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Transgender History at UM

Michigan Daily Digital Archives Sources

Item set

Title
Michigan Daily Digital Archives Sources
Rights
This collection, digitized in collaboration with the Michigan Daily and the Board for Student Publications, contains materials that are protected by copyright law. Access to these materials is provided for non-profit educational and research purposes. If you use an item from this collection, it is your responsibility to consider the work's copyright status and obtain any required permission.
Creator
Michigan Daily, Bentley Historical Library
Description
Items within this set originate from the Michigan Daily Digital Archives, the rights of which are managed by the Bentley. Historical Library.

"The archives provides searchable access to over 200,000 digitized student newspaper pages from 1891 through 2014. New volumes of the newspaper will be added in the future as they are available. The Michigan Daily Digital Archives project has been generously funded by The Kemp Family Foundation." ("About the Digital Archives Project")
Format
PDFs and PNGs of digital scans of newspaper pages
Language
English
Rights Holder
Bentley Historical Library
Subject
Michigan Daily ads and articles that provide examples of transgender experiences and discourse throughout UM's history, from the late 1960s to the late 2000s.

Items

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9 items

  • "LGBT Seeks Local, National Understanding" (2 pages), 2000

    A digital scan of two pages of the Michigan Daily from October 12th, 2000, featuring two halves of an article about LGBT students seeking political and social recognition on campus. This article covers the 2000 National Coming Out Day Rally on UM campus and LGBT students calling for political awareness (in the face of the 2000 presidential election) and gender-neutral housing on campus for "transgender, transsexual and gender-queer" students.

  • "Living Outside the World of Sexual Categories" (2 pages), 2004

    A digital scan of two pages of the Michigan Daily from November 18th, 2004, featuring two halves of an article about the experiences of transgender students at UM. This covers the 2004 University's Report of the Task Force on the Campus Climate for Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Faculty, Staff and Students. This includes personal accounts from transgender students (Denise Brogan, André Wilson, Stephen Rassi) and information spreading awareness about the personal and legal struggles of transgender and transsexual individuals in general.

  • GAU ad Nov. 23 1975, "Transvestism and Transsexualism" as future talk topic

    Zoomed-in screenshot of a digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from November 23rd, 1975, featuring an ad from the local chapter of the Gay Academic Union. This ad lists upcoming meeting subjects, including "Transvestism and Transsexualism."

  • Interview with Prof. Ann Herrmann, 1987

    A digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from April 3rd 1987, featuring the first part of an interview with English professor Anne Herrmann. The "literary treatments of women, gays and transsexuals" are briefly explored.

  • 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."

  • Opinion on 1967 arrest of students for screening transvestite film "Flaming Creatures"

    A digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from March 28th, 1967, featuring an editorial letter from Professor John E. Powers. Dr. Powers of the College of Engineering offered a "critical analysis" of the "Cinema Guild Incident," in which 4 UM students were arrested in January of that year for showing the experimental transvestite film "Flaming Creatures" on campus.

  • Spectrum Center Gender Explorers support group ad, Sept. 14, 2009

    Zoomed-in screenshot of a digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from September 14th, 2009, featuring an ad for a Spectrum Center support group called Gender Explorers. This was "a support group for transgender and transsexual students" hosted by the Spectrum Center.

  • Transgender/Transsexual photo exhibit, Michigan Union Art Lounge, 1997

    A digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from December 5th, 1997, featuring an article about the photo exhibit "Crossing Over: Images of Transgender Performance Across Cultures" and a photo of a student viewing the exhibit. This exhibit showcased photos of Indian kinnar, drag queens in Greenwich Village, and other individuals taking part in "cross-dressing" traditions. These photos were the result of fieldwork by anthropology professor Sarah Caldwell and graduate student Brian Mooney.