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  1. Barms Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Barms
    Date: May 17, 2019
    Topics: Anarchism, Anthropology, Anti-transgender violence, Art history, Autism spectrum disorders, Bars, Bisexual identity, Bisexuality, Childhood, Children, Christianity, Class struggle, Clubs, Coming out, Communism, Construction workers, Disabilities, Femininities, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender role, Gentrification, Hate speech, Homophobia, Internet, Labour movement, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marxism, Masculinities, Mental disorders, New Left, People with disabilities, Performance art, Pronoun, Religions, Sexuality, Socialism, Solidarity, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, A Red Bloom, Chris O'Feeley, Me Too Movement, Michael Bloomberg, Pratt Institute, Queer Workers Project, Rudy Guiliani, Sam Goody, True Scum
    Description: Barms is a construction worker apprentice and a communist. In this interview, they discuss the role of philosophy and abstract thinking for themselves and many trans people as a strategy of managin...
  2. Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. 9 No. 8 (August, 1993)

     
    Collection: Cross-Port InnerView
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Cross-Port
    Date: Aug. 1993
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Christianity, Clothing, Coming out, Cosmetics, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Drag balls, LGBTQ+ relationships, Prejudices, Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Bonnie Bullough, Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender, Crystal Club, North Coast Gender Alliance, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Vern Bullough
    Description: Magazine name changed from "Cross-Port" starting with Vol. 1 No. 3 (September, 1985)
  3. Gogo Graham Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Graham, Gogo
    Date: May 10, 2019
    Topics: Camp (Gay culture), Childhood, Christianity, Clubs, Coming out, Fashion designers, Fashion--Japanese influences, Gay identity, Harassment, Hormones, Internet, Media, Microaggressions, MtFs, Music, Plastic surgery, Pop music, Rape, Social media, Step families, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia, Verbal abuse, Violence
    Subject: Asian Pacific Island Community Health Association (APICHA), Cecilia Gentilly, Hussein Chalayan, Kaden Ho, Raygun Hugo, RuPaul, RuPaul's Drag Race, Spectrum, The University of Texas - Austin, Tumblr, Yohji Yamamoto
  4. Grace and Lace Letter Issue A (April, 1992)

     
    Collection: Grace and Lace Letter
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Heller, Lee Frances
    Date: Mar. 1992
    Topics: Adulthood, Children, Christianity, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ partners, Marriage, Psychology, Secrecy, Support groups, Transphobia
    Subject: Cross-Talk, Heterosexual Cross Dressers Anonymous (HCDA), Kimberleigh Richards, Patrick Stephen, Sally Jessy Raphael Show, Sheila Kirk
  5. Iele Paloumpis Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Paloumpis, Iele
    Date: Mar. 6, 2019
    Topics: Abuse, Androgyny, Baptist church, Childhood, Christianity, Dancers, Disabilities, Eastern orthodox churches, Education, Humanistic, Gay theology, Gender diversity, Gender studies, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ theology, Liberation theology, Occultism, Pronoun, Sexually abused LGBTQ+ children, Spirituality, Terminal care, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia, Working class
    Subject: Arts and Literact Program, Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, End-of-Life Doula, Hollins University
    Description: iele is a nonbinary dance artist and end-of-life doula from Chicago. They describe growing up in the conservative Greek Orthodox Church, surviving domestic abuse, and homelessness, before leaving C...
  6. IFGE Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 2/3 (Fall/Winter, 1998)

     
    Collection: International Foundation for Gender Education Publications and Documents
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hawley, Mykael
    Date: Autumn 1998
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Anti-transgender violence, Books, Christianity, Conferences, Crossdressing, Drug abuse, Employment discrimination, Employment policies, FtMs, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTI community, Liberation movements, Organisations, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender prostitutes, Transphobia, Transsexualism
    Subject: American Airlines, Metropolitan Community Church, Rita Hester, Transgender Tapestry, Victoria S. Kolakowski
  7. Interview with Chishaun (CeCe) McDonald

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: McDonald, Chishaun Reed Mai'luv (CeCe)
    Date: Nov. 27, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Appearance, Assigned gender, Black people, Christianity, Coming out, Courts, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Families, Femmes, Gay boys, Gay identity, Gender dysphoria, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ relationships, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Neonazism, Physical violence, Prisons, Racism, Role behavior, Sissies, Suicide, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Verbal abuse
    Subject: Angela Davis, Brandon Teena, Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Dean Spade, Dorothy Day Shelter, Free CeCe, George Zimmerman, Honey Bear Royal, Howard Brown Center, Jerry Springer Show, Laverne Cox, Magic Johnson, Marci Bowers, Matthew Shepherd, Normal Life, The New Jim Crowe, Trayvon Martin
    Description: CeCe McDonald identifies as a black woman and was assigned male at birth. Her full name is Chrishaun Reed Mai’luv McDonald. She was 27 at the time of the interview and is the oldest of seven siblin...
  8. Interview with Julienne Brown (Mizz June)

