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  1. Portrait of Vesta Tilley in a Chair

     
    Collection: JD Doyle Photographs (1900-1949)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Clothing, Male impersonators, Music
    Subject: Vesta Tilley
    Description: Portrait of Vesta Tilley posing in a chair with legs crossed, smiling with a cigarette in mouth.
  2. Posing in Halloween Costumes

     
    Collection: Miscellaneous Photographs
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Cheerleading, Drag, Drag queens, Events, Gatherings, Halloween, Halloween costumes
    Description: Two pictures: the top picture has 4 people that appear to be dressed as cheerleaders and are all posing. The bottom picture includes 3 people who are also dressed in costume.
  3. Postcard of Mei Lanfang

     
    Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: BIPOC, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ theater
    Subject: Mei Lanfang
    Description: This item is a color postcard of Mei Lanfang.
  4. Program for Amanda Milan's Memorial Serivce

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC
    Description: Program for Amanda Milan's, a member of New York's ballroom community, memorial service.
  5. Program for the Third Annual Harvest Moon Cabaret

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Hot Peaches
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag performers, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Hot Peaches, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Program for the Third Annual Harvest Moon Cabaret, performed by the Hot Peaches and hosted by Marsha P. Johnson.
  6. Project 76 #2 - The Politics of My Body

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Jacksonian7x
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Appearance, Body politics, Overweight people, Self-mutilation, Sexual abuse, SM, Transgender people
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to self harm.
  7. Project Transsexualism

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Counseling, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Support groups, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Description: Received by Lou Sullivan
  8. Pussy Tourette

     
    Collection: Clothing Collection
    Institution: Wearing Gay History
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag balls, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ musicians
    Subject: Pussy Tourette
    Description: White t-shirt. "Pussy Tourette" Pussy Tourette is the stage name for an American drag queen, composer and singer.
  9. Queen for a Day!

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Music
    Subject: Ty Bennett
  10. Queer Nation "Justice for Marsha"

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Queer Nation
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a leaflet created by Queer Nation announcing a demonstration on July 19, 1992 for Marsha P. Johnson to make demands to the police to change the suicide death classification of Marsha's...
  11. Rae Bourbon: A Girl Of The Golden West (UTC 4)

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: A Girl of the Golden West, An Evening in Copenhagen, Around The World In 80 Ways, Bourbon 100-Proof, Don't Call Me Madam, Hollywood Exposé, Horse Opera, Ladies of Burlesque, Let Me Tell You About My Operation, One On The Aisle (Claque-Claque), Rae Bourbon, Ray Bourbon, The Railroad's Coming Thru, To Hell With The Range, Ugh!, Where Does The Difference Come In?, You're Stepping on My Eyelashes
    Description: Album cover (front and back of vinyl) by Rae Bourbon Content Warning: Offensive visual depiction of Indigenous Americans.
  12. RAE BOURBON: A TRICK AIN’T ALWAYS A TREAT LP

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Drag, Female impersonators, Gender expression, LGBTQ+ musicians, LGBTQ+ theater, Performance art
    Subject: A Girl of the Golden West, An Evening in Copenhagen, Around The World In 80 Ways, Bourbon 100-Proof, Diamond Lil, Don't Call Me Madam, Hollywood Exposé, Ladies of Burlesque, Let Me Tell You About My Operation, One On The Aisle (Claque-Claque), Rae Bourbon, You're Stepping on My Eyelashes
    Description: Front and back covers of Rae Bourbon's LP "A Trick Ain't Always a Treat"
  13. Rainbow Triangle Pin

     
    Collection: Button Collection
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Gay pride, LGBTI community, Rainbow flags, Symbols
    Description: Rainbow triangle button meant to symbolize LGBTI pride. From Alison Laing Pin Collection.
  14. Randy Burns papers

     
    Collection: Discovery Resources
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: GLBT Historical Society
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: HIV/AIDS, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Two-Spirit people
    Subject: Barbara Cameron, Bay Area Gay Liberatiobn (BAGL), GAI History Project, Gay American Indians, Gay Freedom Day, Harry Hay, Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology, Maurice Kenny, National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, People of Color HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee, Randy Burns, Third World AIDS Advisory Task Force, Walter L. Williams, Will Roscoe
    Description: "The bulk of the collection consists of materials relating to LGBT American Indians, Two-Spirit people and American Indian history collected by activist Randy Burns, co-founder with Barbara Cameron...
  15. Ray Bourbon

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Clubs, Entertainers