PERSONALS
Personals were A portal for connection.
You would submit a short blurb about your desires and maybe a photograph of yourself, hoping a reader of Drag Magazine, TV-TS Tapestry, En Femme Magazine, gendertrash, or another queer or trans periodical might notice your ad
and write to you.
Personals were free spaces to express our wants and desires, and they laid the foundation for some of the online spaces we connect on today.
The TV-TS Tapestry Issue 52, 1988. Link: Archive.org (p. 103), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
En Femme Magazine, Number 23, April 1991, via Link: Archive.org, via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Explore other digital collections of queer personals
Drag Magazine, Volume 4, No. 14, 1974. Link: Archive.org (p. 43), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Gendertrash from Hell, Issue 3, Winter 1995, via Link: Arquives.ca, via Link: Digital Transgender Archive
Write me anyway
Write me anyway
The TV-TS Tapestry Issue 52, 1988. Link: Archive.org (photo and text) (p. 118), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Personals listing for Roberta Lewis, found in TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 52, 1988.
Transgender Tapestry was published from the late 1970s to the early 2000s by the Tiffany Club and later by the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). The magazine was also named The TV-TS Tapestry, Tapestry, and The Tapestry Journal.
sharing with others the joys
sharing with others the joys
The TV-TS Tapestry Issue 52, 1988. Link: Archive.org (photo) (p. 139), Link: Archive.org (text) (p. 135), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Personals listing for Laura Covington, found in TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 52, 1988.
Transgender Tapestry was published from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, by the Tiffany Club and later by the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). The magazine was also named The TV-TS Tapestry, Tapestry, and The Tapestry Journal.
Throughout The Sisterhood
Throughout The Sisterhood
The TV-TS Tapestry Issue 52, 1988. Link: Archive.org (photo and text) (p. 110 and 111), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Personals listing for Teri White, found in TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 52, 1988.
Transgender Tapestry was published from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, by the Tiffany Club and later by the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). The magazine was also named The TV-TS Tapestry, Tapestry, and The Tapestry Journal.
crossdressers and sympathetic women
crossdressers and sympathetic women
The TV-TS Tapestry Issue 52, 1988. Link: Archive.org (photo) (p. 126), Link: Archive.org (text) (p. 123), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Personals listing for Angela Johnson, found in TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 52, 1988.
Transgender Tapestry was published from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, by the Tiffany Club and later by the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). The magazine was also named The TV-TS Tapestry, Tapestry, and The Tapestry Journal.
fun loving and seeking relationship
fun loving and seeking relationship
The TV-TS Tapestry Issue 52, 1988. Link: Archive.org (p. 124), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Personals listing for Lonly Soul Sister, found in Drag Magazine, Volume 4, Number 14, 1974.
Drag Magazine was published throughout the 1970s and 1980s by Lee's Mardi Gras Enterprises, Inc.
Photograph of Justina Williams from a Personals listing found in TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 52, 1988.
Transgender Tapestry was published from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, by the Tiffany Club and later by the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). The magazine was also named The TV-TS Tapestry, Tapestry, and The Tapestry Journal.
Drag Magazine, Volume 4, No. 14, 1974. Link: Archive.org (p. 42), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
warm, friendly and sincere
warm, friendly and sincere
The TV-TS Tapestry Issue 52, 1988. Link: Archive.org (text and photo) (p. 138), via Link: Digital Transgender Archive.
Personals listing for Elizabeth Johnson, found in TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 52, 1988.
Transgender Tapestry was published from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, by the Tiffany Club and later by the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). The magazine was also named The TV-TS Tapestry, Tapestry, and The Tapestry Journal.