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  1. Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators: Celestial and Human (Facsimile Edition)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Bulliet, Clarence Joseph
    Date: 1956
    Topics: Amazons, Bible, Christianity, Circumcision, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag queens, Eroticism, Femininities, History, Homophobia, Judaism, Masculinities, Music, Mythology, Passing (Gender), Poets, Psychology, Sexuality, Sportspersons, Theatre, Transphobia, Visual arts
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Antoine Francois Derues, Bernard S. Talmey, Farinelli, Freud, Girolamo Crescentini, Havelock Ellis, Julian Eltinge, Julius Caesar, King Charles II, Leonardo da Vinci, Memories of the Kaiser's Court, Michelangelo, Oscar Wilde, Penal Code of 1889, Queen Elizabeth I, Raphael de la Chapelle, Secret Life of the Kaiser, Shakespeare, The Dark Ages, Witches' Sabbath, World War I
    Description: Contents: At the shrine of Venus Castina --The hero in woman's dress -- Achilles. Hercules, Samson -- The gods in fine laces -- Love of the philosophers -- Orgy of the Caesars -- Versatility of Sat...
  2. tangents (5/1/1963)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: McIntire, W.E.G.
    Date: May 1, 1963
    Topics: Censorship, Discrimination, Drag, Gender, Gender role, Homophobia, Police raids, Religions
    Subject: Barbara Hutton, Baron Gottfried Von Gramm, Cary Grant, Laurence Harvey, Tallulah Bank, The National Enquirer
  3. Queens at Heart (1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1967
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay bars, Gender affirming surgery, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Hormones, LGBTQ+ suicide, Medicalization, Sex (Act), Trans women, Transphobia
    Subject: Jay Martin
    Description: "This short pseudo-documentary offers a rare look at trans life and drag ball culture in mid-1960s New York." According to Jenni Olson, the LGBTQ historian and archivist who rediscovered the film i...
  4. Phaggot Phliques presents The Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Latimer, Da
    Date: Jun. 28, 1968
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Film, Homophobia, Reviews
    Subject: Jack Doroshaw, The Queen (Film)
  5. The look that says: Isn't HE cute?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 19, 1969
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Clothing, Discrimination, Drag, Family members, Female impersonators, Femininities, Gender identity, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Hormones, Passing (Gender), Sexual orientation, Side-effects, Surgery, Transsexual people
    Subject: Ada Clump, Alan Amsby, David Bishop, Jeff Claridge, Laurie Lee, Lee Sutton, Pussy and Bow
    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)
  6. A review and more (9/15/1969)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Francis, Miller
    Date: Sep. 15, 1969
    Topics: Camp (Gay culture), Crossdressing, Drag, Film, Gay characters, Homophobia
    Subject: Staircase (Movie)
  7. Operation Jack O'Lantern

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Halloween, Homophobia, Intolerance, LGBTI community, Police brutality, Riots, Transphobia
  8. The Queen (October 19, 1970)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Francis, Miller
    Date: Oct. 19, 1970
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Film, Gay liberation, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Reviews, Sexuality
    Subject: The Queen (Film)
  9. Pigs Help Beat Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Benton, Nick
    Date: Dec. 18, 1970 to Dec. 24, 1970
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Gay liberation, Harassment, Homophobia, Oppression, Resistance movements
  10. Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Maxwell, Pat
    Date: Jan. 1, 1971
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Crossdressing, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag, Gender expression, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Homophobia, Legal name change, LGBTQ+ civil rights, Queer rights, Sexism, Transgender activism, Transgender rights, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Transvestites, Women's movement
    Subject: Abbie Hoffman, Arthur Miller, Fems Against Sexism, Marilyn Monroe, Queens, Queens Liberation Front, Radical Queens, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), The Cockettes, The Transvestite-Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), Trans lib, Transvestites and Transsexuals
    Description: Clipping from page 10 of Detroit Gay Liberator, volume 1, issue 8, published on January 1 1971.
  11. A.C. Shocks D.C. Shrinks

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Gay Flames
    Date: May 24, 1971
    Topics: Demonstrations, Drag, Gay community, Homophobia, Lesbian community
    Subject: American Psychiatric Association (APA), Washington Mattachine Society
  12. Reflections on the Death of a Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Dubois, Blanche
    Date: Nov. 18, 1972
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Capitalism, Drag, Drag queens, Fascism, Gay liberation, Hate crimes, Homophobia, Marxism, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Transphobia
    Subject: Cabaret (Film), Liza Minnelli
  13. Lesbians in TV Land

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 1975
    Topics: Drag, Gay men, Homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ partners, Television
    Subject: David Frost, Elaine Noble, Eleanor Cooper, Homosexuals: Out of the Closet, Sally Gearhart, Sally Lafferty, Tom Snyder
  14. 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.
  15. Articles and News (July/August 1989)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Cheryl and Margy
    Date: Jul. 1989 to Aug. 1989
    Topics: Bars, Drag, Homophobia, Human rights, Lesbians, Police, Riots, Stonewall riots
    Subject: Christopher Street Riots, Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), Lesbian Tide, Michigan State University, Village Voices