#Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society

[maryjanedoex]

Lorraine Hurdle (1922-2014) was a Black lesbian woman who served in the United States Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in Germany during World War II.

[lesboevils]

with pride month approaching and my old archival links post being broken into several annoying sections. here are some useful starting places on lgbt history.

disclaimer: most of this has to do with usamerican history / are in english my apologies, this is just what i had on hand. if you have more please feel free to add them or dm them to me.

the act up oral history project

the lesbian herstory archives

the transgender archives of the university of victoria

the digital transgender archives

glbt historical society

lgbtq digital collaboratory

anything that moves

the bisexual manifesto (1990)

samuel proctor oral history project

a full master post of lesile feinberg's works (stone butch blues included ) by @genderoutlaws

the queer zine archive

dyke march compilation

paris is burning ( documentary )

how to survive a plague ( documentary )

united in anger: a history of ACT UP ( documentary )

screaming queens ( documentary )

the celluloid closet ( documentary )

one institute

audre lorde's poetry collection

aqurives

bi women's quarterly (1/2)

[whatevergreen]

12th Annual International Two Spirit Gathering Attendees, San Francisco, 1999

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS)'s float in the 2008 San Francisco Pride parade.

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS), Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, San Francisco CA

[iphigeniacomplex]

rejoice! the glbt historical society has a digital archive collecting the writing of camille moran, a transgender activist for psychiatric survivor rights who advocated for the removal of gender identity disorder from the dsm

you may be familiar with moran from her statement in the fall '93 issue of ex-patient newsletter dendron, "why a transgendered woman calls for psychiatry's destruction". (if not, it can be accessed here, on page 17.) her writing on the psychiatric abuse she experienced as a transgender woman is crucial reading for anyone interested in the psychiatric survivors movement or anti-psychiatric perspectives.

[historyisgaypodcast]

0.20. Dialing in to Gender: Tracing Trans Internet History with Avery Dame-Griff

In this interview episode, Leigh sits down with scholar and creator of the Queer Digital History Project Avery Dame-Griff to discuss his book The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet and all it contains about the magic of the evolution of trans folks on the internet. From BBSes (bulletin board system) to Twitter, we discuss how trans people have always existed on and created their own unique spaces on the World Wide Web, tapping into Avery’s extensive research, interviews, and media archaeology.

Where to find more from Avery Dame-Griff online:

AveryDame.net

Mastodon: apdamegriff@aoir.social

Queer Digital History Project

Also, some additional awesome news about internet trans history!

As listeners may know, Leigh works at the GLBT Historical Society for their day job. And recently, a volunteer archivist, Cara Esten Hurtle, discovered an amazing CD-ROM containing the entirety of Transgender Forum, (TGForum.com) from 1995 to 1998, one of the largest trans communities online at that time, that Avery Dame-Griff also covers in his book! Hurtle uploaded the CD-rom online for anyone to peruse and it’s absolutely amazing to see the 90s trans community right there before your very eyes!

The discovery has been covered by them online in a fantastic article which you can read here: This Archive Offers an Incredible Window Into the Early Trans Internet.

And you can peruse the CD-Rom of TGForum.com here, where Cara uploaded the archive! Just click the “START.HTM” file in the tgfcd window, and browse to your heart’s content! Want Leigh to do an interview with Cara about her discovery? Let us know!

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[ourhistorytoo]

Lorraine Hurdle (1922-2014) was a Black lesbian woman who served in the United States Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in Germany during World War II. Pictured dated as being from 1939.

Lorraine's papers were donated to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, San Francisco CA.

[californiastatelibrary]

Meet José Sarria, “Empress of San Francisco.”

In 1961, José Sarria ran for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and became the first openly gay candidate to run for office in the United States. After an unsuccessful run, Sarria’s activism gained speed. He helped found several gay organizations — SIR, or the Society of Individual Rights, the League for Civil Education, and the Imperial Court System, one of the oldest and largest LGBT organizations in the world.

