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This page contains an ever-growing collection of links to historical LGBT content. Always a work in progress, always taking suggestions. Email me at grackleweb@gmail.com if you have any contributions or questions.

The majority of the older trans-related links will mention crossdressers, transvestites, impersonators/mimics, drag queens/kings, sissies, and more. Many of the gender terms and categories we have now didn't exist, at least not in their modern form. For example, a newsletter may be named "Cross Dressers International", but contain advice on social and medical transition, a path we now typically associate with a more recent label, transgender.

Every link here should be free access. If a link is broken, notify me.
I don't endorse every opinion in the content below.
They may contain triggering, offensive, or sexual content.

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Welcome to the archive!

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Archive Sites

General
Archive.is
The Internet Archive
Chronicling America
Digital Public Library of America
Old Bailey Online

LGBT
GLBT Historical Society's Digital Collections
Archived GLBTQ Encyclopedia Project
Lavender Legacies: LGBT Sources in North America
The Madeline Davis GLBT Archives of Western New York
Invisible Histories Project (Southern US)
University of Southern Maine LGBTQ+ Collection
LGBTQ Digital Collaboratory Oral History Hub
Gay History and Literature by Rictor Norton
Homosexuality in 18th Century England
New York Public Library LGBT and HIV/AIDS Collections
People with a History: An Online Guide to LGBT History
Queer Zine Archive
One Archive
The Arquives
Queering the Map
Queer Resources Directory
Queer Music Heritage
LGBT Religious Archives Network
Queer Maps
Out History

Gay men
Broken Futures: Queer Lives in Berkshire

Lesbian
Black Lesbian Archives
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Glasglow Women's Library Lesbian/LGBTQ Archives

Transgender
The Digital Transgender Archive
To Survive on This Shore: Photos and Stories from Trans/GNC Older Adults
Digital Trans Archive Zine Collection
University of Victoria Transgender Archives
The Life of Lou Project

HIV/AIDS
ACT UP Oral History Project (2002-2015)
Bay Area Reporter Searchable Obituary Database
African American AIDS History Project
New York Public Library LGBT and HIV/AIDS Collections

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Newsletters and Magazines

LGBT
Vanguard Magazine (1960-70)
Bay Area Reporter Newspaper (1971-2005)
Fanfare Magazine (1986-88)
Gender Quest (1998-2000)
Monmouth & Ocean News (1994-98)
Nottingham Lesbian and Gay Community Centre (1986-87)
One Magazine (1953-67)
G.E.M / GEM (1983-84)
Ripoff (1997)
Chimaera (1980)
Outright (1990-97)
Gay Life (1978)
[Uganda] Bombastic Magazine (2014-19)
[China] Gay Spot (2007-15)
[Iraq] Living on the Margins (2018)
Above Ground Magazine (1995-97)
Gaydar Magazine (2004-08)
Valley Free / Valley Gay Press (1998-2016)
FACT: Fighting Aids Together (1991-2017)
Panzee Press (2008-09)
Pride Guide (1994-2004)

Gay men
Gay Nottingham (1985-87)
East Midlands Metro Gay (1987-89)
Wolverine: Gay Voices of Hostility (1983-84)
Gay Sunshine (1973)
Gay Left (1975-1980)
Drummer Leather Magazine Collection 18+ (1975-1999)
Random gay magazines (1969-79)

Lesbian
Lookout! (1996-2011)
Diversion (1986-88)
Bad Attitude (1990s)
Shocking Pink (1987)
Lesbian Herstory Archives Periodicals and More

Bisexual
Anything That Moves (1991-2001)
The Bisexual Manifesto (1990)
Boston Bisexual Women's Network Newsletters (1983-2010)
Bi Women Quarterly Archive

Transgender
Chrysalis Quarterly (1991-99)
Erickson Educational Foundation Publications (1965-86)
The Gateway Gender Alliance Publications (1979-84)
Gender Review: The FACTual Newsletter (1978-86)
GenderServe Newsletter (1987-88)
Gender Trash (1993-95)
In Your Face: Political Activism Against Gender Oppression Newsletter (1995-98)
The Ingersoll Message Newsletters (1995-98)
International Foundation for Gender Education Publications (1987-99)
International TranScript Periodicals (1991-92)
The Journal of Gender Studies (1991-95)
Journal of Male Feminism (1977-80)
Outreach Publications Newsletters (1970-99)
Renaissance News & Views (1987-2004)
Transgender Tapestry (1979-2008)
The Transsexual Voice (1985-95)
TV Guise / GenderFlex (1991-95)
Twenty Minutes (1988-97)
Xpressions and Monarch Publications (1995-97)

