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  1. Aleshia Brevard interview, part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Closeted transgender people, Drag community, Drag queens, Gender-affirming surgery, Hormones, Legal status, LGBTQ+ fashion, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, MtFs, Trans women, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transitioning status
    Subject: Aleshia Brevard Crenshaw, Alice Cooper, Finnochio's, Harry Benjamin, LaVerne Cummings, Screaming Queens, Stormé DeLarverie
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Aleshia Brevard, an actor, model, author, theatre professor, and trans woman. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Brevard worked at Finocchio's drag revue as a Marilyn Monro...
  2. Amanda St. Jaymes interview, part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Coming out, Drag performers, Drag queens, Education, Female impersonators, Hormones, LGBTQ+ adoption, LGBTQ+ night life, Prostitution, Strippers
    Subject: 181 Club, Amanda St. Jaymes, Billy DeVoe, Center for Special Problems, El Rosa's Hotel, Finnochio's, Frolic Room, Heath Street, Screaming Queens, Tenderloin
    Description: Susan Stryker interviews Amanda St. Jaymes, a trans woman who moved to the Tenderloin in December 1963 at the age of 19. St. Jaymes worked at the Chukker Club, a 1960s venue frequented by trans peo...