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Aching to Be a Prima Donna, When You’re a Man
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Canby, Vincent Date: Mar. 13, 1991 Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag balls, Drag families, Drag queens Subject: Dorian Corey, Jennie Livingston, Pepper Labeija, Venus Extravaganza, Willi Ninja Description: A description of the film "Paris is Burning", and a brief explanation of the ball culture explored in the film that acknowledges prominent individuals. -
ACT UP Speaks Up
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Perez, Leslie Date: Apr. 28, 1989 Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS organizations Subject: ACT UP, David Fowler, Leslie Douglas Ashley, Leslie Perez, Norman Guttman -
ACT UP-ers Almost Arrested at Rally
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: Montrose Voice Date: Oct. 13, 1989 Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Demonstrations, Politics Subject: ACT UP, Leslie Douglas Ashley, Leslie Perez, Paul Doyle, Ron Wilson, Sylvia Ayres -
Activists Demo for Murdered Transsexual Chanelle Pickett
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: GenderTalk Date: Feb. 27, 1997 Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Gender transgression, LGBTQ+ activists, Murder--Investigation, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Trials (Murder)--Massachusetts Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Nancy Nangeroni, William C. Palmer Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence. -
"Activists from Around the World" Event Invitation
Collection: Audre Lorde Project Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Creator: The Audre Lorde Project, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) Date: Mar. 3, 1998 Topics: Asian LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ events Description: An invitation to "Activists from Around the World" event held by The Audre Lorde Project and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights campaign. -
Actors dressed as a clowns, performing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag. -
Actors (female impersonator on left) at San Quentin State Prison, Marin County, California, circa 1915
Collection: Prison Photographs Institution: Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library Creator: Date: circa 1915 Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Prisoners, Prisons Description: Actors (a female impersonator on left) pose for a portrait at San Quentin State Prison, circa 1915. San Quentin State Prison opened in 1852, making it California’s oldest prison. Inmate labor built... -
Actors gathered around a man in drag. Photographic postcard by The Fancy Dress Studio, 191-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1910 to 1919 Topics: Female impersonators Description: A group of men dressed in ragged working clothes gather round a matronly figure in drag as a cook with apron and mob cap. One of the men (third from left) is dressed as the popular music-hall perfo... -
Actors in "Madame Lloyd's choir and orchestra". Process print, 190-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1909? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Actors in pantomime in Brighton: S. West playing King Robert of Remlaf and H. Taylor in drag as Queen Aggie of Remlaf. Photographic postcard.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1900 to 1999 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Amateur theatricals in Brighton. The Queen was a popular Dame figure in pantomime. Identities of cast members from pencil inscription on verso of print catalogued. Remlaf is a palindrome of Falmer,... -
Actors in the pantomime "Sindbad" at Drury Lane. Photographic postcard, 1907.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1907 Topics: Female impersonators Description: The four men, two in drag, pose on a piece of stage furniture. A superb group of dames at Drury Lane in 1907. Having established Drury Lane Theatre as the foremost venue for pantomime, the producer... -
Actors, one in drag, performing on stage as "The Curios". Photographic postcard, ca. 1918-1920.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1918? to 1920? Topics: Female impersonators Description: The man in drag is wearing white and stands to the right of the stage, with a line of men in white suits, all adopting the same pose of pointing towards the man in drag. Some of the men's faces are... -
Actors, one in drag, performing "The man From Toronto", pose on set for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: 1920 to 1929? Topics: Female impersonators Description: Actors posing for an apparent publicity shot. Members of the popular touring Denville Stock Company in a production shot for 'The man from Toronto', a popular comedy in three acts by Douglas Murray... -
Actors, one in drag, pose as "The Scottish Dons". Photographic postcard, 1915.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1915 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’. -
Actors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait as "Cheerokee Minstrels". Photographic postcard by H..E. Howorth, 1904.
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards Institution: Wellcome Library Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1904 Topics: Female impersonators Description: Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