Transfeminine-oriented / dominant
Buffalo Belles / The Journey Newsletter (1992-99)
Alpha Zeta Newsletter (1987-89)
Chi Chapter Newsletter (1977-99)
Cross Dressers International Newsletter (1991-93)
Cross-Port InnerView Newsletter (1985-96)
Cross-Talk: The Gender Community’s News & Information Monthly (1990-96)
Drag Magazine (1971-83)
En Femme Publications (1987-91)
Fantasia Fair Newsletters (1975-2000)
Female Mimics Magazine (1963-79)
Female Mimics International (1980-99)
Femme Mirror Newsletters (1978-2000)
Gender Euphoria Newsletters (1987-99)
Grace and Lace Letter (1990-99)
Hartford T.V.I.C. / Sugar and Spice Sorority (1973-1974)
LadyLike Magazine (1987-2007)
Les Girls: Boys Will Be Girls Magazine (1979-85)
Letters from Female Impersonators (1961-63)
The Linda and Cynthia Phillips Papers (1964-97)
Mountain Lace Newsletter (1991-93)
Our Sorority: An Outreach Program (1986-90)
Our Special Joy Newsletter (1981-85)
The Phi Journal (1986-88)
The Sweetheart Collection (1994-2001)
The Tartan Skirt (1992-95)
TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism (1993-95)
Turnabout Magazine (1963-79)

Transmasculine-oriented / dominant
FTM International / Newsletter (1987-2008)
Boys Will Be Boys Newsletter (1992-93)
Adam's Word Newsletter (1998-99)
Metamorphosis Newsletter and Periodicals (1982-88)
Your SOFFA Voice Newsletter (1998-2001)
Trans Fag Rag: Info & Networking for Gay/Bi Transmen (1996)

Intersex
Hermaphrodites with Attitude / Intersex Society of North America Newsletter (1994-2006)
The Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 15 No. 2 & Vol. 16 No. 1 (1993-94)
Appendix D: A Legal Path of Androgeny by Lynn Edward Harris (1995)
Riki Anne Wilchins' flyers (1990)

Clippings and Scraps
Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
Short Runs of Periodicals (1953-97)
Snippets of South Africa Media Coverage (1998-96)
Upstate New York Newsletters (1973-99)
Info about Bangladesh Roopbaan Magazine

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Articles

LGBT
The Forgotten History of Gay Entrapment (2019)
Why Did the Mafia Own the Bar? (2017?)
Exploding the Myths of Stonewall (2019)
Proud b(u)y definition (1999)

Intersex
Changes in Sex Not Unusual; Many Keep Secret, Doctors Say (1952)
Doctor Reveals Birth Of True Hermaphrodite (1956)
Bearded Women (1903)
Surgeon Places Stress On Fixing Babies' Sex (1956)
"Scientists have discovered that an entirely normal man is one-fifth woman..." (1941)
Sex Shifts Day By Day, Expert Says (1935)

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Books, Comics, Etc.

LGBT
Out in All Directions: The Almanac of Gay and Lesbian America (1995)
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus (2002)

Lesbian
Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (1983-2008)
Audre Lorde's Poetry

Transgender
Mountain Charley: The Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin, Who was 13 Years in Male Attire (1861)
Die Transvestiten 1 by Magnus Hirschfeld (1910)
Die Transvestiten 2 by Magnus Hirschfeld (1912)
Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June (1918)
Artificial Rejuvenation and Voluntary Change of Sex: According to Professor Steinach (1926)
Self: A Study In Ethics And Endocrinology By Michael Dillon (1946)
Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators: Celestial and Human by C.J. Bulliet (1956)
Poems of Truth by Michael Dillon (1957)
Transvestism Today by Edward Podolsky/Carlson Wade (1960)
Sex Life of a Tranvestite by Larry Maddock (1964)
Transvestism Around the World by S-K Press (1964)
Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender: A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse by Rupert Raj (1967-1991)
Once I Was a Man: Behold, I Am a Woman by Dianna, told by Felicity Cochrane (1972)
Information For The Female To Male Cross Dresser And Transsexual by Lou Sullivan (1985)
From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland by Lou Sullivan (1990)
Leslie Feinberg's works in PDF (1992-2009)

