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  1. A Story to Remember

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ memorials, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: This item is an essay with edits written by Randy Wicker about the evolution of his relationship with Sylvia Rivera.

  2. Appendix F: Struggles

     
    Collection: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy: Annual Proceedings and Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Davis, Aaron, Treat, Alena, Luke, Betty J.
    Date: Jun. 1995
    Topics: Discrimination, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Social security regulations, Social security taxes--Law and legislation--United States, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Aaron Davis, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Title II, Title XVI

  3. Changing Perceptions About Hate Crimes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 13, 1999
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Hate crimes, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Fenway Community Health Center, Matthew Shepard, Rita Hester
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.

  4. Coming of Age in the Land of Two Genders

     
    Collection: Academic Papers and Publications
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Denny, Dallas
    Date: 1997
    Topics: Gender reassignment surgery, Sexology, Transgender people, Transsexualism, Transvestites
    Subject: Archives of General Psychiatry, Atlanta Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS), Atlanta Gender Explorations, Bonnie Bullough, Carson McCullers, Dallas Denny, Daphne Du Maurier, Donald Tarver, Ernest Hemingway, Gender Identity Clinic of John Hopkins University, Gianna E. Israel, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Jerry Montgomery, John Money, Jon Meyer, Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, Lynn Montgomery, Martine Rothblatt, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, Paul McHugh, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Recommended Guidlines for Transgender Care, Riki Anne Wilchins, Sandy Stone, Stone Butch Blues, The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto, The International Congress on Gender, Crossdressing, and Sex Issues, Vern Bullough, Virginia Prince
    Description: Essay by Dallas Denny included in the book "How I Got Into Sex", covering her career, her transition, gender politics and sexology.

  5. Gladys Bentley

     
    Collection: Academic Papers and Publications
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator: Young, Wilbur
    Date: Sep. 1938
    Topics: BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ actors, LGBTQ+ arts, LGBTQ+ musicians, Male impersonators
    Subject: Gladys Bentley, Ubangi Club
    Description: This item is an essay about Gladys Bentley written by Wilbur Young as a part of the "Sketches of Colorful Harlem Characters." This item portrays Bentley in a negative light.

  6. History of the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employmeny Policy, Inc.

     
    Collection: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy: Annual Proceedings and Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: 2000s
    Topics: Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Civil law, Coming out, Criminal law, Labour law, Law, Lawyers, Legal process, Military, Personal and family law, Transgender movement
    Subject: Cynthia Davis, Cynthia Lee, Cynthia Phillips, Dallas Denny, Dana Turner, Declaration of Gender Liberty, Dee S. McKellar, Diana Ciccotella, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Gulf Coast Transgender Community (GCTC), Health Law Standards, International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR), International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), It's Time America, Jackie Thorne, Jane Fee, Jessica Xavier, Laura Elizabeth Skaer, Leticia Salas, Linda Phillips, Martine Rothblatt, Mary O'Connor, Melinda Marie Whiteway, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, National Gender Lobbying Day, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Policy for the Imprisoned Transgendered, Ray Hill, Sarah DePalma, Sharon Stuart, Stephen Whittle, Tere Prasse, Texas Tea Party, Vivian McKenzie, Yosenio Lewis
    Description: The International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy, Inc., has become known as ICTLEP and The Transgender Law Conference and also as TRANSGEN __ (the blank is the year of that con...

  7. Papers (1989-1995 and undated)

     
    Collection: The Linda and Cynthia Phillips Papers
    Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
    Creator: Garcia, Greg, Phillips, Linda, Brown, George R., Salinas, Phillips, Cynthia, Franzke, Alice W.
    Date: 1989 to 1995
    Topics: Activists, Clubs, Crossdressers, Families, Family relationships, Gender identity, LGBT, Reference sources, Societies, Transgender people
    Description: Papers, 1989-1995 and undated. Handwritten annotations on vaious pages.

  8. "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.

  9. Seize the Time

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Transsexual Action Organization
    Date: circa 1970
    Topics: Lesbianism, MtFs, Transgender activism, Transsexualism, Transvestites
    Subject: Transsexual Action Organization (TAO)
    Description: This is a draft of the April Transsexual Action Organization newsletter, which includes information about welfare, transsexualism, and male-to-female lesbianism.

  10. The Phyllasbuster's War Stories

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Children of transgender people, Demonstrations, Employment discrimination, Feminists, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: League of Women Voters, National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Nikki Van Hightower, Phyllis Randolph Frye
    Description: Frye explains: "This is a collection of seven short stories that reflects many of the early struggles that my wife and I encountered as I came out of the closet as to being transgendered in the mid...

  11. The Vamps Take Manhattan

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Ahmed, Faraz
    Date: Apr. 1998
    Topics: Anal sex, Crossdressing, Dancers, Hijras, LGBTQ+ night life, Pakistanis--United States, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA)
    Description: This essay from Trikone Magazine recounts the experiences of a group of Pakistani dancers who cross-dress and work in Manhattan nightlife.

  12. Trapped: A Story of a Transexual (outline)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Bladow, Janel
    Date: circa 1970
    Topics: Drag queens, LGBTQ+ suicide, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transsexualism
    Subject: Liz Eden
    Description: This is an outline for a story by Janel Bladow.

  13. TS (and it doesn't mean tough shit, either!)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Eden, Liz
    Date: circa 1970
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Transsexual people
    Subject: Liz Eden
    Description: This is a story about Liz Eden's experiences with relationships, gender-affirming surgery, and the film Dog Day Afternoon.