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  1. A Dictionary of Gender Identity

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bonnell, Charles
    Date: Sep. 20, 1975
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag kings, Drag queens, Eroticism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Medicalization, Passing (Gender), Scientific literature, Sex cinemas, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Gay Community News, The Queen's Vernacular
    Description: A short article in volume 3, issue 12 of Gay Community News, providing definitions for terms used by the gender noncomforming community in the 70s. Originally printed on page 17.

  2. 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...

  3. An Intimate Circle of Friends

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Moody, Linda
    Date: Oct. 13, 1984
    Topics: Crossdressing, Lesbian artists, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ archives, LGBTQ+ theater, Sexism
    Subject: Addie Manning, Anne Whitney, Boston Area Lesbian and Gay History Project, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Eliza Cook, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gay Community News, Hamlet, Harriet Hosmer, Janet Kahn, Macbeth, Matilda Hays, Oliver Twist, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
    Description: This article details the life and history of Charlotte Cushman and her circle of friends, many of whom were lesbians and engaged in crossdressing. There are several small typos in the article; Cush...

  4. Ariadne Kane Speaks of the Transsexual Experience

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: SB, Kane, Ariadne
    Date: Jan. 31, 1976
    Topics: Drag queens, Feminism, Gay community, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Interviews, Police harassment, Sex (Body), Transgender activism, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transvestites
    Subject: Ariadne Kane, Cycle Sluts, Divine, Fantasia Fair, Gay Community News, New England Conference on Alternate Sex and Gender Lifestyles, Skag Drag
    Description: An interview with Ariadne Kane, a self described transgenderist who organized events and conferences for the transgender and transvestite communities. Originally published on pages 10 and 11 of vol...

  5. Becoming a Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Hircus, Capra
    Date: Jan. 3, 1976
    Topics: Clothing, Estrogen, Femininities, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Hair removal, Hormone therapy (Gender), Identification cards, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Physicians, Transitioning (Gender), Transitioning status, Voice therapy (Gender)
    Subject: Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, Gay Community News, Gender Identity Service of Boston, Home Savings Bank
    Description: An overview of medical, social, and legal transition for an MtF trans person, presenting different options and how much they cost or how difficult they are to obtain. Originally published on page 9...

  6. Coming Out as Transsexual

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Christina Ann Debosco
    Date: Jan. 31, 1988
    Topics: Diversity, Drag, Intersectionality, Letters to the editor, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Buffalo Transition Support, Gay Community News, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation
    Description: A letter to the editor of Gay Community News from Christina Ann Debosco. Debosco requests that more information and writing by and for transgender individuals be published in the newspaper. Origina...

  7. Crossing Sexual Borders: Interview with Three Male-to-Female Transeuxals

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Tommi Avicolli
    Date: May 3, 1975
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Gender dysphoria, Gender expression, MtFs, Parents, Psychology, Trans women, Transgender children, Women's movement
    Subject: Erickson Educational Foundation, Gay Community News, Information for the Family of the Transsexual, Marilyn Monroe, New Words (Feminist Bookstore), Olivia Records, The Gay Alternative, The Linen Closet
    Description: Interviews with three transsexual women, ages 19 and 22, all from Pennsylvania. The article is reprinted from the Philadelphia paper The Gay Alternative. The article is printed on pages 8 and 12 of...

  8. Dressing the Part: Two Approaches to Drag

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Schneiderman, Jo, Leigh, Joanna, Lynn, Merissa Sherrill
    Date: May 5, 1984
    Topics: Camp (Gay culture), Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag bars, Drag community, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay community, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Sexual assault, Transsexual people
    Subject: Eve's Garden, Fire and Ice Review, Gay Community News, Jacque's, Norell, Roberta Dearborn, Tiffany Club, Tina Lea
    Description: A compilation of interviews with drag queens, transsexual women, and crossdressers. Touches on the drag scene in Boston, presenting and passing as a woman, the threat of sexual assault, and relatio...

  9. forum GRAFFITI

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 26, 1974
    Topics: Bathrooms, Bisexuality, Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Gay men, Lesbians, Sexism
    Subject: Charles Street Meeting House, Gay Community News, Jesus, Richard M. Nixon
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains racist and homophobic language.

  10. Glen or Glenda? : Not Just a Puppy Dog's Tale

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bronski, Michael
    Date: Jul. 31, 1982
    Topics: Exploitation films, LGBTQ+ films, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Bela Lugosi, Christine Jorgensen, Ed Wood, Gay Community News, Glen or Glenda?, John Waters, World War II
    Description: A review of Glen or Glenda? (1953), originally published on pages 7 and 8 of volume 10, issue 3 of Gay Community News.

  11. 'Helping Professions' Meet a Sexual Minority

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Rosen, Lyn
    Date: Apr. 9, 1977
    Topics: Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender expression, Gender identity, Transgender people, Transsexuality, Transvestism
    Subject: Ariadne Kane, Brooks House, Deborah Feinbloom, Gay Community News, Gender Identity Service of Boston, The Outreach Foundation, Transvestites and Transsexuals: Mixed Views
    Description: A summary of an event in which counselors, therapists, hotline operators and sex educators met with transvestites, transsexual people, and transgender people. Originally published on page 8 of volu...

  12. Sexual Minorities Conference

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator:
    Date: May 3, 1975
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Legal name change, LGBTQ+ personal and family law, MtFs, Transgenderism, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Ariadne Kane, Conference on Alternate Sex and Gender Lifestyles, Emerson College, Gay Community News, Gender Identity Service of Boston, Massachusetts Bureau of Vital Statistics, Michael Fleming, Richard Rubino
    Description: An account of the second annual Conference on Alternate Sex and Gender Lifestyles, with photos from the event. Originally published on pages 3 and 9 of volume 2, issue 45 of Gay Community News.

  13. The Sexual Politics of Transsexual Surgery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Amalthea
    Date: Aug. 21, 1976
    Topics: Feminism, Gender affirming surgery, Genitals, Hair removal, Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Lesbian community, Lesbians, Medical care, MtFs, Physical health care for LGBTQ+ people, Transsexual people, Vaginas
    Subject: Aristotle, Gay Community News, Naomi Weisstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas
    Description: An editorial on surgery and medical transition from the perspective of a lesbian transsexual woman. Originally published on pages 8 and 9 of volume 4, issue 8 of Gay Community News.

  14. The TV-TG-TS Phenomenon

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Kane, Ariadne
    Date: Jul. 20, 1974
    Topics: Partners of transgender people, Transgender people, Transgenderism, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Charles Street Meeting House, Gay Community News, Gayway, Gender Identity Service of New England, Harry Benjamin, New England Gay Conference, The Transsexual Phenomenon, WBUR FM
    Description: This article was originally published on page 7 of Gay Community News volume 2.4 on July 20 1974. Author Ariadne Kane describes a variety of feminine gender expressions and identities as well as ch...