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  1. Aiden Simon Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Zavidow, Evan, Simon, Aiden
    Date: Aug. 16, 2017
    Topics: Artists, Coming out, Gender role, Military, Parents of transgender people, Photographers, Siblings, Social norms, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Aiden Simon
    Description: Aiden Simon, a Brooklyn-based visual artist, details a life spent moving among different spaces both geographically and in terms of community. He discusses his experiences living in various cities ...
  2. Amanda Armstrong Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Armstrong, Amanda
    Date: Mar. 21, 2019
    Topics: Androgyny, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Bullying, Childbirth, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Communism, Counseling, Counterculture, Death penalty, Education, Family members, Feminists, Gay liberation, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender role, Hormones, Labour, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, Liberalism, Menstruation, Middle class, Motherhood, MtFs, New Left, Police, Politics, Psychology, Religions, Resistance movements, Rural areas, Sexual assault, Socialism, Sports, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexualism, Visibility, White people
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, Academic Workers for a Democratic Union, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), Karl Marx, Occupy Oakland, Oscar Grant, Ralph Nader, Swarthmore College, Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERF), University of California Student-Workers Union (UAW)
    Description: Amanda Armstrong recounts her organizing as a graduate student militant in the 2009-2012 protest wave in Berkley and Oakland. She joined occupations and building take-overs organized by students an...
  3. Angal Field Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Field, Angal
    Date: May 1, 2019
    Topics: Colonialism, Family members, Film, Gay identity, Gay liberation, Gender, Gender bending, Health care, Hormones, Lesbians, Liberals, Photography, Politics, Privilege (Social psychology), Religions, Roman catholicism, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Transgender community, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Barnard University, Celina Sciamma, Tomboy
    Description: Angal Field shares their experience of being a writer, filmmaker and photographer in today’s media landscape and discusses the trappings of trans visibility. Using the medium of film to “speak back...
  4. Article on Compton's TLGB District Proposal

     
    Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: circa 2017
    Topics: Gay culture, LGBTQ+ people
    Description: A news article about the proposed Compton's TLGB Cultural District in San Francisco's Tenderloin. This item comes from the Felicia “Flames” Elizondo papers (#2021-06) at the GLBT Historical Soci...
  5. Barbara Jean Collection Finding Aid

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: University of Victoria Libraries
    Date: 2014 to 2017
    Topics: Architects, Artists, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drawings, Letters, Photographs
    Subject: Barbara Jean, Fated for Femininity, Robert Burman, The American Crossdresser, The Transvestite and His Wife, Transvestia, Turnabout
    Description: The collection primarily reflects the artistic and related published output of Barbara Jean, and is relatively homogeneous; it consists of over 4600 items, primarily original drawings and their der...
  6. Biography and Images of Felicia Elizondo

     
    Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Elizondo, Felicia
    Date: circa 2010 to 2021
    Topics: Chicano/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Chicano/a/x transgender people, Drag queens, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Trans women, Transgender people in the military
    Subject: Compton's Cafeteria Riots
    Description: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to racist and homophobic language. A comprehensive file of clippings from Felicia Elizondo's life experiences as a queer trans Mexican-A...
  7. Bradley Picklesimer Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Picklesimer, Bradley
    Date: Mar. 28, 2018
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Berdache, Drag, Drag queens, Gay discos, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTQ+ porn films, Police raids, Sexual assault, Siblings, Stonewall riots, Transitioning (Gender), Transvestites
    Subject: ACT UP, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), Bernard Jay, Bradley Picklesimer, Café LMNOP, Chi Chi LaRue, Club Agogo, Courtney Act, David Bowie, Divine, Francis Marion Picklesimer, Henry Faulkner, Jayne County, Judy Garland, Lee Angelique, Martha Lynn Stone, Miss Bradley, Sweet Evening Breeze, The Montparnasse, The Thrusters, Wade Littrell
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Bradley Picklesimer conducted by Kate Kunath on March 28, 2018 in Meally, KY. AT 20, Bradley opened his first downtown club in Lexington, KY with the help of his brother and...
  8. Clippings on Early Life of Felicia Flames

