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  1. Candy Darling Posing in a Dress

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Actors, MtFs, Photographic models, Transgender people
    Subject: Candy Darling
  2. Club Laurel Matchbox

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Club Laurel
    Date: 1965?
    Topics: Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Matchboxes, Pocket matchboxes, Theatre shows
    Subject: Club Laurel
  3. Cops and Robbers II: Transsexuals and the Police

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: American Archive of Public Broadcasting
    Creator: Pacifica Radio Archives
    Date: 1924 to Oct. 2006
    Topics: Gay rights, Identity, Law enforcement, Legal status, LGBT, Police, Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration, Transsexual people
    Subject: Conversion Our Goal (C.O.G.), Elliot Blackstone, Herb Kutchins, San Francisco Bail Project, San Francisco Police Department
    Description: Three transsexuals discuss police problems and their work as members of C.O.G., Conversion our Goal, with Police Community Relations Officer Elliot Blackstone of the San Francisco Police Department...
  4. Dolores Gray (Sammy) on Rutgers Street

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Christmas, Gender minorities, Public facilities
    Subject: Dolores Gray
  5. Female Mimics Vol. 1 No. 5

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Health Knowledge
    Date: 1965
    Topics: Actors, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag kings, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Photographic models, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: Bambi, Bunny Lake, Emilio Tellez, Jewel Box Revue
    Description: On item cover: "The world's foremost female impersonators." ; Contents: Let us entertain you! -- Let's have a ball -- Puerto Rican peach -- Gorgeous guys -- Scintillating cinema -- Stag turned doe ...
  6. Female Mimics Vol. 1 No. 6

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Health Knowledge
    Date: 1965
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag kings, Drag queens, MtFs, Photographic models, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: 82 Club, Abby Sinclair, Pointe, Randy Taylor, Ricky Renee
    Description: On item cover: "The world's foremost female impersonators." ; Contents: Randy Taylor -- "Mister actress" -- Cabaret 'pointe' -- Capucine -- New York's 82 club -- Vinnie Sommers -- Abby Sinclair.
  7. Female Mimics Vol. 1 No. 7

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Health Knowledge
    Date: 1965
    Topics: Actors, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag kings, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Photographic models, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people
    Subject: Ginger Halliday, Hans Crystal, Jinx Austin, La Rey, Windy Starr
    Description: On item cover: "For the adult reader." ; Contents: Ginger Holiday -- Diam FM for fun -- Dona Mae -- Mischelle -- Mardi gras -- Hans Crystal -- Jinx Austin -- Hat and wig festival -- La Rey -- Wendy...
  8. Fluffus and Kewpie at Fourth Beach

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Beaches, Beauty operators, Gender minorities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Public facilities
    Subject: Kewpie
  9. Greta Garbo and Brigitte Bardot at a Party

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender minorities, Parties
    Subject: Brigitte Bardot, Greta Garbo
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: De Smidt Street: ‘The late Garbo’ (left) and Brigitte Bardot (right).
  10. Group Photo at De Smidt Street

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Crossdressing, Friends, Gender minorities
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: De Smidt Street, ‘The Gang’, ‘I call it the gay gang’.
  11. Group Photo in the Yard on Rutgers Street

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Gender minorities
    Subject: Leslie Caron
  12. Halloween '65

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1965
    Topics: Competitions, Drag queens, Halloween
    Subject: Letros Tavern
  13. Halloween Crowd by Alexander Street

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Halloween, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A large crowd of people (some dressed in Halloween costumes) gathered outside of Alexander Street by St. Charles Tavern in Toronto, presumably during the annual riots.
  14. Halloween Crowd Outside St. Charles Tavern

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Halloween, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A crowd of people stand outside St. Charles Tavern in Toronto during the annual anti-trans and anti-LGBTI riots of Halloween.
  15. Halloween Crowds and Violence 1

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: People dressed up in Halloween costumes stand outside the St. Charles Tavern on Yonge Street in Toronto, which has eggs splattered on it as a result of a tradition stemming from transphobic and hom...
  16. Halloween Crowds and Violence 10

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: People pose for a photo in front of the St. Charles Tavern on Yonge Street in Toronto while a police officer stands guard by them, presumably as a result of the anti-trans riots surrounding them.
  17. Halloween Crowds and Violence 2

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: A group of people stand outside of St. Charles Tavern in Toronto on Halloween. A person shows the camera their middle finger. There is a tradition of violence related to homophobia and transphobia.
  18. Halloween Crowds and Violence 3

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots
    Description: A group of people stand outside the St. Charles Tavern in Toronto on Halloween. Police are present because of the tradition of transphobic and homophobic violence.
  19. Halloween Crowds and Violence 4

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Transphobia
    Description: Two people are engaged in physical contact outside the St. Charles Tavern in Toronto on Halloween, where is a tradition of transphobic and homophobic violence.
  20. Halloween Crowds and Violence 5

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Clothing and dress, Halloween costumes, Homophobia, Riots
    Description: A person stands outside St. Charles Tavern in Toronto, where a group of people has gathered on Halloween. Broken eggshells are visible in the background, evidence of the transphobic and homophobic ...
  21. Harris with Date at 1965 Homecoming

     
    Collection: Lynn Edward Harris Photographs
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1965
    Topics: Intersex people, Transgender people
    Subject: Lynn Edward Harris
    Description: Lynn Edward Harris with her date at homecoming dance. 1965.
  22. Holly Woodlawn Headshot

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Actors, Cabaret, MtFs, Obituaries, Transgender people
    Subject: Holly Woodlawn
  23. Kewpie and Greta Garbo (Willie)

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Beauty operators, Friends, Gender minorities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Greta Garbo, Kewpie
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: Kewpie and Greta Garbo (Willie). ‘A very, very good friend of mine that passed away.’
  24. Kewpie on Stage (1)

