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  1. "A bit of old San Francisco” Best Wishes.

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Drag, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ events, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: Black Cat Bar, José Sarria, Nightingale of Montgomery Street
    Description: Artwork of Jose Sarria described as the "Nightingale of Montgomery Street." Text next to the image reads: "'A bit of old San Francisco' Best Wishes."
  2. A Candle for S.I.R.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Patterson, Gary
    Date: Jul. 26, 1968 to Aug. 1, 1968
    Topics: Drag balls, Gay movement, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Police, Police raids
    Subject: Conversion Our Goal (C.O.G.), Earle Marsh, Sexual Freedom League, Society for Individual Rights (SIR)
  3. A Changing of Sex By Surgery Begun at Johns Hopkins

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Buckley, Thomas
    Date: Nov. 21, 1966
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Gender dysphoria, Homosexuality, LGBTQ+ people of color, Medicalization, MtFs, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Harry Benjamin, Mental Health, Reed Erickson, The Transsexual Phenomenon
    Description: A clipping from the New York Times talking about early gender affirming surgery done at Johns Hopkins.
  4. A Curious Evening with Kenneth Marlow (January 17, 1971)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 1971
    Topics: Comedy, Crossdressing, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Musicals, Writers
    Subject: Kenneth Marlow, Mr. Madam
    Description: Object has "which have nothing to do with my act!" in blue ink, which we think to be written by Kenneth Marlow.
  5. 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.
  6. A Former He, She's a Bride

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: UPI Radiotelephoto
    Date: Mar. 17, 1962
    Topics: Marriage, Partners of transgender people, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Francis Bonnet, Jacques Dufresnoys
  7. A Gay Interview

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Van, Eddie, Perry, H. L.
    Date: Apr. 15, 1977 to Apr. 21, 1977
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Gay community, Homosexuality, Interviews, Police, Police raids, Transgender people
  8. A Girl At Last

     
    Collection: Fiction
    Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
    Creator: Judy
    Date: 1975
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Erotic literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Passing (Gender)
  9. A Girl's Dilemma

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 17, 1961
    Topics: Arrests, Clothing, Courts, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Gender identity, Hospitals, Imprisonment
    Subject: Christine Vensettie
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  10. A Headshot of Dorothea

     
    Collection: Felicity Chandelle Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 18, 1961
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Parties
    Subject: Felicity Chandelle Photo Album, The Playgirl Club
    Description: A headshot of Dorothea, a visitor from Chicago, at the second Play Girl Club House Party.
  11. A Headshot of Gail

     
    Collection: Felicity Chandelle Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 18, 1961
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Parties
    Subject: Felicity Chandelle Photo Album, The Playgirl Club
    Description: A headshot of Gail at the second house party of the Playgirl Club.
  12. A Headshot of Tiffany Chandelle

     
    Collection: Felicity Chandelle Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1961
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing
    Subject: Felicity Chandelle, Felicity Chandelle Photo Album
    Description: A headshot of Tiffany Chandelle wearing a brown fur coat and black hat.
  13. A Letter from Rupert Raj to MtF Transsexuals (1979)

     
    Collection: Rupert Raj Collection
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: 1979
    Topics: FtMs, MtFs, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Trans women, Transgender activism
    Description: Rupert Raj addresses MtFs transsexuals in a letter titled "You're Beautiful," acknowledging the community's struggles, emphasizing that he cares, and offering his counseling services.
  14. A Man and a Woman of Joyce & Briggs

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Hurwitt, Robert
    Date: Sep. 29, 1978 to Oct. 5, 1978
    Topics: Crossdressers, Homosexuality, Theatre
    Subject: Alcazar, Richard Wherret, The Elocution of Benjamin Frank
  15. A man for all seasons but clothes for the best of reasons

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Bigos, Dick
    Date: 1979
    Topics: Androgyny, Crossdressers, Gender expression
    Subject: Ariadne Kane, Outreach Institute of Gender Studies (OIGS)
    Description: This is an article written by Dick Bigos about Ari Kane, the Fantasia Fair, and covers topics such as androgyny, crossdressing, and gender roles.