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  1. Finding Aid for the Niagara Frontier Chapter, American Civil Liberties Union, Records

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Creator: Cobb, Rebecca
    Date: Jun. 2018
    Topics: African Americans--Civil rights, Civil disobedience, Civil rights, Conscientious objectors, Equal rights amendments, Police, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    Subject: International Alliance for Male Feminism (IAMF)
    Description: This collection contains materials related to the Niagara Frontier Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its predecessor the Erie County Civil Liberties Committee (ECCL). The mat...
  2. Xmas Letter December 2000

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 2000
    Topics: Black transgender people, Cloning, Gay men, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Trans women, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Cocoa Rodriguez, Randy Wicker, Sylvia Rivera, Uplift Lighting
    Description: The 2000 issue of an annual newsletter written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker. Wicker explains that Sylvia Rivera has become his best friend and is helping to keep business afloat, a...
  3. Stormé DeLarverie Memorial

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: May 29, 2014
    Topics: BIPOC, Black lesbians, Butches, Drag kings, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ memorials, LGBTQ+ visibility, Racially mixed people, Stonewall riots
    Subject: Stonewall Veterans' Association, Stormé DeLarverie
    Description: Footage from a memorial service held for Stormé DeLarverie on May 29, 2014. Several people offer tributes to DeLarverie by sharing personal stories and speaking about her activism. Photos of DeLarv...
  4. Renee Imperato Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Imperato, Renee, Kalin, Betsy
    Date: Jan. 23, 2021
    Topics: Ball culture, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ veterans, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Racism against Black people, Sex work, Transfeminine people, Transgender disabled people, Transgender political activists, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    Subject: 220 Club, House of Sally, Leslie Feinberg, Paris Is Burning, SAGE Advisory Council, World Worker's Party
    Description: Renee Imperato was born on May 8, 1948 in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City. Renee describes the first 30 some years of life as living as an “unconscious male impersonator.” Renee fought in ...
  5. Monica Helms Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Helms, Monica, MacCarthy, Jack
    Date: Nov. 5, 2021
    Topics: Trans women, Transgender people in the military, Transgender political activists
    Subject: It’s Time Arizona, TransAction, Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA)
    Description: Monica Helms was born on March 8, 1951, in Sumter, South Carolina. She served in the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 1978. In 1997, Monica underwent the process of transitioning and reapplied to the Phoenix...
  6. Beth Elliott Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Elliott, Beth, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 12, 2021
    Topics: Gender dysphoria in youth, Lesbian separatism, LGBTQ+ musicians, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Beth Elliott, Daughters of Bilitis (DOB)
    Description: Beth Elliott was born on November 26, 1950 in Vallejo, California. Sometime during her teen years, Beth experienced what she calls her first goddess vision: looking down at her chest, and seeing br...
  7. Crystal Lynne Little Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Little, Crystal Lynne, Funk, Mason
    Date: Jul. 13, 2017
    Topics: Asexuality, LGBTQ+ veterans, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Crystal Lynne Little, Gulf Gender Alliance
    Description: Crystal Little was born in 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and named Charles. At 17, hoping to put his complex gender feelings to rest, Charles joined the Navy, which was at least useful for advent...
  8. Stephan Thorne Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Thorne, Stephan, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 11, 2021
    Topics: Attitudes of LGBTQ+ people toward police , FtMs, Gay bars, Gay liberation, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ support groups, LGBTQ+ visibility, Police, Trans men
    Subject: Proposition L, Stephan Thorne, White Night Riots
    Description: Stephan ‘Steph’ Thorne was born on September 2nd, 1954, in Hillsboro, Oregon. Despite a happy childhood, Steph faced challenges as a closeted transgender man, identifying as a tomboy. In 1979, Step...
  9. Stephanie Stuart Wilson

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Stuart Wilson, Stephanie, Kalin, Betsy
    Date: Apr. 29, 2021
    Topics: AIDS activists, Bears (Gay culture), Cancer, Drag community, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy (Gender), Trans women, Transgender children, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Drag Queen Story Hour, Royal Court of Come Out St. Pete, Stephanie Stuart Wilson
    Description: Stephanie Stuart was born in a strawberry patch in Plant City, Florida on December 30th 1965. Growing up, she always knew she was different and would watch beauty pageants on TV in a toy crown. At ...
  10. Susan Stryker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Stryker, Susan, Mukerjee, Lucy
    Date: Apr. 19, 2021
    Topics: Sexuality, Trans women, Transgender parents, Transgender studies, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: GLBT Historical Society (GLBTHS), GLQ, Susan Stryker, Transgender Nation, Transgender Studies Initiative, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
    Description: Susan Stryker was born into a white working-class family in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on July 7, 1961. Susan earned her PhD in United States history from University of California in Berkeley. While juggl...
  11. Joan Roughgarden Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Roughgarden, Joan, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 30, 2021
    Topics: Evolution (Biology), Gender studies, LGBTQ+ religious people, Trans women, Transgender authors, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Joan Roughgarden
    Description: Joan Roughgarden was born on March 13, 1946 in Peterson, New Jersey, but also lived in the Philippines and Indonesia because her father was a missionary. Joan earned her PhD in biology from Harvard...
  12. Jude Patton Oral Histories

