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Zephyr D Merkur Herrera Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Merkur Herrera, Zephyr D Date: Mar. 17, 2018 Topics: Activists, Eating disorders, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Language, LGBTI community, Musicians, Schools, Sports, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transgenderism Description: Barista and peer advocate Zephyr D Merkur Herrera details their experiences in the trans community throughout their active adolescence and beyond. In this interview with Lorenzo Van Ness, Herrera e... -
Violet Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Violet Date: May 10, 2019 Topics: Capitalism, Childhood, Civil rights, Class struggle, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Furry fandom (Subculture), Gender, Gender realignment surgery, Gentrification, Health care, Hormones, Mental health, Music, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Roleplay, Sexism, Social classes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Soundcloud Description: Violet shares her experience of being a musician and DJ in New York’s rave scene while navigating the political landscape of gentrification. Having grown up nomadically with immigrant parents, she ... -
United States: Transsexual Woman Tennis Player, Defeats 15 Year Old Girl In Second Round Match At New Jersey Tennis Club Tournament. 1976
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd. Date: Aug. 26, 1976 Topics: Trans women, Transsexual people Subject: Caroline Stoll, New Jersey Tennis Club Tournament, Renee Richards Description: Video and transcript from Reuters/NBC newsreel footage with commentary on a 1976 match featuring tennis player Renee Richards. -
Tuesday Smillie Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Smille, Tuesday Date: Oct. 11, 2019 Topics: Activists, Animal rights activists, Artists, Childhood, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Family members, Gay liberation, Gender diversity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Social classes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Visual arts, Zines Subject: Adele Carpenter, Ali Forney Center, Kirsten Rossi, Michelle O'Brien, Sergio Rodriguez, Silence of the Lambs, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Ursula K. Le Guin, Wangechi Mutu Description: (Photo of Tuesday and interviewer Michelle). Tuesday Smillie is a visual artist whose work grapples with power and violence. In this interview, Tuesday recounts her coming out in a radical queer yo... -
Trans Oral History: Then It Happened to Them
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Aug. 27, 2011 Topics: Gay male couples, Gentrification, HIV/AIDS, LGBTI community Description: Louis Mitchell lived in the Castro District of San Francisco during the late 80's and early 90's. He describes the tensions between communities of color and the gay male community during that time,... -
Trans Oral History: Nothing Left to Tuck
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Oct. 12, 2011 Topics: Colleges, Coming out, Finances, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Support groups, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people Subject: Ingersoll Gender Center Description: Elayne discuses her 15-year process of finding community, coming out, and transitioning in LA and Seattle. -
Trans Oral History: Meeting Lou Sullivan
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project, Power, Bet, Power, Ben Date: Aug. 27, 2011 Topics: Activists, FtMs, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, Passing (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people Subject: East Coast FtM Group, Lou Sullivan Description: Ben Power has been a transgender activist and community historian for more than three decades. He describes the first time he met another FTM--Lou Sullivan, the founder of FTM international--and ho... -
Trans Oral History: Lucky's Story
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Transgender Oral History Project Date: Sep. 30, 2011 Topics: Disabilities, Isolation, LGBTI community, Support groups Subject: GenderJUST Description: Lucky M speaks about growing up as a queer person with a disability. -
Torrey Peters Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Peters, Torrey, Lewis, AJ Date: Jun. 26, 2018 Topics: Adolescence, Crossdressers, Dating, Femmes, Gender dysphoria, MtFs, Sexual relationships, Sexuality, Shame, Subcultures, Support groups, Transgender people, Writers Description: In an interview with AJ Lewis, Torrey Peters discusses her experience with coming into her gender identity, describing her sexuality and her feelings of shame and isolation that have come with it. ... -
Topher Gross Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Awad, Nadia, Gross, Topher Date: Oct. 15, 2017 Topics: Acceptance, Childhood, Colleges, Entertainers, Families, Festivals, FtMs, Gender identity, Lesbian community, Lesbian separatism, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Night life, Radical feminism, Schools, Social exclusion, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Topher Gross -
Tony Manriquez Interview Transcript
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Tiffany Miles Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Miles, Tiffany, Ramsay, Grace Date: Apr. 29, 2017 Topics: Acceptance, Childhood, Christianity, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Educators, Families, Friendships, Job applications, MtFs, Science fiction, Secrecy, Transgender people Subject: Tiffany Miles Description: Tiffany Miles describes growing up in conservative, religious small-town Alabama, where she lived for the first thirty-two years of her life. She discusses her complicated relationships with family... -
