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One from the Vaults is a new trans history podcast. Join us for our pilot episode as we take a look at the mystery of Lou Reed's transsexual girlfriend Rachel.

Sources:
http://www.jaynedoll.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/loureed.html
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/rachel_lou_reeds_transsexual_muse
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-morons-guide-to-lou-reed
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mkG7Y6_J7pUC&pg=PA155&dq=rachel+lou+reed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yeNwUvjdMu6p0AWQ_4GgDg#v=onepage&q=rachel%20lou%20reed&f=false
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/01/last-waltz-wild-side-lou-reed


OFTV 1: Whatever Happened To Rachel

In this episode of OFTV, we'll take a look at Vancouver's Golden Age of Prostitution from 1975-1985, in which Indigenous trans sex workers ruled the streets of the West End. We'll discuss how sex workers organized for their rights and safety, in opposition to gay white residents groups, the police, and the state. So tune in and get all the dirt, gossip, and glamour from trans history!

Works Cited:

Ross, B. L. (2012). Outdoor Brothel Culture: The Un/Making of a Transsexual Stroll in Vancouver's West End, 1975–1984. Journal of historical sociology, 25(1), 126-150.
Ross, B., & Sullivan, R. (2012). Tracing lines of horizontal hostility: How sex workers and gay activists battled for space, voice, and belonging in Vancouver, 1975–1985. Sexualities, 15(5-6), 604-621.
http://westendsexworkhistory.com/
Hookers on Davie (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3foUxsqAPE
http://www.geist.com/fact/columns/come-to-the-cabaret/
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2012/12/08/Penthouse-Nightclub/


OFTV 2:  The Golden Age Of Hustlers

Join us as we take a look at the early lives of the patron saints of the trans movement, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson! We'll examine their beginnings, take a look at what might have gone down at Stonewall, and follow them up to the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade! The first in a three part series on Sylvia and Marsha!

Works Cited:
http://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-73/
http://www.workers.org/ww/1998/sylvia0702.php
http://www.reinagossett.com/on-untorellis-new-book/
http://thespiritwas.tumblr.com/post/19399849610/ten-posts-for-sylvia-riveras-ten-year-memorial
http://thespiritwas.tumblr.com/post/43780113854/nyu-occupation-street-transvestites-for-gay-power
The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: “An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail” by Stephan L. Cohen


OFTV 3:  STAR House, STAR People

Join us for a Very Special Valentine's Day episode here at OFTV! We'll be discussing the groundbreaking life of trans man Michael Dillon and his doomed romance with trans woman Roberta Cowell!

Works cited:
From a Girl to a Man by Liz Hodgkinson
The First Man-Made Man by Pagan Kennedy
Sex Change Spitfire Ace documentary by Channel 4

OFTV 4:  Valentine's Day Special!

On this episode of OFTV, we'll discuss the long life of eccentric FTM multimillionaire Reed Erickson - the architect of modern trans healthcare.

Works Cited:
Aaron Devor & Nicholas Matte, "Building a Better World." http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/ABetterWorld.pdf

Devor & Matte, "ONE Inc and Reed Erickson." http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/UneasyCollaboration.pdf

Devor, "Reed Erickson: How One Transsexual Man Supported ONE." http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/ReedErickson.pdf

http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2009/01/zelda-r-suplee-director-of-erickson.html

Susan Stryker, Transgender History.

OFTV 5:  The Trans Howard Hughes

OFTV celebrates the life of trans politican and Indigenous sex worker Georgina Beyer - from her life on the streets to the house of parliament!

Works Cited:
Jewel's Darl - http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/about-face-jewels-darl-1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rab_LVPfxDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8navq7MlomY
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/video/29381/passing-of-the-prostitution-reform-bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkF4V5wcTNs
Xtra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLdtAHlcH7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rab_LVPfxDc
http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2013/01/georgina-beyer-1957-actress-sex-worker.html#.VuMfvXB4Fl8

OFTV 6:  The Art Of The Possible

One from the Vaults - trans history podcast looks at the successful life, bizarre death, and continuing afterlife of gospel quartet singer Wilmer Little Axe Broadnax!

Works Cited:
http://transgriot.blogspot.ca/2013/07/black-trans-history-wilmer-little-axe-m.html
http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/11/male-and-female-in-christ/
http://ubleproject.tumblr.com/post/29515613795/a-tenor-passes-wilmer-broadnax
https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuBiographyProject/posts/578832502280542
http://articles.philly.com/1993-02-05/news/25955189_1_manslaughter-perfect-candidate-battered-woman-syndrome
http://transguys.com/profiles/wilmer-little-axe-broadnax
http://queermusicheritage-theblog.blogspot.ca/2015/01/willmer-little-axe-broadnax-gospel.html
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/golden-echoes-mn0000953229
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Blind_Boys_of_Mississippi


OFTV 8: Spirit Of Gold

OFTV brings you the first in a three part series on the trio of trans Warhol muses! Holly Woodlawn, trans Puerto Rican Superstar!

Works Cited:
Superstar in a Housedress, film and book, by Craig Highberger
WarholStars.org
A Low-Life in High Heels, by Holly Woodlawn
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/sep/26/art.theatre

OFTV 9 - Holly Came From Miami FLA

Part two of our three part series on the trio of trans Warhol muses who inspired Lou Reed's classic song, Walk on the Wild Side! This week, we take an elevator look at the life of Jackie Curtis.