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Patton, Jude, Funk, Mason
    Date: Jan. 21, 2021
    Topics: Adopted LGBTQ+ people, Education, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ health education, Sex education, Stealth (Transgender), Transgender activism
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Crossdressers, Heterosexual, Intersocial Club (CHIC), Donald Laub, Female to Male Conference of the Americas, Harry Benjamin, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Jude Patton, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Virginia Prince
    Description: Jude Patton was born in St. Louis, Missouri, assigned female at birth, and adopted at seven months old. Jude underwent gender-affirming surgery at Stanford University in 1972, one of the first tran...
  13. Jennifer Pritzker Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Pritzker, Jennifer, Funk, Mason
    Date: Nov. 11, 2021
    Topics: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-, Israel-Arab War, 1973, LGBTQ+ people in the military, LGBTQ+ veterans, Public bathroom bills
    Subject: Barry Winchell, Calpernia Addams, Jennifer Pritzker
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  14. Janetta Johnson Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Johnson, Janetta, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 10, 2021
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Trans women, Transmisogynoir
    Subject: Janetta Johnson, Miss Major, Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)
    Description: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to sexual assault and transphobic language.
  15. Hoshina Seki Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Seki, Hoshina, Funk, Mason
    Date: Jan. 21, 2020
    Topics: Buddhism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Japanese Americans, Partners of transgender people, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941, Transgender Buddhists, Transgender parents, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: American Buddhist Academy, Hoshina Seki, New York Buddhist Church
    Description: Hoshina Seki was born in 1941 in New York City. Her father founded the New York Buddhist Church in 1938 and Hoshina buried questions about her gender identity under the pressure to “set an example”...
  16. Tracee McDaniel Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: McDaniel, Tracee, Mukerjee, Lucy
    Date: Dec. 13, 2022
    Topics: Black transgender people, Entertainers, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ visibility, Trans women, Transgender authors, Transgender autobiographies, Transgender political activists, Transgender rights
    Subject: Atlanta Citizens Review Board, Betty Couvertier, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Peanuts Disco, The Housing Atlanta Program (THAP), Tracee McDaniel, Trans Affairs Committee
    Description: Tracee McDaniel was born on January 20th 1967 in Sumter, South Carolina. At the age of 18, Tracee began performing as her alter ego Destiny (Your Mistress of Illusions), before moving to L.A. and s...
  17. GAYLA Archives Finding Aid

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Hendrix, Megan
    Date: Apr. 2015
    Topics: LGBTQ+ events
    Subject: Ferry Beach, GAYLA, Gays and Lesbians Affirmed (GALA)
    Description: GAYLA is a gay men’s conference who gather annually in Saco, ME at Ferry Beach. The conference began with Bob Wheatley from the Boston Unitarian Universalist Office of Gay and Lesbian Concerns, agr...
  18. Lisa Middlesex Papers, 1974-2005 Finding Aid

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: McBride, Andrew
    Date: 2010
    Topics: Arts, BDSM community, Crossdressing
    Subject: Lisa Middlesex, Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them
    Description: Papers of Ann Arbor artist, writer, and musician who specialized in artwork involving bondage, fetishism, sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and transsexuality. Included are correspondence, personal it...
  19. Performer's Awards of Detroit Records, 1974-2008 Finding Aid

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Paljusaj, Lauren
    Date: Sep. 20, 2021
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gay bars, LGBTQ+ events, Male impersonators
    Subject: Boblo Island, Bois Blanc Island, David Marshall, Performer's Awards of Detroit (P.A.D.), USA Pageantry, Vicki Martin
    Description: The Performer's Awards of Detroit Records (1974-2008) consists of materials relating to the Performer's Awards of Detroit (P.A.D.), an organization that promoted gay entertainment in Detroit, Michi...
  20. Flyer for a Presentation on Mental Health in Transgender Clients

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Oct. 26, 2000
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Subject: Rupert Raj
    Description: A flyer for a presentation by Rupert Raj about the clinical issues of a transpositive therapeutic model for mental health professionals when working with transgender clients.
  21. Sexin' Change Award Plaque

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 2001
    Topics: FtMs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Description: An award plaque for Rupert Raj from the 2001 Trans Conference recognizing the work he's done for the transgender community.
  22. Letter from Lee Zaslofsy to Michelle Landsberg (January 25, 2001)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Zaslofsky, Lee, Landsberg, Michele
    Date: Jan. 25, 2001
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, MtFs, Trans women
    Subject: AIDS Committee of Toronto, Rupert Raj
    Description: Zaslofsky writes to Michelle Landsberg on behalf of the AIDS Committee of Toronto.
  23. A Photograph of Elia Chinò Posing with Someone at a HIV/AIDS Related Event

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 17, 2006
    Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS education, Latino/a/x transgender people, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Elia Chinó, Latin American Foundation for Social Action (FLAS)
    Description: A photograph of Elia Chinò at HIV/AIDS related event. She is posing with her arm around another person who is standing next to her. Both of them are smiling. In the background, there is a poster/in...
  24. A Photograph of Elia Chinò at a Meeting

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 19, 2006
    Topics: AIDS activists, Latino/a/x transgender people, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Elia Chinó
    Description: A photograph of Elia Chinò at a meeting. She is standing and smiling at the camera, while in the background people are sitting down looking at the speaker.
  25. Yva Las Vegass Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Las Vegass, Yva
    Date: Jul. 13, 2020
    Topics: Folk music, Gender expression, Non-binary people, Performance art, QTPOC
    Subject: Chris Novoselic, Sweet 75
    Description: Yva Las Vegas was born in Venezuela in 1963. They recount their early childhood memories of playing folk music on the cuatro and singing boleros with their mother. Yva moved to the US as a teenager...