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  1. 2nd Big Edition of Your Show of Shows

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 14, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Celebrities, Drag queens, Musicians
    Subject: Lee Leonard
  2. 50s Style Women's Music

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950
    Topics: Clubs, Crossdressers, Entertainers, Musicians
    Subject: Beverly Shaw, Chi Chi Club, Club Laurel, Flamingo Club, Mona's Club
  3. A Little of My Life

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Messetti, Vivian
    Date: Mar. 1, 1959
    Topics: Circus, Femininities, Intersex, Masculinities, Neugebauer family
    Subject: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vivian Messetti
  4. About Those Ads

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1, 1954
    Topics: Advertisements, Clothing, Discrimination, Letters to the editor, Transphobia
    Description: This letter is in reference to an advertisement run on page 31 in ONE Magazine Vol. 2, Issue 8 from October 1954. The ad can be found here under the related links section.
  5. America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 15, 1953
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Night life
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye
  6. America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 18, 1954
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye
  7. As For Me...

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: May 1956
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender identity, Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Luther Allen
  8. At the Victory Club Tonite

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 25, 1952
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Music
    Subject: Lee Leonard
  9. Books

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Block, Martin
    Date: Aug. 1953
    Topics: Crossdressers, Electroshock therapy, Homosexuality, Lesbians
    Subject: Freud, Gordon Westwood, Society and the Homosexual
  10. British War Pilot Reported Transformed Into Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Mar. 6, 1954
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Gender realignment surgery, Medicalisation, Military, MtFs, Physicians, Plastic surgery, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  11. Carroll and His Revue

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 3, 1956
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Music, Night life
    Subject: Bobby Jane, Jean Barrios, Van Del Rio
  12. Change in Pilot's Sex Brings a Stage Offer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd.
    Date: Mar. 22, 1954
    Topics: Military, MtFs, Theatre
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  13. Cheerio Club Presents America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 5, 1953
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag kings, Drag queens
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye
  14. continental journey

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Trebor
    Date: Jan. 1955
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discos, Drag, Police, Prejudices
  15. Converted Woman Seeking Divorce

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Dec. 20, 1955
    Topics: Divorce, Gender realignment surgery, Theatre
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, Tamara Edel Rees
  16. County Woman Kills Herself

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Manistee News Advocate
    Date: Jan. 29, 1951
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Death and dying, FtMs, LGBTQ+ newspapers, Suicide
    Subject: Axel Pederson, John A. Dehorn, Melbourne Beebe, Myrtle Mapes, Thomas Oliver Mapes
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide. The text reads: "COUNTY WOMAN KILLS HERSELF Muskegon, Mich- (U.P.) - Authorities reported today a 29-ye...
  17. Dad of 3 to Shift Sex, Be His Wife's 'Sister'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Nov. 25, 1957
    Topics: Clothing, Marriage, MtFs
    Subject: Frank Little
  18. Danes Are Cool To SF Man's Intention To Become Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: May 5, 1954
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, MtFs
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod, Christine Jorgensen, John Cabell Breckinridge
  19. De Choisy . . . Prince of Transvestites

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Sexology Magazine, Troncoso, Héctor Uribe
    Date: Aug. 1953
    Topics: Crossdressers, Femininities, Fiction, Literature, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: François-Timoléon de Choisy
  20. Dear Gentlemen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Sarua, Ot
    Date: May 1953
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Homosexuality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen
  21. Defends RAF Flier In Sex Change as Female

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Service
    Date: Mar. 16, 1954
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Medicalisation, Military, MtFs, Parents of transgender people, Physicians, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Ernest Cowell, Roberta Cowell
  22. Divorce Actions

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Sacramento Bee
    Date: Dec. 20, 1955
    Topics: Abuse, Divorce, Legal cruelty
    Subject: Arthur L. Roberts, Bertha Elizabeth Gebhard, Helen M. Huber, J.E. Courtland, Kenneth R. Jensen, Max Bernardo, Paul Newton Yates, Robert S. Capps, Sylvester Lincoln Allen, Tamara Edel Rees, Wallace H. Derickson, William H. Parker, Jr.
  23. Editorial (2/1/1959)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Hunter, Alison
    Date: Feb. 1, 1959
    Topics: Androgyny, Biology, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender role, Hormones, Masculinities, Physical characteristics
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Havelock Ellis
  24. England and the Vices of Sodom: A News Review

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Pedersen, Lyn
    Date: May 1, 1954
    Topics: Drag racing, Gender realignment surgery, Motorsports, MtFs, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, World war II
    Subject: Charles Dusseau, Roberta Cowell
    Description: The relevant article about transsexual woman Roberta Cowell is found on page 6, under the date "March 1954."
  25. "Eonism"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Hunter, Alison
    Date: Feb. 1959
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender, Gender role, Intersex people
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Havelock Ellis
  26. Ex-Chutist Always Felt Like Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Service
    Date: Nov. 16, 1954
    Topics: Appearance, Gender realignment surgery, Military, MtFs, Parachute troops, Transsexual people, Transsexualism, Veterans
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
  27. Ex-Paratrooper Dad of 2 Returns As Woman from Holland Surgery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press
    Date: Nov. 8, 1954
    Topics: Acceptance, MtFs, Parachute troops, Parents of transgender people, Transgender parents, Veterans
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
  28. Ex-Paratrooper Returned to U.S. As Woman After Surgery in Holland

