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Kiara St. James Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, St. James, Kiara Date: Mar. 6, 2017 Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Black people, Childhood, Christianity, Civil rights, Drag queens, Education, Families, Femmes, Foster families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Night life, Organisations, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Transgender community, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia Subject: Housing Works, Kiara St. James, New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG) Description: Kiara St. James is the CEO and a co-founder of New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she recalls the experiences throughout her life that inform her activism and advocacy today as a tr... -
Kim Watson Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Watson, Kim Date: Jun. 18, 2019 Topics: Activists, Adoptive parents, AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Childhood, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members, Gender, Health care, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersex, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental health, Parenthood, Psychiatry, Social service organisations, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Writers Subject: ACT UP, Addicts' Rehabilitation Center (ARC), AIDS WATCH, Bright Point, Bronx Lebanon, Carmen Vasquez, Community Kinship Life (CK Life), Empire [State] Pride Agenda, Escuelitas, HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPG), Marti Adult Day Program, Odyssey House, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Pose, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stonewall, The Modern-Day Woman, The Monster, Two Potatoes Description: Kim Watson is co-founder of CK Life, author of The Modern Day Woman, and trans advocate and leader. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Barbados as an intersexed woman, her years of home... -
Kyle Katz Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Yesner, Lenni, Katz, Kyle Date: Apr. 29, 2017 Topics: Butches, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Femininities, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Night life, Single parent families, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Kyle Katz Description: In this interview Kyle Katz speaks about their childhood, growing up in Boston, coming to New York, and the role that timing, books and community have played in how they identify, and understand th... -
Kyle Lukoff Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Lukoff, Kyle, Tennenbaum, Ric Date: Jun. 21, 2017 Topics: Body image, Body politics, Books, Change of name, Childhood, Colleges, Coming out, Eating disorders, FtMs, Health care, Hormones, Internet, Librarians, Literature, Mental health, Passing (Gender), Representation, Schools, Therapies, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Kyle Lukoff -
Lauren Simkin Berke Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Simkin Berke, Lauren, Tennenbaum, Ric Date: Jun. 27, 2017 Topics: Artists, Childhood, Definitions, Festivals, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Hormones, Parties, Politics, Representation, Schools, Transgender community, Zines Subject: Kate Bornstein, Lauren Simkin Berke Description: Lauren Simkin Berke describes their work as an illustrator, animator, artist, and zine creator based in Brooklyn, NY. They walk us through growing up in an unconventional primary school setting, fi... -
Lenni Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Katz, Kyle, Lenni Date: Apr. 29, 2017 Topics: Acceptance, Body image, Childhood, Diversity, Families, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Hormones, Internet, Judaism, Labelling, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Role models, Schools, Theatre, Transgender community Subject: SAGE Description: In this short conversation, Lenni discusses their long, ongoing journey in exploring non-binary and "genderfucker" identity. They recount coming out as non-binary after many years in a "straight-pa... -
Letter from Lou Sullivan to Bet Power (April 30, 1988)
Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives Creator: Sullivan, Lou Date: Apr. 30, 1988 Topics: Butches, Demonstrations, FtMs, Gay pride, Health, Hormones, Soft butches, Spirituality, Support groups, Surgery, Transsexual people, Transvestites Subject: All of Me, Alyson, Ben Power, Bet Power, FTM Newsletter, Fun with a Sausage, Gayle Rubin, Ira B. Pauly, Lily Tomlin, Lou Sullivan, Second Serve, Shane Harley, Vanessa Redgrave Description: Envelope included. -
Letter from Lou Sullivan to Bet Power (October 16, 1987)
Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives Creator: Sullivan, Lou Date: Oct. 16, 1987 Topics: Crossdressing, Disabilities, FtMs, Gay culture, Hormones, Leather community, LGBTQ+ lovers, LGBTQ+ relationships, Loneliness, Newspaper columns, Self-image, Spirituality, Surgery Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Ira B. Pauly, Lou Sullivan Description: Two newspaper clippings and envelope included. -
Letter from Rupert Raj to Kitty Carlisle Hart
Collection: Rupert Raj Collection Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Raj, Rupert Date: Jun. 13, 1988 Topics: Crossdressing, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Hormones, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transsexual people, Transvestites Subject: New York Post, Rupert Raj Description: Ruper Raj writes to Ms. Kitty Carlise Hart, Director of the New York State Council on the Arts, concerning crossdressing. Includes a newspaper page with articles discussing surgery and hormones. -
Letter from Virginia Prince, April 25, 1980
Collection: Miscellaneous Correspondence Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Prince, Virginia Date: Apr. 25, 1980 Topics: Crossdressing, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Gender roles, Hormones, Medicalization, Passing (Gender), Sexuality, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Dallas Denny, How to Be a Woman Though Male, Vanderbilt Univeristy, Vanderbilt University Gender Clinic, Virginia Prince Description: Letter from Virginia Prince to Dallas Denny dated April 25, 1980. This is Prince's reply to a letter from Denny dated April 4, 1980. Prince opines on gender, sex, and sexuality and plugs her book, ... -
Letter to Virginia Prince, April 4, 1980
Collection: Miscellaneous Correspondence Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Denny, Dallas Date: Apr. 4, 1980 Topics: Crossdressing, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Gender roles, Hormones, Medicalization, Passing (Gender), Sexuality, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Dallas Denny, George Bussey, Vanderbilt Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic, Vanderbilt Univeristy, Vanderbilt University Gender Clinic, Virginia Prince Description: Letter to Virginia Prince from Dallas Denny dated April 4, 1980. Denny expressed dissatisfaction with the Gender Clinic at Vanderbilt University and wrote to Prince for advice. -
Letters from Female Impersonators Vol. 2
Collection: Letters from Female Impersonators Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University Creator: Nutrix Co. Date: 1961 Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Hormones, Masculinities, Photography, Psychiatry, Sexuality, Stereotypes Subject: Addie Adams, Belle S., Dorothy Denise, Jackie Jackson, Pat Dares -
Letters from Female Impersonators Vol. 7
Collection: Letters from Female Impersonators Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University Creator: Nutrix Co. Date: 1962 Topics: Acceptance, Air force, Appearance, Communities, Crossdressers, Drag, Femininities, Hormones, LGBTQ+ relationships, Night life, Passing (Gender), Photography, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Bea Ladi, Carol Beatrice, Jackie Jackson, Mary Nell, Nicole F., Sally Grant, Sandy S. -
Live the Dream: California Unity
Collection: International Foundation for Gender Education Publications and Documents Institution: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Creator: International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) Date: 1997 Topics: Activists, Awards, Clothing, Counseling, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Partners of transgender people, Police, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Workshops Subject: Alison Laing, Androgyny Support Group, Betsi Renyea, Born Free, Diablo Valley Girls (DVG), Educational TV Channel (ETVC), Eve Burchert, Linda Buten, Nancy Nangeroni, Neutral Corner, Pathfinders, Powder Puffs of Orange County (PPOC), Rainbow Gender Association, The Transgender Menace, Vern Bullough -
Lorena Borjas Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Borjas, Lorena, Van Ness, Lorenzo Date: Jun. 11, 2017 Topics: Activists, Deportation, Friendships, Hormones, Human rights, Immigrants, LGBTQ+ partners, MtFs, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility Subject: Lorena Borjas Community Fund, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Description: (Entrevista en Español) Lorena Borjas habla con Lorenzo Van Ness sobre su vida como activista de los derechos de las mujeres trans inmigrantes indocumentadas y trabajadoras sexuales en Jackson Heig...
