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  1. Rupert Raj's Criteria for Professional Status as a Counsellor/Educator

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: 1988
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Transgender activism
    Subject: Gender Worker, Rupert Raj
    Description: Criteria created by Rupert Raj to determine if someone should qualify for professional status as a counselor or educator for people with or about gender dysphoria.
  2. Save Public Health Care Fund Sex Reassignment Surgeries

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Canadian Union of Public Employees 3903
    Date: 2001 to 2002
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with yellow text on green background. Yellow ring around edge with stars and "CUPE 3903" in black. The button reads "Save PUBLIC Health Care FUND SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERIES".
  3. Self-Organize! Change your sex & your workplace

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Canadian Union of Public Employees 3903
    Date: 2001 to 2002
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Labour, Labour movement, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with black text on teal background. Yellow ring around edge with stars and "CUPE 3903" in black. The button reads "Self Organize! Change your sex & your workplace".
  4. She Monster

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Eakin, Bruce
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with pink and yellow text on white background with picture of small figure in leopard print dress. The button reads "SHE MONSTER".
  5. St. Charles Tavern Article

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Crossdressers, Drag, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Violence
  6. St. Charles Tavern Halloween Violence Article

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Hannon, Gerald
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Arrests, Crossdressers, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Police, Violence
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic and homophobic violence.
  7. St. Charles Tavern Mob Article

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Jefferson, James
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Violence
  8. STOP Violence Against the Transgendered NOW!

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white and red text on black background. The button reads "STOP Violence Against the Transgendered NOW!"
  9. Subscribe to: gendertrash

     
    Collection: gendertrash
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Advertising fliers, Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people, Zines
    Subject: genderpress, gendertrash
    Description: Handbill printed on gray blue paper which reads "Subscribe to gendertrash." Handbill details gendertrash's target audience, ranging from people in transsexual and/or transgender communities, servic...
  10. Subscription Form for Gender Worker

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: 1988
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Subject: Gender Networker, Rupert Raj
    Description: Form addressed to helping professionals and resource providers to subscribe to Rupert Raj's newsletter, Gender Worker.
  11. 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...
  12. 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/...
  13. Switch

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Sexuality, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white text on black background. The button reads "Switch".
  14. The ArQuives Trans Collections Guide

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 2020
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Gender expression, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ magazines, Motion pictures, Oral history, Periodicals, Photographs, Transgender newsletters, Transgender people, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Adam's Word, Chrysalis Quarterly, Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario, Cross-Talk, Erickson Educational Foundation, Gender Review, gendertrash, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, International Congress on Sexology, Louis G. Sullivan, Metamorphosis, Mirha-Soleil Ross, Renaissance News, Rupert Raj, The Transsexual Voice, Xpressions
    Description: A research guide for exploring trans histories at the ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives. This guide covers The ArQuives' collections up until January 2020.
  15. The Empire Strikes Back

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white text over blue abstract design. The button reads "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK".
  16. The FACTual Newsletter No. 1

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 1978
    Topics: Discrimination in employment, Gender affirming surgery, Hermaphrodites, Intersex, Phalloplasty, Sex discrimination, Stand-to-Pee devices, Transgender people's writings
    Subject: Association for Transsexuals of Quebec, Calgary Canadian Human Rights Commission, Charles L. Ihlenfeld, Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals (FACT), Harry Benjamin, Inge Stephens, John Money, Mario Martino, Rupert Raj
    Description: The first issue of the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals (FACT). Topics include: discrimination lawsuits in employment, thank you's to doctors and professionals doing work wit...
  17. Theory Mutilates Surgery Liberates

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with red text on black and brown background. The button reads "Theory Mutilates Surgery Liberates".
  18. This Transie's Angry

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text and a red and blue starburst. The button reads "This Transie's Angry".
  19. Toronto TS Group Meeting Agenda

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 8, 1986
    Topics: Transgender activism
    Subject: Rupert Raj, Toronto TS Group
    Description: Document showing a meeting from the Toronto TS Group that Rupert and Michelle co-chaired. They plan to start anew with their jurisdiction and have 28 people in attendance. On the second sheet are h...
  20. Toronto's Leading Ladies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Competitions, Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Halloween, Photographs
  21. Trans Dyke

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Lesbians, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with pink text in white square on pink background. The button reads "Trans Dyke".
  22. Trans Fag

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Gay identity, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button black text on purple background. The button reads "Trans Fag".
  23. Trans Solidarity! Decriminalize sex work now

