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We moved houses. Over a year later, I am getting back into working on this site. I am also building a Queer Gear Store. Check it out too!

As part of the work I’m doing on this site, we are moving to a different (and less expensive) server for hosting. As I do that I will be changing the look and feel of the site, and plan to start writing some of the articles I’ve been collecting source documents for. Currently this is an archive of information, but there is more to come.

Super Queer Archives

July 4, 2023

History starts by finding the right documents. With the Super Queer Archives we scour the web and libraries for source...

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Papers of Charles Chevalier d’ Eon de Beaumont at University of Leeds

June 25, 2023

Leeds Library in England has a large collection of documents by and about d'Eon de Beaumont. At this point it...

Chevalier D’Eon de Beaumont

April 14, 2023

This brave woman trained and worked as a French spy and diplomat using both male and female personas. When her...

Frances Thompson Archive

January 25, 2023

Frances Thompson was freed from slavery after the civil war. Not much is known about her before she was freed....

Alan L. Hart Archive

January 15, 2023

Alan L. Hart was born Alberta Lucille Hart in Kansas in 1890. In about 1917 he transitions from Lucille to...

When Lucile Became Alan: Transgender Transition in 1918

January 10, 2023

Video created by Jae after researching Alan Hart. This tells about his transition and very public outing in 1918. It...

Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman – Article by Peter Boag

December 1, 2005

Peter Boag wrote an article for Western Historical Quarterly call "Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Searching for...

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The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière d’Eon

August 29, 2001

by Professor Charles d'Eon de Beaumont (Author), Professor Roland A. Champagne (Translator), Professor Nina Claire Ekstein (Translator), Professor Gary Kates...

Book, Primary Source

Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman

January 1, 2001

a tale of political intrigue and sexual masqueradeby Kates, Gary Published 2001 "The Chevalier Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-André-Thimothée d'Eon, after a distinguished career...

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“Not That Sort of Woman” Race, Gender, and Sexual Violence during the Memphis Riot of 1866

January 1, 1999

This chapter by Hannah Rosen covers the Memphis Riot of 1866 and Frances Thompson's involvement in the trial afterwards. This...

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“Your Old Father Abe Lincoln Is Dead and Damned”: Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot of 1866

September 1, 1993

Kevin R. HardwickJournal of Social HistoryVol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 109-128 (20 pages)Published By: Oxford University Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/3789131