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Rona Love Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Love, Rona Date: Jul. 2, 2019 Topics: Arts, Bisexual community, Butches, Child abuse, Drag community, FtMs, Gay community, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Judaism, Kidnappings, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Mental health, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Music, Prison guards, Prisons, Self-respect, Sexual abuse, Slang, Soft butches, Street violence, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence Subject: Black and Pink, Daniel Poliak, Director of Prison Justice Project, Hazel Katz, Mick King K, Parole Preparation Project, Sparkle, Tremont Description: Rona Love discusses her early childhood hardships, three decade long incarceration and experiences in psychiatric hospitals. She details abuse, violence and the extreme isolation of being a trans-f... -
Sage Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Sage Date: May 9, 2019 Topics: Baptist church, Butches, Children, Christianity, Coming out, Conferences, Discrimination, Feminism, Flags--Confederate States of America, Gender, Homophobia, Internet, Judaism, Libraries, Microaggressions, Paganism, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Rural areas, Social classes, Social justice, Soft butches, Taoism, Trade unions, Transgender people, Women's colleges, Youth literature Subject: American Library Association, LGBT Workers Association, Proposition 8, Stonewall 50, Tumblr Description: Sage discusses their growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, breaking from their family's religion through encountering children's and you... -
Sex, Gender and Revolution
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Creator: Bell, Bee Date: Mar. 1994 Topics: Abortion, Appearance, Arrests, Butches, Class struggle, Communities, Crimes, Demonstrations, Discrimination, Drag kings, Drag queens, Economics, Employment discrimination, Femininities, Femmes, Gender diversity, Identity, Intersex people, Labour, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Normalization, Oppression, Patriarchy, Peace movement, Police, Racism, Rape victims, Religious right, Sexual harassment, Sexual roles, Sexuality, Social control, Social exclusion, Social movements, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Unemployment Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Drag King Dreams, Gay American Indians, Larry Gilbert, Leslie Feinberg, Mike Chitwood, Newsweek, Operation Rescue, Rodney King, Stone Butch Blues, The New York Times, Transgender Warriors: A History of Resistance from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, Workers World Party Description: This clipping can be found on page 1 of the periodical. -
Shelby Chestnut Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Awad, Nadia, Chestnut, Shelby Date: May 14, 2017 Topics: Addictions, Arts, Butches, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Identity, Indian reservations--Montana, Learning difficulties, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Native americans, Representation, Schools, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Transgender rights, Violence, Youth Subject: Janet Mock Description: Shelby Chestnut describes their childhood and adolescence between Montana and Minnesota, discussing friendships and family, bullying and acceptance, mixed-race (Native American and white) identity,... -
Stone Butch Blues
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Feinberg, Leslie Date: 1993 Topics: Authors, Butches, Chest reconstruction surgery, Classism, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag queens, Feminism, Femmes, Gender expression, Gender non-conforming people, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Labor, Labor movement, Labor unions, Lesbian liberation, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ social processes, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Police harassment, Queer rights, Sexual harassment, Stone butches, Stonewall riots, Testosterone, Trans women, Transgender rights, Transmasculinity, Transphobia Subject: Alison Bechdel, Assata Shakur, CeCe McDonald, Chrystos, Eileen Myles, Emanuel Xavier, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Holly Hughes, Jess Goldberg, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Halberstam, Lambda Literary Award, Michael M. Hernandez, Stonewall Book Award, Susan Stryker Description: Originally published in 1993 by Firebrand Books, "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg is a novel that centers around protagonist Jess Goldberg and Jess' relationship to sexual and gender identity... -
Stop Putting Down Masculine-Looking Women