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Brown, Julienne (Mizz June)
    Date: May 6, 2016
    Topics: African American transgender people, Allies, Bullying, Christianity, Clothing, Dating, Femininities, Film, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Gentrification, Intersectionality (Sociology), Labelling, LGBTI community, Migration, Representation, Role behavior, Schools, Sexism, Sexual identity, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP), FIERCE, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Julienne Brown “Mizz June,” grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She describes her strong relationship with her grandfather and her challenges with her mother’s adherence to her Jehovah’s W...
  9. Interview with Valerie Spencer

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Spencer, Valerie
    Date: Oct. 5, 2017
    Topics: African American transgender people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Butches, Christianity, Clothing, Depression, Drag queens, Employment discrimination, Exorcism, Families, Families, Black, Femininities, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Identity politics, Intersectionality (Sociology), Labeling, Language, Marriage, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, Privilege (Social psychology), Psychic trauma, Racism, Role behavior, Role models, Schools, Self-care, Health, Social advocacy, Soft butches, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center of Color
    Description: Valerie Spencer identifies as a black trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the suburbs. She had an older brother who was murdered when s...
  10. Kiara St. James Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, St. James, Kiara
    Date: Mar. 6, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Black people, Childhood, Christianity, Civil rights, Drag queens, Education, Families, Femmes, Foster families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Night life, Organisations, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Transgender community, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Housing Works, Kiara St. James, New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG)
    Description: Kiara St. James is the CEO and a co-founder of New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she recalls the experiences throughout her life that inform her activism and advocacy today as a tr...
  11. Memory Circle: Remembering Bryn Kelly

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Scholl, Zachary, Barton, Joss, Lewis, AJ, Kerr, Theodore, Clark, Naomi, Liederman, Katie, Crandall, Maxe, Parker, Chris, Cage, Diana, Shulman, Sarah, Novack, Rebecca, Buffalo Trace
    Date: Aug. 20, 2016
    Topics: Activists, AIDS phobia, Artists, Blogs, Christianity, Colleges, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Hospitals, Isolation, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, MtFs, Music groups, Night life, Self-help, Smoking, Solidarity, Suicide, Tarot, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: ACT UP, Bryn Kelly, Lambda Literary Retreat, Testo Junkie
    Description: Story sharers include: Katie Liederman, Diana Cage, Maxe Crandall, Chris Parker, Naomi Clark, Buffalo Trace, AJ Lewis, Zachary Scholl, Rebecca Novack, Joss Barton, Sarah Shulman / / Friends of prol...
  12. 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
  13. Renaissance News, Vol. 7 No. 9 (September 1993)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Sep. 1993
    Topics: Appearance, Bible, Christianity, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Events, Fantasies, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hate crimes, Hormones, Mixed-orientation marriage, MtFs, Oppression, Passing (Gender), Popular culture, Support groups, Theology, Transgender community, Transphobia
    Subject: Deborah Tannen
  14. Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Asapansa-Johnson Walker, Tanya
    Date: Apr. 2, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Army, Bullying, Childhood, Christianity, Discrimination, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Gender identity, Harassment, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Migration, MtFs, Nurses, Oppression, Passing (Gender), Politics, Racism, Resistance movements, Sexual harassment, Sexuality, Social exclusion, Social workers, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Karen Burstein, Paris Is Burning, Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker
    Description: Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker is a co-founder of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she shares her history of LGB and trans activism in New York City. Born on Staten Island, Mis...
  15. The Tartan Skirt: Magazine of the Scottish TV/TS Group No. 5 (January 1993)

     
    Collection: The Tartan Skirt
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Forrester, Anne
    Date: Jan. 1993
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Beauty standards, Bible, Bigender people, Books, Christianity, Clergy, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Events, Families, Femininities, FtMs, Gender diversity, HIV/AIDS, Intolerance, Islam, Judaism, Labelling, Law, LGBTQ+ poetry, Masculinities, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Passports, Photography, Public facilities, Religions, Self-acceptance, Support groups, Therapists, Transgender community, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Weddings
    Subject: Fantasia Fair, He Says, She Says: Closing the Communication Gap Between the Sexes, Sister Mary Elizabeth