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  1. 1982 Was a Great Year! Can 1983 Be Any Better?

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1982
    Topics: Black transgender people, Christmas, Drag queens, Gay men, LGBTQ+ sex workers, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: David Combs, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Uplift Lighting, Willie Brashears
    Description: The 1982 issue of an annual newsletter written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker, in which he provides updates on his life and business, the household, and close friends. The author des...
  2. Aelita Parizek Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Parizek, Aelita, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Aug. 10, 2018
    Topics: Arts, Arts and entertainment occupations, Body image, Gender identity, Hormones, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Students, Testosterone, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: In this interview with Sebastián Casto Niculescu, Aelita Parizek discusses their journey of discovery both with their transness and in the art world. Parizek explains how their experiences at Parso...
  3. Alyssa Pariah Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Pariah, Alyssa
    Date: Jan. 16, 2018
    Topics: Activists, Appearance, Arrests, Bathrooms, Bullying, Capitalism, Child abuse, Childhood, Clothing, Communities, Detention, Direct action, Discrimination, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Occupy movement--New York (State)--New York, Police, Schools, Sexuality, Social movements, Socialism, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Alyssa Pariah, Black Lives Matter (BLM)
    Description: Alyssa Pariah recounts her difficult childhood in New Jersey, her involvement in trans women of color and sex worker communities in New York, and her radicalization as a revolutionary socialist. Sh...
  4. An Amalgamationist in Limbo for the Second Time

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: New York Herald
    Date: Mar. 9, 1842
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Prisons, Racism
    Subject: Beefsteak Pete, John Brown, Peter Sewally
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language.
  5. An Interview with Diana Navarro

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Navarro, Diana, Motta, Carlos
    Date: Mar. 15, 2010
    Topics: Abuse, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Change of name, Crossdressers, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Identification cards, Intersex, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Queer theory, Sex education, Sexual orientation, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Transsexual people
    Subject: Option for the Right to Do and the Duty to Do Corporation
    Description: Diana Navarro, the director of the Option for the Right to Do and the Duty to Do Corporation, discusses her experiences as a transgender women and sex worker in Bogotaá, Colombia. As an activist,...
  6. Another Man-Woman Monster

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator: Atkinson, Samuel C.
    Date: Aug. 28, 1836
    Topics: Death and dying, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ sex workers
  7. Appendix I: An Investigation into Acts of Discrimination Committed Against Transgendered People in the State of Maryland

     
    Collection: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy: Annual Proceedings and Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: It's Time, Maryland
    Date: Dec. 12, 1995
    Topics: Change of name, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Sexual assault, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: It's Time Maryland
  8. April Ashley's own story

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Ashley, April
    Date: Feb. 8, 1970
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Identification, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Mental health, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: April Ashley, Arthur Corbett
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  9. Are They Men Or Women? Riddle of Odd Couple

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 6, 1981
    Topics: Arrests, Change of name, Courts, Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ sex workers
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  10. B. Hawk Snipes Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Snipes, B. Hawk
    Date: Mar. 28, 2019
    Topics: Artists, Bars, Black people, Childhood, Cocaine, Drug abuse, Education, Femininities, Gay and lesbian youth, Gay community centers, Gay liberation, Gay pride, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Homeless people, Homelessness, Hospitals, Housing, Jews, Latinos, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Neighborhood government, Police, Police raids, Prisons, Pronoun, Stonewall riots, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Unemployment, White people, Women, Youth, Youth organisations
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, Amanda Milan, Amy's Bread, Anderson Cooper, Bawdy Audie Josie, Center Lane, Chi-Chi's, Cole Cafe, Covenant House, Covenant House Rite of Passage (ROP), Fenced Out, Greenwich Village Youth Council (GYC), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Iris House, James Street Hotel, JD Melendez, John Cameron Mitchell, Kate Barnhart, March of Dimes, Michael Bloomberg, New Neutral Zone, New York Police Department (NYPD), Octavia St. Laurent, Operation Spotlight, Peter Green, Project Reach, Rosie Perez, Sets, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, The Garden Left Behind, Trans Health Conference, Trans in Action, Transy House, Wilson Cruz, Zendo's
    Description: B. Hawk Snipes discusses their growing in the Bronx, their time at the La Guardia High School of the Performing Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and eventually becoming an entertainer ...
  11. Be Nice to Sex Workers

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1990?
    Topics: Buttons, Communities, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Sex industry, Sexual freedom
    Description: Circular yellow button with the phrase "BE NICE TO SEX WORKERS" around the rim. Also, a smiley face is located in the center.
  12. Behind the Lines on Gay Pride Sunday

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (CSLDC), Christopher Street Liberation Day March, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Queens Liberation Front, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: The cover of "GAY Magazine" Vol. 4 No. 06 along with a clipping about Sylvia Rivera at the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade and about her "Y'all Better Quiet Down" speech.
  13. Beyond reasonable doubt?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Price, Christopher, Caplan, Jonathan
    Date: Nov. 14, 1981
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Arrests, Arson, Courts, Crossdressers, Homosexuality, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Police
    Subject: Ahmet Salih, Antony Ahmet, Colin Lattimore, Henry Fisher, Maxwell Confait, Ronald Leighton, Steve Fletcher, Tony London
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria). Content Warning: T...
  14. Cecilia Gentili Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Gentili, Cecilia
    Date: Jul. 14, 2017
    Topics: Addictions, Childhood, Clothing, Dictatorships, Families, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Immigration, Immigration policy, Imprisonment, Labour, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Passing (Gender), Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Cecilia Gentili, Gay Men's Health Crisis
    Description: Cecilia Gentili is the Director of Policy at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). In this wide-ranging interview, she reflects on the relationships and experiences that inform her story of struggle, res...
  15. Ceyenne Doroshow Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Doroshow, Ceyenne, Mukerjee, Lucy
    Date: Feb. 25, 2022
    Topics: Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender autobiographies, Transmisogynoir
    Subject: 96 West, Andre's, Ceyenne Doroshow, Cooking in Heels: A Memoir, Flawless Sabrina, Gays and Lesbians Living In A Transgender Society ( G.L.I.T.S.)
    Description: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence and transphobic language.