Unidentified studio photographer, I Want What I Want, 1972, documents one of the earliest feature films to present a sustained narrative centered on transgender identity, providing visual evidence of how gender transition was interpreted within mainstream cinema prior to the emergence of more nuanced representations in later decades. Based on.....
Twentieth Century Fox’s Myra Breckinridge publicity archive, 1970, documents the visual promotion of a major-studio film centered on a transgender woman, gender nonconformity, and attacks on Hollywood masculinity. Adapted from Gore Vidal’s 1968 novel, the film starred Raquel Welch as Myra Breckinridge, with John Huston, Mae West, Rex Reed, Farrah.....
Brewster, Lee G. (ed.). Drag: A Magazine About the Transvestite. These periodicals document the organization, representation, and internal discourse of transvestite and drag communities in the United States during the early 1970s, a period of expanding visibility following the emergence of gay liberation movements. Published between 1972 and 1975, Drag.....
[Transgender] Lukas, M.J. Let Me Die A Woman, the 1978 companion volume to Doris Wishman's semidocumentary exploitation film of the same name. This book put to print the film's exploration of male-to-female transgender experience, combining medical explanation, surgical discussion, and autobiographical case histories. The volume centers the work of Dr.....
[Transgender] Fantasies in Lace and Reluctant Press trans and cross-dressing erotica chapbook archive, catering to readers of transgender, transvestite, and cross-dressing fiction through mail-order distribution in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Mimeographed and illustrated with stylized fetish cover art, catering to a niche readership of gender-bending audiences. Such small.....
Engstrand, Stuart and Lafayette, Richard/Rachel archive documents early literary and quasi-autobiographical treatments of cross-dressing and transgender identity in American and translated pulp publishing between 1950 and 1968, when gender variance was framed through psychological, medical, and moral discourse. Produced during a period of heightened scrutiny of sexuality and identity under.....
Transgender Tapestry, a run of 13 magazines spanning 1983 to 2002, trace the editorial and political development of a major U.S. transgender periodical from the Tiffany Club era of “the magazine for persons interested in transvestism & transsexualism” to the later IFGE-era language of “Celebrating the Diversity of Gender Expression.”.....
