One From the Vaults, a trans history podcast by Morgan M Page. We bring you all the dirt, gossip, and glamour from trans history!
OFTV - Camp Trans (Live! at Camp Trans UK)
A special episode LIVE from Camp Trans UK! Listen to the sounds of the wind in the trees and the smoke of a camp fire getting in my face as OFTV tells the story of the original Camp Trans.
Works Cited:
https://www.camp-trans.org/pages/ct-history.html
http://eminism.org/michigan/faq-protest.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Womyn%27s_Music_Festival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Trans#2010_festivals
https://www.transadvocate.com/how-terf-violence-inspired-camp-trans_n_14413.htm
https://www.transadvocate.com/michigan-womyns-music-festival_n_8943.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140117075803/http://zinelibrary.info/files/PABA6.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20101129014722/http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node%252F11968
http://transwomenbelonghere.blogspot.com/
http://transwomenbelonghere.blogspot.com/2013/05/envisioning-inclusive-michfest-thoughts.html
7/25/2022 • 31 minutes, 8 seconds
OFTV Presents - Interview with Abram J Lewis
In this double-length episode, OFTV speaks to trans historian Abram J. Lewis about TAO (Transsexual Action Organization), about oral history work, and about how magic, witchcraft, and "unreason" intersect with the emergence of Gay Liberation and early trans organizations.
AJ Lewis is a post doctoral fellow at Grinnell College in Iowa, and the co-founder of the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a partnership with the New York Public Library system.
7/12/2021 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 9 seconds
OFTV Presents - Librada and Cubanecuir
This month OFTV presents a special interview with archivist Librada González Fernández of the Cubanecuir archive! Librada is a young trans woman based in NYC and Miami who is pulling together the stories and ephemera of queer and trans Cubans, both on the island and in the diaspora! She joins OFTV to talk Cuban queer history, the ethics of archival work, being a trans person working in history.
You can follow the archive @cubanecuir on Instagram and Twitter!
3/24/2021 • 59 minutes, 7 seconds
OFTV Presents - Interview with Zackary Drucker
To celebrate five years of One From the Vaults, this year I'll be presenting a series of interviews with artists, filmmakers, writers, and historians working on trans history. First up is the brilliant and beautiful artist Zackary Drucker, co-director of the new HBO docuseries The Lady and the Dale, which tells the wild story of 1970s icon Liz Carmichael!
2/12/2021 • 42 minutes, 43 seconds
OFTV 35 - La Prophetesse
This month's episode of OFTV follows the life of a gender non-conforming mystic who lead an early insurgency in the Haitian Revolution!
Works cited:
The Priest and the Prophetesse (2018) by Terry Rey
Des hommes et des dieux (2002)
Sex and the Empire That is No More (1994) by J. Lorand Matory
Mama Lola: a Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991) by Karen McCarthy Brown
7/29/2020 • 45 minutes, 22 seconds
OFTV 34 - Gym Class
In this episode of OFTV, we follow Steve Dain - teacher of the year, and later mentor to Lou Sullivan - in his fight for the right to keep teaching after his sex change!
Works Cited:
http://revolution.berkeley.edu/steve-dain-teacher-transitions/
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/eastbaytimes/obituary.aspx?n=steve-dain&pid=96301343
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/k930bx11b
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatsexami
https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news//292479/online_extra:_emeryville_street_to_be_named_for_fired_trans_gym_teacher?fbclid=IwAR1o_L7_3dIykRc5kVijDviKC_ZsPvmInN0bLxQWMDz7kUJImLSmS2EFr-c
https://www.ebar.com/news/news//277848
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/rip-steve-dain-ftm-pioneer.html
http://revolution.berkeley.edu/steve-dain-outcome-1978/#menu-main-nav
5/23/2020 • 24 minutes
OFTV 33 - A Bunny in the Front Seat
In our first episode for 2020, OFTV looks at the tumultuous life of early gender clinic patient, sex worker-turned businesswoman Patricia Morgan!