     
    Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Elizondo, Felicia
    Date: circa 2018
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Chicano/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Chicano/a/x transgender people, Gay discos, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Trans women, Transgender people in the military
    Description: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to slurs, sexual abuse, and transphobic violence. Autobiographical writings of Felicia Elizondo's life, from her early life to its end. ...
  9. Collection on Sylvester

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Androgyny, Discos, LGBTQ+ press, Photographs, Singers
    Subject: Sylvester James, Jr.
    Description: Sylvester James, Jr. (September 6, 1947-December 16, 1988), better known as Sylvester, was an American disco and soul singersongwriter. He was known for his flamboyant and androgynous appearance. T...
  10. Dean Spade Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Spade, Dean, Awad, Nadia
    Date: Apr. 24, 2017
    Topics: Demonstrations, Feminists, Foster parents, Gay pride, Gender diversity, Health care, Hormones, Immigration, Imprisonment, Lawyers, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Peace movement, Spirituality
    Subject: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Audre Lorde Project (ALP), CUNY Law School, Dean Spade, FIERCE, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), National LGBTQ Task Force, Queers for Economic Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California Santa Cruz
    Description: Dean Spade relates his journey and politicization first through the support of his mother in conservative Virginia, his first tastes of feminism and increasingly his work to provide support and res...
  11. Dezi Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Dezi, Towne, Tyler
    Date: Jul. 11, 2018
    Topics: Acceptance, Coming out, Families, Femininities, Friendships, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Music, Sexually abused LGBTQ+ children, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
    Subject: Burner Community, Burning Man
    Description: Dezi speaks to interviewer Tyler Towne about their childhood in suburban California, growing up with two brothers. They discuss forming a supportive community of queer people in their life and the ...
  12. Donna Sachet Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Sachet, Donna
    Date: Jul. 27, 2016
    Topics: Child abuse, Coming out, Drag, Drag queens, Gay bars, Gay Christians, Gay community, Gay men, Gay movement, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Lipsynching, Methodist Church, Police harassment, Stonewall riots
    Subject: ACT UP, Bette Davis, Beverly Sills, Black Cat Bar, Campus Crusade for Christ, Donna Sachet, Donna Summer, Empress of San Francisco, Fire Island, Gay Men's Chorus, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), GLAAD Media Awards, Joan Crawford, José Sarria, Juanita More, Judy Garland, Mark Leno, Miss Gay San Francisco, Perry Ellis, Shanti Project, Tavern Guild, The Celluloid Closet, Trannyshack
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Donna Sachet conducted by Mason Funk on July 27, 2016 in San Francisco, CA. Donna is a drag performer, community activist, and author. Donna has raised millions of dollars f...
  13. Dr. Ira Pauly oral history

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives
    Creator: Oregon Health & Science University
    Date: Feb. 8, 2015
    Topics: Medicalization, Psychiatry
    Description: Ira Pauly, M.D. describes in this interview his life and career in psychiatry and how he came to specialize in treatment of the transgender community. Raised in Beverly Hills, California, he went t...
  14. Ei Meeker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Meeker, Ei
    Date: Oct. 9, 2017
    Topics: Activists, AIDS organizations, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Community centres, Direct action, Educators, Families, FtMs, Gender identity, Gender role, Harassment, Health care, Help lines, HIV/AIDS, Housing, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Politics, Roman catholicism, Schools, Sex education, Sexuality, Tolerance, Transgender children, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: ACT UP, Bailey House, Ei Meeker, Terry McGovern
  15. Eli Oberman Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Oberman, Eli, Milks, M. Henry
    Date: Feb. 20, 2017
    Topics: Breast cancer, Bullying, Coming out, Depression, Families, Femininities, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Homophobia, Hormones, Loneliness, Misogyny, Musicians, Passing (Gender), Patriarchy, Therapies, Transphobia
    Subject: Eli Oberman, The New School
    Description: Eli Oberman—one of, if not the first, trans-identified students at Eugene Lang— talks about coming out as one of two very different trans children to a family of feminists, misogyny in transmasculi...