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  1. 2nd Big Edition of Your Show of Shows

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 14, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Celebrities, Drag queens, Musicians
    Subject: Lee Leonard

  2. A Dictionary of Gender Identity

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bonnell, Charles
    Date: Sep. 20, 1975
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag kings, Drag queens, Eroticism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Medicalization, Passing (Gender), Scientific literature, Sex cinemas, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Gay Community News, The Queen's Vernacular
    Description: A short article in volume 3, issue 12 of Gay Community News, providing definitions for terms used by the gender noncomforming community in the 70s. Originally printed on page 17.

  3. A Field Guide to Persons in the Transgendered Gay Community

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Denny, Dallas
    Date: Oct. 1991
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag queens, Passing (Gender), Post-operative, Pre-operative, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Originally published in "The News" Volume 7 Number 8. Dallas Denny describes the differences in people who identify as transsexual, crossdressers, and drag queens and how they vary in gender expres...

  4. A Gay Interview

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Van, Eddie, Perry, H. L.
    Date: Apr. 15, 1977 to Apr. 21, 1977
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gay community, Homosexuality, Interviews, Police, Police raids, Transgender people

  5. A Streetcar Named Desire

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Francis, Miller
    Date: Dec. 18, 1972
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Feminism, Film, Homosexuality, Misogyny, Reviews, Sexual revolution
    Subject: A Streetcar Named Desire, Oscar Wilde, Salome, Tennessee Williams

  6. Aching to Be a Prima Donna, When You’re a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Canby, Vincent
    Date: Mar. 13, 1991
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag balls, Drag families, Drag queens
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Pepper Labeija, Venus Extravaganza, Willi Ninja
    Description: A description of the film "Paris is Burning", and a brief explanation of the ball culture explored in the film that acknowledges prominent individuals.

  7. All About Yves

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Goldsby, Jackie
    Date: Summer 1989
    Topics: Butches, Dance, Drag, Drag queens, Families, Femmes, Gay men, House music, Soft butches, Vogueing
    Subject: Paris Is Burning

  8. Allen Ginsberg 2nd Installment

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Young, Allen, Ginsberg, Allen
    Date: Apr. 13, 1973 to Apr. 19, 1973
    Topics: Crossdressers, Discos, Drag queens, Gay community, Gay liberation, Interviews, LGBTI community, Machismo

  9. America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 15, 1953
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Night life
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye

  10. America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 18, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye

  11. An Exotic Gay Subculture Turns Poignant Under Scrutiny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Dunning, Jennifer
    Date: Mar. 23, 1991
    Topics: Ballroom families, Drag balls, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transvestites
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Meg McLagan, Octavia St. Laurent, Pepper Labeija, Willi Ninja
    Description: A description of how the film "Paris is Burning" relates to ball culture in New York City.

  12. Apes and Peacocks

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Baker, Brock
    Date: Aug. 28, 1971
    Topics: Clothing, Drag balls, Drag queens, Photographs
    Subject: Alec Thompson, Angela Birch, David Johnson, Derek Damms, Dorothy Squires, Eddie Thompson, Jackie Conway, Jean Fredericks, John Watts, Juan Rodriguez, Mark Cook, Paul Shannon, Robert Britten, Steve Francis, Sweet Charity, Tilly Rothborough, Tony Maher
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)

  13. Ariadne Kane Speaks of the Transsexual Experience

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: SB, Kane, Ariadne
    Date: Jan. 31, 1976
    Topics: Drag queens, Feminism, Gay community, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Interviews, Police harassment, Sex (Body), Transgender activism, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transvestites
    Subject: Ariadne Kane, Cycle Sluts, Divine, Fantasia Fair, Gay Community News, New England Conference on Alternate Sex and Gender Lifestyles, Skag Drag
    Description: An interview with Ariadne Kane, a self described transgenderist who organized events and conferences for the transgender and transvestite communities. Originally published on pages 10 and 11 of vol...

  14. At the Victory Club Tonite

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 25, 1952
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Music
    Subject: Lee Leonard

  15. Beauty Contest Winner Turns Out To Be A Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Katz, Nathan
    Date: Aug. 5, 1968
    Topics: Beauty contests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Gaye Bradley, Geoffrey Hawthorne, John French, Virginia Bone

  16. Bobby Allen: The Story of a Female Impersonator, 50 Years Ago

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Johnson, Phil
    Date: Nov. 21, 1986 to Nov. 27, 1986
    Topics: Bars, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gay men, Military, Night life
    Subject: Bobby Allen, Wagon Wheel

  17. British & Klaus

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Abbott, Steve
    Date: Oct. 30, 1972
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Black people, Drag community, Drag queens, Gay men, Hate crimes, Homosexuality, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Police
    Subject: British Sterling

  18. Charles Pierce

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Armstrong, James
    Date: May 19, 1976
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Celebrities, Drag queens, Interviews, Night life, Photographs, Theatre
    Subject: Charles Pierce

  19. Charles Pierce- What a Drag!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: McLean, Donald
    Date: Sep. 1976
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Celebrities, Drag queens, Singers
    Subject: Charles Pierce, The Living Dolls

  20. Charles Pierce with Glenn Elliot and the Living Dolls

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: May 10, 1972
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Singers
    Subject: Charles Pierce

  21. Cheerio Club Presents America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 5, 1953
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag kings, Drag queens
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye

  22. Coffee, Tea, Or Me

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Burton, Don
    Date: Nov. 27, 1969 to Dec. 5, 1969
    Topics: Discrimination, Drag queens, Gay liberation, Homophobia
    Subject: Western Airlines

  23. Cosmic Light in 'Lanta

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 5, 1973
    Topics: Camp (Gay culture), Drag queens, Gender bending, Singers
    Subject: Better Midler

  24. cross-dressing: inside and out

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Scribner, Lynn M.
    Date: Feb. 23, 1985
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Letters to the editor, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Lingerie, Sexuality
    Subject: Gay Community News, Gayellow Pages, Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (LLDEF), TV-TS Contact Service
    Description: Letter to the editor of Gay Community News from a person imprisoned in Huntsville, TX. Originally published on page 6 of Volume 12, number 31.

  25. Crossing Sexual Borders

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Avicolli, Tommi
    Date: Sep. 1, 1974
    Topics: Bi+ people, Black transgender people, Bottom surgery, Drag queens, Feminists, Gender expression, Gender roles, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Sexual roles, Stonewall riots, Transsexualism, Transvestism, White transgender people
    Subject: Cybil Shepherd, Dr. Burou, Erickson Educational Foundation, Gay Activists Alliance/Philadelphia, Information for the Family of the Transsexual, Marilyn Monroe
    Description: Clipping from pages 4-6 and 26-28 of The Gay Alternative, issue 8, published on September 1 1974.