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  1. 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...
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Who Speaks for Gay Native Americans?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Roscoe, Will
    Date: Autumn 1990
    Topics: Ethnocentrism, Gay community, Homophobia, Lesbian community, Letters to the editor, Native american cultures, Native americans, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Maurice Kenny, OUT/LOOK, Paula Gunn Allen, Ramon Gutierrez, Scott Bravmann
  5. Who gets to 'belong' in the lesbian community anyway?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Apr. 8, 1990
    Topics: BDSM, Bisexual people, Drag community, Gay pride, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ visibility, Persecution of bisexual people, Sexual minorities, SM movement, Transgender community
    Subject: Academy Awards, Elizabeth Taylor, Gay Community News, Gertrude Stein, Lis Brook, New Alexandria Lesbian Library, Northhampton Lesbian/Gay Pride march, Radclyffe Hall, Sarah Dreher, Shelix, University of Massachusetts, Valley Gay Alliance, Willa Cather
    Description: An editorial concerning the exclusion of sexual and gender minorities from the 1990 Northampton pride march. Originally published on page 5 of volume 17, number 38 of Gay Community News.
  6. Who Did You Say You Are?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Leshko, Isa, Wilchins, Riki Anne
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Crossdressers, Feminism, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity, Interviews, Queer transgender people, Sexual orientation, Transgender activism, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Christian Coalition, Elizabeth Birch, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Gay Community News, Gender PAC, Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA), Havelock Ellis, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Isa Leshko, Judith Butler, Kate Bornstein, Moral Majority, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), National Organization for Women (NOW), Riki Anne Wilchins, Stop Prison Rape, Transgender Menace, Tyra Hunter
    Description: An interview with Riki Anne Wilchins, discussing gender theory, politics, activism, and identity. Originally published on pages 17 and 29 of volume 22, number 1 of Gay Community News.
  7. Where We've Been

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries
    Creator: Clough, Stan
    Date: Jan. 1993
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag, LGBT, Nazism, World war I
    Subject: Adolf Hitler, Apex: A Point of Departure, Josephine Baker, Stefan George, Thomas Mann, Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Society
    Description: This clipping can be found on page 4 of the periodical.
  8. What's in a Name?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 27, 1990 to May 3, 1990
    Topics: LGBTQ+ communities, Transsexual people
    Subject: Houston Gay Political Caucus, Inclusivity, Transgenderal, TWT News
    Description: Clipping from pg. 19, 21 in This Week in Texas Newsletter Volume 16, Number 7, dated April 27 - May 3, 1990.
  9. "What Sort of Beast Was I?" Thinking Beyond Gender in India

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Vanita, Ruth
    Date: Oct. 1997
    Topics: Ashrams, Hijras, Indian LGBTQ+ people, Non-Euro-American gender and sexual identities, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people, Vārkarī sect, Women authors, South Asian, Women's movement
    Description: This article discusses how Indian society creates narratives for opting out of gender categories, of non-victimhood, and of alliances across identity boundaries. It is excerpted from a longer essay...
  10. What a World, What a World: What is "Normal" Anyway?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Ford, Nancy
    Date: Aug. 1994
    Topics: Clothing, Drag, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Transphobia
    Subject: Concerned Parents for Normal Toys, Dorothy Lamour, Dragdoll, Robert Crodent, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert, Weekly World News
    Description: An article from Dimensions' August 1994 issue discussing the creation of Dragdoll. The text looks at criticism of the toy as well as its potential positive impact.
  11. Westward the Women

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Wenzel, Lynn
    Date: Mar. 1990 to Apr. 1990
    Topics: Art history, Crimes, Crossdressing, Family members, Frontier and pioneer life, Gender role, History, Women, Women pioneers
    Subject: Kate Rockwell, Mary Ann Patterson
  12. Westchester Guide: Gathering of Indian Women

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 28, 1999
    Topics: Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, Two-Spirit authors
    Subject: American Indian Law Alliance, Chrystos, Coatlicue Theater Company, Murielle Borst, Native Women Weaving Urban Traditions: An Exploration of Inigenous Women and Their Urban Communities, Spiderwoman Theater, The Shy Woman Singers, Tonya Gonnella Frichner
    Description: Newspaper clipping from the New York Times about an event at Sarah Lawrence that includes Indigenous artists from multiple tribes.
  13. Two Baluchi Buggas, A Sindhi Zenana, and the Status of Hijras in Contemporary Pakistan

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Naqvi, Nauman, Mujtaba, Hasan
    Date: Jan. 1998
    Topics: Baluchi (Southwest Asian people), Gender expression, Gender markers, Hijras, Police harassment, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people, Transfeminine people, Zenanas
    Subject: Mohammed Aslam
    Description: This essay from Trikone Magazine (Vol. 13, No. 1) discusses South Asian gender identities and associated experiences in Pakistan.
  14. Trivializing Indian Tradition

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Lebsock, Kent
    Date: Dec. 26, 1993
    Topics: Gay pride, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Two-Spirit identity, Winkte
    Subject: American Indian Community House (AICH), American Indian Law Alliance, On the Street: Somewhere East of Laramie
    Description: A newspaper clipping from the New York Times including a letter to the editor from Kent Lebsock, a two-spirit person, criticizing the New York Times for trivializing Native traditions after Lebsock...
  15. Trikone Magazine Vol. 4, No. 10

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Roy, Sandip
    Date: Oct. 1995
    Topics: Drag queens, Indian bisexual people, LGBTQ+ magazines, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people
    Subject: Jayalalitha Jayaraman, Pink Triange Malaysia, Pravatak Magazine, Pride Ustav 1995, R. Raj Rao, RuPaul, Sasikala Natarajan, Urvashi Vaid
    Description: The majority of Trikone Magazine vol.10 no.04. It appears to be missing several pages.