Works cited:
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/08/patricia-morgan-1939-sex-worker.html#.Xj_4lhP7SRs
https://archive.org/details/drag414unse/page/n1/mode/2up
https://www.newspapers.com/image/65480016/
https://archive.org/details/femalemimics13unse/page/4/mode/2up
2/12/2020 • 26 minutes, 44 seconds
OFTV 32 - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
In our very first HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, OFTV looks at the all-too-brief story of a Vicar, a ghost, and a veil! Join us this All Hallow's Eve for a chilling tale from trans history!
Works Cited:
https://archive.org/details/venuscastinafamobull/page/248
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/history/somersets-most-unusual-ghost-storya-1208123
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_woman_in_black_the_strange_story_of_a_crossdressing_ghost
http://www.strangehistory.net/2016/05/04/transvestite-vicar-ghost-interwar-england/
https://zagria.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-09-21T11:59:00-04:00&max-results=4#.XbV_1UX7SRt
https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Stryker-My-Words-to-VF.pdf
10/27/2019 • 20 minutes, 52 seconds
OFTV bonus 13 Sneak Peek
A sneak peek of the new bonus episode available to our Patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv.
8/31/2019 • 1 minute, 20 seconds
OFTV 31 - It's About Me Not You
In this episode, we take a look at artist, sculptor, and dollmaker Greer Lankton - muse to Nan Goldin and other downtown luminaries!
Works Cited:
https://www.documentjournal.com/2014/10/doll-parts-hilton-als-recalls-some-of-his-most-poignant-memories-of-artist-greer-lankton/
https://www.artforum.com/interviews/lia-gangitano-discusses-the-first-new-york-retrospective-of-greer-lankton-48864
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-1980s-icon-greer-lankton-explored-glamour-gender-eerie-dolls
https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/greerlankton/greer4.html&date=2009-10-25+23:30:47
https://web.archive.org/web/20110210012137/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_38/ai_57475775
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/morton/morton1-26-07.asp
8/6/2019 • 23 minutes, 53 seconds
OFTV Bonus 12 - Sneak Peak!
A sneak peak of the latest Patrons-only mini episode! Available at patreon.com/oftv.
6/2/2019 • 1 minute, 26 seconds
OFTV 30 - The Great 48
In this episode of OFTV, we take a look at the life of burlesque queen Alexandra - The Great 48!
Works cited:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/dallas-tx/geraldine-weise-8182441
http://www.lasvegasshowgirlmuseum.com/april-and-alexandra-interview
Behind the Burly Q (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTuGMbNUio0
http://www.queermusicheritage.com/fem-hummell3-3.html
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2013/09/gayle-sherman-1940-performer.html#.XJe3hBP7SRs
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/m/APParticle.php?AID=24378&i=22&s=News
3/24/2019 • 26 minutes, 57 seconds
OFTV Bonus 11 - Sneak Peak
A sneak peak of our latest Patrons-only special bonus mini episode! This episode features the life of non-binary painter Gluck!
12/2/2018 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
OFTV 29 - Man By Choice
Indulge in a tale of ill-fated bad boy Harry Allen!
Works Cited:
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2018/08/harry-allen-1882-1922-musician.html
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1906-the-notorious-nell-pickerell-returns-to-seattle
https://crosscut.com/2014/06/nell-pickerell-transgender-youth-knute-berger
10/7/2018 • 23 minutes, 28 seconds
OFTV 28 - La Chica Streissandisima
In this month's episode, we follow the fabulous life of AIDS outreach worker Adela Vázquez - from her childhood in Camagüey, through the Mariel Boatlift, and onto the streets of San Francisco!
