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Mei Lan-Fang: Foremost Actor of China
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese Subject: Mei Lanfang Description: A book about Mei Lanfang, a female impersonator, and her contribution to Chinese Opera. The book is autographed and inscribed by Mei Lan-Fang to Prof. Albert R. Lovejoy. There are many sepia photo... -
Mei Lan-Fang: Chinese Drama
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1930 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese Subject: Mei Lanfang Description: A souvenir program from Mei Lanfang's first American tour, 1930. The program includes articles about Chinese drama, costumes, stage properties, musical instruments, and synopsis of touring repertoi... -
Transgender Liberation
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Feinberg, Leslie Date: Jun. 1992 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Anti-transgender violence, Butches, Criminalization, Gay movement, Gender expression, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ visibility, Mass media, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Stonewall riots, Transgender community Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Joan of Arc Description: A pamphlet written by Leslie Feinberg in 1992. In the pamphlet, Feinberg attempts to map the history of transgender people as well as the discrimination this community has faced through the years. -
A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Parsons, James Date: 1741 Topics: Intersex, Medicalization Subject: Androgyni, Hans Sloane, The Royal Society of London Description: This scientific treatises on intersex people presents a historical and biological overview. While motivated by reductive understandings of bodies and reproducing objectifying understandings of inte... -
From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Sullivan, Lou Date: 1990 Topics: Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Spanish-American War, 1898, Transmasculine people Subject: Allan Berube, Babe Bean, Harry Benjamin, Jack Garland, James H. Budd, Mary L. Haines, Masquerade laws, Richard von Krafft-Ebing Description: A book written by Lou Sullivan detailing the life of Jack Bee Garland. The book excerpts numerous historical sources and reproduces a number of images. -
Glossographia
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Blount, Thomas Date: 1656 Topics: Transfemininity, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Sir Thomas Browne Description: On the page with the signature Rr4v, the words "Transection" and "Transfeminate" are defined. Both terms are attributed to "Dr. Br." in reference to the physician and influential writer Sir Thomas ... -
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language (Vol. IV. Scream--Zythum)
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Ogilvie, John Date: 1883 Topics: Transfemininity, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Sir Thomas Browne Description: On page 414, the words "Transexion" and "Transfeminate" are defined. Both terms are attributed to "Sir T. Browne" in reference to the physician and influential writer Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxi... -
Stone Butch Blues
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Feinberg, Leslie Date: 1993 Topics: Authors, Butches, Chest reconstruction surgery, Classism, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag queens, Feminism, Femmes, Gender expression, Gender non-conforming people, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Labor, Labor movement, Labor unions, Lesbian liberation, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ social processes, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Police harassment, Queer rights, Sexual harassment, Stone butches, Stonewall riots, Testosterone, Trans women, Transgender rights, Transmasculinity, Transphobia Subject: Alison Bechdel, Assata Shakur, CeCe McDonald, Chrystos, Eileen Myles, Emanuel Xavier, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Holly Hughes, Jess Goldberg, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Halberstam, Lambda Literary Award, Michael M. Hernandez, Stonewall Book Award, Susan Stryker Description: Originally published in 1993 by Firebrand Books, "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg is a novel that centers around protagonist Jess Goldberg and Jess' relationship to sexual and gender identity... -
Journal of a Transsexual
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Feinberg, Leslie Date: Feb. 1980 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Hair, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ employment, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Misgendering, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Public bathrooms, Sexual identity, Social norms, Transsexual people, Voice, Working class writings Subject: Bob McCubbin, Dorothy Ballan, Feminism and Marxism, In the Spirit of Stonewall, Leslie Feinberg, New Jersey Supreme Court, Robert Frost, The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal, The Road Not Taken, Workers World Newspaper, Workers World Party Description: A short theoretical piece in the form of a memoir by Leslie Feinberg, published in 1980. This work was Feinberg's first public attempt to put forward a political stance on trans liberation outside ... -
Poems of Truth
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive Creator: Dillon, Michael Date: 1957 Topics: Mysticism, Trans men, Transgender Buddhists, Transgender poetry, Transsexual people Subject: George Gurdjieff, Michael Dillon Description: Michael Dillon's 1957 "Poems of Truth" explores spiritual themes from a variety of religious and philosophical traditions in verse and short prose poems. The work continues themes explored in "Self... -
Mountain Charley
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Transas City Creator: Charley, Mountain Date: 1861 Topics: Crossdressing, Frontier and pioneer life, Gender expression, Stealth (Transgender) Description: The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the... -
Autobiography of an Androgyne
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Transvestism Today
Collection: Rare Books Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Podolsky, Edward, Wade, Carlson Date: 1960 Topics: Childhood, Criminal law, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Heterosexuality, History, Homosexuality, Medical sciences, Parents of crossdressers, Partners of transgender people, Psychologists, Psychology, Sexual excitement, Sexual orientation, Transsexual people, Transsexualism, Underwear Subject: Alfred Kinsey, Bambi, Bernhard Berliner, Burma, Carlos Eduardo Sosa, Chevalier D'Eon, Christine Jorgensen, Coccinelle, David O. Cauldwell, Edwin W. Hirsch, Francois Timoleon de Choisy, George W. Henry, Harry Benjamin, Hasty Pudding Club, Havelock Ellis, Hugo Beigel, Jack Lemmon, Kabuki Theatre, Kenneth Walker, Kitt Russell, Magnus Hirschfeld, Margaret Mead, Mario Costello, Mary Anne Talbot, Otto Fenichel, Powdered Wig Society, Ray Leen, Tony Curtis, Transvestism Today Description: Summary reads: "An individual who derives pleasure from wearing clothes of the opposite sex is called a 'transvestite.' When a man wears female clothing, complete with bloomers, brassiere, slip and... -
The female-impersonators : a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld
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Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender : A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse from 1967 to 1991
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria Creator: Raj, Rupert Date: Jul. 2018 Topics: Crossdressers, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism Subject: Kim Elizabeth Stuart, Rupert Raj, Trish Salah Description: "This treasury of transsexual, transgenderist and transvestic verse is a compilation of close to 400 poems and short prose penned by some 169 people from Canada, the United States, the United Kingd...