Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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This diverse collection contains materials related to the newsletter’s publication, as well as a substantial sampling of Sondegaad’s correspondence with readers, including a number of transgender prisoners. The newsletter materials include correspondence with contributors, in-depth notes and drafts arranged by issue, interviews, unpublished submissions (including an interview with Leslie Feinberg and an essay by Susan Stryker), and subject files (including a number of printouts from email lists and early websites, documenting the nascent online subculture of transgender people). GSSO Linked Terms:: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000130
- Biographical / historical:
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The TNT (Transsexual News Telegraph) records contain the working files of “Gail Sondegaard,” the pseudonymous editor and publisher of TNT from 1993 to 2000. TNT began as a publication called Rites of Passage, edited by Anne Ogborn; after two issues, Sondegaard took over and renamed the newsletter.
- Acquisition information:
- The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by “Gail Sondegaard” in 2003.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Transgender people
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to material has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. 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.
- Preferred citation:
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Transsexual News Telegraph papers. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455