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press
    Date: Nov. 8, 1954
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Intersex, MtFs, Parachute troops, Psychiatrists, Suicide, Veterans
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
  29. Expect the Unexpected with "Mister" Carroll Wallace

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950
    Topics: Comedians, Crossdressers, Drag, Entertainers, Female impersonators
    Subject: Carroll Wallace
  30. Ex-Pilot Now Woman, British Agency Asserts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Mar. 6, 1954
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Gender realignment surgery, Medicalisation, Military, Physicians, Plastic surgery, Transgender parents, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  31. Female Impersonator Is Sentenced To Jail

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Sacramento Bee
    Date: Nov. 19, 1952
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Courts, Female impersonators, Physical violence, Police
    Subject: Fred Jackson
  32. Floor Show With Bobby LaMarr

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 11, 1950
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bobby LaMarr, Chanticler Club
  33. Full Sex Change By Flier

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Boston American
    Date: Mar. 6, 1954
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Gender realignment surgery, Military, MtFs, Plastic surgery, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Roberta Cowell
  34. GI Tells Sex Shift in Book

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Service
    Date: Nov. 22, 1954
    Topics: Books, Gender realignment surgery, Military, MtFs, Physicians, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexualism, Veterans, Writers
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
  35. Girl Track Star Stirs Jap Furor, Becoming 'Man'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Service
    Date: Jan. 15, 1956
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Sports, Sportspersons, Track and field, Youth
  36. Gladys Bentley Marries Calif. Cook

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Jet Magazine
    Date: Sep. 18, 1952
    Topics: Drag kings, Marriage
    Subject: Bobbie Minton, Charles Roberts, Gladys Bentley
  37. Held Over!! - One More Week

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Sacramento Bee
    Date: Aug. 6, 1955
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Theatre
    Subject: Alameda Theater
  38. Homosexuality, Transvestism & Change of Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Mulford, Harry
    Date: Sep. 1958
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Homosexuality, Intersex people
    Subject: Eugene de Savitsch, Homosexuality, Transvestism, and Change of Sex
  39. Homosexuals Without Masks

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Horvath, Alice
    Date: Nov. 1958
    Topics: Butch-femme relationships, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay men, Homophobia, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, Masculinities
  40. Hormones, Surgery Change British War Pilot Into Woman

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Mar. 6, 1954
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Medicalisation, Military, Physicians, Plastic surgery, Transgender parents, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Roberta Cowell
  41. Hot Under the Wig is T.C. Jones; Another Masquerade is Top Secret

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Kleiner, Dick
    Date: Aug. 27, 1956
    Topics: Appearance, Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Television
    Subject: T.C. Jones, Thomas Craig Jones
  42. I Am A Woman Again

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Bentley, Gladys
    Date: Aug. 1952
    Topics: Drag kings, Families, Gender diversity, Hormone therapy, Marriage, Musicians
    Subject: Bobbie Minton, Gladys Bentley, J. T. Gibson
  43. Is Change of Sex Possible?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Sexology Magazine, Haire, Norman
    Date: Feb. 1952
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Law
    Subject: Lili Elbe, Tony Robinson
  44. Jackie Maye at the Farewell Party at the Melody Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 31, 1950
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Night life, Parties
    Subject: Jackie Maye
  45. Japanese Athlete Aims at New Title After Sex Change

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: International News Service
    Date: Apr. 16, 1958
    Topics: FtMs, Legal status, Masculinities, Sports, Track and field, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Toshio Lanbongi
  46. Jug Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 16, 1952
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Night life
    Subject: Jean Barrios, Rickey San Jaun
  47. LA Police Seek Tamara, ExGI Turned Woman, For Checks

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: United Press
    Date: Aug. 19, 1955
    Topics: Check fraud, Gender realignment surgery, Police, Theatre
    Subject: Hollywood Burlesque Theater, J.E. Courtland, Tamara Adele Rees Courtland
  48. LA Promoter Sues Tamara, Charges Contract Breach

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Sacramento Bee
    Date: Aug. 4, 1955
    Topics: Army, Gender realignment surgery, Law, Marriage, Theatre
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, R. Russell Moore, Tamara Rees Courtland
  49. Lavender lads make woo! woo! Hallowe'en eve

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag balls, Drag queens, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender)
    Description: A newspaper article describing a queer celebration, focusing on the drag performers
  50. License Denied to Flamingo Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Los Angeles Times
    Date: Apr. 18, 1951
    Topics: Legal process, License agreements
    Subject: Flamingo Club, P.L. Sutton