One From the Vaults

In this episode of OFTV, we'll take a look at the intertwined lives of two trans women as they move through the drag balls of the 1960s, the golden era of porn in the 1970s, and the underground performance art scene of the 1980s!

Works Cited:

https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/08/international-chrysis-1951-1990.html#.Wa1_k9OGORs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_%28film%29

http://www.hungdevils.com/index.php?/topic/18134-the-transsexual-erotica-archive-of-magazines-and-films-we-need-your-help/page-3

https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/photography/2011/02/12/kim-christys-lost-world?pg=1#article-content

http://www.tgforum.com/wordpress/index.php/female-mimics-magazine-part-1-the-early-years/

https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2014/01/kim-christy-1950-usa.html#.Wa1_HNOGORs

https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2013/11/sulka-1962-porn-star.html#.Wa1_EtOGORs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

In this month's bonus mini-episode, we try to sift fact from fiction in the strange life of Desiré Dubounet and her EPFX machine that can supposedly cure cancer and AIDS. Available now for patrons over at Patreon.com/OFTV.

In this month's OFTV, we look into the mystery surrounding the elusive 1960s Toronto-based chanteuse, Little Jackie Shane!

Works Cited:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/searching-for-jackie-shane-rbs-lost-transgender-superstar/article35057998/

https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2017/06/jackie-shane-1940-musician.html#.WWumidPyuRs

http://hazlitt.net/longreads/i-bet-your-mama-was-tent-show-queen

http://soundcloud.com/elainebanks/the-jackie-shane-story

A sneak peak of our latest bonus mini-episode, available exclusively for our patrons over at Patreon.com/OFTV!

In this special DOUBLE episode of OFTV we took a look at the life of Lou Sullivan - the first gay FTM and the man largely responsible for creating the FTM community as we currently know it.

Works Cited:

Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

Stryker & Whittle's Transgender Studies Reader

A sneak peak of the third bonus mini episode available exclusively for patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv! In this episode, we tell the story of the very first trans woman to ever receive hormones.

In this episode of OFTV, we take a look at the Black drag king at the centre of the Stonewall Rebellion. Long thought to have thrown the first punch, this butch spent her life defending the lesbian of the VIllage.

Works Cited:

Jewel Box Revue programs, 194?-1968, hosted at queermusicheritage.com

The research of JD Doyle at queermusicheritage.com

Stormé: The Lady of the Jewel Box, dir. Michelle Parkerson (1987, 1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_6W6hEzzFM

A Stormé Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgCVNEiOwLs

Stonewall Veterans Association http://www.stonewallvets.org/StormeDeLarverie.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/nyregion/storme-delarverie-early-leader-in-the-gay-rights-movement-dies-at-93.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/nyregion/28storme.html?_r=2&

http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/people/2014/05/27/stonewall-veteran-drag-king-icon-storm%C3%A9-delarverie-dies-93

http://www.afterellen.com/people/77167-an-interview-with-lesbian-stonewall-veteran-storm-delarverie/3

Check out this sneak peak of the latest bonus mini-episode of OFTV available only for our patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv! In this episode, we go back all the way to the 1830s and cover one of the earliest documented trans people in the United States!

In this episode, we take a look at the hard life of the man with three names - a trans man who was forced into making desperate choices in a time before trans identities were readily available! Scandals! Murders! Lies! This story has everything.

CW: brief discussion of rape.

Works cited:http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/119068057

http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/item/54518

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/falleni-eugenia-12911

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17470752

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Falleni

Sneak peak of our first bonus mini-episode, available exclusively for our patrons who donate $5 or more to us at Patreon.com/oftv.