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  1. 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...
  2. Interview with Venus DeMars part 1

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: DeMars, Venus
    Date: May 3, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Autobiographies, Breast, Bullying, Cosmetics, Counseling, Crossdressing, Depression, Hormones, Marriage, MtFs, Musicians, Nose--Surgery, Pronoun, Puberty, Transgender people
    Subject: City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Venus de Mars
    Description: Venus de Mars was born in 1960 and grew up as a closeted trans kid, describing herself as a “little boy with a secret.” She didn’t grow up female since she was assigned male at birth but feels comp...
  3. Interview with Zeam Porter

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Porter, Zeam
    Date: Dec. 29, 2016
    Topics: Activists, Age, Bathrooms, Bullying, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Family members, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Genderfluid identity, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Mental disorders, Poetry, Privilege (Social psychology), Religions, Sexual orientation, Sports
    Subject: Gender Revolution 8, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, OutFront Minnesota
    Description: Zeam Porter identifies as a black polyamorous transmasculine genderqueer demiboy and was assigned female at birth. His gender is very fluid but also grounded in being trans masculine. They prefer h...
  4. 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...
  5. Memory Circle: Remembering Bryn Kelly

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Scholl, Zachary, Barton, Joss, Lewis, AJ, Kerr, Theodore, Clark, Naomi, Liederman, Katie, Crandall, Maxe, Parker, Chris, Cage, Diana, Shulman, Sarah, Novack, Rebecca, Buffalo Trace
    Date: Aug. 20, 2016
    Topics: Activists, AIDS phobia, Artists, Blogs, Christianity, Colleges, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Hospitals, Isolation, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, MtFs, Music groups, Night life, Self-help, Smoking, Solidarity, Suicide, Tarot, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: ACT UP, Bryn Kelly, Lambda Literary Retreat, Testo Junkie
    Description: Story sharers include: Katie Liederman, Diana Cage, Maxe Crandall, Chris Parker, Naomi Clark, Buffalo Trace, AJ Lewis, Zachary Scholl, Rebecca Novack, Joss Barton, Sarah Shulman / / Friends of prol...
  6. Nico Fuentes Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Fuentes, Nico, O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Feb. 11, 2018
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Colleges, Depression, Direct action, Families, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Isolation, Labour, Lesbians, Politics, Racism, Sex shops, Trade unions, Transgender people
    Subject: Nico Fuentes
    Description: Nico Fuentes is a member leader in a current unionization campaign at the Pleasure Chest, a sex toy shop. Beginning with an account of growing up in a Mexican family in West Texas and Oklahoma, she...
  7. Octavia Leona Kohner Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Kohner, Octavia Leona
    Date: Mar. 27, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Anarchism, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Feminists, Gender identity, Isolation, Labour movement, LGBTI community, MtFs, Political movements, Solidarity, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Working class
    Subject: Babeland, Octavia Leona Kohner
    Description: Octavia Leona Kohner was active in the successful unionization campaign at Babeland, a NYC sex toy shop. Here, she recounts her upbringing in a working-class family in Staten Island, and describes ...
  8. Our Special Joy Vol. 3 No. 4 (April, 1983)

     
    Collection: Our Special Joy
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Moran, Mary Jane
    Date: Apr. 1983
    Topics: Alcohol, Childhood, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Depression, Femininities, Gatherings, Heterosexuality, LGBTQ+ partners, Lingerie, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
    Subject: Carol Beecroft, Chi Delta Mu, Don Williams, Dorothy Michaels, Dustin Hoffman, Edith Marie, Femme Mirror, Geographic Area Leaders (GALS), John Denver, Julie Daniel, Nora Helene, Patricia Gallagher, Perhaps Love, Sylvia Kay, The Village Voice, Tootsie, Tri-Ess Metro, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Westbury Music Fair
  9. 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,...
  10. Sylver Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Maya, Elliott, Sylver
    Date: Jul. 28, 2017
    Topics: Alcoholism, Childhood, Christianity, Clothing, Communities, Depression, Drag balls, Drag community, Families, Gender diversity, Lesbian community, LGBTI community, Self-acceptance, Social exclusion, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Two-Spirit people, Youth organisations, Youth shelters
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylver
    Description: In this interview, Sylver describes a childhood growing up in the Bronx and a period of awakening that began after they were kicked-out of their mother’s home at 15. Sylver, having at times struggl...
  11. The Transgenderist (October, 1994)

     
    Collection: Upstate New York Newsletters
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1994
    Topics: Acceptance, Children, Clothing, Coming out, Counseling, Crossdressers, Depression, Drag, Events, Family members, Femininities, Film, Gatherings, Gender role, HIV/AIDS, Identity, LGBTQ+ poetry, Marriage, Passing (Gender), Psychotherapy, Public facilities, Religions, Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Shame, Support groups, Transsexual people
    Subject: Cary Grant
  12. The Transgenderist (September, 1996)

     
    Collection: Upstate New York Newsletters
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1996
    Topics: Acceptance, Children of transgender people, Crossdressers, Cultures, Depression, Discrimination, Family members, Femininities, Fetishism, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, HIV/AIDS, Homosexuality, Hormone therapy, Identity, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Partners of transgender people, Prejudices, Psychiatric institutions, Religions, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Support groups, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Feminine Boy Project, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Gender Shock, GenderPAC, Phyllis Burke, UCLA
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  13. The Transsexual Voice (April 1995)

     
    Collection: The Transsexual Voice
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Smith, Phoebe
    Date: Apr. 1995
    Topics: Coming out, Depression, Employment discrimination, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Letters to the editor, Personals, Stonewall riots, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Alyson Publications
  14. The Transsexual Voice (December 1992)

     
    Collection: The Transsexual Voice
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Smith, Phoebe
    Date: Dec. 1992
    Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS education, Anglicanism, Civil rights, Depression, Discrimination, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Internet, MtFs, Nuns, Passing (Gender), Personals, Physicians, Stigmatisation, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, HBIGDA Standards of Care for Hormonal and Surgical Sex Reassignment of Gender Dysphoric Persons, HIV.AIDS Info BBS, Sister Mary Elizabeth
  15. Tiffany Miles Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Miles, Tiffany, Ramsay, Grace
    Date: Apr. 29, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Childhood, Christianity, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Educators, Families, Friendships, Job applications, MtFs, Science fiction, Secrecy, Transgender people
    Subject: Tiffany Miles
    Description: Tiffany Miles describes growing up in conservative, religious small-town Alabama, where she lived for the first thirty-two years of her life. She discusses her complicated relationships with family...