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  1. You Never Can Tell

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Browne, Ken
    Date: Nov. 30, 1931
    Topics: Butches, Dykes, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ cartoons
    Description: Comic strip published in Brevities: America's First National Tabloid Weekly, Vol. III, No. 5 on November 30, 1931. The comic depicts two women who are sporting blazers, ties, and slicked-back hair ...
  2. Unapologetic: The Journal of Irresponsible Gender #1

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Tagonist, Anne
    Date: Dec. 1, 1997
    Topics: Butches, Femmes, Gender expression, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ comics, LGBTQ+ fiction, MtFs, Safer sex, Sex (Act), Transgender people
    Subject: Bitch Hips, Camille Paglia, Fierce Femme, Like Cinderella, M2B, Ped Xing, Sister Subverter, Watermelon Woman
  3. Transgenderism

     
    Collection: International Foundation for Gender Education Publications and Documents
    Institution: The History Project
    Creator: International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Nangeroni, Nancy
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Butches, Crossdressers, Drag kings, Drag queens, Femmes, FtMs, Gender identity, Intersex, MtFs, Sexual identity, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Nancy Nangeroni, Ninja Design, Stone Butch Blues, The International Foundation for Gender Education, Transgender Warriors: A History of Resistance from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, Transsexual Menace
    Description: A brochure about 'transgenderism' by the Nancy R. Nangeroni International Foundation for Gender Education that defines terms and explains trans identity.
  4. 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.
  5. THE LESBIAN/TRANSSEXUAL MISUNDERSTANDING

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Margo
    Date: Feb. 22, 1975
    Topics: Butches, Femininities, Femmes, Gender identity, Gender roles, Genitals, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, MtFs, Sexual preference, Transsexual people
    Subject: Abraham Lincoln, Betty Friedan, Congress to Unite Women, Dick Cavett Show, Gay Community News, Jan Morris
    Description: An editorial by a transsexual lesbian, addressing the issues and misconceptions about trans lesbian identity. Originally published on pages 6 and 7 of volume 2 number 35 of Gay Community News.
  6. The Garba of Butch

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Pandya, Kalyani
    Date: Apr. 1996
    Topics: Butches, QTPOC, Queer women, South Asian LGBTQ+ people
    Description: An article discussing the author's life and her experiences as a butch queer woman in South Asia.
  7. Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 1988
    Topics: Black lesbians, Black LGBTQ+ people, Butches, Drag kings, LGBTQ+ activists, Racially mixed people
    Subject: Stormé DeLarverie
    Description: Photograph of Stormé DeLarverie standing and holding a microphone, printed on beige paper with the caption "Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box"
  8. 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...
  9. Stormé DeLarverie, 1999

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator: Giard, Robert
    Date: 1999
    Topics: BIPOC, Black lesbians, Butches, Drag kings, Racially mixed people
    Subject: Stormé DeLarverie
    Description: Photograph of Stormé DeLarverié sitting in a chair from 1999.
  10. Stop Putting Down Masculine-Looking Women

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Her-self
    Date: Oct. 1973 to Nov. 1978
    Topics: Butches, Feminism, Gender role, Heteronormativity, Lesbian community, Lesbian feminism, Lesbians, Lesbophobia, Soft butches
  11. 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...
  12. Shelby Chestnut Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Chestnut, Shelby
    Date: May 14, 2017
    Topics: Addictions, Arts, Butches, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Identity, Indian reservations--Montana, Learning difficulties, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Native americans, Representation, Schools, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Transgender rights, Violence, Youth
    Subject: Janet Mock
    Description: Shelby Chestnut describes their childhood and adolescence between Montana and Minnesota, discussing friendships and family, bullying and acceptance, mixed-race (Native American and white) identity,...
  13. Sex, Gender and Revolution

