Transvestism Around the World Limited Edition … Number One Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/transvestismarou00unse Contents: Bambi Coccinelle Carrousel Club Terry Durham Ricky René Shalimar Madame Arthur’s (Paris) Madame Arthur’s (Amsterdam)
Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine: Transgender in the 1910s. This article is about Arnold T., a trans woman who lived in Zurich during the 1910s. The analytical focus is on the historically specific construction of a transgender self- identity. Using a unique set of sources, it demonstrates how Arnold T. developed a relationship with herself through a…
A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects was commissioned by Heritage Victoria to highlight the rich, diverse and unique history of queer communities in Victoria and to demonstrate how these communities are reflected in the places, objects and landscapes that surround us. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual, sistergirl and brotherboy…
The nature of the transsexual’s stigma is such that she can pass as a natural female with little difficulty if she chooses to. At the same time, transsexuals do not once and for all become women after their conversion operation. Their ambiguous gender implies at least a double identity: some of the feminized transsexual’s social…
Abstract Preview of the text: Coming of age as a bisexual Latina femme in the 1980s, I was surrounded by lesbian-feminist communities and discourses that disparaged, dismissed, and vilified bisexuality. Those of us that enthusiastically embraced femininity or that actively sought out masculine presenting butches, were deemed perpetually suspect. Femmes were imagined as being always…
Paper on historical cases of anorexia among FtMs
Female Mimics magazine were published between 1963 and 1979. They feature photographs and profiles of “female impersonators.”This magazine featuring Bambi (Marie-Pierre Pruvot), Bunny Lake, Emilio Tellez, Jewel Box Revue.
“I was born a boy, raised as a girl. . . . One may raise a healthy boy in as womanish a manner as one wishes, and a female creature in as mannish; never will this cause their senses to remain forever reversed.” So writes the pseudonymous N. O. Body, born in 1884 with ambiguous…
Sass Sasot, a transpinay (Filipino transsexual woman) writer and founding member of the Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP), provides a firsthand account of the history of the Filipino transgender advocacy movement up to that point. This was presumably originally published on the website philippine-transgender-movement.com, which is now defunct. Uploaded here is a…
Tempo Magazine, November 1958 article on breakthrough in transplantation and gender-affirming surgery.