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Only a Transvestite Could Love You
Collection: Button Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil Date: circa 1990 Topics: Transgender publishers, Transvestism, Transvestites Description: Round button with white text on black background. The button reads "ONLY A TRANSVESTITE COULD LOVE YOU". -
Operation Jack O'Lantern
Collection: Ephemera Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Drag, Halloween, Homophobia, Intolerance, LGBTI community, Police brutality, Riots, Transphobia -
Operation Jack O'Lantern: Public Safety
Collection: Ephemera Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Demonstrations, Halloween, Law, Public safety -
Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 1 (27 April, 2017)
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie Date: Apr. 27, 2017 Topics: Activists, Afro-caribbeans, Black power, Butches, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic relations, Gender role, Lesbian culture, Lesbian separatism, Migration, Oral history, Popular culture, Soft butches, Transphobia Subject: Lesbian Organization of Toronto -
Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 2 (16 June 2017)
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Brown, Elspeth, Lee Kam, Lezlie Date: Jun. 16, 2017 Topics: Alcoholism, Bars, Butches, Gay pride, Hate crimes, Latinos, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mardi gras, MtFs, Older transgender people, Oral history, Police, Police brutality--United States, Soft butches, Volunteering Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Club Manhattan, Lesbian Organization of Toronto, Lezlie Lee Kam, LOOT, Proud and Visible Coalition, Soca, The Rose, World Majority Lesbians Description: Lezlie Lee Kam is a 55+, gender-mysterious, world majority person and dyke; a Trini; a Carib; Brown; and a Callaloo-a mix of Chinese, Carib, Indian, Portuguese, and Venezuelan. She was born in Trin... -
Our Lives Under Our Control Now!
Collection: Button Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil Date: circa 1990 Topics: Transgender people, Transsexual people Description: Round button with black text on oversize pink triangle on purple background. The button reads "our lives under our control now!" -
"Pansies" Bloom in Cocktail Bar
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Mar. 17, 1951 Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Sexual offenses laws, Soldiers Subject: Bambi Description: A newspaper article discussing the trial of a crossdresser referred to as "Bambi." -
People in a Car During Halloween Riots
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: circa 1960 to circa 1970 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Halloween, Homophobia, Riots, Transphobia Description: Four people sit in a car – three are in the backseat and one leans out the window from the front passenger seat – looking at something during the Halloween anti-trans riot. -
People Line the Street Behind Police Officers
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: circa 1980 Topics: Halloween, Homophobia, Police, Riots, Transphobia Description: A crowd lines the street as police officers block access to the street, presumably during the annual Halloween riots in Toronto. -
Person and Police Officer Stand Outside Charly's
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: circa 1980 Topics: Bars (Drinking establishments), Halloween, Homophobia, Police, Riots, Transphobia Description: A person faces away from the camera while an adjacent police officer engages with them as they stand outside a building with a sign reading, "Charly's," presumably during the annual Halloween riots... -
Person Posing and Singing
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), LGBTQ+ people of color, Singing Description: 2 pictures of the same person: in the first picture the person is posing for the camera wearing a gown and shoulder length black gloves. The second picture has the person singing into a microphone ... -
Person Posing in White Gown
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Clothing, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture) Description: Person dressed in a white down wearing a boa. -
Person Singing in Gown
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Events, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Singers Description: Person singing onstage, wearing gown and heels From "Two" Magazine March/April 1966 No. 9, pg 10-12 -
Photo of Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillipa MacKay
Collection: gendertrash Institution: The ArQuives Creator: O'Connor, Jennifer Date: 1993 Topics: Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Women's publishers Subject: Mirha-Soleil Ross, Xanthra Phillippa MacKay Description: Black and white photograph of Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay. They are outside on a summer day and grass and bushes are visible in the background. The two women are closely embracin... -
Pissed Off Transsexuals United
Collection: Button Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: MacKay, Xanthra Phillippa, Genderpress, Ross, Mirha-Soleil Date: circa 1990 Topics: Transgender people, Transgender publishers, Transsexual people Description: Round button with white text on black background. The button reads "Pissed Off Transsexuals United"
