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  1. Rupert Raj Portrait

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Suess, Maya
    Date: circa 1999
    Topics: Drawings, Educators, FtMs, LGBTQ+ activists, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender people
    Subject: Researcher, Rupert Raj, Writer
    Description: Born in 1952, Rupert Raj is a Eurasian counsellor/psychotherapist, clinical researcher, educator, lecturer, writer, editor, activist and Gender Specialist. He is a trailblazing activist who has bee...
  2. Illustration of Mary Jones (1836)

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: H.R. Robinson
    Date: 1836
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Crossdressing
    Subject: Mary Jones, Peter Sewally
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains racist and transphobic imagery. Text at the bottom reads: "The Man-Monster, Peter Sewally, alias Mary Jones, &c&c Sentenced 18th June 1836 to 5 years im...
  3. Respect to the Power

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Ralph, Yohah
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Leather community, Painting
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Yohah Ralph
    Description: Photograph of painting. Handwritten note on back: "Respect to the Power"..."Portrait of Bet Power, Northampton, Massachusetts Painted July, 1987 by Yohah Ralph"
  4. Dance to the [slur] - Saukie

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Catlin, George
    Date: 1861 to 1869
    Topics: BIPOC, Colonialism, Gender minorities, Native americans, Painting, Sauk Indians, Two-Spirit people
    Description: Note the term in the title is censored because it is a historical slur against Native American people who now commonly identify as "Two Spirit."
  5. II Femminiello

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Bonito, Giuseppe
    Date: 1740 to 1760
    Topics: Arts, Canvas, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender diversity, Gender minorities, Painting, Painting, Italian, Portrait painting, Italian, Third gender, Transvestites
    Description: "This recently-discovered painting from eighteenth-century Naples is a testament to the city's exceptional social acceptance of local transvestites known as femminielli. The term, which might be tr...