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Images from the collections

Images about Cross-dressers

11 images from works
  • 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" ...
  • The female husband, or, A circumstantial account of an extraordinary affair which happened at Poplar / by a correspondent.
  • Ich mach mit - Du auch? / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Jörg Reichardt ; Gestaltung Augenblitz.
  • 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.
  • An episode in The merry wives of Windsor: Ford raises a stick to beat Falstaff disguised as Mrs Ford's maid's aunt. Etching by W. Krauskopf after W. Lindenschmit the younger.
  • 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.

Works from the collections

62 works

    • Books

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

    Larry Maddock | 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.

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Related topics

Transvestism
Gender Identity
Transgender Persons
Female impersonators
Gay men
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

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