"They Lived It 'Out!'" Event Footage
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Date: Jan. 23, 1998 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ memorials, Trans women, Transgender community centers Subject: Arlene Hoffman, Carolyn Durrell, Coco LaChine, Eva Love, Gender Identity Project, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Richard Burns, Rosalyne Blumenstein Description: This video shows "They Lived It 'Out!'", an event at The Center hosted by Rosalyne Blumenstein in honor of late trans friends and role models. Includes performances from Coco LaChine, Bianca Smith,... -
"They Lived It 'Out!'" and Other Gender Identity Project Footage
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Gender Identity Project Date: 1998 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ memorials, Trans women, Transgender community centers Subject: Arlene Hoffman, Carolyn Durrell, Coco LaChine, Eva Love, Gender Identity Project, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Richard Burns, Riki Anne Wilchins, Rosalyne Blumenstein Description: This video begins with retake shots for a Center project featuring Riki Anne Wilchins, then transitions to "They Lived It 'Out!'", a show at hosted by Rosalyne Blumenstein in honor of late trans fr... -
The Robert MacNeil Report: Transexuality and Sports
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Creator: NewsHour Productions Date: Aug. 23, 1976 Topics: Chromosomes, Medicalization, Official documentation, Trans women, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Forest Hills Stadium, Harry Benjamin, Renee Richards, U.S. Tennis Open, West Side Tennis Club Description: An episode of the Robert MacNeill Report featuring a discussion on "transexuality" and sports. The guests are Renee Richards, Dorothy Harris, Charles Ihlenfeld, and Roberto Granato. -
The Rejected
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Creator: KQED San Francisco Date: Sep. 11, 1961 Topics: Homosexuality, Medicalization, Sexual orientation, Transsexuality Subject: American Psychiatric Association (APA), Anthropology, Mattachine Society Description: Video and transcript from "The Rejected," a program aired on KQED, San Francisco in 1961. The program purports to discuss homosexuality from a variety of viewpoints - both affirming and pathologizi... -
TC Tolbert: Individual Oral History Interview
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Arizona Queer Archives Creator: Tolbert, TC, Lee, Jamie A. Date: Apr. 29, 2010 Topics: Genderqueer people, Interpersonal relations, Marriage, Poets, Queer people, Religion, Self-perception, Sexuality, Steroids, Teachers, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Description: Oral history with TC Tolbert. He discusses his genderqueer identity, religion, marriage, and self-image. -
Sylver Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Maya, Elliott, Sylver Date: Jul. 28, 2017 Topics: Alcoholism, Childhood, Christianity, Clothing, Communities, Depression, Drag balls, Drag community, Families, Gender diversity, Lesbian community, LGBTI community, Self-acceptance, Social exclusion, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Two-Spirit people, Youth organisations, Youth shelters Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylver Description: In this interview, Sylver describes a childhood growing up in the Bronx and a period of awakening that began after they were kicked-out of their mother’s home at 15. Sylver, having at times struggl... -
Suzan Cooke Interview Transcript
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: Stryker, Susan Date: Jan. 10, 1998 Topics: Arrests, Bullying, Crossdressing, Drag balls, Family members, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Judges, Liberation movements, Military, Night life, Peace movement, Police, Rape, Riots, Transsexual people Subject: Andy Warhol, April Ashley, Bambi, Cathy Grennier, Center for Special Problems, City of Night, Coccinelle, Elliot Blackstone, Gerard Malanga, Glide Memorial Methodist Church, Haight Ashbury Self-Defense, Harry Benjamin, Jan Maxwell, Jerry Durkin, John Brown, Jose Barbossa, José Sarria, Louise Ergestrasse, Mattachine Society, Melvin Belli, Shannon O'Hara, Suzan Cooke, Trans-Action, Wendy Kohler Description: Interview recorded in Hollywood, California with Suzy Cooke -
Susan Stryker Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Stryker, Susan Date: Oct. 22, 2019 Topics: Activists, AIDS activists, BDSM, Childhood, Crossdressing, Ethnic groups, Historians, Homophobia, Hormones, Leather community, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Military, Mormonism, Peace movement, Social classes, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transgender studies Subject: Blue Jeans Day, Christine Jorgensen, Dear Abby, Gay Activist Alliance, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society, Gay Pieere, I Want What I Want, Janice Raymond, Leslie Feinberg, Patrick Califia-Rice, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ), The Transsexual Empire: the Making of the She-Male, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Victor Silverman Description: Susan Stryker is an esteemed author and professor of gender and women’s studies. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Oklahoma, while also spending time in Germany and Hawaii as part of h... -
