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  1. Josephine Perez Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Keyes, Anna, Perez, Josephine
    Date: Mar. 23, 2018
    Topics: Abuse, Activists, Childhood, Coming out, Drag, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Housing, LGBTI community, MtFs, Organisations, Police, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual orientation, Street violence, Substance abuse, Transgender community, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
    Description: Josephine Perez is a trans* advocate who emphasizes a need for better law enforcement protections for transgender women. Josephine experienced sexual violence on multiple occasions and became a sex...
  2. Kiara St. James Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, St. James, Kiara
    Date: Mar. 6, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Black people, Childhood, Christianity, Civil rights, Drag queens, Education, Families, Femmes, Foster families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Night life, Organisations, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Transgender community, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Housing Works, Kiara St. James, New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG)
    Description: Kiara St. James is the CEO and a co-founder of New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she recalls the experiences throughout her life that inform her activism and advocacy today as a tr...
  3. Kim Watson Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Watson, Kim
    Date: Jun. 18, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Adoptive parents, AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Childhood, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members, Gender, Health care, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersex, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental health, Parenthood, Psychiatry, Social service organisations, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Writers
    Subject: ACT UP, Addicts' Rehabilitation Center (ARC), AIDS WATCH, Bright Point, Bronx Lebanon, Carmen Vasquez, Community Kinship Life (CK Life), Empire [State] Pride Agenda, Escuelitas, HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPG), Marti Adult Day Program, Odyssey House, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Pose, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stonewall, The Modern-Day Woman, The Monster, Two Potatoes
    Description: Kim Watson is co-founder of CK Life, author of The Modern Day Woman, and trans advocate and leader. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Barbados as an intersexed woman, her years of home...
  4. Lower Susquehanna News, Vol. 3 No. 4 (April, 1991)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Larson, Elsa
    Date: Apr. 1991
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag balls, Homelessness
    Subject: Brenda Carr, Les Belles & Friends, Nicole James, Ramona Stallings, Vernon Flook, York College
  5. Melissa Sklarz Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Sklarz, Melissa, Tennenbaum, Ric
    Date: Jul. 5, 2017
    Topics: Bathrooms, Civil rights, Crossdressing, Elections, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Homelessness, Hormones, Isolation, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Lobbying, MtFs, Night life, Politics, Public facilities, Public sex, Representation, Schools, Stigmatisation, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, GenderPAC, Kate Bornstein, Laverne Cox, Melissa Sklarz, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Riki Anne Wilchins, Stonewall Democrats
    Description: Melissa Sklarz was the first transgender elected official in New York, having been a judicial delegate since the 1990s. She has served on many trans rights legislative committees, including the Sto...
  6. On Becoming A Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Fenly, Leigh
    Date: Jun. 10, 1979
    Topics: Child abuse, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Insurance, LGBTQ+ relationships, Passing (Gender), Psychotherapy, Sexuality, Suicide, Transsexual people, Unemployment
    Subject: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), COYOTE
  7. Paris Milane Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Milane, Paris
    Date: Jun. 22, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Change of name, Childhood, Clothing, Colleges, Crimes, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Housing, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Stealth (Transgender), Substance abuse, Support groups, Transgender community, Unemployment, Violence
    Subject: Housing Works, Paris Milane
    Description: Paris shares her experience of growing up in Atlanta and starting to “live her truth” at a young age. She recalls finding reassurance in a community of other Black trans women for the first time an...
  8. Shame On Pride!

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Abuzar
    Date: 2005
    Topics: Homelessness, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Nonviolent resistance, Polyamory, Stonewall riots, Transgender people
    Subject: Dyke March, Gay Shame, Limp Fist, Pride, Stonewall, Sylvia Rivera
  9. Sophie Cadle Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Cadle, Sophie, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Aug. 6, 2018
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Family members, Friendships, Gender identity, Homelessness, Imprisonment, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental health, Substance abuse, Transgender people
    Description: Activist/consultant Sophie Cadle talks to Sebaástian Castro Niculescu about their struggles throughout their life with their family, relationships, homelessness, incarceration, and substance abuse....
  10. 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...
  11. Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Van Ness, Lorenzo, Asapansa-Johnson Walker, Tanya
    Date: Apr. 2, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Army, Bullying, Childhood, Christianity, Discrimination, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Gender identity, Harassment, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Migration, MtFs, Nurses, Oppression, Passing (Gender), Politics, Racism, Resistance movements, Sexual harassment, Sexuality, Social exclusion, Social workers, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Karen Burstein, Paris Is Burning, Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker
    Description: Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker is a co-founder of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she shares her history of LGB and trans activism in New York City. Born on Staten Island, Mis...
  12. The Gay Agenda of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Questioning, and Allies (LGBTIQA) Community of Residents of the Houston Metropolitan Area

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph, Planning Committe of the Futures Conference of LGBTIQA Residents of the Houston Metropolitan Area
    Date: 2005
    Topics: Acceptance, Addictions, AIDS education, Anti-discrimination law, Bisexuals, Civil rights, Condoms, Counseling, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Family members, Gay liberation, Hate crimes, Health care, Homelessness, Intersex, LGBTI community, Marriage, Marriage law, Personal and family law, Physicians, Police brutality, Sex education, Sodomy laws, Sports, Support groups, Transgender people, Youth
    Subject: Gay Political Caucus (GPC), Ray Hill, The Futures Conference, The Gay Agenda
  13. The Tartan Skirt: The Scottish Magazine for the Gender Community No. 14 (April 1995)

     
    Collection: The Tartan Skirt
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Forrester, Anne
    Date: Apr. 1995
    Topics: Acceptance, Age of consent, Androgyny, Animals, Appearance, Beauty standards, Body image, Books, Change of name, Clothing, Coming out, Communication, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drivers' licenses, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Homelessness, Hormones, Intolerance, Law, Marriage, MtFs, Organisations, Passing (Gender), Police, Prostitution, Public facilities, Social constructionism, Surgery, Therapies, Transgender community, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Travel
    Subject: Eugene Schrang, Gender Dysphoria Trust International, Just Julia, Self Help Association for Transsexuals (SHAFT)
  14. Twenty Minutes (October, 1990)

     
    Collection: Twenty Minutes
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: The XX Club
    Date: Oct. 1990
    Topics: Bathrooms, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Families, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, Homelessness, Labour law, MtFs, Sexuality, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Angela Wensley, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE)