Amanda St. Jaymes interview, part 2

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 Finocchio's and other venues, her time in Houston, well-known strippers and performers who crossed paths with her, the Central City Anti-Poverty Program, and her experiences transitioning. She also narrates over photos and ephemera from earlier in her life. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens.

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Identifier: z316q203z
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): 181 Club
Amanda St. Jaymes
Billy DeVoe
Center for Special Problems
El Rosa's Hotel
Finnochio's
Frolic Room
Heath Street
Screaming Queens
Tenderloin
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
New York
Topic(s): Coming out
Drag performers
Drag queens
Education
Female impersonators
Hormones
LGBTQ+ adoption
LGBTQ+ night life
Prostitution
Strippers
Resource Type: Moving image
Digital Format: Duration: 45:23
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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