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II Femminiello
Collection: Art Works Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Bonito, Giuseppe Date: 1740 to 1760 Topics: Arts, Canvas, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender diversity, Gender minorities, Painting, Painting, Italian, Portrait painting, Italian, Third gender, Transvestites Description: "This recently-discovered painting from eighteenth-century Naples is a testament to the city's exceptional social acceptance of local transvestites known as femminielli. The term, which might be tr... -
Who's that girl?
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Creator: McKnight, Jennie Date: Jan. 14, 1990 Topics: Transvestites Subject: Babilonia, Gay Community News, Gay Scotland, Lisa Visonti, Miss Italy Description: A news bulletin describing a transvestite who entered a beauty pageant in Italy. Originally published on page 2 of volume 17, number 38 of Gay Community News.