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  1. A Field Guide to Persons in the Transgendered Gay Community

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Denny, Dallas
    Date: Oct. 1991
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag queens, Passing (Gender), Post-operative, Pre-operative, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Description: Originally published in "The News" Volume 7 Number 8. Dallas Denny describes the differences in people who identify as transsexual, crossdressers, and drag queens and how they vary in gender expres...

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Drag queens suspected in stabbings

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Gaines, Kelly
    Date: Jan. 14, 1990
    Topics: Bars (Drinking establishments), Drag queens, Violent crimes
    Subject: Dallas Voice, Gay Community News
    Description: A news bulletin from Dallas describing a violent incident on New Year's Day. Originally published on page 2 of volume 17, number 26 of Gay Community News.

  5. Hanging with a Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: LeWine, Sarah
    Date: Dec. 1, 1995
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Drag community, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Vaunessa Vale
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.

  6. Hi-Ho Silverlake

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: McQuaid, Peter
    Date: Aug. 22, 1999
    Topics: African American LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Blackface entertainers, Drag performers, Drag queens, Gay political activists, Gentrification, Lesbian political activists, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ night life
    Subject: Andrew Dibben, Ann Magnuson, Beck, Bibbe Hansen, Black Fag, Buff Chandler, Channing Hansen, Jackie Goldberg, Jorjee Douglass, LGBTQ Fashion, Madonna, Mattachine Society, Mimi Pond, Neal Guthrie, Ron Athey, Spaceland, Stone Fox, Sweet P, Vaginal Davis
    Description: New York Times article on music and fashion in Silverlake and the Hollywood area. It includes many mentions of LGBTQ+ performers, bands, etc.

  7. How RuPaul Ups the Ante For Drag

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Keeps, David A.
    Date: Jul. 11, 1993
    Topics: Androgyny, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Women's music
    Subject: Andy Bell of Erasure, Cher, Disney World, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, Jimmy Sommerville, Madonna, Paul Morrissey, RuPaul, Sylvester, Sylvester the Disco Diva
    Description: A newspaper clipping detailing RuPaul's contributions to pop culture.

  8. King Victoria

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Hahn, Renee
    Date: Spring 1992
    Topics: Bars, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Drag kings, Drag queens, Gay men, LGBTQ+ partners, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
    Subject: Third World Gang

  9. Lesbian Sex/Gay Sex What's the Difference

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Creet, J.
    Date: Winter 1991
    Topics: Activists, Butches, Drag queens, Feminism, Gay rights, Homosexuality, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Sexuality, Sodomy laws, Soft butches
    Subject: Ontario Human Rights Code

  10. Letter to a Femme

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Jan. 1994
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Butches, Coming out, Discrimination, Drag, Drag queens, FtMs, Hate crimes, Hate speech, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ lovers, Passing (Gender), Police officers, Police raids, Prejudices, Rape, Sexual harassment, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Suicide, Transgender people
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Workers World Party
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 3 of the periodical.

  11. Life After Drag: Unreality Endures

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: O'Connor, John J.
    Date: Jul. 9, 1996
    Topics: Drag queens, Drug abuse, Eunuchs, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Homosexuality, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ films, Prostitution, Transvestites
    Subject: RuPaul, The Salt Mines, The Transformation
    Description: Clipping from The New York Times that discusses "The Transformation", a movie focused on the lives of Latinx trans characters.

  12. On WNET and Nationwide, the Rainbow Flags are Flying

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gates, Anita
    Date: Aug. 24, 1994
    Topics: Bisexuality, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Homosexuality, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ choruses, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ people of color, Trans women
    Subject: A Day in the Life of Lady Chablis, Angels in America, Bob Dole, George C. Wolfe, Ian Mckellen, Katherine Linton, Lady Chablis, Liza Minnelli, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Melissa Etheridge, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Pat Buchanan, PBS, Rent, The Doll, The Grand Empress
    Description: New York Times article featuring mention of "A Day in the life of Lady Chablis", a segment hosted by PBS about Lady Chablis, a Black trans woman performer.

  13. Paris Has Burned

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Green, Jesse
    Date: Apr. 18, 1993
    Topics: Ballroom families, Drag mothers, Drag queens, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ people of color
    Subject: Angie Xtravaganza, Dorian Corey, Hector Xtravaganza, Kim Pendavis, Octavia St. Laurent, Paris Dupree, Paris Is Burning, Pepper Labeija, RuPaul, Sally's II, Willi Ninja
    Description: Newspaper clipping from the New York Times about New York's ballroom scene and more specifically things relating to the movie "Paris is Burning".

  14. "Reflections of a Drag Queen Striving Towards Political Correctitude"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Housel, David
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Femininities, Masculinities, QTPOC, Sexism
    Subject: Black and White Men Together, Men of All Colors Together NY
    Description: An excerpt from Men of All Colors Together NY's 10th Anniversary Journal describing the experience of being BIPOC and a drag queen in New York.

  15. Sex, Gender and Revolution

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Bell, Bee
    Date: Mar. 1994
    Topics: Abortion, Appearance, Arrests, Butches, Class struggle, Communities, Crimes, Demonstrations, Discrimination, Drag kings, Drag queens, Economics, Employment discrimination, Femininities, Femmes, Gender diversity, Identity, Intersex people, Labour, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Normalization, Oppression, Patriarchy, Peace movement, Police, Racism, Rape victims, Religious right, Sexual harassment, Sexual roles, Sexuality, Social control, Social exclusion, Social movements, Soft butches, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Unemployment
    Subject: Apex: A Point of Departure, Drag King Dreams, Gay American Indians, Larry Gilbert, Leslie Feinberg, Mike Chitwood, Newsweek, Operation Rescue, Rodney King, Stone Butch Blues, The New York Times, Transgender Warriors: A History of Resistance from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, Workers World Party
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 1 of the periodical.