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Bell, Bee
    Date: Mar. 1994
    Topics: Abortion, Appearance, Arrests, Butches, Class struggle, Communities, Crimes, Demonstrations, Discrimination, Drag kings, Drag queens, Economics, Employment discrimination, Femininities, Femmes, Gender diversity, Identity, Intersex people, Labour, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Normalization, Oppression, Patriarchy, Peace movement, Police, Racism, Rape victims, Religious right, Sexual harassment, Sexual roles, Sexuality, Social control, Social exclusion, Social movements, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Unemployment
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Drag King Dreams, Gay American Indians, Larry Gilbert, Leslie Feinberg, Mike Chitwood, Newsweek, Operation Rescue, Rodney King, Stone Butch Blues, The New York Times, Transgender Warriors: A History of Resistance from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, Workers World Party
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 1 of the periodical.
  14. 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...
  15. Rona Love Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Love, Rona
    Date: Jul. 2, 2019
    Topics: Arts, Bisexual community, Butches, Child abuse, Drag community, FtMs, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Judaism, Kidnappings, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Mental health, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Music, Prison guards, Prisons, Self-respect, Sexual abuse, Slang, Soft butches, Street violence, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Black and Pink, Daniel Poliak, Director of Prison Justice Project, Hazel Katz, Mick King K, Parole Preparation Project, Sparkle, Tremont
    Description: Rona Love discusses her early childhood hardships, three decade long incarceration and experiences in psychiatric hospitals. She details abuse, violence and the extreme isolation of being a trans-f...
  16. Responses to "Open Letter to Olivia Records" by Candice Margulies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 1, 1978
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Butches, Lesbian feminism, Lesbian separatism, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ motherhood, MtFs, Queer relationships, Transsexual people
    Subject: Abuse, American Sign Language, Anita Bryant, Candice Margulies, Capitalism, Olivia Records, Sandy Stone
    Description: This clipping is from pages 15-18 of Lesbian Connection newsletter volume 3, issue 7, issued February 1, 1978.
  17. Responses (Jan/Feb 1986)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1986 to Feb. 1986
    Topics: Butches, Clothing, Gender bending, Gender role, Lesbian community, Lesbian culture, Letters to the editor, Men's clothing, Soft butches
  18. Renaissance News, Vol 7. No. 8 (August 1993)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Aug. 1993
    Topics: Activists, Anti-semitism, Butches, Censorship, Clothing, Coming out, Counseling, Crossdressing, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Femininities, FtMs, Gender role, Gender swapping, Herstory, Lesbians, Letters, LGBTQ+ radio, Marriage, Marxism, Mixed-orientation marriage, MtFs, Politics, Popular culture, Pornography, Self-image, Soft butches, Sports, Transsexual people, Upbringing
    Subject: Leslie Feinberg, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Qwonta Jones, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Workers World Party
  19. Renaissance News & Views Vol. 10, No. 7 (July, 1996)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Jul. 1996
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Appearance, Arrests, Book clubs, Butches, Change of name, Clothing, Cosmetics, Crossdressers, Employment discrimination, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Privacy, Same-sex marriage, Self-acceptance, Serial killers, Sexual orientation, Soft butches, Support groups, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender prostitutes, Underwear, Valentine's Day
    Subject: Bridges to Coalition, Dennis Rodman, Dick Van Dyke, It's Time America, J.J. Allen, Leslie Feinberg, Miss Lady Bunny, Stone Butch Blues, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
  20. Raw Vulva #2

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator:
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Butches, Femmes, Horoscopes, Lesbians, Letters, Soft butches, Transgender people
    Subject: Critical Mass, Red Dora's Bearded Lady
  21. Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 2 (16 June 2017)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie
    Date: Jun. 16, 2017
    Topics: Alcoholism, Bars, Butches, Gay pride, Hate crimes, Latinos, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mardi gras, MtFs, Older transgender people, Oral history, Police, Police brutality--United States, Soft butches, Volunteering
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Club Manhattan, Lesbian Organization of Toronto, Lezlie Lee Kam, LOOT, Proud and Visible Coalition, Soca, The Rose, World Majority Lesbians
    Description: Lezlie Lee Kam is a 55+, gender-mysterious, world majority person and dyke; a Trini; a Carib; Brown; and a Callaloo-a mix of Chinese, Carib, Indian, Portuguese, and Venezuelan. She was born in Trin...
  22. Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 1 (27 April, 2017)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie
    Date: Apr. 27, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Afro-caribbeans, Black power, Butches, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic relations, Gender role, Lesbian culture, Lesbian separatism, Migration, Oral history, Popular culture, Soft butches, Transphobia
    Subject: Lesbian Organization of Toronto
  23. Not a Joking Matter

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1985 to Sep. 1985
    Topics: Abuse, Advice columns, Butches, Ethnic groups, Feminism, Gender, Gender role, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Patriarchy, Soft butches, Transgender people
    Subject: Dear Butch, I Know You Know
  24. Murder in the Women's Army Corps

