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  1. Miss Ella Shields (1930)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 15, 1930
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag, Male impersonators, Songs
    Subject: Ella Shields
    Description: Ella Shields - male impersonator - dressed in top hat and tails, enters Palm Court type set, goes to a telephone and asks "Do I want a line? - Yes, I want a line, I want Sweet Adeline". She then si...
  2. Mr. Gadabout

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 22, 1952
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens
    Subject: Fred Hamilton, Lee Leonard, Robin Ray
  3. Naz Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Naz, Awad, Nadia
    Date: Apr. 20, 2017
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Childhood, Class struggle, Clothing, Colleges, Communities, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender diversity, Homosexuality, Identity, Immigration, Islam, Labour, Politics, Refugees, Schools, Sexuality, Sports, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Naz is a gender non-conforming queer artist who works around in between spaces. They were born in Iran into a middle class muslim family, and followed their parents to the United States as a child ...
  4. Nobody Lied

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Berry, Hyatt, Norman, Karly, Weber, Edwin J.
    Date: 1921
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Musical theatre
    Subject: Bill Van Sickle, Karyl Norman, The Creole Fashion Plate
  5. Oh, What a Girl!

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Smalle, Ed, Kershaw, A. George, Midgley, Raymond
    Date: 1925
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Musical theatre
    Subject: Geo M. Gatts, Grace Hayward, Some Girl, Tommy Martelle
  6. Okay For Hounds, Warden And West Issue (1937)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 21, 1937
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators
    Description: Windmill Theatre drag act - Biddy and Fanny (aka comedians Warden and West). Various shots of two men dressed as old ladies sitting in a set of a drawing room. They bicker and complain about the st...
  7. Opening Tonight SEE! And HEAR!: Charlotte McLeod

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Date: Jul. 21, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod, Frank Ferrara, Sho Bar
  8. Peeping Redd

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: May 1, 1958
    Topics: Appearance, Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag, Night life, Photographs
    Subject: Jan Britton, Lynn Carter, Redd Foxx Club
  9. Play Me a Good Old Fashioned Melody

     
    Collection: Sheet Music
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Grant, Charles N., Murrissey, Will
    Date: 1912
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Musical theatre
    Subject: Elida Morris
  10. Proves Big Hit In First Show!: Charlotte McLeod

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Date: Jul. 22, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Theatre
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod, Sho Bar
  11. Quick Change Artist (1967)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 20, 1967
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Cabaret, Crossdressing, Drag queens
    Subject: Ricky Renee
    Description: L/S of a Rolls Royce arriving at Ricky Renee's cabaret club (it passes the Fortune Theatre) in daylight. A glamorous blonde in a fur stole gets out of the car; this turns out to really be cabaret s...
  12. Renaissance News & Views Vol. 11, No. 6 (June 1997)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Jun. 1997
    Topics: Acceptance, Androgyny, Appearance, Arrests, Arts and entertainment occupations, Celebrities, Children of transgender people, Clothing, Comedy, Coming out, Cosmetics, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Divorce, Drag, Fantasy, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Imprisonment, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Partners of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Plastic surgery, Psychiatry, Secrecy, Self-acceptance, Social norms, Television, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Brandon Teena, Charles Barkley, Dennis Rodman, Eddie Murphy, Ellen Degeneres, GenderPAC, International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), JoAnn Roberts, Norm MacDonald, Powder Puffs of California, Saturday Night Live, Second International Congress on Sex & Gender Issues, Spouses & Partners International Conference for Education (SPICE)
  13. Renaissance News & Views Vol. 12, No. 6 (June, 1998)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Jun. 1998
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Appearance, Arts and entertainment occupations, Civil rights, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Events, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, MtFs, Police, Reviews, Sexual orientation, Television, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender parents, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Dana International, David Letterman, Ellen Degeneres, Frank Sinatra, Ma Vie En Rose, Mom, I Need To Be A Girl, Renaissance Transgender Association, RuPaul, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sheila Kirk, Stanley Biber
  14. Ringing The Changes (1922)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 20, 1922
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Crossdressing, Drag, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bert Errol
    Description: Drag act Bert Errol is seen in his dressing room - he changes from men's clothes to women's. C/U of Bert in his dressing room. He looks into a hand mirror and primps his hair whilst a woman atte...
  15. Ross Hamilton as "Marjorie" and Others

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Clothing, Drag, Female impersonators, Music groups, Tennis
    Subject: Ross Hamilton, The Dumbells
    Description: A photograph of Ross Hamilton as "Marjorie" with four others who are dressed in matching white outfits and holding tennis rackets while looking at Hamilton. Hamilton is holding the hands of the per...