OFTV 10 - Glamour, Glory, And Gold!

OFTV brings our mini-series on the trio of trans Warhol muses to a close with glamour and tragedy of Candy Darling!

Works Cited:
WarholStars.org
Holly Woodlawn: A Low Life in High Heels
Craig B Highberger - Superstar in a Housedress
Beautiful Darling (documentary)

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OFTV 11 - Tricky Mother Nature

OFTV takes a look at a horrific moment in Canada's trans community that became a turning point in the country's trans history. This episode explores the 1996 triple homicide of Brenda Ludgate, Shawn Jr Keegan, and Deanna Wilkinson, and the community response that followed.

Works Cited:
http://accozzaglia.ca/ententasmagic/journal/knowledge/10-dead-trans-women-in-toronto/
http://accozzaglia.ca/essay/research/feminism/introducing-hostile-homewood/
http://accozzaglia.ca/essay/research/feminism/sensationalizing-disempowerment/
Queerstory.ca
http://www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_96/triplemurder.html

OFTV 12 - Murder on Homewood

Did trans men exist before the 20th Century? On this week's episode, we go all the way back to 1746 to explore the life of "female husband" Charles, or George, or Mary, or Molly Hamilton!

Works cited:
http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/newgatecalendar/mary_hamilton.html
Baker, S. (1959). Henry Fielding's The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 213-224.
Henry Fielding's The Female Husband: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fielding/henry/female-husband/
The work of Alex Sharpe: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2015/12/dark-truth-behind-convictions-gender-fraud

OFTV 13 - Female Husband!

This episode focuses on the life of Sir Lady Java! A Black trans civil rights pioneer and performer who fought for the right to work!

Works cited:
http://transgriot.blogspot.ca/2010/12/sir-lady-java-trans-civil-rights.html
https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2013/02/sir-lady-java-1943-performer-activist.html#.WHKC9rYrKRs
http://forge-forward.org/2016/02/17/bthm-sir-lady-java/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXMx0uJxgA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8sSq0FE4w
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/trans-trailblazers#axzz4VC9doWmQ

OFTV 14 - Java vs. Right to Work

This week, OFTV covers early trans activist group COG - North America's first trans organization! Based in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, COG fought against police persecution and for access to healthcare in the late 1960s.

Works cited:
Susan Stryker, Transgender History

Susan Stryker, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (documentary)

Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed

Suzan Cooke, Woman Born Transsexual. https://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/05/27/

Kirkham and Sagarin, Transsexual in a Formal Organizational Setting (1969)

Elliot Blackstone, “MTF Transgender Activism in the Tenderloin, 1966-1975”

OFTV 15 - a COG in the Machine

Between 1849-1900, 34 cities in 21 states enacted anti-cross dressing laws in the United States. How and why did this happen? Join us as OFTV looks into the racist history of anti-cross dressing laws and tells the scandalous life story of one early trans man who resisted them!

Works Cited:
Clare Sears, Arresting Dress (2015)

Zagria: https://zagria.blogspot.ca/2012/01/jean-bonnet-1849-1876-frog-catcher.html#.WM1c5xIrKRs

OFTV 16 - Crossdressing, Racist Laws, and Murder!

Sneak peak of our first bonus mini-episode, available exclusively for our patrons who donate $5 or more to us at Patreon.com/oftv.

OFTV Bonus Ep 1 - Sneak Peak

In this episode, we take a look at the hard life of the man with three names - a trans man who was forced into making desperate choices in a time before trans identities were readily available! Scandals! Murders! Lies! This story has everything.

CW: brief discussion of rape.

Works cited:http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/119068057

http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/item/54518

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/falleni-eugenia-12911

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17470752

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Falleni

OFTV 17 - The Man with Three Names!

Check out this sneak peak of the latest bonus mini-episode of OFTV available only for our patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv! In this episode, we go back all the way to the 1830s and cover one of the earliest documented trans people in the United States!

OFTV Bonus Ep 2 - Sneak Peak

In this episode of OFTV, we take a look at the Black drag king at the centre of the Stonewall Rebellion. Long thought to have thrown the first punch, this butch spent her life defending the lesbian of the VIllage.

Works Cited:
Jewel Box Revue programs, 194?-1968, hosted at queermusicheritage.com

The research of JD Doyle at queermusicheritage.com

Stormé: The Lady of the Jewel Box, dir. Michelle Parkerson (1987, 1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_6W6hEzzFM

A Stormé Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgCVNEiOwLs

Stonewall Veterans Association http://www.stonewallvets.org/StormeDeLarverie.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/nyregion/storme-delarverie-early-leader-in-the-gay-rights-movement-dies-at-93.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/nyregion/28storme.html?_r=2&

http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/people/2014/05/27/stonewall-veteran-drag-king-icon-storm%C3%A9-delarverie-dies-93

http://www.afterellen.com/people/77167-an-interview-with-lesbian-stonewall-veteran-storm-delarverie/3

OFTV 18 - Stormé Weather

A sneak peak of the third bonus mini episode available exclusively for patrons over at Patreon.com/oftv! In this episode, we tell the story of the very first trans woman to ever receive hormones.

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