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Title: Texas Tomboy collection
Dates: circa 1970-2014
Collection Number: 2012-11
Creator/Collector:
Starr, Tex
Tomboy, Texas
Extent: 12.25 linear feet (9 cartons, 2 manuscript boxes)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The Texas Tomboy collection contains materials from video artist Texas Tomboy, aka Tex Starr, one of the stars of Monika Treut’s
film “Gendernauts” (1999) and Cary Cronenwett’s “Maggots and Men” (2009).
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to materials in this donation created by Texas Tomboy (Tex Starr) is retained by Starr until his death, at which
point it will transfer to the GLBT Historical Society. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote
from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Texas Tomboy collection. Collection Number: 2012-11. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Tex Starr, 2009-2019.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Texas Tomboy collection contains materials from video artist Texas Tomboy, aka Tex Starr, one of the stars of Monika Treut’s
film “Gendernauts” (1999) and Cary Cronenwett’s “Maggots and Men” (2009). The collection is unprocessed and includes: films
and video art by or starring Tomboy; DV footage of trans events in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, New Zealand and other
places; black & white negatives and slides from the Texas Tomboy Brand Prod Archive; personal photographs; ephemera and personalia;
the essay “Texperimental”; grant applications; G-Drives; publications; an Elvis doll and a Michael Jackson doll; diaries /
journals; correspondence; and Frameline material and other film related material. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000130;
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001154; http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000297; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000372
Transgender people
Art
Motion pictures
Trans men