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A Chinese Fight
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1890 Topics: Boxing, Female impersonators Subject: Ah Giang, Chinese People, Foo Jung, John L. Sullivan, Swintien Lok Company Description: This item is an article in the North Dakota newspaper Bismarck Daily Tribune about a staged fight between boxer John L. Sullivan and Ah Giang, a Chinese female impersonator. -
A Chinese Play
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Jun. 22, 1889 Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Asian people, Chinese People, Moo Sung Lee, Swintien Lok Company, Taka Wing, Yaka Wing Description: Article published in The St. Louis Republic about a performance by Taka Wing, "the great female impersonator of China". -
A Chinese Riot
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1893 Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Chinese People, Don Bow, Tow Dong Chue Description: Article published in the Morning Oregonian about a large fight that occurred in a Chinese theater and the arrest of Tow Dong Chue and Don Bow (a Chinese female impersonator). -
A Chinese Theater
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1890 Topics: BIPOC, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Chinese People, Mr. Ah Gian Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to the use of racist language. -
A Clipping About Remarks at Chanelle Pickett's Candlelight Vigil
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Humphries, Marilyn Date: Jan. 1996 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Gender transgression, Hate crimes, LGBTQ+ memorials, LGBTQ+ siblings, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Gabrielle Pickett, Nancy Nangeroni Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence. -
A Clipping About Rita Hester's Murder and Other Boston Violence
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Panepento, Peter, Goldstein, Debra Date: Dec. 29, 1998 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ memorials, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women Subject: Rita Hester Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence. -
A Close Up of a Seated Performer
Collection: Military Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Sanford, Pat, Cross, Dan Date: circa 1942 to circa 1945 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Military, Musicals, Photographs, Plays, Soldiers Subject: Look At Us Now Description: A performer wearing a two-piece dress and matching hat poses sitting for a photograph. This may be a photograph of Private First Class Samuel Cohen. -
A Collage of Six Polaroids of Melissa Posing with Friends
Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Latino/a/x transgender people, Mexicans, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans Subject: Melissa, Sylvia Rivera, Uplift Lighting Description: A collage of six polaroids. In each, Melissa poses with a different friend at Randy Wicker's store, Uplift Lighting. The names of the people pictured are visible in black marker on four of the pola... -
A Collage of Two Photographs Featuring Melissa and Friends
Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: Date: Unknown Topics: Gay men, Latino/a/x transgender people, Mexicans, QTPOC, Trans women Subject: Melissa, Randy Wicker Description: A collage of two photographs with a short typed description between them. The top photograph shows Melissa with Randy Wicker. The bottom photograph depicts Melissa posing with two close friends. -
A Colored Man Who Successfully Passed as a Woman for 27 Years
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: The Milan Exchange Date: Jul. 20, 1876 Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender disabled people Subject: Frances Thompson Description: A clipping from The Milan Exchange about Frances Thompson's life, following her death in 1876. -
A Comedy of Murder
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1889 Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: Asian people, Chinese People, Chinese Theatrical Company, Taka Wing, Two Unfortunate Maidens Description: Article published in The New York Herald about a performance by Taka Wing, a Chinese female impersonator. -
A Crack Shot
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Aug. 17, 1881 Topics: Abduction, Arrests, Books, Crossdressing, Gender role, Hunting, Marriage Subject: Benjamin K. Bortree, David Fortnam, George W. Slater, Henry W. Shouse, Joseph Israel Lobdell, Lucy Ann Lobdell, Mary Perry, Mary Slater Description: Butler Citizen (Butler, PA) -
A Crack Shot: The Story of the Female Hunter of Long Eddy
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: Aug. 17, 1881 Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Firearms, Hunting, Marriage, Occupations, Social classes, Trapping Subject: Female Hunter of Long Eddy, George W. Slater, Lucy Ann Lobdell Description: Butler Citizen (Butler, PA) -
A Curious Evening with Kenneth Marlow (January 17, 1971)
Collection: Ephemera Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Date: Jan. 1971 Topics: Comedy, Crossdressing, Entertainers, Female impersonators, Musicals, Writers Subject: Kenneth Marlow, Mr. Madam Description: Object has "which have nothing to do with my act!" in blue ink, which we think to be written by Kenneth Marlow. -
"A Dark Conspiracy" in Chinese
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Date: 1889 Topics: Chinese drama, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater Subject: A Dark Conspiracy, Asian people, Chinese People, Koong Ming, Swintien Lok Company, Taka Wing Description: This item is an article published in the New York Herald reporting on the performance of "A Dark Conspiracy" featuring Taka Wing, a female impersonator.