Works Cited:
Sexile by Jaime Cortez
https://www.auntlute.com/cuentamelo
https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/cuentamelo-an-oral-history-of-queer-latin-immigrants-in-san-francisco/Content?oid=2826471&showFullText=true
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2013/09/adela-vasquez-1958-sex-worker-performer.html#.W2C3QNhKiRs
7/31/2018 • 27 minutes, 21 seconds
OFTV Bonus 10 - Sneak Peek
A sneak peek our latest bonus mini-episode available exclusively to subscribers of our Patreon! Visit Patreon.com/oftv to sign up today!
7/23/2018 • 1 minute, 45 seconds
OFTV 27 - Let Me Tell You About My Operation
In this episode, we look at the fabulously embellished life of known liar Rae Bourbon!
Works Cited:
http://www.coolcatdaddy.com/bourbon.html
http://www.coolcatdaddy.com/bourbon-hookers.html
http://www.coolcatdaddy.com/bourbon-doc-operat-ja.jpg
http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Rae%20Bourbon%20aka%20Ray%20Bourbon%22
https://www.queermusicheritage.com/drag-bourbon.html
https://zagria.blogspot.com/search?q=ray+bourbon#.WxOoDlMvyRs
6/3/2018 • 38 minutes, 45 seconds
OFTV Bonus 9 - Sneak Peak
The Battle of the Femmes Fatale! Check out this new bonus episode for OFTV's patrons over at Patreon.com/OFTV.
4/30/2018 • 1 minute, 39 seconds
OFTV 26 - The Best Car Never Built
In this short episode of OFTV, we take a look at a gonzo story from the headlines of 1975! Join us for the story of the best car never built!
Works Cited: https://web.archive.org/web/20060618171208/http://www.automotivechronicles.com/articles/2005/dec/02/1975_05.pdf
https://mises.org/library/complete-libertarian-forum-1969-1984
https://jalopnik.com/murder-transsexuals-and-the-price-is-right-the-story-464820740
https://zagria.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/elizabeth-carmichael-1937.html#.WtSqO9MbORs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8uvMlv7Pa8
4/17/2018 • 22 minutes, 42 seconds
OFTV 25 - The Count
In this month's episode, OFTV travels to 19th Century Hungary to investigate the life of an early trans man whom psychologists would later use to form their theories about lesbians.
Works Cited:
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/a-lady-of-masculine-appearance/
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/53005
https://zagria.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/sndor-vay-1866-novelist.html#.WoM2VZO5uRs
http://www.academia.edu/6948995/S%C3%A1ndor_Sarolta_Vay_a_gender_bender_in_fin-de-si%C3%A8cle_Hungary
2/18/2018 • 31 minutes, 46 seconds
OFTV Bonus Ep 8 - Sneak Peak
Check out this special previous of the latest bonus mini episode of OFTV, available exclusively to patrons who donate $5 or more per month to our Patreon account over at Patreon.com/OFTV. This episode looks at the life of Mexican revolutionary, socialist, and trans man, Amelio Robles Avila!
2/14/2018 • 2 minutes
OFTV 24 - Passing While Passing
OFTV's special two year anniversary episode covers the story of Ralph Kerwineo, whose life sat at the crux of cultural debates around gender, race, and eugenics in the United States during the 1910s.
Works Cited:
Emily Skidmore's True Sex: the Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century (NYU Press, 2017).
https://forgottenstories.net/2012/05/10/ralph-kerwineo-one-of-milwaukees-most-charming-women/
https://www.riabrodell.com/cora-anderson-aka-ralph-kerwineo/
http://the-toast.net/2014/04/21/suffragettes-sucked-white-supremacy-womens-rights/
1/20/2018 • 26 minutes, 27 seconds
OFTV 23 - The Ballad of Dawn and John-Paul
In The Ballad of Dawn and John-Paul, we take a look at the turbulent romance of 1960s white trans woman writer Dawn Langley Simmons and her younger Black husband John-Paul Simmons in the Jim Crow South.