The Imperial Court System is a grassroots network of organizations in the United States, Mexico and Canada that fundraises for charitable causes through the production of annual “Gala Coronation Balls.” Each court annually elects an “emperor” and “empress.” Sarria became Empress of San Francisco, Jose I and the Widow Norton — a nod to “Emperor” Joshua Norton, a well-known San Francisco Gold Rush era eccentric who in 1859 declared himself emperor of the United States and protector of Mexico.

In May 2019, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution supporting Sarria’s induction in the California Hall of Fame, saying in part: “(He) paved the way for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) candidates who followed to seek and win elected office across San Francisco, elsewhere in the United States and around the world.”

The photo in this post is via the José Sarria Papers at the GLBT Historical Society.

[bi-kisses]

I saw terfs claiming that being trans (as it is currently known) was invented by porn addicts on forums and that any people who lived as the opposite sex historically did so to escape homophobia, as if FTM newsletter didn't exist in the '80s or gay trans men just showed up in the current century or Christine Tayleur hadn't dedicated herself to transgender activism in the early nineties...

The best resource to prove how fucking stupid they are is GLBT Historical Society so feel free to read up on how trans people have always been right there fighting alongside us.

[coffin-flop]

the librarian in me feels it necessary to list a couple of orgnaizations and projects that preserve and make lgbt history accessible. There is a heavy north american/us slant to this bc that's where I'm writing from, and it's possible not all of these orgs are active anymore. But still, some resources to start with.

LGBT+ Archive of Louisiana

The LGBT Community Center National History Archive

GLBT Historical Society

Lesbian Herstory Archives

LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory

Queer Archives Project

The ACT UP Oral History Project

Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) 

Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)

LGBT+ Cutural Heritage

Queer Omaha Archives

Queer Music Heritage

We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!

and this doesn't include many books, podcasts, & documentaries out for us. don't be complacent, people are working very hard to make this information available to others in our community. please use the resources we're working hard on. I can tell you as a queer person in an adjacent field, a lot of us spend a lot of our careers on these sorts of projects on top of our regular work, although they do nothing positive for our careers (and tend to put us in the path of homophobes/transphobes/toxic fake allies). We do it because we know it's important & nobody else will do it for us.

Anyways, the people who have scrubbed the queerness out of history win when queer people put up their hands in defeat. When we act like we have nothing to do with the preservation and learning of queer history, we are falling into a trap that was built to slowly erode our connection to our past.

It's frustrating to see people act because queer history isn't easy to access, and there is nothing they can do. Because so so many people have spent their lives, have ruined their academic reputations, and worked tirelessly to put this information out there. Sure, it's not in every high school textbook yet, but it is reaching out waiting for you to meet it halfway. It's worth the work, I promise.

[sfplhormelcenter]

Co-Edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma "We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan" (Call #: B Su542a) narrates the inner life of a gay transgender man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan's self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.

[genderoutlaws]

✨ Commonly Used Sources ✨

Bi Women Boston (bi women quarterly backlog)

Trans Reads (books, essays, articles, zines)

Transas City (ephemera, photographs)

Digital Transgender Archive (wide variety of historical materials)

GLBT Historical Society Archive (wide variety)

Leather Archive (user: public | pass: leather)

Lesbian Herstory Archive (photos, pins, shirts)

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archive (via OAC)

{ WIP — will continue to update }

[365daysoflesbians]

Lorraine Hurdle (1922-2014) was a Black lesbian woman who served in the United States Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in Germany during World War II.

The Lorraine Hurdle Papers (2018-12), courtesy of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society include her military portrait, a WAC baseball team portrait, and Hurdle with an unidentified woman. c. 1950s.

Read more at the GLBT’s Lesbians in the Military archives.

[miyagi-hokarate]

As far as I've searched, there is no digitally accessible version of We Got Moves (I found a link to Vimeo for it, so it might have been uploaded there once before having been deleted). According to the Transgender Media Portal, there is a physical copy of the short film in storage, a VHS tape archived in the GLBT Historical Society Archives in San Francisco, California — so thankfully, no lost media!

