One From The Vaults

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!

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/

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

Enjoy this sneak peak of the latest bonus mini-episode of OFTV, available exclusively for patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv.

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

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!

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

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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