Items

• An Updated History of Gender Identity Conversations and Related Efforts at the University of Michigan
  A timeline, as of October 2002, of conversations, events, and initiatives at the University of Michigan concerning gender identity. Many of the updates since the 2001 file are focused around the Gender Identity Working Group.
• LGBT Affairs Office name change (2 pages), 2007
  A digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from September 17th, 2007, featuring two halves of an article about the search for a more inclusive name for the University's Office of Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Affairs—the future Spectrum Center. There was growing support for a name that would be more inclusive for transgender and other queer students. Some decried the initiative as taking inclusiveness too far.
• Listing for talk "Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation" (2/28/1990)
  Zoomed-in screenshot of a digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from February 28th, 1990 featuring a listing for an on-campus discussion called "Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation." The talk was advertised as an event that would feature "transsexual, transvestite, Lesbian and Gay male speakers."
• City of Ann Arbor, City of Ypsilanti, and University of Michigan Accomplishments Concerning Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
  A timeline, as of June 1999, of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan's accomplishments concerning gender identity and sexual orientation. The resource is not transgender-specific, but does include transgender-specific accomplishments.
• LILA Logo and Summary
  A sheet of paper stating the name of the organization it represents: Lavender Information and Library Association, or LILA for short. The organization’s logo is present in the middle of the page.
• Sexual Daring in the Academy
  This is a flier that was handed out by the Lavender Information and Library Association to spread the word about a new exhibit coming to the University of Michigan in 1999: “Articfacts and Disclosures: Michigan’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage.” It was the first exhibit of its kind to show off transgender history specific to Michigan.
• My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
  A page showing Kabi Nagata's thought process during an encounter with a female escort. She struggles to enjoy the experience due to her anxiety about human contact.
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
  A page showing Kabi Nagata's encounter with a female escort and her struggles to reconcile the physical effects of her mental illness during the experience.
• Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok with friends
• Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
• ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint
  The September 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, a magazine written by and for members of the LGBTQ+ community. A digitized copy of the magazine is hosted on the JSTOR website.
• Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, April 19, 1945
  This letter was written by Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok. The correspondence took place just days after the death of President FDR, Eleanor's husband. In the letter, she grieves for him and speaks about her idea of what life will be like moving forward without him.
• Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, September 12, 1943
  In this letter, Eleanor Roosevelt complains to Lorena Hickok about her time in Australia. She is there to provide aid to the Australian troops during the war (WWII).
• Emily Blackwell Portrait
  "Head and shoulders portrait of Emily Blackwell at the time of her graduation from the first class of the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. Reproduction of a photograph from 1870. Inscription: Verso of mount: Aunt Emily, photographed in New York, in 1870, when she was 44 years old, at the time of the graduation of the first class from the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary."
• Elizabeth Cushier to Emily Blackwell, September 14th
  Letter from Dr. Elizabeth Cushier to her partner, Dr. Emily Blackwell. Dr. Cushier discusses several patients she has seen, her struggles with home improvement work being done on their house, and expresses her excitement that her "own dear doctor" will soon be home.