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  1. A home of our own

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: The Ad Hoc Committee to Support the Lesbian Herstory Archives
    Date: Jun. 23, 1991
    Topics: Anti-lesbian violence, Archives, Butches, Dykes, Femmes, Lesbian activism, Lesbian African-Americans, Lesbian archives, Lesbian bars, Lesbians, Lesbians of colour, Male impersonators, Persecution of lesbians
    Subject: Becky Johnson, C. Walsh Theater, First African Meeting House, Gay Community News, Jenifer Firestone, Jewel Box Revue, Joan Nestle, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Michelle Parkerson, Red Shades Affinity Group, Stormé: The Lady of the Jewel Box, Stormé DeLarverie, West Village
    Description: An article summarizing an event to benefit the Lesbian Herstory Archives, featuring a short film about Storme Delarverie and appearances from notable lesbian activists. Originally published on page...
  2. A kinder and gentler festival?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Burkholder, Nancy
    Date: Sep. 1, 1991
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Cisgender women, Lesbian culture, MtFs, Music festivals, Passing (Gender), Stealth (Transgender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Women's music festivals, Womyn
    Subject: Barbara Price, Gay Community News, Lisa Vogel, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Two Nice Girls
    Description: An article by Nancy Burkholder, a woman who was thrown out of a Women's Music Festival on suspicion of being transsexual. Burkholder criticizes this decision eloquently. Originally published on pag...
  3. A Place Where Love Becomes a Chronic Invalid

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Crisp, Quentin
    Date: Apr. 7, 1991
    Topics: Ball culture, Drag, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ films, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Elk's Lodge, Jennie Livingston, Octavia St. Laurent, Paris Is Burning
    Description: A New York Times article talking about "Paris Is Burning" and how it was received in the UK.
  4. An Exotic Gay Subculture Turns Poignant Under Scrutiny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Dunning, Jennifer
    Date: Mar. 23, 1991
    Topics: Ballroom families, Drag balls, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transvestites
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Meg McLagan, Octavia St. Laurent, Pepper Labeija, Willi Ninja
    Description: A description of how the film "Paris is Burning" relates to ball culture in New York City.
  5. Butch Queens in Drag: Issues of Race and Gender

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Cavanagh, Chris
    Date: May 1991 to Jun. 1991
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag, Drag balls, Film, Voyeurism
    Subject: House of Ninja, House of Saint Laurent, House of Xtravaganza, Jennie Livingston, Madonna, MTV, Paris Is Burning, Pepper Labeija, Pop Cult, Vogue
  6. Fighting for the rights of transsexuals

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Farmer, Dee
    Date: Nov. 24, 1991
    Topics: Butches, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Letters to the editor, LGBTQ+ prisoners, MtFs, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Wimmin, Women's music festivals, Womyn
    Subject: Gay Community News, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Nancy Burkholder, Sr. Mary Elizabeth
    Description: A letter to the editor responding to another letter regarding Nancy Burkholder's ejection from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Farmer defends Burkholder's right to attend and also offers legal...
  7. Inclusive Community?

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: Jan. 18, 1991
    Topics: Bisexual people, Gay men, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Pink triangles, Stonewall riots, Transgender people
    Subject: Ann Richards, Asterisk, Houston Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, Nikki Van Hightower
    Description: Clipping from page 33 of This Week in Texas, Volume 16, Number 45, January 18-24, 1991, published by Texas Weekly Times Newspaper Co.
  8. Indeed, Include Indian Chiefs

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Roscoe, Will
    Date: Jun. 16, 1991
    Topics: Anthropologists, Clothing, Crossdressers, Homosexuals, Indigenous peoples, Third gender
    Subject: Chief Sitting Bull, Matilda Stevenson, The Zuni Man-Woman, We'wha, Zunis
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language. The term ‘berdache’ it is a historical slur against Native American people who now com...
  9. Lesbian Sex/Gay Sex What's the Difference

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Creet, J.
    Date: Winter 1991
    Topics: Activists, Butches, Drag queens, Feminism, Gay rights, Homosexuality, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Sexuality, Sodomy laws, Soft butches
    Subject: Ontario Human Rights Code
  10. Men Imagining Women (Provincetown Arts 1991)

     
    Collection: Fantasia Fair: Miscellaneous Documents
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Provincetown Arts Magazine, Busa, Christopher
    Date: 1991
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Homophobia, Masculinities, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Fantasia Fair
  11. Men Just Wanna Be Girls (Provincetown Arts Magazine 1991)

     
    Collection: Fantasia Fair: Miscellaneous Documents
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Randolph, Sarah, Provincetown Arts Magazine
    Date: 1991
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Femininities, Feminism, FtMs, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Lesbians, Transsexual people
    Subject: Fantasia Fair
    Description: Handwritten note on back of page 4: "This appeared in P-Town Arts Magazine 1991."
  12. Murder in the Women's Army Corps

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Bérubé, Allan, Bond, Pat
    Date: Summer 1991
    Topics: Anti-lesbian violence, Army, Butches, Lesbians, Soft butches, Suicide
    Subject: Coming Out Under Fire (Book), Murder in the WAC (Play), Pat Bond
  13. Out of the Closet for Fifteen Years and Making It In Houston, Texas

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: Autumn 1991
    Topics: Activists, Civil rights, LGBTQ+ relationships, Transgender people
    Subject: Phyllis Randolph Frye
  14. Transsexual student expelled

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Yang, Jacob Smith
    Date: Dec. 15, 1991
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, LGBTQ+ personal and family law, MtFs, Trans women, Transsexual people
    Subject: Gay Community News, Park View Hospital, Query, Tennessee State University, Tracy Quirling
    Description: News bulletin about a trans woman who was "kicked out" of her nursing program. Originally published on page 2 of volume 19, number 22 of Gay Community News.