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  1. The Vilest Creature in Town

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Kent, Patrick
    Date: Feb. 18, 1962
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Law, Prostitution
    Subject: Robin Ashton-Rose
    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)
  2. Told for the First Time: "How the Sex Change Operation Was Performed On Me!"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Coccinelle
    Date: Sep. 1962
    Topics: Army, Cabaret, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Pregnancy, Transitioning (Gender), Travel
    Subject: Darlene Dietrich, Kiki Moustic, Le Carrousel, Mixims, Negresco, Norma Sykes
  3. Transvestite is guilty of gross indecency: enlists sympathy of court so sentence is suspended; other party is fined $100

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: 1963
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Description: A newspaper article describing the appearance of a number of crossdressers in court.
  4. Unusual Ceremony

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press
    Date: Oct. 14, 1962
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Social norms, Veterans, Weddings
    Subject: Georgina Turtle
  5. Walter Hart Scrapbook

     
    Collection: Scrapbooks and Albums
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Hart, Walter
    Date: circa 1930 to 1978
    Topics: Comedians, Drag performers, Drag shows, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ clubs, LGBTQ+ musicians, Mothers of LGBTQ+ people, Revues, World War, 1939-1945
    Subject: Club 365, Finocchio's Club, Frank Doran, Freddy Renault, Gay Nineties, Ida Re'Velle, Jackie Maye, La Fiesta, Mae West, Music Box Theatre, Nicki Gallucci, Ray Bourbon, Sophie Tucker, Walter Hart
    Description: This scrapbook documents the career and social life of Walter Hart, a female impersonator who headlined at Finocchio's nightclub in San Francisco between the 1930s and 1950s. Scrapbook pages includ...
  6. 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