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  1. Autobiography of an Androgyne

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Lind, Earl
    Date: 1918
    Topics: Female impersonators, Third gender
  2. L' homme femme Mlle. Savalette de Lange, 1786-1858

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Moussoir, Georges
    Date: 1902
    Topics: Trans women
    Subject: Jenny De Savalette De Lange
    Description: A biography of Jenny de Savalette de Lange written by George Moussoir. Jenny de Savalette de Lange was the daughter of a Freemason who lived in Paris and Versailles; she was granted a pension by Na...
  3. Mountain Charley

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Charley, Mountain
    Date: 1861
    Topics: Crossdressing, Frontier and pioneer life, Gender expression, Stealth (Transgender)
    Description: The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the...
  4. Oh, What a Drag! The Life and Career of Wacky Jackie Phillips, Finnochio's Riotous Redhead

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Dewsnap, James
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Celebrities, Clothing, Comedians, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Drag performers, Drag queens, Drag shows, Female impersonators, Gender roles, Homosexuality, Jails, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, LGBTQ+ theater, LGBTQ+ youth, Passing (Gender), Queens (Gay culture), Traffic accident victims
    Subject: Beige Room, Bobby Lane, Bobby Raye, Carroll Wallace, Cleo Stafford, Colonial Club, Elton Paris, Finocchio's Club, Flash Gordon, Halloween, Jack Long, Jackie Phillips, Jean Barrios, Jean LaMar, Kara Montez, Kitty Carlisle Hart, LaVerne Cummings, Les Lee, Lonnie Harper, Mardi Gras, Poppy Lane, Ray Saunders, Ricki San Juan, Russell Reed, Rusty Parkor, Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Hart
    Description: The autobiography of Jackie Phillips, longtime comedy queen at Finocchio's, as told to and ghostwritten by James Dewsnap. Book recounts Jackie's personal life and career development both pre- and p...
  5. Once I Was a Man: Behold, I Am a Woman

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Cochrane, Felicity, Dianna
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: D. Cauldwell, Felicity Cochrane, H. Benjamin, Lili Elbe, Mary Walker
    Description: On item cover: Once I was a man. The story of my life before and after the operation that changed by sex, by DIANNA as told to Felicity Cochrane.