974

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Female Mimics
    Date: 1974
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag pageants, Drag queens, Erotica, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ magazines, Trans women, Transvestites
    Subject: Club 82, Genie Dee, Kim Christy, National Cotillion
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to self harm (p. 21). Female Mimics edition featuring photography from drag pageantry, pictures from Miss Cotillion pagean...