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Journal of a Transsexual
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Feinberg, Leslie Date: Feb. 1980 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Hair, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ employment, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Misgendering, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Public bathrooms, Sexual identity, Social norms, Transsexual people, Voice, Working class writings Subject: Bob McCubbin, Dorothy Ballan, Feminism and Marxism, In the Spirit of Stonewall, Leslie Feinberg, New Jersey Supreme Court, Robert Frost, The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal, The Road Not Taken, Workers World Newspaper, Workers World Party Description: A short theoretical piece in the form of a memoir by Leslie Feinberg, published in 1980. This work was Feinberg's first public attempt to put forward a political stance on trans liberation outside ... -
L' Androgyne
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Brown University Library Creator: Péladan, Joséphin Date: 1891 Topics: Androgynous people, Androgyny, Androgyny (Psychology) in literature, Androgyny (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity, Androgyny (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Paganism, Sex differences (Psychology), Symbolism (Literary movement) Description: A novel by Joséphin Péladan (1858-1918), a French Symbolist writer and occultist who regarded androgyny as a spiritual ideal. -
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... -
Mei Lan-Fang: Chinese Drama
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1930 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese Subject: Mei Lanfang Description: A souvenir program from Mei Lanfang's first American tour, 1930. The program includes articles about Chinese drama, costumes, stage properties, musical instruments, and synopsis of touring repertoi... -
Mei Lan-Fang: Foremost Actor of China
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese Subject: Mei Lanfang Description: A book about Mei Lanfang, a female impersonator, and her contribution to Chinese Opera. The book is autographed and inscribed by Mei Lan-Fang to Prof. Albert R. Lovejoy. There are many sepia photo... -
Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson: a preacheress of the eighteenth century; containing an authentic narrative of her life and character, and of the rise, progress and conclusion of her ministry
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Brown University Library Creator: Hudson, David Date: 1844 Topics: Agender identity, Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ religious people, Non-binary people, Religious leaders Subject: Public Universal Friend Description: An early biography of the Public Universal Friend (1752-1819), an American evangelist who did not identify with any gender or pronouns. -
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... -
Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender : A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse from 1967 to 1991
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria Creator: Raj, Rupert Date: Jul. 2018 Topics: Crossdressers, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism Subject: Kim Elizabeth Stuart, Rupert Raj, Trish Salah Description: "This treasury of transsexual, transgenderist and transvestic verse is a compilation of close to 400 poems and short prose penned by some 169 people from Canada, the United States, the United Kingd... -
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... -
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. -
Poems of Truth
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive Creator: Dillon, Michael Date: 1957 Topics: Mysticism, Trans men, Transgender Buddhists, Transgender poetry, Transsexual people Subject: George Gurdjieff, Michael Dillon Description: Michael Dillon's 1957 "Poems of Truth" explores spiritual themes from a variety of religious and philosophical traditions in verse and short prose poems. The work continues themes explored in "Self... -
Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathetic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-forensic Study
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Krafft-Ebing, Richard von Date: 1886 Topics: Bisexuality, Eugenics, Gender dysphoria, Homosexuality, Medicalization, Sadomasochism Description: <i>Psychopathia Sexualis</i> was a landmark 1886 book about human sexuality by the German psychiatrist Richard von Kraft-Ebbing. Although Kraft-Ebbing's book heavily pathologized its subjects and r... -
Sex Life of a Transvestite
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Murdock, Larry Date: 1964 Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Transsexualism Subject: Charles Prince, Leonard A. Wheeler, Sexology, Transvestia, Turnabout -
Stone Butch Blues
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Feinberg, Leslie Date: 1993 Topics: Authors, Butches, Chest reconstruction surgery, Classism, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag queens, Feminism, Femmes, Gender expression, Gender non-conforming people, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Labor, Labor movement, Labor unions, Lesbian liberation, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ social processes, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Police harassment, Queer rights, Sexual harassment, Stone butches, Stonewall riots, Testosterone, Trans women, Transgender rights, Transmasculinity, Transphobia Subject: Alison Bechdel, Assata Shakur, CeCe McDonald, Chrystos, Eileen Myles, Emanuel Xavier, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Holly Hughes, Jess Goldberg, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Halberstam, Lambda Literary Award, Michael M. Hernandez, Stonewall Book Award, Susan Stryker Description: Originally published in 1993 by Firebrand Books, "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg is a novel that centers around protagonist Jess Goldberg and Jess' relationship to sexual and gender identity... -
The female-impersonators : a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Duke University Creator: Lind, Earl, Werther, Ralph Date: 1922 Topics: Androgyny, Homosexuality, Intersex people Subject: Autobiography of an Androgyne, Earl Lind, The Riddle of the Underworld