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Canadian Union of Public Employees 3903
    Date: 2001 to 2002
    Topics: LGBTQ+ sex workers, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on red background. Yellow ring around edge with stars and "CUPE 3903" in black. The button reads "TRANS SOLIDARITY! Decriminalize sex work NOW".
  24. TransFag

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Eakin, Bruce
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Gay men, Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on pink background with black and white image of face with a flower held in mouth. The button reads "TransFag".
  25. Transgender Fury

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: 1977 to circa 2010
    Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with black text on green background. The button reads "Transgender Fury"
  26. Transsexual $ Hooker

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: LGBTQ+ sex workers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round photo with black text on yellow background. The button reads "TRANSSEXUAL $ HOOKER".
  27. Transsexual Sisterhood

     
    Collection: gendertrash
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: 1995
    Topics: Drawings, Transgender community, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people, Zines
    Description: A drawing done in varying shades of purple pen and pencil crayon on yellowing paper.This image depicts four figures, presumably trans women, holding eachother by their hands and hair. Below the fig...
  28. Transsexuals for Animal Liberation

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Animals, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on blue background with large purple butterfly in centre. The button reads "Transsexuals for Animal Liberation".
  29. Transsexuals Get AIDS Too

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, Transsexual people
    Description: Round buttons with black text on purple background. The button reads "Transsexuals get AIDS too".
  30. Transsexuals get AIDS too (1)

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text over large grey "AIDS" on purple background. The button reads "Transsexuals get AIDS too".
  31. Transsexuals Get Queerbashed Too

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Hate crimes, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Two round buttons with black text on purple background, one mottled purple. The button reads "Transsexuals get queerbashed too".
  32. "Transvestism"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 7, 1963
    Topics: Advertisements, Crossdressing, Gay men, Personals
    Description: A newspaper personal for "discreet" men interested in crossdressing.
  33. Transvestite is guilty of gross indecency: enlists sympathy of court so sentence is suspended; other party is fined $100

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1963
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Description: A newspaper article describing the appearance of a number of crossdressers in court.
  34. Transvestites steal spotlight from the spankers, pro and con

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 20, 1960
    Topics: Bondage, Crossdressing, Gender role, Gender swapping, Leather community, Spanking
    Description: A series of letters discussing crossdressing, gender roles, and sexual practices such as the use of leather. Page two of the article is located in "Related Links"
  35. TS lives under TS control Now!

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text on white and blue textured background. The button reads "TS lives under TS control Now!".
  36. TS'S Against Racism

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Anti-racism, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with black text over faint grey word "racism" on purple background. The button reads "TS'S AGAINST RACISM".
  37. Two People Posing in Toronto

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Clothing, Events, Gatherings, Halloween, Halloween costumes
    Description: Halloween in Toronto. Two people pose for the camera against a brick wall. Both have black hair or wigs. One person in white jacket, other person in black knit shawl.
  38. Vegan Transsexual

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Button with black text over white and purple flower on white background. The button reads "Vegan Transsexual".
  39. We don't need balls to play

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with white text on black background. This button reads "We don't need balls to play".
  40. Wendy Coad with a Friend

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Goodwin, John
    Date: 1980s
    Topics: Clothing, Cosmetics, Friendships
    Subject: Wendy Coad
    Description: Someone poses in a photograph in a romper, a silk robe, a neck scarf, and earrings, and wears makeup, while another person stands partially out of the frame in pants and a pink shirt. One of these ...
  41. What Is Transsexuality

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Harbinger Community Services
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Transsexuality
    Subject: Association of Canadian Transsexuals (ACT), Harbinger Community Services, Rupert Raj
    Description: A Harbinger Community Services brochure explaining transsexuality.
  42. Whining Works!!!

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: LGBTI rights, Transgender publishers
    Description: Round button with red text over white background with a small unhappy face pattern. The button reads "Whining Works!!!".
  43. Whoops my dear!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1950? to 1980?
    Topics: Homophobia, Persecution of gay men, Sexual offenses laws
  44. Woman-born Transsexual

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender publishers, Transsexual people
    Description: Round button with pink/white text on black background. The button reads "Woman-born Transsexual".
  45. Xanthra

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil
    Date: circa 1990
    Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Xanthra Phillippa MacKay
    Description: Round button with photograph of Xanthra Phillipa MacKay.
  46. Your children may be homosexuals! Here are the shocking details

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 15, 1964
    Topics: Children, Crossdressers, Gay men, Homophobia, Porn magazines
    Subject: Female Mimics International (F.M.I.)
    Description: A newspaper article pleading for action against pornographic magazines containing crossdressing and homosexual content.