The Stage
1990s: Transgender, Intersex, & Bisexual Politics Crystallize (cont’d)
Sources at Cornell
In addition to the sources shown above, Cornell has manuscripts, periodicals, rare books, and other media documenting issues of sexuality in the 1990s. The Loren Cameron Papers consist of photographic portraits created by Loren Cameron, correspondence, and other manuscript material specifically documenting the female to male transsexual community. Cameron’s first photographic book, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, was published in 1996, winning two Lambda Literary awards.
The papers of Tarynn Witten, a bio-statistician and male-to-female transsexual who has researched transgender health care issues and demography, include drafts of her 2002 book The Tao of Gender. Witten’s 1999 article on anti-transgender violence begins with a quotation from a transgender survey respondent: “People have tried to kill me since I was a child.”
Cornell also has earlier sources on transgender and bisexual history. Suggestions for uncovering transgender material in libraries can be found here.
Cornell University Library is striving to preserve additional documentation of activities during the 1990s, including personal papers of bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and intersex activists and the records of organizations devoted to these issues.
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Paisley Currah and Shannon Minter. Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and
Policymakers (Washington, DC: Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 2000).
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Tarynn Witten. Tao of Gender. Tarynn Witten Papers. [Zoom] |