One From the Vaults

Between 1849-1900, 34 cities in 21 states enacted anti-cross dressing laws in the United States. How and why did this happen? Join us as OFTV looks into the racist history of anti-cross dressing laws and tells the scandalous life story of one early trans man who resisted them!

Works Cited:

Clare Sears, Arresting Dress (2015)

Zagria: https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2012/01/jean-bonnet-1849-1876-frog-catcher.html#.WM1c5xIrKRs

This week, OFTV covers early trans activist group COG - North America's first trans organization! Based in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, COG fought against police persecution and for access to healthcare in the late 1960s.

Works cited:

Susan Stryker, Transgender History

Susan Stryker, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (documentary)

Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed

Suzan Cooke, Woman Born Transsexual. https://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/05/27/

Kirkham and Sagarin, Transsexual in a Formal Organizational Setting (1969)

Elliot Blackstone, “MTF Transgender Activism in the Tenderloin, 1966-1975”

This episode focuses on the life of Sir Lady Java! A Black trans civil rights pioneer and performer who fought for the right to work!

Works cited:

http://transgriot.blogspot.ca/2010/12/sir-lady-java-trans-civil-rights.html

https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2013/02/sir-lady-java-1943-performer-activist.html#.WHKC9rYrKRs

http://forge-forward.org/2016/02/17/bthm-sir-lady-java/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXMx0uJxgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8sSq0FE4w

http://www.ebony.com/news-views/trans-trailblazers#axzz4VC9doWmQ

Did trans men exist before the 20th Century? On this week's episode, we go all the way back to 1746 to explore the life of "female husband" Charles, or George, or Mary, or Molly Hamilton!

Works cited:

http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/newgatecalendar/mary_hamilton.html

Baker, S. (1959). Henry Fielding's The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 213-224.

Henry Fielding's The Female Husband: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fielding/henry/female-husband/

The work of Alex Sharpe: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2015/12/dark-truth-behind-convictions-gender-fraud

OFTV takes a look at a horrific moment in Canada's trans community that became a turning point in the country's trans history. This episode explores the 1996 triple homicide of Brenda Ludgate, Shawn Jr Keegan, and Deanna Wilkinson, and the community response that followed.

Works Cited:

http://accozzaglia.ca/ententasmagic/journal/knowledge/10-dead-trans-women-in-toronto/

http://accozzaglia.ca/essay/research/feminism/introducing-hostile-homewood/

http://accozzaglia.ca/essay/research/feminism/sensationalizing-disempowerment/

Queerstory.ca

http://www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_96/triplemurder.html

OFTV brings our mini-series on the trio of trans Warhol muses to a close with glamour and tragedy of Candy Darling!

Works Cited:

WarholStars.org

Holly Woodlawn: A Low Life in High Heels

Craig B Highberger - Superstar in a Housedress

Beautiful Darling (documentary)

Part two of our three part series on the trio of trans Warhol muses who inspired Lou Reed's classic song, Walk on the Wild Side! This week, we take an elevator look at the life of Jackie Curtis.

OFTV brings you the first in a three part series on the trio of trans Warhol muses! Holly Woodlawn, trans Puerto Rican Superstar!

Works Cited:

Superstar in a Housedress, film and book, by Craig Highberger

WarholStars.org

A Low-Life in High Heels, by Holly Woodlawn

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/sep/26/art.theatre

One from the Vaults - trans history podcast looks at the successful life, bizarre death, and continuing afterlife of gospel quartet singer Wilmer Little Axe Broadnax!

Works Cited:

http://transgriot.blogspot.ca/2013/07/black-trans-history-wilmer-little-axe-m.html

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/11/male-and-female-in-christ/

http://ubleproject.tumblr.com/post/29515613795/a-tenor-passes-wilmer-broadnax

https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuBiographyProject/posts/578832502280542

http://articles.philly.com/1993-02-05/news/25955189_1_manslaughter-perfect-candidate-battered-woman-syndrome

http://transguys.com/profiles/wilmer-little-axe-broadnax

http://queermusicheritage-theblog.blogspot.ca/2015/01/willmer-little-axe-broadnax-gospel.html

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/golden-echoes-mn0000953229

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

In this episode of OFTV, we'll try to make sense of the confusing life story, or stories, of Canada's "first" transsexual, Dianna Boileau!

Works Cited:

http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/09/dianne-boileau-1930-secretary.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/03/27/the-woman-who-was-trans-before-her-time.html

Boileau and Cochrane, Behold! I am a Woman! (1972)

Let Me Die a Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADL8Zeotr3c

Full CBC interview with Dianna Boileau: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/dianna-canadas-first-sex-change-patient