The Transgender Archive is proud to announce the following new acquisitions: Original Art by Lili Elbe: Lili Elbe (1882 – 1931) was one of the first identifiable recipients of modern male to female sex reassignment surgery.
The Transgender Archive located in Houston, Texas has added this autographed, first edition of Canary: The Story of a Transsexual to it’s rare book collection. In the 1970s, Canary Conn appeared regularly on the syndicated Merv Griffin Television Show and often on Tom Snyder’s NBC Tomorrow show. Before she became Canary Conn, Canary was Danny O’Connor. Her autobiography, Canary (1974) was a best seller. It tells the story of an aspiring young singer-songwriter, who first lived as a young man before living as a woman.
The Transgender Foundation of Americ has acquired a first edition copy of Havelock Ellis’ “Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume VII Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies”. This volume is significant to both the transgender lexicon and the development of the understanding of transgender expression.
The Transgender Foundation of America recently acquired an antique bust of a transgendered woman estimated to be approximately 150 years old. The base of this bust has a plaque that reads, “TRAVESTI”. The term, “travesti” was apparently coined in 1592 French society to describe transgenders.
… a girl in men’s attire was taken from the Bowery Theatre, New York – on her examination…
The TG Archive has acquired 4 new additions to it’s reference library. They are:
“Transgender Organ Grinder” by Julian Semilian and Will Alexander, 2002
Julian Semilian’s poetry engenders itself in the crawl-spaces between
language and proto-language, between his two languages, Romanian and English, between what might be translated and what never will, between poetries in an alert critical state. – Andrei [...]
The TG Archive has acquired 12 new additions to it’s reference library. They are:
“Orlando” by Virginia Woolf. Inscribed on inside by hand: “Susan – Sweet, gentle woman - You’ve touched me. Happy Birthday. Love, Barbara 1977“
Virginia Woolf described “Orlando” as “an escapade, half-laughing, half-serious; with great splashes of exaggeration, ” but many think Woolf’s escapade is one of the most [...]
The TG Archive has acquired an original 1968 Persian newspaper titled, “Noir Et Blanc” (Black And White) in which the case for “you are your chromosomes” is made. While this line of reasoning has been thoroughly discredited as being the defacto means by which sex is deduced, this article describes the then cutting-edge technology of [...]
The TG Archive has acquired an original 1957 LP of Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano from a dealer in Prairie Village, Kansas.
Acquired on 10/24/2008: Original 1957 Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano LP – Front Cover.
Billy Lee Tipton (born as Dorothy Lucille Tipton, (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz pianist and saxophonist. [...]
Magnus Hirschfeld
During the infamous “Night of the Long Knives,” Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science was raided and destroyed by Nazis. Writings on sexology were burnt. Both clients and sexologists were persecuted. Hirschfield, the father of modern-day sex reassignment surgery (both MTF & FTM SRS) and gender studies died two years later in exile. The Institute was the first [...]
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