Varnish apprehends Fidelia, disguised as a man, inside his house; a footboy enters to tell him that his coach has arrived. Engraving by Rivers after W.M. Craig.

Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth night. Stipple engraving by W.H. Mote, 1836, after Meadows after W. Shakespeare.

Cartoons of gay people attending the Mayence Rosé, the 7th Mainz gay cultural festival; advertising the festival. Colour lithograph, 1997.

Be a wild and an untamed thing!! : Your master needs you to support The Terrence Higgins Trust at a special charity screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! : Saturday 13th June 1992 at the Prince Charles Cinema. Leicester Place, London WC" ...

Ich mach mit - Du auch? / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Jörg Reichardt ; Gestaltung Augenblitz.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Mezzotint by Vispré.

Catalina d'Erauso, a Spanish nun who lived as a male soldier in America. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1833, after F. Pacheco.

A collage of "camp" motifs,  advertising safe gay sex. Colour lithograph by Pfeffer und Salz for the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDE Suisse contre le SIDA, and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero.

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

Sex ephemera. Box 1.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 12 x 8 cm

Enriqueta Faber : travestismo, documentos e historia / edición, introducción y notas de James J. Pancrazio.

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Ich mach mit - Du auch? / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Jörg Reichardt ; Gestaltung Augenblitz.

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

Sex ephemera. Box 1.

Varnish apprehends Fidelia, disguised as a man, inside his house; a footboy enters to tell him that his coach has arrived. Engraving by Rivers after W.M. Craig.

Enriqueta Faber : travestismo, documentos e historia / edición, introducción y notas de James J. Pancrazio.

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Ich mach mit - Du auch? / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Jörg Reichardt ; Gestaltung Augenblitz.

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

Sex ephemera. Box 1.

Varnish apprehends Fidelia, disguised as a man, inside his house; a footboy enters to tell him that his coach has arrived. Engraving by Rivers after W.M. Craig.

Enriqueta Faber : travestismo, documentos e historia / edición, introducción y notas de James J. Pancrazio.

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