Amanda St. Jaymes interview, part 3

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 gives Stryker a tour of the Tenderloin, reminiscing about the former locations of the Chukker Club, Compton's, the El Rosa Hotel, and other places. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens.

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Identifier: z316q201d
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: circa 1960
Genre: Oral Histories
Subject(s): Amanda St. Jaymes
Chukker Club
Compton's Cafeteria Riots
El Rosa's Hotel
Ginger's
Screaming Queens
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
California > San Francisco County > Tenderloin
Topic(s): Gender-affirming surgery
MtFs
Trans women
Transgender bars
Transgender community
Transsexual people
Resource Type: Moving image
Digital Format: Duration: 23:05
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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