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  1. Yana Calou Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Calou, Yana
    Date: Mar. 1, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Colleges, Employment discrimination, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Hormone therapy, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, LGBTQ+ parents, Media occupations, Migration, NGOs, Residence permits, Trade unions, Transgender people, Visibility, Work situation
    Subject: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Yana Calou
    Description: Yana Calou spent much of their youth traveling around the world and eventually found a community in Utah, where they began advocating for LGBTQ rights. Later, Calou moved to NYC, where they worked ...
  2. The Transgender Menace Next Door

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gray, Lisa
    Date: Jun. 28, 2001
    Topics: Army, Bathrooms, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Gender identity, Harassment, Lawyers, Legal aid, Legal name, Marriage law, Military discharge, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Elizabeth Birch, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Human Rights Campaign (HRC), League of Women Voters, Littleton v. Prange, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Sarah DePalma, The Transgender Menace
  3. The Sweetheart Connection Vol.7 No. 1 (Winter 1999)

     
    Collection: The Sweetheart Connection
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Graham, Onnalee
    Date: Winter 1999
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Books, Christmas, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Divorce, Employment discrimination, Events, Femininities, Gender role, Jealousy, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ relationships, Love, Marriage, Masculinities, Psychology, Society, Support groups, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: JoAnn Roberts
  4. The Phyllasbuster's War Stories

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: 2001
    Topics: Children of transgender people, Demonstrations, Employment discrimination, Feminists, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: League of Women Voters, National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Nikki Van Hightower, Phyllis Randolph Frye
    Description: Frye explains: "This is a collection of seven short stories that reflects many of the early struggles that my wife and I encountered as I came out of the closet as to being transgendered in the mid...
  5. The International Bill of Gender Rights vs. The Cider House Rules: Transgenders Struggle with the Courts Over What Clothing They are Allowed to Wear on the Job, Which Restroom They are Allowed to Use on the Job, Their Rights to Marry, and the Very Definition of Their Sex

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph
    Date: Autumn 2000
    Topics: Acceptance, Bathrooms, Civil rights, Clothing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Hate crimes, Intersex, Law, MtFs, Olympics, Personal and family law, Physicians, Prisoners, Stereotypes, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Women's movement
    Subject: Christie Lee Littleton, Cider House Rules, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR), International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), Joanna McNamara, Littleton v. Prange, Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Price Waterhouse, Schwenk v. Hartford
    Description: Frye describes the article: "My first law review – it is 85 pages long. The first half is a comprehensive legal history of the discrimination against transgenders. The second half contains strategi...
  6. The Gay Agenda of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Questioning, and Allies (LGBTIQA) Community of Residents of the Houston Metropolitan Area

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph, Planning Committe of the Futures Conference of LGBTIQA Residents of the Houston Metropolitan Area
    Date: 2005
    Topics: Acceptance, Addictions, AIDS education, Anti-discrimination law, Bisexuals, Civil rights, Condoms, Counseling, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Family members, Gay liberation, Hate crimes, Health care, Homelessness, Intersex, LGBTI community, Marriage, Marriage law, Personal and family law, Physicians, Police brutality, Sex education, Sodomy laws, Sports, Support groups, Transgender people, Youth
    Subject: Gay Political Caucus (GPC), Ray Hill, The Futures Conference, The Gay Agenda
  7. Stella Dance Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Dance, Stella
    Date: Mar. 29, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Autonomy, BDSM, Bullying, Childhood, Class struggle, Colleges, Coming out, Employment discrimination, Families, Femininities, Friendships, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Homophobia, Hospitals, Learning difficulties, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental health, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia, Schools, Sex parties, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Suicide, Therapies, Trade unions, Work situation
    Subject: Stella Dance
    Description: Stella Dance is an educator, tarot-card reader, and professional dungeon monitor who currently works at the recently unionized Babeland sex toy boutique in New York City. In this interview they des...
  8. Responsible Representation of Your First Transgendered Client

