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  1. Octavia Leona Kohner Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Kohner, Octavia Leona
    Date: Mar. 27, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Anarchism, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Feminists, Gender identity, Isolation, Labour movement, LGBTI community, MtFs, Political movements, Solidarity, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Working class
    Subject: Babeland, Octavia Leona Kohner
    Description: Octavia Leona Kohner was active in the successful unionization campaign at Babeland, a NYC sex toy shop. Here, she recounts her upbringing in a working-class family in Staten Island, and describes ...
  2. October Song

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Jacobs, Eric Stephen, GAY Magazine
    Date: Nov. 27, 1972
    Topics: Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, Trans women
    Subject: Holly Woodlawn
    Description: This item is a clipping of Holly Woodlawn performance at Manhattan's Continental Bath and Health Club from GAY Magazine Vol. 4 No. 90 issued in November 1972.
  3. Of Many Things, of Cabbages and Queens (8/1/1963)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1, 1963
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gay men, Gender realignment surgery, Homosexuality, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ partners
    Subject: EROS, Jaqueline Dufresnoy, John Browning, Samuel Barber, Sweedish National Radio
  4. Our Special Joy (Vol. 4 No. 3 March, 1984)

     
    Collection: Our Special Joy
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Moran, Mary Jane
    Date: Mar. 1984
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Dreams, Drivers' licenses, Femininities, Gatherings, Gender role, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Masculinities, Privacy
    Subject: Boy George, Chi Delta Mu, Femme Mirror, Franklin D. Martini, Lee Grant, Leslie Borck, The Meaning of your Dreams, Transvestia, Tri-Ess Metro, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
  5. Performance of "Big Spender" at the Apollo Theatre

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Dancers, Drag, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bobby Barton, Brandy Alexander, Kurt Mann, Robin Rogers, Toni Lee
  6. Performance of "Big Spender" at the Apollo Theatre (2)

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bobby Barton, Kurt Mann, Robin Rogers
  7. Person at New York City Pride March, Wearing Flamenco Dress

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1985 to 1989
    Topics: LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Transfeminine people, Transgender people
    Subject: New York City Pride
    Description: Transfeminine person at New York City Pride March wearing a flamenco dress with a fruit headdress.
  8. Photographs Featuring Marsha P. Johnson with Friends at Her Birthday Party, Serving Cake

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Birthday parties, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: George Flimlin, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A photograph of Marsha P. Johnson with friends at her birthday party. Marsha’s wearing a floral and pearl headpiece and a white and gold sequined dress. George Flimlin, Randy Wicker's partner, sits...
  9. Photographs of Marsha P. Johnson Cutting Into Her Birthday Cake with Randy Wicker

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Birthday parties, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker
    Description: Photographs of Marsha P. Johnson cutting into her birthday cake at a bar. She’s wearing a floral and pearl headpiece, and white and gold sequined dress. Her roommate Randy Wicker stands next to her...
  10. Photographs of Marsha P. Johnson Standing in Front of a Birthday Cake with Lit Candles

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Birthday parties, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker
    Description: Photographs of Marsha P. Johnson standing in front of a birthday cake with lit candles. She’s at a bar for her birthday party. She’s wearing a floral and pearl headpiece, and white and gold sequine...
  11. Pink-Cheeked Reginald

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: New York Recorder
    Date: Aug. 18, 1895
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Courts, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender segregation in labour, Physicians, Workhouses
    Subject: Estelle Lawrence, Reginald Culton
    Description: The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  12. Planning Note for the "Moonlight in Manhattan" Event, 1994

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1994
    Topics: LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ events, Transgender community
    Subject: Greater New York Gender Alliance (GNYGA), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Moonlight in Manhattan NYC
    Description: A handwritten note containing planning details about the "Moonlight in Manhattan" event, 1994.
  13. Press Release Advertising a Reward for Information on the Murder of Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
    Date: Jul. 23, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Murder--Investigation, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A press release asking for information on Marsha P. Johnson's murder and whereabouts during the last days of her life.
  14. Press Release for "Moonlight in Manhattan", 1994

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Gender identity, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ events, Transgender community
    Subject: Coco LaChine, Dee Dee Ann Summers, Greater New York Gender Alliance (GNYGA), Lynda Frank, Lynn E. Walker, Monique Devereux, Moonlight in Manhattan NYC, S. Kristine James, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
    Description: A press release from the Greater New York Gender Alliance for the "Moonlight in Manhattan" fundraising event from April 21 to 25, 1994.
  15. Pretty? Yes, But "She's" a "He"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: NEA Service
    Date: Nov. 17, 1923
    Topics: Drag queens, Opera
    Subject: Julian Eltinge, Lionel Ames