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Title: Veronica Friedman papers
Dates: 1980-1982
Collection Number: 1994-01
Creator/Collector:
Friedman, Veronica
Extent: 0.2 linear feet
Repository:
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Abstract: Veronica Friedman’s papers cover the time period from 1980 through 1982, the year of her gender transitioning, and consist
primarily of diary entries, written notes, and correspondence with her family and roommate-friend-sometimes lover. Her papers
document her coming to terms with her gender and sexual identity, with new perceptions of herself and the world, and at the
same time with the world perceiving her in a different way.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Veronica Friedman papers. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Gift of Robert Morgan Lawrence, D.C. in 1994.
Scope and Content of Collection
Veronica Friedman, born in 1945, was a Male-to-Female transsexual. From childhood on she knew that her “body was wrong.” In
1968 she married her wife Gail and they had two children. In 1980 she began participating in the Gender Program at Stanford,
shortly after “coming out” to her wife. They separated and were finally divorced in 1982, which also meant the separation
from the two children. Friedman’s papers cover the time period from 1980 through 1982, the year of her gender transitioning,
and consist primarily of diary entries, written notes, and correspondence with her family and roommate-friend-sometimes lover.
Her papers document her coming to terms with her gender and sexual identity, with new perceptions of herself and the world,
and at the same time with the world perceiving her in a different way. Friedman died sometime around 1986 of brain tumor.
Transgender people
Transsexuals--identity
Diaries