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Bérubé, Allan, Bond, Pat
    Date: Summer 1991
    Topics: Anti-lesbian violence, Army, Butches, Lesbians, Soft butches, Suicide
    Subject: Coming Out Under Fire (Book), Murder in the WAC (Play), Pat Bond
  25. Mousie #3

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Rampage, Anna
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Bisexuals, Butches, Comic strips, Ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ poetry, Reviews, Soft butches
    Subject: Calico Rechy, Claire of the Moon, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
  26. Letter to a Femme

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Jan. 1994
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Butches, Coming out, Discrimination, Drag, Drag queens, FtMs, Hate crimes, Hate speech, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ lovers, Passing (Gender), Police officers, Police raids, Prejudices, Rape, Sexual harassment, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Suicide, Transgender people
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Workers World Party
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 3 of the periodical.
  27. Letter from Rupert Raj to Gayle Rubin (May 9, 1994)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: May 9, 1994
    Topics: Androgyny, Butches, Femmes, FtMs, Lesbians, Transgender people
    Subject: Gayle Rubin, Rupert Raj
    Description: Rupert Raj writes to Gayle Rubin about a future co-editing opportunity.
  28. Letter from Lou Sullivan to Bet Power (May 2, 1987)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: May 2, 1987
    Topics: Bars, Butches, Crossdressers, FtMs, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Lesbian community, Lesbians, Liberation movements, MtFs, Self-acceptance, Soft butches, Surgery, Therapies, Transvestites
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Kim Stuart, Lou Sullivan, The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
    Description: Envelope included.
  29. Letter from Lou Sullivan to Bet Power (April 30, 1988)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: Apr. 30, 1988
    Topics: Butches, Demonstrations, FtMs, Gay pride, Health, Hormones, Soft butches, Spirituality, Support groups, Surgery, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: All of Me, Alyson, Ben Power, Bet Power, FTM Newsletter, Fun with a Sausage, Gayle Rubin, Ira B. Pauly, Lily Tomlin, Lou Sullivan, Second Serve, Shane Harley, Vanessa Redgrave
    Description: Envelope included.
  30. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (November 16, 1986)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Nov. 16, 1986
    Topics: Butches, FtMs, Lesbians, Letters, Self-help, Soft butches, Transsexual people
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Information for the Female to Male Crossdresser and Transsexual, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library
    Description: Handwritten response written by Lou Sullivan at the bottom of the letter.
  31. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (March 4, 1987)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Mar. 4, 1987
    Topics: Alcoholism, Androgyny, BDSM, Body building, Butches, Clothing, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender identity, Lesbian community, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ lovers, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Photographs, Sadism, Sexual orientation, Soft butches, Therapies, Transsexual people
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Information for the Female to Male Crossdresser and Transsexual, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library, SF Lesbian and Gay History Project
    Description: Five photographs and draft included with letter.
  32. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (June 30, 1988)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Jun. 30, 1988
    Topics: Butches, Career development, Crossdressing, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), FtMs, Isolation, Leather community, Letters, LGBTQ+ lovers, Loneliness, SM, Soft butches, Support groups, Therapies
    Subject: Aria, Barbara Gittings, Ben Power, Bet Power, Blush Productions, Butch, FTM Newsletter, Fun with a Sausage, Joan Nestle, Jonathan Katz, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library, Smith College, The Ladder
    Description: Handwritten draft of letter included.
  33. Lesbian Sex/Gay Sex What's the Difference

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Creet, J.
    Date: Winter 1991
    Topics: Activists, Butches, Drag queens, Feminism, Gay rights, Homosexuality, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Sexuality, Sodomy laws, Soft butches
    Subject: Ontario Human Rights Code
  34. Lesbian Masquerade

