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  1. 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...
  2. The Transgenderist (January 29, 1998)

     
    Collection: Upstate New York Newsletters
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 29, 1998
    Topics: Acceptance, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Gatherings, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Partners of transgender people, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Alex Myers, Paris Is Burning
  3. TV Guise Vol. I, Issue 5 (August, 1991)

     
    Collection: TV Guise and GenderFlex
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Jones, Billie Jean
    Date: Aug. 1991
    Topics: Acceptance, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag balls, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Insurance, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ poetry, Parents of transgender people, Racism, Self-acceptance, Sexism, Sexual orientation, Support groups, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: George Bush, Lambda Community Center, Lavender Angels, Paris Is Burning
  4. Twenty Minutes (October, 1991)

     
    Collection: Twenty Minutes
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: The XX Club
    Date: Oct. 1991
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Homosexuality, Hormone therapy, Hormones, MtFs, Physical characteristics, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Gender Identity Clinic of New England (GICNE), Joan of Arc, Paris Is Burning, The Benjamin Standards, Yvon Menard
  5. Why does she do it?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Stearns, Alan
    Date: Apr. 1992
    Topics: Clothing, Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Feminism, Gender roles, LGBTQ+ bars, Masculinities, Pageants, Queer people
    Subject: La Cage Aux Folles, Limelight, Paris Is Burning
    Description: A clipping from the April 1992 issue of "Our Paper," titled: "Why does she do it?" discussing drag and queer stereotypes.