Southern California Trans Gender Identity Services "Renaissance" 1977 Newsletter, Providing Resources and Sex Education for the Queer and Transgender Community

Renaissance Newsletter

Periodical

[Transgender][Cross-Dressing] Renaissance: Gender Identity Services August 1977 newsletter recording the day to day workings of a Southern California trans support network providing resources on counseling, public speaking, and allied gay and sexual-rights organizations. This issue gives updates on Renaissance employees, counseling work, travel, and graduate study, while also printing notices tied to Confide in Tappan, the Androgyny Center in Ocean Beach, ASECT regional conferences, and the National Committee for Sexual Civil Liberties. Its contents place local transsexual community life alongside national organizing in the same issue, with references to a July 16, 1977 CBS taping for Confide, the August 20 march on the United Nations for lesbian and gay rights, and book and article notices centered on sex change, transsexual autobiography, and medical discourse.
Renaissance. Volume II, Issue 3. Santa Ana, California: The Other Side, August 1977. Ten pages including front and back wrappers. Edited and published by Jude Patton, subscription address P.O. Box 1341, Santa Ana, California 92711. The issue opens with “News of Renaissance: Gender Identity Services Members,” giving detailed member reports on promotions, counseling work in Los Angeles, an Army Reserve dispute after disclosure in a required security clearance, and members' plans for study in social ecology, human sexuality, piano, and business administration. Interior contents include a “Calendar of Coming Events” listing California Alliance of Sex Educators activity, ASECT regional meetings, and an Androgyny and sexual-gender identity seminar; “The Books in Brief” with a notice for Mario Martino’s Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography; excerpts from a hostile Christian letter attacking Free Love Publishing’s Renaissance alongside the editor’s response; organizational notices for Renaissance Speakers’ Bureau, Tri-Sigma, Dyke: A Quarterly, The Equalitarian Feminist, and Albatross; “Stories and Tales” covering Marie Sode’s WAC discharge, Katherine Anne Marlowe Bies’s prison marriage, Ben Spock’s statement against Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” campaign, anti-gay censorship in Britain, and municipal ordinances in Tucson and Chicago; and a “Review of New Publications” page with subscription and ordering information for books, magazines, films, directories, and counseling materials. The rear wrapper carries a handwritten mailing address, postal permit box, advertising rates, classified rates, and a subscription referral form.
Issued in 1977, after stonewall, this issues dates to a time when trans support groups, counseling services, and lesbian and gay civil-liberties organizations were building more open and visible communities. Renaissance ties Santa Ana and greater Los Angeles to a wider circuit that includes New York, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., Rome, Kansas, and Bermuda,with conference calendars, member news, reader correspondence, publication notices, and subscription appeals. Horizontal mailing fold and mild handling wear; clean and complete. A densely informative issue from the infrastructure of late-1970s trans community organizing in California.

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