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  1. Elliot Blackstone Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Nov. 6, 1996
    Topics: Bars, Drag, Drag balls, FtMs, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Identification cards, Judges, Lesbian community, MtFs, Police, Politics, Prostitution, Public relations, Subcultures, Transsexual people
    Subject: Anne Magnusson, California Association of Transsexuals (CATS), Cecil Williams, Christine Jorgensen, Conversion Our Goal (C.O.G.), Daughters of Bilitis, Donald Laub, Elliot Blackstone, Erickson Educational Foundation, Glide (Queers for Christ), Glide Memorial Methodist Church, Harry Benjamin, Helping Hands Center, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, Jan Maxwell, Jerry Durkin, Joel Fort, Laura Cummings, Leslie St. Clair, Louise Ergestrasse, Mark Forrester, Mattachine Society, National Transsexual Counseling Unit, Raymond Broshears, Reed Erickson, Robert Martin, Sally Gearhart, Stanford Gender Identity Clinic, Stephan Thorne, Ted McIlvenna, Terry Peoples, Tom Cahill, Virginia Prince, Zelda Suplee
    Description: Interview recorded in Pacific, California with former San Francisco Police Department community relations officer
  2. Elliott Blackstone interview, part 1

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Allies, Closeted LGBTQ+ people, Gay men, LGBTQ+ communities, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Compton's Cafeteria Riots, Hal Call, Screaming Queens
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Elliott Blackstone, a retired police officer with the San Francisco Police Department. In 1962, Blackstone became the department's official liaison with the LGBTQ community...
  3. 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...
  4. Elliott Blackstone interview, part 3

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Allies, Gay bars, Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Elliot Blackstone, Screaming Queens
    Description: Susan Stryker and colleagues interview Elliott Blackstone, a retired police officer with the San Francisco Police Department. In 1962, Blackstone became the department's official liaison with the L...
  5. Elsie Hupp Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Hupp, Elsie, Ramsay, Grace
    Date: Feb. 21, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Christianity, Eating disorders, Education, Feminism, Isolation, Mental health, MtFs, Oppression, Sexual assault, Therapies, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Babycastles, Boy Scouts, DeviantArt, Elsie Hupp, Myspace, New York University, Twtich
    Description: Elsie grew up middle class in the Midwest where the church was a big presence in her life. Though she encountered a progressiveness in various ways within the religious communities she was part of ...
  6. Emmett Metier Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Metier, Emmett
    Date: Jul. 14, 2020
    Topics: Butches, Coming out, Family members, Lesbianism, Transmasculine people
    Description: An interview with Emmett Metier discussing their life and experiences as a trans person in NYC.
  7. Erica Connerney Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Connerney, Erica
    Date: Jul. 16, 2019
    Topics: AIDS awareness, Anti-transgender violence, Asian religions, Asian studies, Bisexuality, Buddhism, Cabaret, Change of name, Childhood, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Erotica, Family members, Gay liberation, Gay political groups, Gay pride, Gender realignment surgery, Gentrification, Government, Hijras, Isolation, Lesbian culture, Lesbian girls, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Religions, Roman catholicism, Transgender people, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Women's colleges, Writers
    Subject: Boston Globe, Central Asian Studies, Corporal Klinger, Cubbyhole, Donald Trump, Dyke March, Get Behind Me Satan, Henrietta Hudson's, Jacque's, Janice Raymond, Jeff Sessions, Kamilah Harris, M*A*S*H, MacDowell Colony, On Our Backs, Pace University, Pat Oleszko, Pose, Queer Liberation March, Rita Hester, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Susie Bright, The Queen of Exit Seventeen, The Transsexual Empire, The Upside-down Tree: India's Changing Culture, Trans Advocate, Trans Day of Action, Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERF), Vera Lex: Journal of the International Natural Law Society, Wheaton College, Wicca
    Description: Erica Connerney is a philosophy/trans literature professor and author living in Tribeca, NY. She discusses her past and present in terms of her identity as a transsexual woman, as well as her hopes...
  8. Erica Dawn Lyle Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lyle, Erica Dawn
    Date: Mar. 21, 2023
    Topics: Artists, Communal living, Forests and forestry, LGBTQ+ domestic violence, Trans women, Transfeminine people
    Description: An interview with Erica Dawn Lyle, a trans woman from Florida.
  9. Erica Rand Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Rand, Erica, Demary, Danella
    Date: Nov. 12, 2017
    Topics: Advice columns, Ageism, Butch-femme relationships, Coming out, Dyke marches, Dykes, Eroticism, Femininities, Femmes, Gender studies, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ families, Pornography, Queer relationships, Queer studies, Sex education, Skating
    Subject: ACT UP Portland, FTM International, Kings of the Hill, Salacious, Stone Butch Blues, The Pissed Off Dyke Cell, Women's Health Action Crew
    Description: Erica lived in Chicago for many years, but relocated to Maine because of her teaching position at Bates College. She is a Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies, an...
  10. Ethan Roberts Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Roberts, Ethan
    Date: Dec. 1, 2021
    Topics: Cults, Faith, LGBTQ+ parenthood, Passing (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: An interview with Ethan Roberts. Ethan Union Seminary where he is a chaplain intern for incarcerated transgender folks at Rosie’s on Rikers Island. He discusses his early religious trauma being a p...
  11. Evan Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Tennenbaum, Ric, Evan
    Date: Jul. 29, 2017
    Topics: Artists, Bars, Childhood, Coming out, Crossdressing, Families, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Hormones, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Photography, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Evan, Pratt University
    Description: Evan is a Brooklyn based photographer whose photo work primarily touches upon issues of gender and identity, and in this interview he describes his perception of his own intersectional identity. Or...
  12. Eve Elle Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Elle, Eve, Gaines, Brycen
    Date: Apr. 29, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Androgyny, Artists, Autonomy, Childhood, Dating, Families, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender role, MtFs, Schools, Sexual orientation, Transitioning (Gender), Work situation
    Subject: Eve Elle
    Description: Eve Elle describes the development of her identity and experiences as a trans woman over time, from realizing her identity at a very young age, to dating before and after transitioning, to her thou...
  13. Fainan Lakha Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lakha, Fainan, Maya, Elliott
    Date: Jul. 13, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Coming out, Communities, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Islam, Liberation movements, MtFs, Oppression, Politics, Representation, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Fainan Lakha, Laverne Cox
    Description: Fainan Lakha is a student at Columbia majoring in Comparative Literature and Society. She grew up in a Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim community in Seattle and became involved in the Oneness University a...
  14. 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, ...
  15. 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...