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  1. An Exotic Gay Subculture Turns Poignant Under Scrutiny

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Dunning, Jennifer
    Date: Mar. 23, 1991
    Topics: Ballroom families, Drag balls, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, Transvestites
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Meg McLagan, Octavia St. Laurent, Pepper Labeija, Willi Ninja
    Description: A description of how the film "Paris is Burning" relates to ball culture in New York City.
  2. From Night of Rage, The Seeds of Liberation

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Bragg, Rick
    Date: Jun. 23, 1994
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, LGBTQ+ people of color, Police raids, Stonewall riots, Transvestites
    Subject: Dario Modon, Gay Liberation Front, Stonewall, Stormé DeLarverie, Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt
    Description: Newspaper clipping from the New York Times interviewing people about what it was like at the Stonewall riots.
  3. FROM STONEWALL TO THE PUERTO RICAN PRIDE PARADE: THE EPIC ROLE OF TRANSVESTITES

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Negron, Frances
    Date: Jun. 1994
    Topics: Gay men, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ people of color, Stonewall riots, Transphobia, Transvestites
    Subject: Communidad Orgullo Gay, Gay Community News, Gay Liberation Front, Latino Gay and Lesbian Coalition, Maida Tilchen, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), Pa'Fuera, Puerto Rican Pride Parade, Puerto Rico, Stonewall 25, Stonewall Rebellion, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: An overview of Puerto Rican involvement in the LGBT+ movement, especially Sylvia Rivera's involvement in the Stonewall Rebellion. Originally published on page 22 of volume 20, issues 1 and 2 of Gay...
  4. He Enjoys Being A Girl

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Flatley, Guy
    Date: Nov. 15, 1970
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, Detention of LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gender, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ films, Motion picture actors and actresses, Riots, Trans women, Transvestites
    Subject: Andy Warhol, Harold Danhakl, Holly Woodlawn, Larry Rivers, Paul Morrissey, Trash (Film)
    Description: Holly Woodlawn formerly known as Harold Danhakl is arrested at the U.N. for female impersonation. Holly Woodlawn starred in the Andy Warhol-Paul Morrissey film: "Trash". She is bailed out by Larry ...
  5. No Burial Aid for Moses Preston Waller

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Jacobs, Andrew
    Date: Jun. 2, 1996
    Topics: Death, LGBTQ+ people of color, Prostitution, Transvestites
    Subject: Donald Green, Moses Preston Waller, New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, Silver
    Description: A New York Times article mentioning the death of Moses Preston Waller, who is described as a Black transvestite prostitute.
  6. Still Here: Sylvia, Who Survived Stonewall, Time and the River

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Kaufman, Michael T.
    Date: May 24, 1995
    Topics: Drag queens, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ suicide, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, LGBTQ+ youth, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Red ribbons (AIDS), Stonewall riots, Substance abuse, Trans women, Transvestites
    Subject: Bellevue Hospital, Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at CUNY Graduate Center, Hudson River, Marsha P. Johnson, St. Joseph's Hospital, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.
  7. STONEWALL STORIES PART I OF II

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bronski, Michael, Carlo, Vivian, Robinson, Colin, Poggi, Stephanie, Burns, Randy, Shively, Charley, Stowell, Sterling, Nestle, Joan, Lorde, Audre, Ewing, Tess, Rose, Steven, Abelove, Henry
    Date: Jun. 11, 1989
    Topics: AIDS awareness, Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Gay community, HIV/AIDS, Homophiles, Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Police harassment, Stonewall riots, Transvestites
    Subject: Bread and Roses, Daughters of Bilitis, Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Gay Community News, Gay Liberation Front, Gay Women's Liberation, Lesbian History Archives, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Marsha P. Johnson, Mattachine Society, Radicalesbians, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, That Certain Summer
    Description: A collection of stories and remembrances from the Stonewall riots and 1969. Writers comment on memory, inclusion, and what the riots mean as a symbol. Originally published on pages 14 through 17 of...
  8. They Came Out Fighting

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Evans, Sara M.
    Date: Jun. 27, 1993
    Topics: BIPOC, Coming out, Gay liberation, Gay rights, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ theater, Queer literature, Transgender people, Transvestites
    Subject: Craig Rodwell, Foster Gunnison Jr., Jim Fouratt, Karla Jay, Martin Duberman, Stonewall (Book), Stonewall Inn, Sylvia Rivera, Yvonne Flowers
    Description: Book and historical review of Martin Duberman's book "Stonewall" which recounts the narratives and lives of six individuals involved in the Stonewall riots. The book features BIPOC trans people inc...