Texas Tomboy collection

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GLBT Historical Society

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2023

Descriptive Summary

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

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Texas Tomboy collection. Collection Number: 2012-11. GLBT Historical Society

Acquisition Information

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

Indexing Terms

Transgender people

Art

Motion pictures

Trans men