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: Her-self Date: Oct. 1973 to Nov. 1978 Topics: Butches, Feminism, Gender role, Heteronormativity, Lesbian community, Lesbian feminism, Lesbians, Lesbophobia, Soft butches -
Stormé DeLarverie, 1999
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: New York Public Library Creator: Giard, Robert Date: 1999 Topics: BIPOC, Black lesbians, Butches, Drag kings, Racially mixed people Subject: Stormé DeLarverie Description: Photograph of Stormé DeLarverié sitting in a chair from 1999. -
Stormé DeLarverie Memorial
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Wicker, Randy Date: May 29, 2014 Topics: BIPOC, Black lesbians, Butches, Drag kings, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ memorials, LGBTQ+ visibility, Racially mixed people, Stonewall riots Subject: Stonewall Veterans' Association, Stormé DeLarverie Description: Footage from a memorial service held for Stormé DeLarverie on May 29, 2014. Several people offer tributes to DeLarverie by sharing personal stories and speaking about her activism. Photos of DeLarv... -
Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box
Collection: Rupert Raj Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Date: Jun. 1988 Topics: Black lesbians, Black LGBTQ+ people, Butches, Drag kings, LGBTQ+ activists, Racially mixed people Subject: Stormé DeLarverie Description: Photograph of Stormé DeLarverie standing and holding a microphone, printed on beige paper with the caption "Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box" -
The Garba of Butch
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Pandya, Kalyani Date: Apr. 1996 Topics: Butches, QTPOC, Queer women, South Asian LGBTQ+ people Description: An article discussing the author's life and her experiences as a butch queer woman in South Asia. -
THE LESBIAN/TRANSSEXUAL MISUNDERSTANDING
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Creator: Margo Date: Feb. 22, 1975 Topics: Butches, Femininities, Femmes, Gender identity, Gender roles, Genitals, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, MtFs, Sexual preference, Transsexual people Subject: Abraham Lincoln, Betty Friedan, Congress to Unite Women, Dick Cavett Show, Gay Community News, Jan Morris Description: An editorial by a transsexual lesbian, addressing the issues and misconceptions about trans lesbian identity. Originally published on pages 6 and 7 of volume 2 number 35 of Gay Community News. -
Transgender Liberation
Collection: Rare Books Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Feinberg, Leslie Date: Jun. 1992 Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Anti-transgender violence, Butches, Criminalization, Gay movement, Gender expression, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ visibility, Mass media, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Stonewall riots, Transgender community Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Joan of Arc Description: A pamphlet written by Leslie Feinberg in 1992. In the pamphlet, Feinberg attempts to map the history of transgender people as well as the discrimination this community has faced through the years. -
Transgenderism
Collection: International Foundation for Gender Education Publications and Documents Institution: The History Project Creator: International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Nangeroni, Nancy Date: 1996 Topics: Butches, Crossdressers, Drag kings, Drag queens, Femmes, FtMs, Gender identity, Intersex, MtFs, Sexual identity, Transsexual people, Transvestites Subject: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Nancy Nangeroni, Ninja Design, Stone Butch Blues, The International Foundation for Gender Education, Transgender Warriors: A History of Resistance from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, Transsexual Menace Description: A brochure about 'transgenderism' by the Nancy R. Nangeroni International Foundation for Gender Education that defines terms and explains trans identity. -
T.V. Transvestite
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: di Bagno, Simone, Capozzi, Michele Date: 1982 Topics: Ball culture, Ballroom families, Black transgender people, Butches, Drag balls, Gay men, LGBTQ+ fashion, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Transgender people of color, Transitioning (Gender), Voguing Subject: Dorian Corey, House of Labeija, Pepper Labeija, Sugar Description: A documentary that captures a ball thrown by House of Labeija at Harlem Bingo Hall in 1982. -
Unapologetic: The Journal of Irresponsible Gender #1
Collection: Zines Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project Creator: Tagonist, Anne Date: Dec. 1, 1997 Topics: Butches, Femmes, Gender expression, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ comics, LGBTQ+ fiction, MtFs, Safer sex, Sex (Act), Transgender people Subject: Bitch Hips, Camille Paglia, Fierce Femme, Like Cinderella, M2B, Ped Xing, Sister Subverter, Watermelon Woman
