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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. The 'Wrong' Sex: A New Definition of Childhood Pain

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Goleman, Daniel
    Date: Mar. 22, 1994
    Topics: Crossdressing, Eunuchs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity disorder, Homosexuality, Medicalization, Transvestites, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: K.D Lang, RuPaul
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to racist and transphobic language. Note the term ‘berdache’ it is a historical slur against Native American people who...

  4. Who's that girl?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: McKnight, Jennie
    Date: Jan. 14, 1990
    Topics: Transvestites
    Subject: Babilonia, Gay Community News, Gay Scotland, Lisa Visonti, Miss Italy
    Description: A news bulletin describing a transvestite who entered a beauty pageant in Italy. Originally published on page 2 of volume 17, number 38 of Gay Community News.

  5. Why Transvestites Make Other People Nervous

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Kakutani, Michiko
    Date: Jan. 24, 1992
    Topics: Androgyny, Crossdressing, Drag, Gender ambiguity, Gender bending, LGBTQ+ books, Race relations, Transvestites
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Cultural Anxiety, Henry David Hwang, M. Butterfly, Marjorie Garber, Shi Pei Pu, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
    Description: This is a clipping from the New York Times that is a book review for Marjorie Garber's "Vested Interest: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety" which talks about gender variance icons in popular medi...