We Got Moves You Ain't Even Heard Of (Part One), an experimental queer short film by Eric Cho (also credited as formerly Erica Cho, or their "tranny boy alter ego" Clover Paek) that reinterprets The Karate Kid as a commentary on "sexual identity, butch/femme roles, and Hollywood’s Orientalism." Cho emphasizes both "the flexibility and mutability of [Ralph Macchio's] image as a sexual icon for straight and queer viewers" alongside "converging spectacles of homoerotic violence and masked orientalism" by recasting themself as Ralph Macchio and his character of the movie Daniel LaRusso — read more on the short film here

Image from the Transgender Media Portal

[13thgenfilm]

* JUST SIX SLEEPS AWAY! * On Wednesday, October 19th, please join us at the GLBT Historical Society’s annual Gala - REUNION - in-person from 6-9 pm! 13th Gen’s Marc Smolowitz & his husband Yves Averous are proud to sponsor this highlight of the year. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

TICKETS: 👉 https://glbthistory.org/reunion

Reunion will be hosted by two fantastic performers:  Kylie Minono, a dedicated community organizer, and  MADD-DOGG 20/20, a two-time San Francisco Drag King winner. 

This year’s History Makers Award Honorees are: 

Olga Talamante -  former executive director and current board member of the Chicana Latina Foundation.

Donna Personna -  a transgender rights activist and fine artist who works in painting, photography and mixed media.

Drag Queen Story Hour -  represented at the Gala by Per Sia and Julián Delgado Lopera, was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions, under the leadership of Julián Delgado Lopera and Virgie Tovar.

And this year’s Willie Walker Founders Award Honorees are:

Zane Blaney & John Caldwell - in 2020 John and Zane made a foundational gift to help the GLBT Historical Society install a new Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) to ensure long-term preservation and accessibility of digital files.

[sanfranciscoblog]

In a surprise announcement as part of her balanced budget proposal she introduced Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said she is seeking funds to acquire a site in the city to build the first large-scale, freestanding LGBTQ history museum.

San Francisco is already home to a many fantastic world-class museums, but the current GLBT Historical Society location in the Castro District is a modest storefront on 18th Street.

Calling out gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the Castro and has been working with the GLBT Historical Society and the mayor on the museum project, Breed said she was requesting the funds "so we finally have a home for all those who fought for LGBT equity and inclusion in our city."

The mayor did not mention a dollar figure, but according to Clair Farley, a transgender woman who is a mayoral adviser and executive director of the city's Office of Transgender Initiatives, the amount is $10 million toward the acquisition of a site. The city would issue a request for proposals for use of the money, noted Farley.

"We are still working out the details," said Farley.

At present, this would be the first full-scale museum dedicated to LQBTQ history and culture anywhere in the United States.

[queerasfact]

Hello friends! We know some of our listeners are in isolation right now, so here are a few fun ways to pass the time:

Listen to Queer as Fact - these are trying times so we recommend you check out some more wholesome and lighthearted episodes like the story of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space; the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest pieces of literature in the world; or the life of gun-toting drag king and activist Stormé DeLarverie.

Take up a queer craft project - cross-stitch your favourite queer quote from history! Draw your favourite queer figure! Share you results with us!

Visit Open Library - the wonderful source of much of our podcast research, Open Library is home to a myriad of e-books, and you can sign-up and download them for free.

Listen to History is Gay - our fellow queer historians, producing excellent queer history content if Queer as Fact doesn’t provide enough of a fix.

Check out some online queer museums - San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society has parts of their collection online, and the Digital Transgender Archive is, as the name suggests, entirely digital.

Listen to Making Gay History - Eric Marcus has done a huge amount of work conducting and sourcing interviews with queer activists and figures from America’s queer rights movement, including everyone from Marsha P. Johnson to Ellen DeGeneres to Bayard Rustin. They are all available for free online via his podcast.

We hope you are all staying safe, and if you have your own ideas for how to pass the time in isolation, please share them. <3