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  1. Pride Parade Letter from Peter Dvarackas to Randy Wicker

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Dvarackas, Peter
    Date: Jul. 6, 1987
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay pride, HIV/AIDS, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: ACT UP, Harvey Fierstein, Hell Fire, Man Hole, Marsha P. Johnson, Peter Dvarackas, Randy Wicker, Rev. John McNeill, Sybil Bruncheon
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains racist and transphobic language.
  2. Protestors March at St. Patrick's Cathedral Demonstration

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator: Davies, Diana
    Date: 1971 to 1975
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A black and white photograph of protestors walking down street With Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. One protestor holds sign up saying, "God is gay." The date range that these photographs wer...
  3. 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...
  4. Queer Nation "Justice for Marsha"

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Queer Nation
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a leaflet created by Queer Nation announcing a demonstration on July 19, 1992 for Marsha P. Johnson to make demands to the police to change the suicide death classification of Marsha's...
  5. Re: The Cabdriver Who Shot Marsha

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Anti-LGBTQ+ violence, Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Sex work, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A description of Marsha P. Johnson being shot by the driver of a cab in the 1970s written by Randy Wicker. Wicker notes that incidents like these point to the possibility that foul play was a facto...
  6. "Reflections of a Drag Queen Striving Towards Political Correctitude"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Housel, David
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Femininities, Masculinities, QTPOC, Sexism
    Subject: Black and White Men Together, Men of All Colors Together NY
    Description: An excerpt from Men of All Colors Together NY's 10th Anniversary Journal describing the experience of being BIPOC and a drag queen in New York.
  7. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 12 No. 8 (August 1998)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Aug. 1998
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Events, Gender identity, MtFs, Support groups
    Subject: Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts, PFLAG'S Transgender Special Outreach Network (TSO )
  8. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 8 No. 4 (April 1994)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Apr. 1994
    Topics: Appearance, Bars, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Events, FtMs, HIV/AIDS, LGBTI community, MtFs, Oppression, Passing (Gender), Popular culture, Self-image, Self-respect, Social activities clubs, Sports, Transgender people
    Subject: Anne Wilson, Bugs Bunny, Justice League, Women's Reality
  9. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 8 No. 5 (May 1994)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: May 1994
    Topics: Activists, Appearance, Censorship, Civil rights, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Drag balls, Drag queens, Film, Gay liberation, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Human rights, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Police, Sports, Stonewall riots, Support groups, Television, Transgender community, United nations
    Subject: Stonewall 25, United Nations
  10. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 9 No. 10 (October 1995)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Oct. 1995
    Topics: Activists, Appearance, Bigender people, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag queens, Employment discrimination, Events, FtMs, Help lines, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Letters, LGBTI community, Mass media, Media, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Self-acceptance, Support groups, Television, Therapies, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), GENDER 101, International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), John Epperson, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
    Description: Article reprints from: Washington Blade; NYP&G VISION & ATTITUDES.
  11. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 9 No. 5 (May 1995)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: May 1995
    Topics: Appearance, Christianity, Clothing, Couples, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Events, Fundraising, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, Internet, Married people, Misogyny, Religions, Reviews, Sexism, Transgender community, Transsexual people
    Subject: California State University of Northridge (CSUN), Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, Grace & Lace Letter, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Kate Bornstein, The Central Oklahoma Transgender Alliance (COTA)
    Description: NY Girls & Partners; Visions & Attitudes;
  12. Renaissance News & Views, Vol. 9 No. 7 (July 1995)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Jul. 1995
    Topics: Androgyny, Bars, BDSM, Breast, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Families, Femininities, Fetishism, Gatherings, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Judaism, Media, Night life, Politics, Religions, Self-image, Shamanism, Sports, Support groups, Swimwear, Television, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Be All You Want to Be, Camille Paglia, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, Congress of Transgender Organizations (CTO), Crossdressers: And Those Who Share Their Lives, GenderPAC, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Jayne County, Peggy Rudd, RuPaul, Sexual Personae, Thermolase, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations
  13. Renaissance News & Views, Vol.10 No.11 (November 1996)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Nov. 1996
    Topics: Appearance, Crossdressers, Drag queens, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
  14. Renaissance News, Vol. 5 No. 11 (November 1991)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Nov. 1991
    Topics: Activists, Appearance, Coming out, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Events, Fantasies, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Hate crimes, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, LGBTQ+ poetry, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Self-image, Suicide, Support groups, Transsexual people
    Subject: Caroline Cossey, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE)
  15. Renaissance News, Vol. 5 No. 12 (December 1991)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Dec. 1991
    Topics: Appearance, Army, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Femininities, HIV/AIDS, Law, LGBTQ+ poetry, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Logistics, Masculinities, Media, MtFs, Plastic surgery, Surgery, Transsexual people, Veterans
    Subject: Atlanta Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS), Copacabana, Halloween