Susan Stryker Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Stryker, Susan, Mukerjee, Lucy Date: Apr. 19, 2021 Topics: Sexuality, Trans women, Transgender parents, Transgender studies, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: GLBT Historical Society (GLBTHS), GLQ, Susan Stryker, Transgender Nation, Transgender Studies Initiative, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly Description: Susan Stryker was born into a white working-class family in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on July 7, 1961. Susan earned her PhD in United States history from University of California in Berkeley. While juggl... -
Stormé DeLarverie Memorial
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Wicker, Randy Date: May 29, 2014 Topics: BIPOC, Black lesbians, Butches, Drag kings, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ memorials, LGBTQ+ visibility, Racially mixed people, Stonewall riots Subject: Stonewall Veterans' Association, Stormé DeLarverie Description: Footage from a memorial service held for Stormé DeLarverie on May 29, 2014. Several people offer tributes to DeLarverie by sharing personal stories and speaking about her activism. Photos of DeLarv... -
Stonewall Radio 25: Gay Politics and Transsexualism
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Stonewall Radio 19: Peggie Ames and Transsexualism 2
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State Creator: Siegler, Bob, Ames, Peggie Date: Jun. 20, 1973 Topics: Lesbians, Trans women, Transsexuality Subject: Stonewall Nation Description: In this episode of Stonewall Nation, host Bob Siegler discusses transsexuality with guest Peggie Ames. -
Stonewall Nation: Peggie Ames and Transsexualism 1
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Stonewall Nation 49: Drag, Theater, and Gay Life
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State Creator: Siegler, Bob Date: Jan. 16, 1974 Topics: Drag, Gay bars, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Gay Liberation Front, Sarah Bernhardt, Stonewall Nation, William Shakespeare Description: In this episode of Stonewall Radio, host Bob Siegler presents a history of drag as well as a critique of the practice on the grounds of sexism. -
Stonewall Nation 48: Gayness and Hollywood
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State Creator: Siegler, Bob Date: Jan. 9, 1974 Topics: Drag, Female masculinity, LGBTQ+ films Subject: Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Myra Breckinridge, Some Like It Hot, Stonewall Nation Description: In this episode of Stonewall Nation, host Bob Siegler discusses gay representation in Hollywood films. Discussion ranges from drag and male impersonation to representations of trans identities incl... -
Stephanie Stuart Wilson
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Stuart Wilson, Stephanie, Kalin, Betsy Date: Apr. 29, 2021 Topics: AIDS activists, Bears (Gay culture), Cancer, Drag community, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy (Gender), Trans women, Transgender children, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Drag Queen Story Hour, Royal Court of Come Out St. Pete, Stephanie Stuart Wilson Description: Stephanie Stuart was born in a strawberry patch in Plant City, Florida on December 30th 1965. Growing up, she always knew she was different and would watch beauty pageants on TV in a toy crown. At ... -
Stephan Thorne Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Thorne, Stephan, Funk, Mason Date: Aug. 11, 2021 Topics: Attitudes of LGBTQ+ people toward police , FtMs, Gay bars, Gay liberation, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ support groups, LGBTQ+ visibility, Police, Trans men Subject: Proposition L, Stephan Thorne, White Night Riots Description: Stephan ‘Steph’ Thorne was born on September 2nd, 1954, in Hillsboro, Oregon. Despite a happy childhood, Steph faced challenges as a closeted transgender man, identifying as a tomboy. In 1979, Step... -
Stella Dance Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Dance, Stella Date: Mar. 29, 2017 Topics: Assigned gender, Autonomy, BDSM, Bullying, Childhood, Class struggle, Colleges, Coming out, Employment discrimination, Families, Femininities, Friendships, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Homophobia, Hospitals, Learning difficulties, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental health, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia, Schools, Sex parties, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Suicide, Therapies, Trade unions, Work situation Subject: Stella Dance Description: Stella Dance is an educator, tarot-card reader, and professional dungeon monitor who currently works at the recently unionized Babeland sex toy boutique in New York City. In this interview they des... -
Spree Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Spree Date: Jun. 8, 2017 Topics: Actors, AIDS activists, Appearance, Black people, Childhood, Coming out, Faeries, Families, Femininities, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Theatre, Transgender people Subject: ACT UP, International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), Marsha P. Johnson, Ortez Alderman, Queer Nation, Spree Description: Performer, and activist Spree shares her experiences as a Radical Faerie; a member of ACT UP, The Emma Goldman Gypsy Players and The Eggplant Players; and a resident of numerous places around the w... -
