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  1. Wear Your Gown All Year Round

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Laurence, Leo E.
    Date: Oct. 31, 1969 to Nov. 6, 1969
    Topics: Clothing, Communities, Discos, Drag, Drag community, Police, Self-acceptance
  2. West Berlin: Ball Of The Year For Transvestites. 1978

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd.
    Date: Nov. 12, 1978
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Gender expression, Transvestites
    Description: Transcript and video from a drag ball held in West Berlin in November 1978.
  3. West Berlin: Boys Were Girls And Girls Were Boys At The Carnival Time Transvestites Ball. 1976

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: British Pathé
    Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd.
    Date: Jan. 27, 1976
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Gender expression, Transvestites
    Subject: Carnival Time Transvestites Ball
    Description: Transcript and video of participants in The Carnival Time Transvestites Ball in West Berlin, 1976.
  4. West Side Club & LadyLike Magazine present Miss WSC '93-'94 (April 18, 1993)

     
    Collection: Drag Show Programs
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: LadyLike Magazine, The West Side Club
    Date: 1993 to 1994
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Social activities clubs
    Subject: Bob Sweeny, Coco Vega, George Michaels, Henri David, JoAnn Roberts, LadyLike Magazine, Maryann Doud, Morgan Stevens, Wendy Bob Dubois, West Side Club
  5. What a drag!

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 27, 1977
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag
    Subject: Barry Sullivan, Diana Dors, Jane Hargrave
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  6. What a World, What a World: What is "Normal" Anyway?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Ford, Nancy
    Date: Aug. 1994
    Topics: Clothing, Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Transphobia
    Subject: Concerned Parents for Normal Toys, Dorothy Lamour, Dragdoll, Robert Crodent, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert, Weekly World News
    Description: An article from Dimensions' August 1994 issue discussing the creation of Dragdoll. The text looks at criticism of the toy as well as its potential positive impact.
  7. When Boys Will Be Girls

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Barber, John
    Date: Aug. 22, 1983
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Drag, Film, Theatre
    Subject: Barry Humphries, Dorothy Tutin
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  8. Where We've Been

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Clough, Stan
    Date: Jan. 1993
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag, LGBT, Nazism, World war I
    Subject: Adolf Hitler, Apex: A Point of Departure, Josephine Baker, Stefan George, Thomas Mann, Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Society
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 4 of the periodical.
  9. who’s no lady? 82 Club

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: 82 Club, Kismet
    Description: A postcard of the 82 Club with Kismet circled in the bottom right.
  10. Why does she do it?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Stearns, Alan
    Date: Apr. 1992
    Topics: Clothing, Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Feminism, Gender roles, LGBTQ+ bars, Masculinities, Pageants, Queer people
    Subject: La Cage Aux Folles, Limelight, Paris Is Burning
    Description: A clipping from the April 1992 issue of "Our Paper," titled: "Why does she do it?" discussing drag and queer stereotypes.
  11. 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...
  12. Why Wearing Skirts Makes a Man Effeminate

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Lough, James E.
    Date: Jan. 9, 1916
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Masculinities, Psychology, Students, Theatre
    Subject: Brown Rolston, Frederick S. Jones, James E. Lough, Leroy K. Howe
  13. Wild Orchids

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Curtis, Jackie
    Date: 1982
    Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ poetry
    Subject: Jackie Curtis
    Description: This is a copy of Jackie Curtis' poetry manuscript titled "Wild Orchids."
  14. Winners of the Empress Ball

     
    Collection: ONE Archives Online Materials
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1971
    Topics: Contests, Drag, Drag queens, Gay men
    Subject: Empress Ball
    Description: Winners of the Empress Ball in Los Angeles. 1971.
  15. Woman holding microphone

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
    Creator: Leonard, Gary
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag
    Description: A heavily made-up woman, probably transvestite, holds a microphone.