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  1. Interview with Raquel Willis

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Willis, Raquel
    Date: Jun. 7, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Assigned gender, Black people, Coming out, Counseling, Dating, Drag, Drag kings, Family members, Femininities, Feminism, FtMs, Gay identity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Masculinities, MtFs, Religions, Religious texts, Role behavior, Sexism, Southern States, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: Black Girl Dangerous, RuPaul, Trans Advocacy Organization, Transgender Law Center
    Description: Raquel Willis is a black southern transgender queer woman from Augusta, Georgia who was raised Catholic. Her mom was an educator for almost 30 years at Augusta Technical College while her dad worke...
  2. Interview with T. Aaron Hans

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hans, T. Aaron
    Date: Feb. 25, 2017
    Topics: Activists, AIDS activists, Bullying, Coming out, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Family members, Femininities, FtMs, Gay identity, Gay pride, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Identity, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Medication, Passing (Gender), Social norms, Sports, Transgender community, Transgender people, Voice therapy (Gender)
    Subject: Creating Change, Gay and Lesbian Antiviolence Program, Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Minnie Bruce Pratt, National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Shadow Morton, Title IX, Trans Youth Support Network, Trump Administration
    Description: T. Aaron Hans describes themselves as a butch transmasculine person. Ze has worked for 20 year as a national organizer for LGBTQIA justice and has worked with and been party of organizations such a...
  3. 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...
  4. J. Soto Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Soto, J., Milks, M. Henry
    Date: Oct. 20, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Artists, Arts, Childhood, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Families, FtMs, Gay community, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Language, LGBTQ+ relationships, Migration, Night life, Social exclusion, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: J. Soto
    Description: J. Soto recounts his evolving understanding of gender and identity along his eastward migration across the United States. Born and raised in the Bay Area, J. attended graduate school in Chicago, IL...
  5. Jamie Bauer Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Bauer, Jamie
    Date: Jun. 5, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Age, Childhood, Civil rights, Clothing, Coming out, Dating, Demonstrations, Ethnic groups, FtMs, Gay rights, Gender diversity, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Lesbian community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Liberation movements, Politics, Racism, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Therapists, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Work situation
    Subject: ACT UP, Anita Bryant, Jamie Bauer, Women's Pentagon Action
    Description: Jamie Bauer recounts their childhood and adolescence growing up in New York City’s Stuyvesant Town, resisting family pressure to conform to normative gender expressions and discovering butch femme ...
  6. JD Davids Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Davids, JD
    Date: Mar. 11, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Childhood, Coming out, Demonstrations, Employment discrimination, Families, Feminism, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Housing, Internet, LGBTI community, Politics, Pregnancy, Schools, Sports, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender parents
    Subject: ACT UP, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), JD Davids, Project TEACH
    Description: JD Davids, a writer, health activist, and communication strategist, recounts his experiences as a member of the Philadelphia HIV/AIDS activist movement and subsequent move to New York City. A Phila...
  7. Journal of Male Feminism No. 1 (1980)

     
    Collection: Journal of Male Feminism
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Jones, Glenda Rene
    Date: 1980
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Arrests, Change of name, Clothing, Cosmetics, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Electrolysis, Experiments, Femininities, Fetishism, FtMs, Gatherings, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Genitals, Hair, Hormones, Law, Masculinities, MtFs, Partners of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Photographs, Sexuality, Shame, Support groups, Transgender community, Transsexual people, Upbringing, Wigs
    Subject: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Golden Gate Girls/Guys, Harry Benjamin, John Money, Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic, Meyer-Reter Report, Paul Walker, Program of Human Sexuality, Sigmund Freud
  8. Journal of Male Feminism Vol. 77, No. 3 (1977)

     
    Collection: Journal of Male Feminism
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1977
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Appearance, Army, BDSM, Clothing, Coming out, Cosmetics, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Employment discrimination, Events, Femininities, Feminism, FtMs, Gatherings, Gay liberation, Gay rights, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hair, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTI community, Masculinities, Mental health, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Passing (Gender), Police, Politics, Psychiatrists, Roman catholicism, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Shame, Stereotypes, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Anita Bryant, Diane Von Furstenberg, Faye Cannon, Jody Suzanne Ford, Leo Wollman, National Organization for Women (NOW), Rosalynn Carter, Understanding Cross Dressing, Virginia Prince
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  9. Ky Platt Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Platt, Ky
    Date: Apr. 6, 2017
    Topics: Adoption, Advertising campaigns, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Ethnic diversity, Ethnic groups, Families, FtMs, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Night life, Transgender children, Transgender community, Transgender parents
    Subject: Prince
    Description: Ky Platt is a mixed-race, transgender comedian and author. Originally from Hamilton, Ohio, Ky has been active in the NYC LGBTQ+ community since the 1990s. In this interview, Ky recounts his experie...
  10. Letter from Aimée Waddington to Rupert Raj (May 24, 1994)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Waddington, Aimée
    Date: May 24, 1994
    Topics: FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Transgender activism, Transsexual people
    Subject: AEGIS, Gender Dysphoria Trust International, Rupert Raj
    Description: Aimée Waddington writes to Rupert Raj expressing excitement about working together. Waddington highlights work at the Gender Dysphoria Trust International (GDTI) and their relationship with AEGIS i...
  11. 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.
  12. Letter from Dee Dailey to Rupert Raj (1988)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Dailey, Dee
    Date: 1988
    Topics: FtMs, Gender identity, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Subject: Rupert Raj
    Description: Letter from Dee Dailey to Rupert Raj concerning a proposal and asking for information on FtM hormone therapy to publish a hormone guide.
  13. Letter from Dr. S. de France to Rupert Raj (April 22, 1994)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: de France, S.
    Date: Apr. 22, 1994
    Topics: FtMs, Gender identity, Sexology, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism, Transgender people's writings
    Subject: Metamorphosis, Rupert Raj
    Description: Letter from Docteur S. de France, a medical sexologist, asking Rupert Raj personal questions about transitioning and for general opinions on hormone replacement therapy. de France mentions creating...
  14. Letter from Harry Benjamin to Rupert Raj (January 21, 1984)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Benjamin, Harry
    Date: Jan. 21, 1984
    Topics: FtMs, Gender identity, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Transgender activism
    Subject: Harry Benjamin, Rupert Raj
    Description: Letter from Harry Benjamin thanking Rupert Raj for his Christmas card and wishing Raj the best in his work.
  15. Letter from Holly Devor to Rupert Raj (April 26, 1989)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Devor, Holly
    Date: Apr. 26, 1989
    Topics: FtMs, Gender identity, Trans men, Transsexual people
    Subject: Diane Watson, Holly Devor (now Aaron Devor), Rupert Raj, Vancouver Gender Identity Clinic
    Description: Letter from Holly Devor to Rupert Raj sending him questions for a self interview.