Fonds reflects Niela Miller’s public involvement in transgender education and counseling of the trans* community and “gender identity explorers.” Miller’s work, focused primarily in the United States, is represented here in the records of her workshops, presentations, and publications. Fonds consists of correspondence, notes, photographs, publications and reviews, brochures, graphic materials, audiocassettes, and other materials.
Fonds has been arranged into four series: Workshops and presentations; publications and clippings; photographs; and audio-visual.
The fonds consists of videocassettes and articles related to cross dressing. Also includes material related to Sandra Samons' work as a social worker/therapist in the transgender community.
The fonds consists of correspondence between Krippner, Harry Benjamin, and Zelda Suplee, as well as newspaper clippings related to transsexualism and Benjamin, and pamphlets, newsletters, and ephemera regarding Erickson Educational Foundation.
The fonds consists of textual records and objects documenting Dr. Dana Beyer's LGBTQ activism, political campaigns, and medical research. Series consists of material from original accession, and is arranged into four subseries: activism records, political campaign records, DES research material, and ephemera.
The fonds consists of Caroline White's research towards her M.A. thesis, "Re/defining gender and sex: educating for trans, transsexual, and intersex access and inclusion to sexual assault centres and transition houses" (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2002). Her research touches on discrimination, activism, violence, women-only spaces, gender theories, critical race theory, disability studies, and legal cases. Material includes research papers, articles, committee documents, zines, pamphlets, clippings, and correspondence.
The collection consists of 26 VHS cassettes and 1 Betacam cassette, documenting several years of the Fantasia Fair trans* conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Video primarily documents the Fashion Shows and Follies, held at the end of the conference. Footage also includes seminars, luncheon speakers, Outreach Institute awards banquets, video titled “Our Gal Jane”, and exhibit at Berta Walker Gallery by Helen Strong. Two cassettes include pages of time stamps and notes regarding performances.
The collection consists of an oil painting of Ari Kane. The portrait was commissioned by the participants of Fantasia Fair 1 in 1975. The artist lived in Provincetown, Mass.
The fonds consists of 22 laminated posters; photographs with captions; English translation document provided by Grodzka; two transgender support foundation pamphlets "Trans-Fuzja".
The collection consists of one oversized photograph of the trans woman Julieta (known by Latrachi), the first trans activist from the city of Tigre, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The fonds consists of 41 VHS videocassettes consisting of films, television programs, and broadcast television recordings on transgender themes and topics.
