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”

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OFTV 15 - a COG in the Machine

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The ArQuives is one of the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archives in the world and the only archive in Canada with a mandate to collect at a national level. Founded out of The Body Politic newspaper collection in 1973, its mandate is to safeguard the LGBTQ2+ history of Canada. The archives formally incorporated in 1980 and following a legal challenge was granted charitable status in 1981. Today, The ArQuives preserves a wide range of material including personal and organizational papers, books, monographs, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, periodicals, artifacts (like buttons, board games, t-shirts, and banners), and other reference material.

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OFTV 15 - a COG in the Machine

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