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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... -
News Flashes- New York- Woman of the Year (1953)
Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Mar. 16, 1953 Topics: Awards, Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Trans women, Transgender people Subject: Christine Jorgensen Description: Christine Jorgenson receives an award for contribution to science for her gender realignment surgery. -
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... -
Out of the Shadows
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library Creator: Riggs, Marlon Date: 1990 Topics: AIDS education, Anti-Blackness, Black bisexual people, Black gay men, Black transgender people, Coming out, Queerphobia, Trans women Description: This short documentary, narrated by poet Essex Hemphill, provides a portrait of Black transgender women and gay men in Philadelphia as they face antiblackness, queerphobia, and HIV/AIDS. -
Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 644 - Quick Change Artist, Master Drivers And Railway Vicar 1967
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: 1967 Topics: Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art Subject: Ricky Renee Description: Video clips from an outtake real featuring cabaret performer Ricky Renee. -
Panel on Gender-Noncomforming People and AIDS
Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection Institution: GLBT Historical Society Creator: Date: 1989 Topics: HIV/AIDS, Intersex people, LGBTQ+ relationships, Sexual practices, Transgender people Subject: Janet Taylor, Lou Sullivan, Mark Olsen Description: Transgender activist Lou Sullivan, therapist/sex worker Janet Taylor, and drag queen Mark Olsen appear on a panel on AIDS risks to gender-nonconforming people. They discuss their autobiographies, g... -
Pat Rocco: Changes (1970)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive Creator: Rocco, Pat, Bizarre Productions Date: 1970 Topics: Femininities, Gender identity, Sexuality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Transsexuality Description: Short film directed by Pat Rocco focused on an interview with "Jimmy Michaels, a transgender person living in Los Angeles." -
PAY IT NO MIND! A Memorial Tribute to SAINT MARSHA P. JOHNSON
Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Wicker, Randy Date: 1992 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members of LGBTQ+ people, Gay pride week, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Transfeminine people Subject: Agosto Machado, Bob Kohler, Bob Storm, Dr. Marjorie Hill, George Flimlin, Jean Michaels, Jeremiah Newton, Jimmy Camicia, Judy Hirschberg, Mama Jean, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Understood, Norma Michaels, Queer Donna, Regina Finlin, Robert Michaels, Sylvia Rivera, The Boy Bar Beauties Description: Movie produced, directed, and filmed by Randy Wicker, and edited by Fred N. Orlansky. Depicts the Gay Pride Parade in New York City on Jun 28th, 1992. Also shows the street memorial where Marsha Jo... -
Princeton's Triangle Club Performance with Male Students Dressed as Cowboys and Dancing Girls
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Sherman Grinberg Film Library Creator: Date: circa 1930 Topics: Crossdressers, Dancers, Drag, Musicals, Performing arts Description: Title card: "Princeton's 'Fair Sex' star in show!" / high angle view of stage with men dressed as cowboys and Latina women dancing onto stage / ground level of dancers in unison with dancing feet /... -
Queens at Heart (1967)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: UCLA Film and Television Archive Creator: Date: 1967 Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay bars, Gender affirming surgery, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Hormones, LGBTQ+ suicide, Medicalization, Sex (Act), Trans women, Transphobia Subject: Jay Martin Description: "This short pseudo-documentary offers a rare look at trans life and drag ball culture in mid-1960s New York." According to Jenni Olson, the LGBTQ historian and archivist who rediscovered the film i... -
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... -
Rediscovering Pauli Murray || Radcliffe Institute
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Creator: Date: May 19, 2017 Topics: Activists, Black LGBTQ+ people, Ethnic relations, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Hormones, Masculinities Subject: Havelock Ellis, Pauli Murray Description: This panel discussion focuses on Pauli Murray’s groundbreaking work, her tumultuous times, and today’s Murray moment, which includes Yale naming a new residential college in Murray's honor and the ... -
Rev J.M. Gates - "Manish Women" (1930)
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: 1930 Topics: Appearance, Black people, Femininities, Gender role, Masculinities, Sexism Subject: J.M. Gates Description: Rev Gates was probably the most successful ministers in the South. He was definitely of the fire-and-brimstone call-and-response type, and was unique in that many of his sermons were recorded, abou... -
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... -
Roberta Wins Hill Climb
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: British Pathé Creator: Date: Sep. 5, 1957 Topics: Automobile racing, Motorsports, MtFs, Shelsley Walsh Hill-climb Race, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: Roberta Cowell, Tony Marsh, W.B. Croot Description: Roberta Cowell (wartime fighter pilot who had sex change operation) wearing head scarf round her head, examining the engine of her car with a mechanic in the pits, camera pans up and we look down o...