Sophia Margeaux Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Margeaux, Sophia, Bliss, Tom Date: Mar. 18, 2022 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Bigender people, Crossdressing, Epilepsy, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ unhoused people Subject: Jon Winegarner, Sophia Margeaux Description: Sophia Margeaux was born Jon Winegarner in Hettinger, North Dakota in 1953 (Sophia continues to use both names in different contexts and uses he/she/they pronouns). After high school, Sophia moved ... -
Siobhan Meow Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Meow, Siobhan Date: Unknown Topics: Squatter settlements, Suicidal behavior, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Description: An interview with Siobhan Meow discussing it's life and experiences. -
Sindell Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Niculescu, Sebastián Castro, Sindell Date: Jul. 24, 2018 Topics: Childhood, Choir boys, Divorce, Gender dysphoria, Hormone therapy, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masturbation, MtFs, Musicians, Passing (Gender), Pornography, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel Description: Sebastián Castro Niculescu interviews Sindell, an entertainer who sings, dances, and performs. She talks about being married to a man whose family did not know she was trans, as well as her dreams ... -
Simone Kolysh Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Kolysh, Simone Date: Feb. 14, 2018 Topics: Adolescence, Bisexuality, Brothers, Bullying, Childhood, Families, Motherhood, Sexual assault, Travel Description: Simone Kolysh describes their non-binary gender identity, growing up in a Russian immigrant family, becoming a parent, and their academic work on trans studies. -
Simon Chartrand Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Chartrand, Simon Date: Jul. 27, 2017 Topics: Acceptance, Autism spectrum disorders, Childhood, Clothing, Colleges, Coming out, Community centres, Dating, Families, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Health care, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Misogyny, Physicians, Racism, Schools, Social media, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender children, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Janet Mock, Simon Chartrand Description: Simon Chartrand describes his experience growing up in upstate New York, being outed to family, living with chronic pain and navigating healthcare as a trans person. Simon discusses the long proces... -
Simo Oral History
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Shannon Minter Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: OUTWORDS Creator: Minter, Shannon Date: Aug. 7, 2017 Topics: Christian communities, Coming out, Family members, Homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, Marriage, Parental acceptance, Small cities, Trans men, Transgender people, Transphobia Subject: Faith in America, Larry Jackson, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Romeo and Juliet, Shannon Minter Description: OUTWORDS interview with Shannon Minter conducted by Mason Funk on August 7, 2016 during the Lavender Law conference in Washington, DC. As a lawyer, many of his cases have set precedents that safegu... -
Shannon Harrington Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Lewis, AJ, Harrington, Shannon Date: Jul. 26, 2017 Topics: AIDS organizations, Bars, Childhood, Discos, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Events, Friendships, Fundraising, Gay community, HIV/AIDS, Labelling, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ people who use substances recreationally, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mafia, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Night life, Performing arts, Transgender community, Travel, Wigs Subject: Bailey House, Boy Bar, Dorian Corey, God's Love We Deliver, International Chrysis, Lee Brewster, Shannon Harrington, Wigstock Description: Shannon Harrington is a wig master, hair chaser, and make-up artist who has been living in New York City for over 30 years. In this interview Miss Shannon provides meaningful and nuanced insight in... -
Sandra Mesics Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Mesics, Sandra Date: Jan. 14, 2019 Topics: Childhood, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Family members, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Insurance, Journalists, Mardi gras, Marriage, Peace movement, Pronoun, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Steel industry and trade, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people Subject: Angela Douglas, Betty Johnson, Bobby Ray, Brandy Alexander, Christine Jorgensen, David Wesser, Divine, Eddie Joe Stark, Elizabeth Coffey, Empathy Press, Eromin (Erotic Minorities) Center, Fantasia Fair, Gay Liberation Front, Harry Benjamin, Image, Jack O'Brien, John Money, John Ronald Brown, Lee Brewster, National Enquirer, National Insider, Neptune Productions, Pink Flamingos, Pudgy Roberts, Rachel Harlow, Radical Queens, Reed Erickson, Richard Finocchio, Stonewall Rebellion, The Daily Collegiate, The Transsexual Phenomenon, Third World Communications, Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, Transvestia, United Transvestites Transsexual Society (UTTS), Virginia Prince, Zelda Suplee Description: andra Mesics is a registered nurse and midwife and has been the director of St. Luke’s School of Nursing since 2004. In this conversation with AJ Lewis, Sandy describes accessing hormones and surge... -