Intersex
A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry Into the Nature of Hermaphrodites by James Parsons M.D. (1741)
The Fifth Sex: The Forbidden World of the Hermaphrodites by Bob Dylan/Janet Kling (1969)

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Documentaries, Audio, and Videos

Pride
Pride Parades (1975-1989)
Dyke March Compilation (1993-2001)

LGBT
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Screaming Queens (2005)
A look back at gay life in San Francisco in 1976
Making Gay History Podcast (2016-)
The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That’s O.K. (2019)
Bay Area Television Archive
In The Life TV News Magazine Archive

Transgender
Interview between Dr. Ira Pauly and Lou Sullivan (1988)
Audio, Video Clips, and Transcripts (1914-2020)

HIV/AIDS
Reagan Administration's Chilling Response to the AIDS Crisis (2015)
Those People: AIDS in the Public Mind (1987)
Community Stories: Seattle in the Age of AIDS (2009)
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012)
Life Before the Lifeboat: San Francisco's Courageous Response to the AIDS Outbreak (2011)

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Miscellaneous

Pins, Patches, Shirts
Madeline Davis Activist Pin and Button Exhibit (1970-2018)
Madeline Davis Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection
Lesbian Herstory Archives Button Collection
Lesbian Herstory Archives T-Shirt Collection
Digital Trans Archive Button Collection
Digital Trans Archive Clothing Collection
Arquives Button Collection
Arquives Shirt Collection

Blogs
Reclaiming Trans by Ky Schevers: Surviving Conversion Therapy from Detrans Radfem Spaces

Collections
The Lou Sullivan Collection (1973-94)
Dr. Alan L. Hart Collection (1894-1962)
Lynn Edward Harris photos (1954-2000)

Notable trans people or allies
Christine Jorgensen
Lou Sullivan
Chelsea Manning
Robert Eads
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Dora Richter
Leslie Feinberg
Karl M. Baer
Cecilia Chung
Michael Dillon
Gavin Grimm
Wendy Carlos
Alan L. Hart
Billy Tipton
Chevalier d'Éon
Laverne Cox
Bamby Salcedo
Willmer ‘Little Ax” Broadnax
Amelio Robles Ávila
Charley Parkhurst
Rupert Raj
Claude Cahun
Roberta Cowell
Ben Barres
Reed Erickson
Charlotte McLeod
Brandon Teena
Sylvia Rivera
Marsha P. Johnson
Mary Jones
Public Universal Friend
Lucy Hicks Anderson
Lili Elbe
Coccinelle
Magnus Hirschfeld
Harry Benjamin

Keywords for Archive Searches
character defect, deviant, immoral, invert, pervert, perversion, queer, sapphism, sodomite, tribade, homosexuality, lesbianism, degenerate
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masquerading, males in female attire, females in male attire, female husband, cross-dressing, sex-change or sex change, change of sex, transvestite, gender, gender recognition, transsexuals
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hermaphrodite, bearded woman, sex hormones
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buggery, disorderly house, gross indecency, importuning, indecency, obscenity, sexual offences, sodomy, soliciting, street offences, unnatural offences, unnatural act, degeneracy

Personal Favorites
A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry Into the Nature of Hermaphrodites by James Parsons M.D. (1741)
Plain Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy (1731)
Proud b(u)y definition (1999)
Transection and Transfeminate in 1656 Dictionary
Transexion and Transfeminate in 1883 Dictionary
Changes in Sex Not Unusual; Many Keep Secret, Doctors Say (1952)
Information For The Female To Male Cross Dresser And Transsexual by Lou Sullivan (1985)
Queer Zine Archive
Queering the Map
Archived GLBTQ Encyclopedia Project
Broken Futures: Queer Lives in Berkshire
To Survive on This Shore: Photos and Stories from Trans/GNC Older Adults
Vanguard Magazine (1960-70)
Trans Fag Rag: Info & Networking for Gay/Bi Transmen (1996)
Riki Anne Wilchins' flyers (1990)
Making Gay History Podcast (2016-)
Pride Parades (1975-1989)
Interview between Dr. Ira Pauly and Lou Sullivan (1988)
Reagan Administration's Chilling Response to the AIDS Crisis (2015)
Reclaiming Trans by Ky Schevers: Surviving Conversion Therapy from Detrans Radfem Spaces

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Boys Will Be Boys Monthly Newsletter, No. 5 (July, 1992)

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