Texas Tomboy Brand Prod. Collection, 1990-2000s

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Summary

Title:
Texas Tomboy Brand Prod. Collection
Dates:
1990-2000s
Creators:
Starr, Texas
Extent:
10 Terabytes (899 titles)
Language:
Collection materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Texas Tomboy Brand Prod. Collection (GLC 221), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Background

Scope and content:

Digitized and born-digital video archives of Texas Tomboy Productions. Physical tapes are held at GLBT Historical Society. Highlights of the collection include: footage of ACT UP/San Francisco and Queer Nation demonstrations in the 1990s; March on Washington (1993) footage; San Francisco Dyke March footage; the gender transition of filmmaker and artist Texas Starr as a trans man; footage of the memorial service for journalist Randy Shilts; and the "Making-of" documentary of the film Maggots and Men by Cary Cronenwett (2007-2008), a film which features over 100 transgender actors.

Biographical / historical:

Texas Tomboy Brand Prod. is the business name for the videos produced by trans artist and filmmaker Texas Starr. His films have been shown internationally in film festivals, museums, and galleries.

Texas is a trans man who was born in Houston, TX and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s. He attended Cal-Arts for Photography and he was a founding preservation technician for Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)'s Preservation Department. BAVC is a non-profit video and post-production facility.

He also worked for 7 years at the New Zealand Film Archive. For 18 years he was the travel coordinator for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival (Frameline) which inspired him to enroll in the film school at San Francisco Art Institute.

Outside of video, film and photography, Texas was assistant to Susan Stryker, who was the Executive Director at the GLBT Historical Society of Northern California. Texas and Stryker were in GENDERNAUTS by German director Monika Treut; it was the first film about trans folks that was not derogatory. Texas was also a co-founder of Liminal Space, the first all-Trans gallery.

Acquisition information:

Donated by Texas Starr in 3 accessions, 2022-2024.

1st and 2nd accessions: digi-10 and digi-13, received in 2022; 337 GB and 3.22 GB. These are access files that are also on the 10 TB drive in 3rd accession.

3rd accession: 10 TB hard drive, received on February 8, 2024.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Prepared by Tim Wilson, 2025.
Date Prepared:
February 2025
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-03-04 22:47:17 +0000 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is currently unprocessed. Please contact the Hormel Center Archivist.

Terms of access:

All rights retained by Texas Starr. Rights pass to Sam Claude Carmel upon Starr's death.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Texas Tomboy Brand Prod. Collection (GLC 221), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Location of this collection:
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102, US
Contact:
(415) 557-4567
sfhistory@sfpl.org
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