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  1. Anna Travers Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Hormone therapy, Law, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Anna Travers, Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Rainbow Health Network, Shelbourne Health Clinic
  2. Cheri DiNovo Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Clergy, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Law, LGBTI rights policy, Politics, Psychiatry, Sexual reorientation, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Cheri DiNovo, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Toby's Law
  3. Greta Bauer Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Courts, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Insurance, Law, Transgender people
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: Oral History with Greta Bauer, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/Summer ...
  4. Martine Stonehouse Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Human rights, Law, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Martine Stonehouse
  5. Nick Mule Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario, Ki Namaste, Nick Mule, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Rainbow Health Network
  6. Rupert Raj Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Counseling, Electrolysis, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Medicalisation, Phalloplasty, Politics, Prisons, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Rupert Raj, Trans Health Project
  7. Susan Gapka Oral History, Part 1 (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Sexology, Transgender people
    Subject: Harry Benjamin, John Money, Justin Trudeau, Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: First oral history with Susan Gapka, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/S...
  8. Susan Gapka Oral History, Part 2 (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Law, LGBTI rights policy, Transgender people
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: Second oral history with Susan Gapka, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/...
  9. Pauline Park Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Park, Pauline
    Date: Mar. 9, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Adoption, Coming out, Diversity, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Human rights, Law, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ movement, Liberation movements, MtFs, Politics, Racism, Solidarity, Support groups, Transgender people, Transgender rights
    Subject: Pauline Park
    Description: Pauline Park is a long-time transgender activist based in New York City who led the campaign for the 2004 New York City transgender rights law. Born in Korea but adopted into a Christian evangelica...
  10. Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 1 (27 April, 2017)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie
    Date: Apr. 27, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Afro-caribbeans, Black power, Butches, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic relations, Gender role, Lesbian culture, Lesbian separatism, Migration, Oral history, Popular culture, Soft butches, Transphobia
    Subject: Lesbian Organization of Toronto
  11. Zavé Martohardjono Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Martohardjono, Zavé, Awad, Nadia
    Date: May 2, 2017
    Topics: Coming out, Dating, Diversity, Education, Ethnic groups, Families, Gay-straight alliances, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Health care, Hormone therapy, Labelling, LGBTQ+ movement, North american cultures, Parties, Passing (Gender), Sexism, Sociocultural evolution, Transgender community, Transgender people, Work situation
    Subject: Zavé Martohardjono
    Description: "Zavé Martohardjono recounts growing up as a mixed race queer New Yorker. Having seen New York change over the past couple of decades, Zavé tells us about living in globally diverse neighborhoods, ...
  12. Yanyi Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Yanyi, Lisowski, Zef
    Date: Jun. 11, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Allies, Appearance, Bathrooms, Bullying, Coming out, Communities, Ethnic groups, Gay-straight alliances, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Libraries, Masculinities, Media, Parents of transgender people, Poets, Public services, Racism, Religions, Representation, Schools, Secrecy, Sexuality, Social media, Students, Therapists, Tomboys, Transgender community, Transgender people, Violence, Work situation, Writers
    Description: Yanyi, a poet and software engineer, reflects on his experiences being part of and building many forms of community, including Asian American community, queer/trans community, and neighborhood comm...
  13. Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 2 (16 June 2017)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie
    Date: Jun. 16, 2017
    Topics: Alcoholism, Bars, Butches, Gay pride, Hate crimes, Latinos, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mardi gras, MtFs, Older transgender people, Oral history, Police, Police brutality--United States, Soft butches, Volunteering
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Club Manhattan, Lesbian Organization of Toronto, Lezlie Lee Kam, LOOT, Proud and Visible Coalition, Soca, The Rose, World Majority Lesbians
    Description: Lezlie Lee Kam is a 55+, gender-mysterious, world majority person and dyke; a Trini; a Carib; Brown; and a Callaloo-a mix of Chinese, Carib, Indian, Portuguese, and Venezuelan. She was born in Trin...
  14. Torrey Peters Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Peters, Torrey, Lewis, AJ
    Date: Jun. 26, 2018
    Topics: Adolescence, Crossdressers, Dating, Femmes, Gender dysphoria, MtFs, Sexual relationships, Sexuality, Shame, Subcultures, Support groups, Transgender people, Writers
    Description: In an interview with AJ Lewis, Torrey Peters discusses her experience with coming into her gender identity, describing her sexuality and her feelings of shame and isolation that have come with it. ...
  15. Kay Gabriel Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Gabriel, Kay
    Date: Jun. 4, 2019
    Topics: Anarchism, Anarchists, Arab Spring, 2010-, Capitalism, Childhood, Christianity, Class struggle, Classicists, Communism, Crossdressing, Eating disorders, Jews, LGBTQ+ poetry, Modernism, MtFs, Poets, Self-mutilation, Therapists, Transitioning (Gender), Zionism
    Subject: Euripides, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), Occupy Wallstreet
    Description: Kay Grabriel discusses studying critical theory and literature, her radicalization through Occupy Wall Street and becoming a communist, and her writing as a poet. Kay grew up in a left Jewish famil...