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  1. 1995 Xmas Letter

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 23, 1995
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, Gay pride, Indigenous transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: AIDS Memorial Candlelight Parade, Bob Hooker, Christopher Street Festival, Cocoa Rodriguez, Edward Lacey, Marsha P. Johnson, Mothers March Against AIDS, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, Uplift Lighting, Willie Brashears
    Description: The handwritten draft of the 1995 issue of an annual newsletter written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker, in which he provides updates on his life and business, including obituary note...
  2. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at an Outdoor Gathering

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1970
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A black-and-white photograph of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at an outdoor gathering. Marsha and Sylvia are dressed in warm clothing, standing in front of a crowd of others. Treetops are vis...
  3. A Photograph of Sylvia Rivera Posing with a Group Including Randy Wicker and Cocoa Rodriguez at Uplift Lighting

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 17, 1996
    Topics: Black transgender people, Gay men, Indigenous transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Cocoa Rodriguez, Randy Wicker, Sylvia Rivera, Uplift Lighting
    Description: A photograph of Sylvia Rivera posing with a group at Randy Wicker’s store Uplift Lighting. Sylvia’s wearing a white sweater and a beanie. Randy Wicker is on Sylvia’s left wearing a red, white, and ...
  4. A Photograph of Sylvia Rivera with Cocoa Rodriguez Holding Stonewall Posters Protesting the 1996 Stonewall Film Premiere

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Black transgender people, Indigenous transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Cocoa Rodriguez, Stonewall, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A photograph of Sylvia Rivera with Cocoa Rodriguez holding Stonewall posters. Sylvia is glasses and a white t-shirt, and the poster she's holding reads "STAR GIVES NO STARS TO STONEWALL MOVIE." On ...
  5. A Photograph of the Intro 475 Demonstration at New York City, City Hall

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator: Davies, Diana
    Date: 1973
    Topics: Black transgender people, Gay rights, Latino/a/x transgender people, Lesbian rights, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, QTPOC, Transgender people
    Subject: Barbara Deming, Carol Grosberg, Intro 475, Jane Vercaine, Kady Vandeurs, Marsha P. Johnson, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A photograph of Intro 475 demonstration at New York City City Hall. The photo include Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Jane Vercaine, Barbara Deming, Kady Vandeurs, and Carol Grosberg.
  6. CHRIS: Gay Prisoner in Bellevue

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Bell, Arthur, Rivera, Sylvia
    Date: Nov. 14, 1970
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Black gay men, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Homosexuality, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ activism, Medical care, Transvestites
    Subject: Arthur Bell, Bellevue Hospital, Chris Thompson, Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Clipping from pages 1-2 and 7 of Gay Flames, issue 7, published November 14, 1970.
  7. Drag Vol. 2 No. 7 (1972)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, Male prostitution, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexualism
    Subject: Laura McAllister, Mardi Gras Ball, Marsha P. Johnson, Raelle Sisters, Sylvia Rivera, Vicky West
    Description: Contents: Editorial -- Spotlight -- News -- The Raelle sisters -- Shakespeare's boy actress -- here, there, everywhere -- Male prostitutes -- TVIC: Hartford -- Coming events -- Getting together.
  8. Drag Vol. 2 No. 8 (1972)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: On item cover: "Now! America's No.1 magazine about the transvestite!" ; Contents: News -- Queens with balls -- Salmacis society -- Drag yearbook -- Coming events -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans -- Get...
  9. Interview with Michael Lynch

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Kearns, John J., Lynch, Michael
    Date: Dec. 6, 2000
    Topics: Black queer people, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gender expression, HIV/AIDS, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Performance art, QTPOC, Stonewall riots, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Andy Warhol, Christopher Street Columbus Tour, Hot Peaches, Jimmy Camicia, Marsha P. Johnson, Spare Change for a Dying Queen, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: An interview with Micheal Lynch. The two talk about Lynch's experience in the Hot Peaches, and provides stories about Marsha P. Johnson. Lynch describes the group's trip to London and Hambrug—speci...
  10. Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera in Crowd at New York City Hall Demonstration

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator: Davies, Diana
    Date: circa 1969 to 1972
    Topics: Black transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Puerto Rican women, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Gay Liberation Front, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson are featured in the back left of the crowd at the Gay Liberation Front demonstration at New York City Hall, circa 1969-1972.
  11. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at Pride March, 1986

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1986
    Topics: Black transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Transgender political activists
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, New York City Pride, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A photograph of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at a pride event in New York City in 1986.
  12. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at Pride March, 1989

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1989
    Topics: Black transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Transgender political activists
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, New York City Pride, Stonewall, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A picture of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera wearing Stonewall sashes at a pride event in New York City in 1989. The photograph was taken around Madison Square Park.
  13. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major
    Date: Jul. 27, 2016
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Catholic Church, Drag, Drag queens, Gay men, Gender affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ clubs, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Misogyny, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Normalization, Passing (Gender), Police, Sex work, Sissies, Stonewall riots, Substance abuse, Trans men, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Women's movement
    Subject: Ashley, Christine Jorgensen, Cookie, Evelyn, Frank Smith, Grandma Cerils, Helen, Judy Garland, Kitty, Madison Society, Major!, Marcus Arana, Marsha P. Johnson, Mattachine Society, Miss Major, Monica, Natalie Wood, National Lawyers Guild, Puppy, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy conducted by Mason Funk August 27, 2016 at the apartment she shared with her son in Oakland. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was one of a group of transgender women...
  14. PAY IT NO MIND! A Memorial Tribute to SAINT MARSHA P. JOHNSON

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members of LGBTQ+ people, Gay pride week, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Agosto Machado, Bob Kohler, Bob Storm, Dr. Marjorie Hill, George Flimlin, Jean Michaels, Jeremiah Newton, Jimmy Camicia, Judy Hirschberg, Mama Jean, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Understood, Norma Michaels, Queer Donna, Regina Finlin, Robert Michaels, Sylvia Rivera, The Boy Bar Beauties
    Description: Movie produced, directed, and filmed by Randy Wicker, and edited by Fred N. Orlansky. Depicts the Gay Pride Parade in New York City on Jun 28th, 1992. Also shows the street memorial where Marsha Jo...
  15. Season's Greetings 1998

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 26, 1998
    Topics: Black transgender people, Gay men, Indian LGBTQ+ people, Indigenous transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Mexicans, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Ashok Kavi, Cloning, Cocoa Rodriguez, Melissa, Stonewall Veterans' Association, Sylvia Rivera, Uplift Lighting
    Description: The 1998 issue of an annual newsletter written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker, in which he provides updates on his life, including his mother's move to Arizona and cloning advocacy.