Saje Liese Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Towne, Tyler, Liese, Saja Date: May 17, 2018 Topics: Adolescence, Childhood, Divorce, Employment policies, Friendships, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Partners of transgender people, Transgender people Description: Saje Liese was born on Long Island and moved to NYC after 10 years of living in the country. She is a “true blue New Yorker” and tech engineer. In this interview, Saje discusses Dungeons & Dragons,... -
Sage Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Sage Date: May 9, 2019 Topics: Baptist church, Butches, Children, Christianity, Coming out, Conferences, Discrimination, Feminism, Flags--Confederate States of America, Gender, Homophobia, Internet, Judaism, Libraries, Microaggressions, Paganism, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Rural areas, Social classes, Social justice, Soft butches, Taoism, Trade unions, Transgender people, Women's colleges, Youth literature Subject: American Library Association, LGBT Workers Association, Proposition 8, Stonewall 50, Tumblr Description: Sage discusses their growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, breaking from their family's religion through encountering children's and you... -
Rye Young Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Young, Rye, O'Brien, Michelle Esther Date: Nov. 2, 2017 Topics: Childhood, Classism, Families, Feminism, FtMs, Fundraising, Labour, LGBTQ+ movement, Organisations, Politics, Racism, Social movements Subject: Rye Young, Third Wave Fund -
Ryan Conrad Interview
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: We Who Feel Differently Creator: Conrad, Ryan, Motta, Carlos Date: Feb. 11, 2011 Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Artists, Coming out, LGBTI community Description: Ryan Conrad speaks in this interview about his role in founding an online publishing archive called Against Equality, as well as his part in "Outright Lewiston/Auburn", a queer youth organization i... -
Rose Wood Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Wood, Rose, Schoo, Deidre Date: Nov. 26, 2018 Topics: Adolescence, Androgyny, Artists, Death and dying, Drag, Gay pride, Health care, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ parents, Performing arts, Strippers, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender identity, Transitioning (Gender) Description: Rose Wood talks to interviewer Deidre Schoo about her experience as a performance artist in New York City. She shares information about her childhood and her family, specifically her father, and wh... -
Robin Scott Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Scott, Robin, Towne, Tyler Date: Mar. 28, 2018 Topics: Artists, Childhood, Coming out, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental health, Representation, Sexual orientation, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Weddings Subject: Robin Scott Description: Robin discusses growing up in the Upper East Side of New York, how her neighborhood has evolved over time, and her favorite areas in the city. She recalls mental issues preventing her from attendin... -
Robbi Ann Mecus Oral Hisory
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Mecus, Robbi Ann Date: Aug. 23, 2019 Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Crossdressing, Disabilities, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Forest rangers, Gay pride, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gentrification, Health care, Homophobia, Internalized homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Machismo, Masculinities, Parenthood, Passing (Gender), Police, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Sexism, Siblings, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Visibility Subject: 2017 Women's March, Bizarre Bushwick, Donald Trump, Kate Bornstein, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Second Serve, Stonewall, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), Trans Day of Action Description: In this interview, Robbi Ann Mecus describes her journey from growing up with her family, experiencing gender dysphoria in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, to living as her ... -
Ric Tennenbaum Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Vaccaro, Jeanne, Tennenbaum, Ric Date: Aug. 2, 2017 Topics: Action campaigns, Appearance, Body image, Clothing, Colleges, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Harassment, Help lines, Labelling, Language, LGBTI community, Oral history, Party drugs, Transgender community, Transgender identity, Transgender studies, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility Subject: Mackenzie Reynolds, Ric Tennenbaum -
Rev. Dr. Erin Swenson Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: LGBTQ Religious Archives Network Creator: Swenson, Erin, Weekley, David Date: Nov. 2017 Topics: Activists, Clergy, MtFs, Presbyterianism, Religions, Transgender rights Description: Erin Swenson, a transgender woman, speaks of her experience of breaking ground for LGBTQ rights in the Presbyterian church. -
Reneé Imperato Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Torres, Andy, Dicken, Matthew, Imperato, Renee Date: Apr. 29, 2017 Topics: Activists, Anti-racism, Childhood, Drag community, Gender identity, Labour, Liberation movements, MtFs, Night life, People with physical disabilities, Taxi drivers, Trade unions, Transgender rights, Violence Subject: 220 Club, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Leslie Feinberg, Renee Imperato Description: Born in NYC, Reneé Imperato, is a proud anti racist, pro union trans woman who has lived her life fighting for the rights of others. In this interview she shares her memories of growing up in New Y...