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 1979
    Topics: Butches, Crossdressing, Lesbians, Passing (Gender), Soft butches
    Subject: Allan Berube
    Description: Item originally collected by Lou Sullivan.
  35. Kyle Katz Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Yesner, Lenni, Katz, Kyle
    Date: Apr. 29, 2017
    Topics: Butches, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Night life, Single parent families, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Kyle Katz
    Description: In this interview Kyle Katz speaks about their childhood, growing up in Boston, coming to New York, and the role that timing, books and community have played in how they identify, and understand th...
  36. Jay London Toole Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Toole, Jay London, Kerr, Ted
    Date: Jun. 15, 2016
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Butches, Childhood, Coming out, Criminalization, Crisis centres, Families, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Homeless people, Homelessness, Imprisonment, LGBTI community, Passing (Gender), Police, Prostitution, Sexual child abuse, Soft butches, Stigmatisation, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
    Subject: Jay London Toole
    Description: Jay Toole describes her experiences of queer homelessness in New York City. Born in the South Bronx, she became homeless as a child due to the circumstances of her family and identity as a stone bu...
  37. Interview with Valerie Spencer

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Spencer, Valerie
    Date: Oct. 5, 2017
    Topics: African American transgender people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Butches, Christianity, Clothing, Depression, Drag queens, Employment discrimination, Exorcism, Families, Families, Black, Femininities, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Identity politics, Intersectionality (Sociology), Labeling, Language, Marriage, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, Privilege (Social psychology), Psychic trauma, Racism, Role behavior, Role models, Schools, Self-care, Health, Social advocacy, Soft butches, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center of Color
    Description: Valerie Spencer identifies as a black trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the suburbs. She had an older brother who was murdered when s...
  38. Interview with Ty Yule

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Yule, Ty
    Date: Aug. 20, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Bullying, Businesses, Butches, Coming out, Family members, Femininities, FtMs, Gay culture, Gay pride, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intolerance, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Punk, Same-sex marriage, Self-destructive behavior, Social movements, Soft butches, Suicidal behavior, Testosterone, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Women's bars
    Subject: ACT UP, Cher, Queer Nation, The L Word
    Description: Ty Yule identifies as a trans man or trans person assigned female at birth. He started transitioning 4 years ago at the time of the interview at age 41. He was born in Minnesota, then moved to Iowa...
  39. Interview with Tiq Milan

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Milan, Tiq
    Date: Nov. 2, 2017
    Topics: Autobiographies, Bars, Black people, Butches, Children, Coming out, Discrimination, Divorce, Families, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hormone therapy, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Racism, Roman catholicism, Soft butches, Sports, Substance abuse, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transphobia, Working class
    Subject: Brian Michael Smith, Bronx Community Pride Center, Buzzfeed, CeCe McDonald, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Hetrick Martin Institute, Huffington, Lambda Legal, MTV, National Anti Violence Project, Niagara University, Power and Privilege Series, Queen Sugar, Redefining Masculinity, Rolling Stone, Source Magazine, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), The Guardian, The New Yorker, Vibe Magazine
    Description: Tiq Milan identifies as a binary black trans man who is queer identified and was assigned female at birth. He grew up in Buffalo, New York in a working-class family in the hood, Milan states. He lo...
  40. Interview with Raymond Rea

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Rea, Raymond
    Date: Oct. 16, 2016
    Topics: Butches, Gay and lesbian film festivals, Genderfluid identity, Genderqueer people, Italian American men, LGBTQ+ films, Older queer people, Older transgender people, Trans men, Transitioning (Gender), White transgender people
    Description: An interview with Raymond Rea, an Italian-English-American-white trans male raised in Massachusetts. At the time of this oral history, Rea was working as a Professor in the School of Media Arts & D...
  41. Interview with Marcus Waterbury

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Waterbury, Marcus
    Date: Jan. 8, 2016
    Topics: Assigned gender, Bullying, Butches, Change of name, Coming out, Dating, Family members, FtMs, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Heterosexual men, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Plastic surgery, Psychotherapy, Sexism, Soft butches, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Voice therapy (Gender), Women's movement
    Subject: Mount Holyoke, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
    Description: Marcus Waterbury identifies as a transgender man and was assigned female at birth. He grew up in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and has a little sister. He wanted no part in feminine activities and ins...
  42. Interview with Joy Michael Starkey

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Starkey, Joy Michael
    Date: Jul. 5, 2017
    Topics: Bisexual identity, Butches, Clothing, Coming out, Conservatives, Family members, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Genderfluid identity, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, Quakers, Soft butches, Tomboys
    Subject: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA)
    Description: Joy Michael Starkey identifies as a white genderqueer non-binary trans person and was assigned female at birth. They grew up in the suburbs of Vancouver, Washington which is right across the river ...
  43. Interview with Gradylee Shapiro