Works Cited:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/15/dawn
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/local_state_news/dawn-langley-simmons-story-still-makes-waves/article_2ba4d9b9-facf-5bc6-8c55-64415cbd4c89.html
https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/10/dawn-langley-simmons-1922-2000-part-2.html#.WhsjgbQ-eRs
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/white-writer
12/8/2017 • 28 minutes, 57 seconds
OFTV Bonus Ep 7 - Sneak Peak
Enjoy this sneak peak of the latest bonus mini-episode of OFTV, available exclusively for patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv.
11/19/2017 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
OFTV 22 - Saint Georges
In this episode of OFTV, we get mystical with the life of Georges Marasco - a trans man singer, lion tamer, poet, and stigmatic!
Works Cited:
http://vintagemedals.webs.com/hal.htm
https://archive.org/stream/physicalphenomen007373mbp#page/n219/mode/2up
https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2010/12/georges-marasco-1890-lion-tamer.html#.WezGwhNSyRs
Paula Kane, Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America
10/22/2017 • 27 minutes, 26 seconds
OFTV Bonus Ep 6 - Sneak Peak
A sneak peak of this month's bonus episode available exclusively for patrons over at Patreon.com/OFTV. This episode tells the story of the first trans porn star, Jill Monro!
10/15/2017 • 1 minute, 39 seconds
OFTV 21 - A Sister Act
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
9/4/2017 • 23 minutes, 27 seconds
OFTV Bonus Ep 5 - Sneak Peak
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.
8/27/2017 • 2 minutes, 4 seconds
OFTV 20 - Any Other Way
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
7/23/2017 • 33 minutes, 41 seconds
OFTV Bonus ep 4 - sneak peak
A sneak peak of our latest bonus mini-episode, available exclusively for our patrons over at Patreon.com/OFTV!
7/14/2017 • 1 minute, 36 seconds
OFTV 19 - Lou in the City of Night
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
6/20/2017 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 54 seconds
OFTV Bonus Ep 3 - Sneak Peak
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.
6/3/2017 • 2 minutes
OFTV 18 - Stormé Weather
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
5/28/2017 • 34 minutes, 20 seconds
OFTV Bonus Ep 2 - Sneak Peak
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!
4/30/2017 • 2 minutes, 7 seconds
OFTV 17 - The Man with Three Names!
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
4/17/2017 • 29 minutes, 43 seconds
OFTV Bonus Ep 1 - Sneak Peak
Sneak peak of our first bonus mini-episode, available exclusively for our patrons who donate $5 or more to us at Patreon.com/oftv.
3/28/2017 • 2 minutes, 7 seconds
OFTV 16 - Crossdressing, Racist Laws, and Murder!
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
3/18/2017 • 31 minutes, 57 seconds
OFTV 15 - a COG in the Machine
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”
2/5/2017 • 33 minutes, 29 seconds
OFTV 14 - Java vs. Right to Work
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
1/8/2017 • 30 minutes, 4 seconds
OFTV 13 - Female Husband!
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
11/6/2016 • 31 minutes, 39 seconds
OFTV 12 - Murder on Homewood
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
10/2/2016 • 32 minutes, 55 seconds
OFTV 11 - Tricky Mother Nature
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)
8/4/2016 • 39 minutes, 8 seconds
OFTV 10 - Glamour, Glory, And Gold!
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.
7/5/2016 • 37 minutes, 43 seconds
OFTV 9 - Holly Came From Miami FLA
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
6/20/2016 • 37 minutes, 39 seconds
OFTV 8: Spirit Of Gold
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
4/15/2016 • 32 minutes, 26 seconds
OFTV 7: Behold! I Am A Woman!
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
4/2/2016 • 38 minutes, 56 seconds
OFTV 6: The Art Of The Possible
OFTV celebrates the life of trans politican and Indigenous sex worker Georgina Beyer - from her life on the streets to the house of parliament!
