A Gender Variance Who's Who

The raid and the fightback at the Stonewall tavern , New York 27-8 June 1969 is now iconic.  Many histories also mention previous police rai...

Miami was not very observant of the alcohol prohibition laws when they were in force, and when they ended in 1933, it was ready to expand a...

The first gay 'krewe' – of the krewes that put on the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations – was the Yuga Krewe, founded in 1958. Th...

I think that this is a first attempt at compiling such a list. Four Us raids: Cooper's Doughnuts, Dewey's Lunch Counter, Compton...

In February 1923 the Charles Street Police Station in Manhattan was paying special attention to Greenwich Village. Deputy Inspector Joseph A...

The (Cozy) Cabin Inn opened in 1933 at 3119 Cottage Grove Avenue in Bronzeville , in Chicago's South Side, at the southern side of the C...

1932 was a peak year for pansy revues in Los Angeles with appearances by Karyl Norman and Jean Malin , and the next year Hollywood made a r...

Stella Minge, who had been in the merchant navy, had a house in Silvertown , ( map ) Newham, London, in the 1950s and 1960s, that was known ...

In the late 1940s and for a long time afterwards there were no reliable guides for gays and trans.  In the US the closest were a series of b...

The hall, owned by the Ancient Order of Druids , was let over a period of 18 months during the Crimean War to a Mr Harris.  On the night of ...

Arthur C Harper , from Columbus, Mississippi, was mayor of Los Angeles 1906-9. He was forced to not run again after suggestions, that were n...

As in most countries, so in nineteenth-century Mexico, on the stage, in carnival, at balls, there were those who transvested. A notable exam...

The Temperance Hall, Hulme , ( map ) close to central Manchester was rented for a ball in late September 1880 by what purported to be the Ma...

See also Three Centuries of Police Raids Other Trans Person in New York 1969-72 Recurring Untruths: Masha P Johnson's Birthda y W...