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Hands Off
Collection: gendertrash Institution: The ArQuives Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil Date: 1983 Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people, Zines Subject: genderpress Description: This image is a collage of cut out text glued onto white paper. The letters, in a variety of colours and fonts, read "h[ey] hom[o] pigs keep your gross hands off our culture queer doesn't mean gay ... -
Hannah Snell the female soldier
Collection: Art Works Institution: Brown University Library Creator: Boitard, Louis-Philippe Date: 1750 Topics: Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Soldiers in art Description: Copper-engraving by B. Cole after Boitard; full-length portrait in military dress, military and naval battles in background. Hannah Snell (1723-1792) was an English soldier who served under the nam... -
I Play the Part
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1888 Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Portrait prints, Stipple engraving, English, Theatre, Visual arts Subject: Constant Couple, George Farquhar, Margaret Woffinton, William Hogarth Description: Portrait, half-length, looking at the viewer, with her hand in her waistcoat; in the character of Sir Harry Wildair in Farquhar's Constant couple. -
Johnstone Bennett Receives The “World”
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: Mar. 20, 1894 Topics: LGBTQ+ theater, Male impersonators Subject: Johnstone Bennett Description: Drawing entitled "Johnstone Bennett Receives 'The World'" -
"Justice for Marsha Now!" Collage Poster
Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Date: 1992? Topics: Black transgender people, Concealed carry of firearms, Drag queens, Firearms in art, Gay activism, LGBTQ+ memorials, Transfeminine people Subject: Marsha P. Johnson Description: A black-and-white collage poster urging mobilization after Marsha P. Johnson's death. The collaged letters read, "Justice for Marsha now! Pack a piece in your purse be a sister of fear! Gays unite ... -
Lady S---- B------ habited as a clergyman
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1769 Topics: Appearance, Clergy, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Social norms Subject: Sarah Bunbury Description: A women is pictured crossdressing as a clergyman. -
Large Format Photograph of Finocchio's Performer
Collection: Finocchio's collection Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: Date: circa 1950 to circa 1999 Topics: Drag, Drag performers, LGBTQ+ night life Subject: Finocchio's Club Description: Large-format photograph of a performer displayed at Finocchio's. -
Lord W- G- habited as a milliner
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1769 Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Visual arts Subject: William Gordon Description: Lord William Gordon is depicted dressed as a Millener. -
Mademoiselle de Beaumont, or, the Chevalier d'Eon: Female Minister Plenipo. Capt of Dragoons
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: Sep. 1777 Topics: Clothing, Engraving, Etching, Gender bending, Gender diversity, Military, Portrait prints, British Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée Description: Full length portrait of D'Eon dressed half as a man and half as a woman. The left side of the figure wears a full and elegantly styled dress, with hair piled high in the pyramidal fashion of the ti... -
Making a Lancer. Suppose anyone could see us now
Collection: Art Works Institution: Brown University Library Creator: Heath, William Date: 1830 Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ cartoons Subject: Louisa Woolford Description: One of a collection of 6 hand-colored engraved military caricatures by and after Heath. 'An attractive young lady, Louisa Woolford, is being dressed in the uniform of a lancer by two others; two me... -
Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1778 Topics: Animals, Clothing, Social norms, Sports, Visual arts Description: Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?] Two well-dressed young ladies meet before a farm house. On the left, ... -
Mr. Bannister in the Character of Miss Polly Peachum
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Sayers, James Date: 1781 Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Etching, Opera Subject: Charles Bannister, John Gay -
Painting of Carmen Rupe
Collection: Te Papa Collection Institution: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Creator: Langlois, J Date: 1997 Topics: Drag community, LGBTQ+ communities, Maori (New Zealand people), Painting Subject: Carmen Rupe Description: This is an acrylic painting on canvas of Carmen Rupe with a snake by J Langlois. -
Photo collage of Francis Blair in various costumes and at various ages
Collection: Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection Institution: University of Washington Libraries Creator: Date: circa 1930 to 1970 Topics: Drag, Drag kings, Drag performers, Drag queens, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Francis Blair Description: Photo collage of Francis Blair in various costumes and at various ages. Most of the cutout photos of Blair in the collage are examples of fem drag looks, with the exception of one masculine drag lo... -
Portrait of Abigail Allen; Portrait of the Female Husband!
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1829? Topics: Drawings, Gender diversity, Marriage, Married people, Passing (Gender), Stealth (Transgender) Subject: Abigail Allen, James Allen Description: Captions below images read: "Portrait of Abigail Allen, Wife to the pretended James Allen, she resided with her Associate for more than 21 years, ignorant of her real sex! and what is more astonis...
