Camille Moran papers
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Title: Camille Moran papers
Dates: 1998-2000
Collection Number: 2000-43
Creator/Collector:
Moran, Camille
Extent: 0.25 linear feet (1/2 manuscript box)
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Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Camille Moran is a transgender poet and painter, as well as an activist who works against psychiatric abuse of queer and trans
youth. This collection includes draft testimony, poetry, a series of satirical notes about her decision to transition, and
other writing by Moran, as well as a number of articles she wrote or collected.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material created by Camille Moran has 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.
[Identification of item]. Camille Moran papers. Collection Number: 2000-43. GLBT Historical Society
The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society in 2000 by Camille Moran.
Biography/Administrative History
Camille Moran is a transgender poet and painter, as well as an activist who works against psychiatric abuse of queer and trans
youth. As a six-year-old child in the 1950s, Moran was institutionalized for years because her parents were disturbed by her
femininity. She was given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which left her with headaches, memory loss, learning disability,
and seizures. As an adult, Moran has advocated for the removal of Gender Identity Disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), on the grounds that the diagnosis could easily lead to similar abuse. Moran was also a member
of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center Project Board and served on the Transgender Task Force of the Human Rights Commission.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes draft testimony, poetry, a series of satirical notes about her decision to transition, and other
writing by Moran, as well as a number of articles she wrote or collected; of particular note is a 1993 special issue of Lavender
Network about the relationship between queer community and psychiatry. Also included are awards and certificates, a small
amount of correspondence, and photographs (including one of Moran watching Mayor Art Agnos sign a city ordinance opposing
ECT, autographed with an appreciative note by Agnos). Some materials are signed with Moran’s pseudonym, Camille Genderella
Liberty.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000130; http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008603; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000384
Transgender people
Mental health
Trans women