Works Cited:
Jewel's Darl - http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/about-face-jewels-darl-1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rab_LVPfxDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8navq7MlomY
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/video/29381/passing-of-the-prostitution-reform-bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkF4V5wcTNs
Xtra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLdtAHlcH7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rab_LVPfxDc
http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2013/01/georgina-beyer-1957-actress-sex-worker.html#.VuMfvXB4Fl8
3/16/2016 • 32 minutes, 50 seconds
OFTV 5: The Trans Howard Hughes
On this episode of OFTV, we'll discuss the long life of eccentric FTM multimillionaire Reed Erickson - the architect of modern trans healthcare.
Works Cited:
Aaron Devor & Nicholas Matte, "Building a Better World." http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/ABetterWorld.pdf
Devor & Matte, "ONE Inc and Reed Erickson." http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/UneasyCollaboration.pdf
Devor, "Reed Erickson: How One Transsexual Man Supported ONE." http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/ReedErickson.pdf
http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/01/zelda-r-suplee-director-of-erickson.html
Susan Stryker, Transgender History.
3/1/2016 • 38 minutes, 30 seconds
OFTV 4: Valentine's Day Special!
Join us for a Very Special Valentine's Day episode here at OFTV! We'll be discussing the groundbreaking life of trans man Michael Dillon and his doomed romance with trans woman Roberta Cowell!
Works cited:
From a Girl to a Man by Liz Hodgkinson
The First Man-Made Man by Pagan Kennedy
Sex Change Spitfire Ace documentary by Channel 4
2/14/2016 • 44 minutes, 44 seconds
OFTV 3: STAR House, STAR People
Join us as we take a look at the early lives of the patron saints of the trans movement, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson! We'll examine their beginnings, take a look at what might have gone down at Stonewall, and follow them up to the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade! The first in a three part series on Sylvia and Marsha!
Works Cited:
http://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-73/
http://www.workers.org/ww/1998/sylvia0702.php
http://www.reinagossett.com/on-untorellis-new-book/
http://thespiritwas.tumblr.com/post/19399849610/ten-posts-for-sylvia-riveras-ten-year-memorial
http://thespiritwas.tumblr.com/post/43780113854/nyu-occupation-street-transvestites-for-gay-power
The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: “An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail” by Stephan L. Cohen
2/1/2016 • 32 minutes, 21 seconds
OFTV 2: The Golden Age Of Hustlers
In this episode of OFTV, we'll take a look at Vancouver's Golden Age of Prostitution from 1975-1985, in which Indigenous trans sex workers ruled the streets of the West End. We'll discuss how sex workers organized for their rights and safety, in opposition to gay white residents groups, the police, and the state. So tune in and get all the dirt, gossip, and glamour from trans history!
Works Cited:
Ross, B. L. (2012). Outdoor Brothel Culture: The Un/Making of a Transsexual Stroll in Vancouver's West End, 1975–1984. Journal of historical sociology, 25(1), 126-150.
Ross, B., & Sullivan, R. (2012). Tracing lines of horizontal hostility: How sex workers and gay activists battled for space, voice, and belonging in Vancouver, 1975–1985. Sexualities, 15(5-6), 604-621.
http://westendsexworkhistory.com/
Hookers on Davie (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3foUxsqAPE
http://www.geist.com/fact/columns/come-to-the-cabaret/
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2012/12/08/Penthouse-Nightclub/
1/15/2016 • 31 minutes, 14 seconds
OFTV 1: Whatever Happened To Rachel
One from the Vaults is a new trans history podcast. Join us for our pilot episode as we take a look at the mystery of Lou Reed's transsexual girlfriend Rachel.
Sources:
http://www.jaynedoll.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/loureed.html
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/rachel_lou_reeds_transsexual_muse
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-morons-guide-to-lou-reed
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mkG7Y6_J7pUC&pg=PA155&dq=rachel+lou+reed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yeNwUvjdMu6p0AWQ_4GgDg#v=onepage&q=rachel%20lou%20reed&f=false
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/01/last-waltz-wild-side-lou-reed