Amanda St. Jaymes interview, part 1

Susan Stryker interviews Amanda St. Jaymes, a trans woman who moved to the Tenderloin in December 1963 at the age of 19. St. Jaymes worked at the Chukker Club, a 1960s venue frequented by trans people, and later went to clerical school; in 1972, after her transition, she married and moved to Houston, falling out of contact with most of the people she'd known. In this section, St. Jaymes reminisces about her Tenderloin era, describing the clientele at Compton's and Chukkers (as locals called it), her forays into sex work, police harassment and brutality, and her memories of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens.

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Identifier: db78tc36q
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Stryker, Susan
Contributor(s): St. Jaymes, Amanda
Date Created: 2001
Dates Covered: 1960 to 1969
Genre: Oral Histories
Subject(s): Amanda St. Jaymes
El Rosa's Hotel
Finocchio's Club
LaVerne Cummings
Screaming Queens
Sexology
Tenderloin
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
New York
Topic(s): Amphetamines
Coming out
Crossdressing
Drag community
Female impersonators
Gay bars
Hormones
LGBTQ+ direct action
LGBTQ+ night life
LGBTQ+ people who use substances
Marriage
MtFs
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Police raids
Post-operative
Transgender bars
Transgender community
Transgender prostitution
Transitioning status
Transphobia
Transsexual people
Resource Type: Moving image
Digital Format: Duration: 59:04
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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