Collective Demo

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1973: United Transvestite and Transsexual Society

Consider what the United Transvestite and Transexual Society (formed in 1973) had to say about the idea of community. As you’re reading the following announcement, remember that this was a national organization that helped…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory

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1975: Transgenderist

This is perhaps the most tantalizing clue to where “transgenderist” may have originated. According to this 1975 letter, Frye first discovered the term in Sussie Collins’, magazine, Female Impersonator News. Sussie Collins was the…

Culture, identity, and representation