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Frye, Phyllis Randolph, Rose, Katrina C.
    Date: Jul. 2003
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Employment discrimination, Gender identity, Health insurance, Law, Lawyers, Legal aid, Prisoners, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Corbett v. Corbett, Kosilek v. Maloney, Lawrence v. Texas, Littleton v. Prange, Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, Title VII
    Description: This was the first transgender legal article to be published in the Texas Bar Journal.
  9. Phoenix Danger Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Danger, Phoenix
    Date: Apr. 24, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Demonstrations, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gay-straight alliances, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Immigration, Labour, LGBTQ+ relationships, Multiculturalism, Politics, Racism, Substance abuse, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transphobia
    Subject: Babeland, Phoenix Danger
    Description: Phoenix Danger was active in the successful unionization campaign at Babeland, a NYC sex toy shop. In this interview, they recount their early life in suburban New York as the child of Filipino imm...
  10. Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985: A Finding Aid

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
    Creator: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
    Date: Aug. 1992
    Topics: Abortion, Activists, African-americans, Anglicanism, Civil rights, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Equal rights amendments--United States, Gender identity, Genderism, Human rights, Sex discrimination, Sexism, Women's movement, Women's rights
    Subject: Eleanor Roosevelt, Pauli Murray
    Description: The collection documents many aspects of Murray's professional and unpaid work, as well as some areas of Murray's personal life. Information about areas in which the professional and personal aspec...
  11. Once a Pariah, Now a Judge: The Early Transgender Journey of Phyllis Frye

     
    Collection: Phyllis Frye Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sontagaug, Deborah
    Date: Aug. 29, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Army, Coming out, Employment discrimination, Legal aid, LGBTQ+ movement, Military discharge, Transgender movement, Transgender people
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), National Gender Lobbying Day, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Rita Hester
    Description: This file contains two pages written by Phyllis Frye which she signs off: "I hope that you take courage from these, Phyllis" It is then followed by a PDF of the New York Times Article
  12. Naz Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Naz, Awad, Nadia
    Date: Apr. 20, 2017
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Childhood, Class struggle, Clothing, Colleges, Communities, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender diversity, Homosexuality, Identity, Immigration, Islam, Labour, Politics, Refugees, Schools, Sexuality, Sports, Substance abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Naz is a gender non-conforming queer artist who works around in between spaces. They were born in Iran into a middle class muslim family, and followed their parents to the United States as a child ...
  13. Nala Simone Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Simone, Nala, Calou, Yana
    Date: May 9, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-transgender violence, Childhood, Clergy, Colleges, Coming out, Drag balls, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hormones, Masculinities, Oppression, Racism, Religions, Representation, Solidarity, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Workshops
    Subject: Aaryn Lang, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Lourdes Ashley Hunter, Miss Major, Nala Simone
    Description: Nala Simone is an activist who was born and raised in Brooklyn. Nala begins with her childhood in Bushwick, her time as a fashion design student at the Fashion Institute of Design, and her process ...
  14. Marty Hernandez Avedon Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Hernandez Avedon, Marty, Van Ness, Lorenzo
    Date: Apr. 1, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Adoption, Bullying, Change of name, Colleges, Coming out, Dating, Demonstrations, Diversity, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Foster families, Gender diversity, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Politics, Racism, Stereotypes, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Marty Hernandez Avedon
    Description: Marty Hernandez Avedon discusses growing up in the foster care system only to be adopted by a family who rejected him at the age of 10, reconnecting with his biological parents, and what the name H...
  15. Josephine Perez Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Keyes, Anna, Perez, Josephine
    Date: Mar. 23, 2018
    Topics: Abuse, Activists, Childhood, Coming out, Drag, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Housing, LGBTI community, MtFs, Organisations, Police, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual orientation, Street violence, Substance abuse, Transgender community, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
    Description: Josephine Perez is a trans* advocate who emphasizes a need for better law enforcement protections for transgender women. Josephine experienced sexual violence on multiple occasions and became a sex...