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  1. 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.

  2. An Exotic Gay Subculture Turns Poignant Under Scrutiny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Dunning, Jennifer
    Date: Mar. 23, 1991
    Topics: Ballroom families, Drag balls, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transvestites
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Meg McLagan, Octavia St. Laurent, Pepper Labeija, Willi Ninja
    Description: A description of how the film "Paris is Burning" relates to ball culture in New York City.

  3. At the Theatres: The Blacks by Jean Genet

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 13, 1961
    Topics: Actors, Black, LGBTQ+ theater, Transvestites
    Subject: Jean Genet
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to racist language.

  4. From Night of Rage, The Seeds of Liberation

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Bragg, Rick
    Date: Jun. 23, 1994
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, LGBTQ+ people of color, Police raids, Stonewall riots, Transvestites
    Subject: Dario Modon, Gay Liberation Front, Stonewall, Stormé DeLarverie, Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt
    Description: Newspaper clipping from the New York Times interviewing people about what it was like at the Stonewall riots.

  5. He Enjoys Being A Girl

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Flatley, Guy
    Date: Nov. 15, 1970
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Detention of LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gender, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ films, Motion picture actors and actresses, Riots, Trans women, Transvestites
    Subject: Andy Warhol, Harold Danhakl, Holly Woodlawn, Larry Rivers, Paul Morrissey, Trash (Film)
    Description: Holly Woodlawn formerly known as Harold Danhakl is arrested at the U.N. for female impersonation. Holly Woodlawn starred in the Andy Warhol-Paul Morrissey film: "Trash". She is bailed out by Larry ...

  6. I Was Bugis Street Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Sunday Times
    Date: Feb. 20, 1994
    Topics: Drag queens, Transgender community, Transvestites
    Subject: Lisa Lust
    Description: This is an article about "Lisa Lust," who discusses with Lee Siew Hua their experience as a drag queen.

  7. Life After Drag: Unreality Endures

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: O'Connor, John J.
    Date: Jul. 9, 1996
    Topics: Drag queens, Drug abuse, Eunuchs, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Homosexuality, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ films, Prostitution, Transvestites
    Subject: RuPaul, The Salt Mines, The Transformation
    Description: Clipping from The New York Times that discusses "The Transformation", a movie focused on the lives of Latinx trans characters.

  8. No Burial Aid for Moses Preston Waller

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Jacobs, Andrew
    Date: Jun. 2, 1996
    Topics: Death, LGBTQ+ people of color, Prostitution, Transvestites
    Subject: Donald Green, Moses Preston Waller, New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, Silver
    Description: A New York Times article mentioning the death of Moses Preston Waller, who is described as a Black transvestite prostitute.

  9. Of a Happening That Really Wasn't

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Powers, Ann
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag, Transvestites
    Description: A New York Times article mentioning Vaginal Davis, who is described as a Black transvestite in drag.

  10. Sacred Androgyny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gregersen, Edgar
    Date: Mar. 29, 1987
    Topics: Androgyny, Colonization, Culture, Homosexuality, Indians of North America, Spirituality, Supernatural, Transvestites, Two-Spirit people, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: American Indian, European Conquerors, The Spirit and The Flesh - Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, Walter L. Williams
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language. Note the term ‘berdache’ is a historical slur against Native American people who now c...

  11. The 'Wrong' Sex: A New Definition of Childhood Pain

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Goleman, Daniel
    Date: Mar. 22, 1994
    Topics: Crossdressing, Eunuchs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity disorder, Homosexuality, Medicalization, Transvestites, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: K.D Lang, RuPaul
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language. Note the term ‘berdache’ it is a historical slur against Native American people who...

  12. Why Transvestites Make Other People Nervous

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Kakutani, Michiko
    Date: Jan. 24, 1992
    Topics: Androgyny, Crossdressing, Drag, Gender ambiguity, Gender bending, LGBTQ+ books, Race relations, Transvestites
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Cultural Anxiety, Henry David Hwang, M. Butterfly, Marjorie Garber, Shi Pei Pu, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
    Description: This is a clipping from the New York Times that is a book review for Marjorie Garber's "Vested Interest: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety" which talks about gender variance icons in popular medi...