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  1. He is the Greatest of the Chinese Actors

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1899
    Topics: Costumes, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Theater
    Subject: Ada Rehan, Chinese People, Fon Chong Mai, Merchant of Venice
    Description: This item is an article published in the Philadelphia Inquirer about China actor and female impersonator, Fon Chong Mai. This article talks about his talent as an actor, Chinese theater, and his im...

  2. I’m A Boy!

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Clothing, Costumes, Drag, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Harassment, LGBTQ+ events, Police harassment
    Subject: Black Cat Bar
    Description: This is a cardboard cut-out that was handed to patrons of The Black Cat Bar doing drag so that they could remember how to avoid arrest. On Halloween, police would arrest drag queens after midnight...

  3. In Japanese Theaters

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hageman, Maurice
    Date: 1897
    Topics: Costumes, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Asian people, Hanshira, Hiakunoskeh, Japanese People
    Description: Minneapolis Journal article discussing Japan's best female impersonators, Hanshira and Hiakunoskeh.

  4. Interview with Roz Raskin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Raskin, Roz
    Date: Aug. 31, 2020
    Topics: Bisexual people, Costumes, Feminism, Gender expression, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ musicians, Non-binary people, Queer people, Sexism
    Subject: NOVA ONE, Rosalind Raskin
    Description: An interview with Roz Raskin. Roz is a musician; piano instructor; activist and community organizer who was born and has lived in Providence; RI. They identify as non-binary; queer; Jewish and also...

  5. Ready for the Mummer's Parade

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 31, 1915
    Topics: Costumes, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater, Parades
    Subject: Frank Carter
    Description: An article in the Evening Ledger featuring Frank Carter, a female impersonator who will be marching in a New Year's parade.

  6. Transvestia vol. 6 no. 34

     
    Collection: Transvestia
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1965
    Topics: Clothing, Costumes, Crossdressing, Transfeminine people, Transvestism
    Subject: Bobbie Weaver, Chevalier Publications, Foundation for Personality Expression, Halloween, Mardi Gras, Phi Pi Epsilon