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Shapiro, Gradylee
    Date: Jan. 17, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Baldness, Bisexuality, Bullying, Butches, Clothing, Coming out, Dating, Death and dying, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Family members, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Mental disorders, Ovariectomy, Passing (Gender), Poor, Schools, Soft butches, Swindlers and swindling, Testosterone, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: District 202, Ethan Laubach, Gender Blur, GLBT Youth Organization, Prism
    Description: Gradylee Shapiro identifies as a butch and was assigned female at birth. They did not specify preferred pronouns in their interview so the gender-neutral terms, they/them, are used throughout this ...
  44. Interview with Ben Singer

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Singer, Ben
    Date: Nov. 24, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Activists, Bullying, Butches, Change of name, Coming out, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Family members, Feminism, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Oppression, Public health, Sexual abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Bridges to Coalition: A Community Forum on Trans Issues, Transgender Health Action Coalition
    Description: Ben Singer identifies as a trans man and was assigned female at birth. He was born and raised in Sterling, Illinois in a working-class family. For the past 25 years he’s been estranged from his fam...
  45. Interview with Ani Koch

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Koch, Ani
    Date: Jan. 6, 2017
    Topics: Bullying, Butches, Drag, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Lesbians, Marriage, Masculinities, Monogamy, Social exclusion, Soft butches, Sports, Tomboys, Transgender people
    Subject: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Rainbow Health Initiative
    Description: Ani Koch identifies as genderqueer, trans masculine, and nonconforming, and they were assigned female at birth. They grew up in Dubuque, Iowa with two older brothers. As a kid they were a tomboy, o...
  46. Interview Olivia Hnlicka

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hnlicka, Olivia
    Date: Jan. 14, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Beauty standards, Butches, Capitalism, Cisgender people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Depression, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Femmes, Gay community, Gender identity, Hair, Hair--Removal, Heterosexuality, HIV/AIDS, Homeless people, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Masculinities, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Religions, Sexual orientation, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel, White people
    Subject: About Face Youth Theatre, Annoyance Theatre, Bear Culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Coed Prison Sluts, Crusty Girl, Vogue Magazine
    Description: Olivia Hnilicka identifies as a white queer transgender woman and was assigned male at birth. Her mother was an elementary school teacher before she had her and her five brothers. She was born in R...
  47. Gia Love Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Love, Gia
    Date: Apr. 11, 2019
    Topics: African diaspora, African-americans, Black people, Bullying, Butches, Childhood, Crossdressing, Debates, Drag balls, Femininities, Foster children, Gender, Gender diversity, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Mothers, Racism, Sexism, Sexual abuse, Soft butches, Special education, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Women
    Subject: Butch Queen, City College, Destination Tomorrow, Ginovia, Greenlight Hub, Harlem United, Harvard University, House of Bacardi, House of Juicy, House of Louboutin, House of McQueen, Islan Nettles, Kalem Lord, Malcolm X, Marist College, Martin Luther King Jr., New York Urban Debate League (NYUDL), Paris Is Burning, Sundance, TQ, Uber
    Description: Gia Love reflects on her life in the kiki ball scene, an underground queer and trans dance community in New York City. In kiki, particularly the House of Juicy, Gia found deep friendships and a sup...
  48. Gendercide #2

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Milo
    Date: 2007
    Topics: Butches, Femmes, FtMs, Gender expression, Gender identity, Genderqueer people, Lesbians
    Subject: Bikini Kill, Dorthy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Lunachicks, Madonna, Mary Tyler Moore, Tony Randall
    Description: A zine titled: "Gendercide #2" created by Milo.
  49. Genderbent #2

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Poppins, Cherry
    Date: 2008
    Topics: Butches, Clothing, Drag, Drag kings, Femmes, Gender expression, Lesbian culture, Performance art
    Subject: International Drag KingCommunity Extravaganza, Kentucky Fried Woman
    Description: A zine titled: "Genderbent #2" created by Cherry Poppins. Discusses femmes, butches, and gender expression.
  50. Gender-Bending Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Nichols, Margaret
    Date: 1987
    Topics: Autonomy, Butch-femme relationships, Butches, Clothing, Feminism, Gender role, Lesbian community, Lesbian culture, Patriarchy, Sexual relationships, Sexual roles, Sexuality, Soft butches