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Cross-dressers

Images

  • 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.
  • A transvestite nurse attending a man yelling with pain on a hospital bed; advertising fair rates of medical insurance for people who are sick or dying of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Wolfgang Mudra and Jürgen Rocholl for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 1992.
  • A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "Familien-Bande"; an advertisement for the support services for all those affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • Cartoons of gay people attending the Mayence Rosé, the 7th Mainz gay cultural festival; advertising the festival. Colour lithograph, 1997.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Sex life of a transvestite / by Larry Maddock (as told to him by Leonard Wheeler).

    Maddock, Larry | Date: ©1964
    • Ephemera
    • Online

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

    | Date: [1997?]
    • Books

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

    | Date: 1999
    • Books

    The other women / by Barry Kay.

    Kay, Barry, 1932- | Date: 1976
    • Ephemera

    Sex ephemera. Box 1.

All works (34)

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