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Happy Transgender Awareness Week! This week is dedicated to trans advocacy, remembrance, and pride.
The DTA is committed, year-round, to celebrating the stories of transgender people, honoring trans histories to secure better trans futures.
#TransHistory #DTA #TransWeek #TransAwarenessWeek
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Photo of Rupert Raj with Micheline Johnson & Mike Camp (1974). For more insight into Raj’s life & legacy, check out Ep 3 of our podcast, Kindred Transmissions!
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of @thearquives.
#TransHistory #DTA
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Cover of Vol. 8 No. 48 of Transvestia magazine, featuring cover girl Lili (December 1967).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Transgender Archives at UVic.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hope you enjoyed your Halloween! Photo of two people at a Halloween party at the Fallen Angel, a now-closed gay bar in Los Angeles (1970).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of ONE Archives at USC.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Photo of model Connie Fleming and other parade-goers at the 1988 New York City Pride March.
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of LGBT Community Center.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Photo of Lynn Edward Harris, prominent intersex person known for his acting, lecturing, and later activism work (1995).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of ONE Archives at USC.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #Intersex #DTA
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The DTA is turning 10, and we want to hear from you!
For our anniversary, we're gathering reflections on what the DTA means to the people who use it. Click the link in our bio to share your thoughts!
We'll be sharing replies on our website, but all answers will remain anonymous.
#TransHistory #DTA
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Photo of two people in a bar, one sitting on top of the other’s lap with her arm wrapped around her shoulder (1950).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of University of South Florida.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Photo of Kitty Doner, Vaudeville choreographer and male impersonator (1923).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of JD Doyle Archives.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Photo of Sylvia Rivera and Jose Gutierrez at the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots (1994).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Jose Gutierrez Archives.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Poster advertising Holly Woodlawn’s appearances at Trude Heller’s club in Greenwich Village (ca. 1960-1979).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of @nypl.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth
October 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Photo of Sherie Van Crawford, crowned Miss Gay Escandalo at Escandalo nightclub in Washington, DC (1995).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Jose Gutierrez Archives.
#TransHistory #DTA #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth
October 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Photo of film star Mario Montez, dancing and playing the tambourine on a rooftop (1969).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of @nypl.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth
October 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Photo of Chichi Couture, whose oral history documents their immigration from Peru, their experience of transitioning, and the community of trans women they found in New York.
Courtesy of NYC Trans Oral History Project.
#TransHistory #DTA #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth
September 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Photo of Melissa posing at Uplift Lighting, Randy Wicker’s lighting store where she worked during the 1990s.
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of LGBT Community Center NYC.
#TransHistory #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth #DTA
September 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Poster advertising Billie Loba’s live musical performance at La Vista Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1980s).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of @lgbtcenternyc.
#TransHistory #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Photo of pageant contestants competing for Miss Gay Mexico, hosted at CHAOS in Washington DC (1997).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Jose Gutierrez Archives.
#TransHistory #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth #DTA
September 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Photo of Sylvia Rivera in Washington Square Park, speaking at the 1973 Christopher Street March.
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of NYPL.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #HispanicHeritageMonth
September 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Scrapbook of Adèle Anderson, documenting sexual and gender identity in popular culture (1973).
For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of UVic Archives.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
September 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Photo of Bella Evangelist at ESCANDALO, an LGBTQ bar and restaurant in Washington DC (1995).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Jose Gutierrez Archives.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
September 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy back to school season! Photo of Dorothy C. Putnam, competition driver and partner of Lois Mercer, posing in masculine football gear (1916).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of @onearchives.
#TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA
September 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Episode 4 is now live! Join Syrus Marcus Ware as he reflects on his years of friendship & collaboration with Aiyyana Maracle, a self-described “transformed woman who loves women" who invited audiences to rethink gender & sexuality through a decolonial lens.
Link in comments!
#TransHistory #DTA
August 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ep 4 of Kindred Transmissions drops this Wed., 8/11! Our host is joined by activist Syrus Marcus Ware to explore the artistic visions of Aiyyana Maracle, a Haudenosaunee scholar & storyteller whose work decolonizes understandings of gender & sexuality.
Image courtesy of UVic.
#TransHistory #DTA
August 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Digital Transgender Archive
🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🎙️

Listen to trans historian Jules Gill-Peterson's conversation with Canadian trans activist Rupert Raj on the Kindred Transmissions podcast by the @transgenderarchive.bsky.social.

Image courtesy of The ArQuives.

#uvic #trans #transhistory #transarchives
August 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In this episode of Kindred Transmissions, “It’s Like Electricity,” host Jules Gill-Peterson shares a deeply intimate conversation with Rupert Raj—a Eurasian-Canadian trans activist, therapist, poet, and lifelong advocate whose work has inspired and supported many. Link in comments!

#Transhistory
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM