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  1. A Close Up of a Seated Performer

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A performer wearing a two-piece dress and matching hat poses sitting for a photograph. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  2. A Performer Sits in a Chair for a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A performer in the show, "Look At Us Now", sits in a chair posing in a two-piece dress. This photograph may be of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  3. A Photograph of Sylvia Rivera Celebrating Her Release from Jail

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Distelhorst, David C.
    Date: Nov. 14, 2000
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ religious people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Soulforce, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A black-and-white photograph of Sylvia Rivera celebrating her release from jail following a demonstration by Soulforce, a Christian LGBTQ+ group. Sylvia is dressed in a white longsleeve t-shirt and...
  4. A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A performer poses seated in a chair wearing a two piece dress and matching hat. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  5. A Seated Performer Poses for a Photograph

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan
    Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers
    Subject: Look At Us Now
    Description: A seated performer poses in a two-piece dress. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen.
  6. A.C. Shocks D.C. Shrinks

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Gay Flames
    Date: May 24, 1971
    Topics: Demonstrations, Drag, Gay community, Homophobia, Lesbian community
    Subject: American Psychiatric Association (APA), Washington Mattachine Society
  7. ACT UP-ers Almost Arrested at Rally

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Montrose Voice
    Date: Oct. 13, 1989
    Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Demonstrations, Politics
    Subject: ACT UP, Leslie Douglas Ashley, Leslie Perez, Paul Doyle, Ron Wilson, Sylvia Ayres
  8. Address to Ingersoll Gender Center by Kim Elizabeth Stuart (April 11, 1992)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Stuart, Kim E.
    Date: Apr. 11, 1992
    Topics: Gender identity
    Subject: Lou Sullivan, Rupert Raj
    Description: A written document of an address given to the Ingersoll Gender Center by Kim Elizabeth Stuart, with written notes on the back of each sheet.
  9. Aftermath of a Musical Fete

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Randolph, Oliver
    Date: Jul. 1, 1911
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Andrew Tribble
    Description: An article in The Twin City Star mentioning Andrew Tribble, a renown female impersonator.
  10. AIDS Informational Pamphlets

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Service Employees International Union
    Date: Feb. 1986
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, Lesbians
    Subject: Rupert Raj, Service Employees International Union
    Description: Informational pamphlets about AIDS and how to reduce the risk of contracting it. Specifically has information for health care workers and information aimed at lesbians.
  11. Amendments to Hairbrush Bristle Patent

     
    Collection: Alexis Francois Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 17, 1959
    Topics: Genderfluid people, Hair, Inventions
    Subject: Alexis Francois
    Description: Amendments to a hairbrush bristle patent submitted by an attorney on behalf of Alexis Francois.
  12. Among Stage People

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 2, 1899
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Vaudeville
    Subject: Florence Hines
    Description: An article in The Colored American mentioning Florence Hines, a Black male impersonator.
  13. Among the Negro Performers

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 10, 1900
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators, Minstrel shows
    Subject: Black Sensation Company, Florence Hines
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to racist language.
  14. Amusements

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 31, 1896
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators
    Subject: Florence Hines
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to racist language.
  15. Andrew Tribble Skipped with Money

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1916
    Topics: Black people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Vaudeville
    Subject: Andrew Tribble, Fairyland Theater
    Description: Article published in The Freeman about Andrew Tribble, a Black female impersonator, being wanted for theft.