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  1. Giving Their All at the Drag Ball

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Phoenix, Pat
    Date: Dec. 17, 1977
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag balls, Drag queens, Femininities, Photographs
    Subject: Andre A'dore, Barry Sullivan, Bill Neech, Fag Ash Lil, Michael Lee, Raymond Edwards
    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)
  2. "Harry" Stokes, the Man-Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 17, 1859
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Gender role, Masculinities, Poverty, Suicide
    Subject: Harry Stokes
  3. Head Made Boy Dress As Girl

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 2, 1968
    Topics: Bullying, Clothing, Crossdressing, Schools
    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)
  4. He's the Queen of Them All

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Garner, Lesley
    Date: Mar. 10, 1977
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Femininities, Liberation movements
    Subject: Anthony Shum, Isabella Shum
    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)
  5. Human Curios: Mary East

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 16, 1920
    Topics: Blackmail, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: James How, Mary East
    Description: Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA)
  6. In Man's Attire: Catherine Coombs Worked with Men for Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 12, 1897
    Topics: Artists, Crossdressing, Femininities, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Masculinities
    Subject: Catherine Coombs, Charley Wilson, London Telegraph
  7. John Willson - the "other woman" in his wife's life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1, 1984
    Topics: Acceptance, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender role, Heterosexuality, Marriage, Partners of transgender people, Self-acceptance, Shame, Support groups
    Subject: John Willson, Women of the Beaumont Society (WOBS)
    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)
  8. Life and Examination of the Would-Be Ladies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1870
    Topics: Courts, Crossdressing
    Subject: Frederick William Park, Thomas Ernest Boulton
  9. Lived as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 26, 1901
    Topics: Adoption, Breast cancer, Clothing, Crossdressing, Death and dying, FtMs, Job placement, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Pawnbrokers, Pets, Police
    Subject: Minnie Hall, Murray Hall
  10. Lived as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 7, 1901
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, FtMs, Labour, Marriage, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Catherine Coombs
  11. Man Posed As A Film Actress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 4, 1969
    Topics: Actors, Arrests, Change of name, Crossdressing, Depression, Drag, Fraud, Identity, Imprisonment
    Subject: Angela Smith, Billie Whitelaw, Dennis Peter Bird
    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)
  12. Mary Frith, Alias Moll Cutpurse

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 3, 1817
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Gender, LGBTQ+ poetry
    Subject: Mary Frith
  13. Mary Read and Ann Bonny First and Only Women Pirates

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 12, 1905
    Topics: Crossdressing, Imprisonment, Maritime occupations, Marriage, Military, Pirates
    Subject: Anne Bonny, Captain Avery, Captain Johnson, Marryat J. Clarke, Mary Read, Robert Louis Stevenson, Russell Pyle, William J. Le Moyne, Wood Rogers
  14. My Strange life

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Ashley, April
    Date: May 20, 1962
    Topics: Coming out, Crossdressing, Drag balls, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, MtFs, Self-acceptance, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Weddings
    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)
  15. Now ex-Pc is choir mistress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Whittaker, Alan
    Date: Nov. 9, 1969
    Topics: Acceptance, Cosmetics, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, LGBTQ+ partners, Military, Police, Transsexual people
    Subject: Linda Grant
    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)