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  1. California Nights

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Russell, Sydney K.
    Date: 1918
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Fashion, Female impersonators, Musical theatre
    Subject: Frank Lawton, Karyl Norman, The Creole Fashion Plate
  2. Joe Harper party, view 1

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1920
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Parties
    Description: Seven men who are dressed in drag pose together in someone's apartment for an event identified as "Joe Harper's Party."
  3. Joe Harper party, view 2

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1920
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Parties
    Description: A uniformed man (center), who appears to be a police officer, poses with three men who are dressed in drag for an event identified as "Joe Harper's Party." The two men on the far right are covering...
  4. Men dressed in drag

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1, 1949
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing
    Description: Men festively dressed as women are shown during an unidentified event taking place at 3rd Street and Main in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph dated November 1, 1949.
  5. Nabbed in 'maid' masquerade

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 27, 1950
    Topics: Arrests, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Household work, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ people of color, Police stations
    Subject: Frank Porter, Mary Lee Porter, Queque Malpress, Rita Porter, Tisha Porter, Willie Moore
    Description: Masculine jail clothing was substituted for feminine attire worn by these three youths after they were nabbed early today. They said they had been employed as female domestic servants in fashionabl...
  6. Five men dressed as women nabbed in Altadena cafe raid

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1, 1954
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Police raids, Police stations
    Subject: Benny Zubiate, J. Noroy Bramblette, John D'Andrea, Robert W. Stewart, Tom Tuites
  7. Sex Life of a Transvestite

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Murdock, Larry
    Date: 1964
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Transsexualism
    Subject: Charles Prince, Leonard A. Wheeler, Sexology, Transvestia, Turnabout
  8. ONE in Los Angeles

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 1967
    Topics: Acceptance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Mass media, Sexual practices
    Subject: Herbert Shaw
  9. ETVC Brochure

     
    Collection: Informational and Event Brochures
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Self-acceptance, Transgender people
    Subject: Educational TV Channel (ETVC)
    Description: Item originally collected by Lou Sullivan.
  10. John Waters at Vertigo

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator: Leonard, Gary
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Clubs, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Directors, Night life
    Subject: John Waters, Malcolm Kelso, Vertigo
    Description: Photo of director, John Waters and Vertigo artistic director, Malcolm Kelso, taken inside the Vertigo nightclub.
  11. Letter from the President of Chi Chapter: Society for the Second Self

     
    Collection: Chi Chapter Newsletters
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Mary Ann
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Lectures, Meetings, Organisations, Television programmes
    Subject: Chi Chapter, Phil Donahue, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
    Description: Physical item located in Cornell's Mid-Hudson Valley Transgender Association Records, 1970-2014. Collection Number: 7832.
  12. Drag Vol. 1 No. 1 (1971)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Activists, Black queer people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gender identity, Homosexuality, Letters to the editor, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Barbarella, Christine Jorgensen, John Hansen, Mardi Gras Ball, Mel Michaels
    Description: Alternative title: DRAG Queens. ; On item cover: "A magazine about the Transvestite". ; Contents: Editorial -- Drag queens demonstrate -- John Hansen as Christine -- Viewpoint -- Stomp those high h...
  13. Drag Vol. 1 No. 4 (1971)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Activists, Black queer people, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball, Sally Douglas, Toni Valponi
    Description: On item cover: "A magazine about the Transvestite". ; Contents: Editorial -- News -- What you always wanted to know about hormones -- Powder puff review --San Francisco scene -- Makin the scene -- ...
  14. The Transvestite Magazine: Vol. 3 No. 34

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Slavik, Cathy Charles
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Acceptance, Advertisements, Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Families, Letters to the editor, Military, Night life, Passing (Gender), Photographs, Public facilities, Transsexual people
    Subject: Empathy Club
  15. Drag Vol. 3 No. 11 (1973)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1973
    Topics: Activists, Asian queer people, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Queer people of color, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Gay Parade, Mardi Gras Ball
    Description: On item cover: "The International Transvestite Quarterly". ; Contents: Drags & tv's join march -- Just like high society -- In memoriam -- Miss Joey -- Mardi Gras '73 -- Movie review -- Theatre rev...