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Gender minorities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Striptease
    Subject: Kewpie
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: Competition (strip show) at the Kismet organised by the Stellenbosch winery. ‘It is Kewpie on stage, stripping.’
  25. Kewpie on Stage (2)

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Gender minorities, Lingerie, Striptease
    Subject: Kewpie
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: Competition (strip show) at the Kismet organised by the Stellenbosch winery. ‘It is Kewpie on stage, stripping.’
  26. Kewpie with 5 Friends on Christmas

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Christmas, Gender minorities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Public facilities
    Subject: Kewpie, Leslie Caron
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: 'Neighbour, Carmen, Cora, Olivia (Mrs Vi), Kewpie and Bardot (front) in Rutgers Street on Christmas Day.'
  27. Kewpie with Brian's nephew

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Beauty operators, Gender minorities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Public facilities
    Subject: Kewpie
  28. Lavender lads make woo! woo! Hallowe'en eve

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag balls, Drag queens, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender)
    Description: A newspaper article describing a queer celebration, focusing on the drag performers
  29. Patti and Olivia on Darling Street

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator: Movie Snaps
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Gender minorities, Public facilities
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: Patti and Olivia in Darling Street (MovieSnaps).
  30. People in a Car During Halloween Riots

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Halloween, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia
    Description: Four people sit in a car – three are in the backseat and one leans out the window from the front passenger seat – looking at something during the Halloween anti-trans riot.
  31. Portrait of Harvey Lee (13)

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1964 to 1966
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Photography
    Subject: Finocchio's Club, Harvey Lee
  32. Samantha and Yusuf on Rutgers Street

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Gender minorities, Public facilities
    Subject: Samantha, Yusuf
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: Samantha ‘with a floor mat over her as a cape; in front of a car in Rutgers Street, Neighbour’s child, Yusuf (Ay...
  33. Sex-Change Brother Will Become Sir Ewan

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Marshall, Rita
    Date: 1965
    Topics: FtMs, Inheritances, Marriage, Physicians, Transsexual people
    Subject: Ewan Forbes-Sempill
    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)
  34. The Biggs Family with Kewpie, Mitzy and Patti at the Trafalgar Baths

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Beauty operators, Gender minorities, Multiracial LGBTQ+ people, Public facilities, Swimming pools
    Subject: Kewpie
  35. 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
  36. Wilhelmina (Willy) at the Trafalgar Baths

     
    Collection: Kewpie Photographs
    Institution: GALA Queer Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Gender minorities, Public facilities
    Subject: Wilhelmina
    Description: This photo was captioned by Kewpie when the photos were transferred to GALA in 1999: At the Trafalgar Baths. ‘Willy’ (Wilhelmina) ‘She was a strooi meisie …you know working on the road’.
  37. Wanted By FBI: Leslie Douglas Ashley

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Date: Dec. 28, 1964
    Topics: Drag queens, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Offenders
    Subject: Cookie Cordell, Edward Elizondo, FBI, Leslie Douglas Ashley, Leslie Perez
  38. Drag Queen and Man Sitting at a Table (December 1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
  39. Haircut

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Neal, K. O.
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Plays
    Subject: Hamlet
  40. Oh Mama, Oh Mama Poor Papa's Been Caught in Drag Again

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressing, Drag
    Subject: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  41. Transvestia vol. 4 no. 30

     
    Collection: Transvestia
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Transfeminine people, Transvestism
    Subject: Florida Scott Matthew, Foundation for Personality Expression, Women and Sometimes Men
  42. Two Drag Queens Kneeling on the Dance Floor (December 1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
  43. Effie Dropbottom Clippings

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 6, 1967
    Topics: Advertisements, Arrests, Drag, Law, Night life
    Subject: Effie Dropbottom
  44. Corporation Assignments in New York

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1964
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Erickson Educational Foundation, Harry Benjamin, Mattachine Society, W. Dorr Legg
  45. David Schneider at a Halloween Ball (1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1964
    Topics: Costume, Drag, Entertainers, Hairdressers, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture)
    Subject: David Schneider
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
  46. Female Mimics, Vol. 1 No. 4

     
    Collection: Female Mimics
    Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
    Creator: Selbee Associates, Inc.
    Date: Autumn 1964
    Topics: Actors, Appearance, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Femininities, History, MtFs, Night life, Passing (Gender), Photographic models, Sexuality, Social role, Transgender culture, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Vaudeville
    Subject: 82 Club, Baby Martell, Canadian Revue, Carlson Wade, Cherchez La Femme, Gene Chandler, Gigi Duval, Holli White, Jack Lemmon, Jewel Box Revue, Julian Eltinge, Kitt Rogers, Lou Pearson, Minette, Tony Curtis, W.M. Hardy
  47. Fono Fools at the Gold Dollar (1)

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1964
    Topics: Bars, Drag, Female impersonators, Theatre shows
    Subject: David Hummel, Fono Fools, Gold Dollar Bar, Joe Price
  48. Transvestia vol. 4 no. 29

     
    Collection: Transvestia
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 1964
    Topics: Crossdressing, Homosexuality, Marriage, Psychiatry, Transfeminine people, Transvestism
    Subject: Ashley Montagu, The Chevalier D'eon Club, The Natural Superiority of Women
  49. Memorial Obituary of Samuel Cohen

     
    Collection: Military
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Standard Star New Rochelle, New York
    Date: Sep. 14, 1964
    Topics: Crossdressing, Death and dying, Military, Soldiers
    Subject: Samuel Cohen
  50. Miss Destiny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay culture, Gender identity, Homosexuality, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Transsexual people
    Subject: City of Night, John Rechy, Miss Destiny