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Happy mid-summer, everyone! The Trans Guy Archive has been a bit slow in terms of updating these last few months, but that means that this month's zine is especially juicy. If you're unable to view the PDF below, the zine is in image format underneath. If you enjoy the work that the Trans Guy Archive does, feel free to buy us a coffee (or a new book)! (click to enlarge)

This anonymous writer is a gay man and FTM. In his own words, "Hello. I'm another FTM, a friend of Mr. FTM in fact. It would be an exaggeration to say that we all knew each other, but it wouldn't be too far off the mark either - who else would we swap bathroom stories with?" Unable to view the PDF file? Download the content below: This anonymous letter is courtesy of the submission of TGA visitor Derek H. All rights belong to the the original anonymous author and editor. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Article, think piece, op-ed Publisher: Unknown Format: PDF Date published: June 1996 Uploaded to TGA: July 20th, 2026 Last updated: July 20th, 2026

CP Burke is an author whose work was archived by Planet Q. (Contains mentions of transphobia) Unable to view the PDF file? Download the content below: This article is courtesy of the Planet Q and a visitor's donation. All rights belong to the original publishers. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Article, interview Publisher: Planet Q Format: PDF Date published: March 1996 Uploaded to TGA: July 20th, 2026 Last updated: July 20th, 2026

FTM was a quarterly newsletter started by activist and author Lou Sullivan in 1987. Sullivan, who had founded the organization FTM International, hoped to promote an understanding of transmasculine people and wanted to provide services and community to their lives. The FTM newsletter contained everything, like articles on topical FTM issues, local events, advertisements selling the latest stand-to-pee protheses, and a "classifieds" section for those looking for social connection. The FTM newsletter would run for sixty-seven issues over twenty-one years, from 1987 to 2008. After Sullivan's untimely death from AIDS-related illness, the responsibility passed on to author Jamison "James" Green. Some of the names and information in the newsletter below have been redacted for personal safety. Unable to view the PDF file? Download the content below: This newsletter is courtesy of the University of Victoria’s Transgender Archives. All rights belong to the original publishers. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Newsletter Format: PDF Date published: June 1997 Uploaded to TGA: July 17th, 2026 Last updated: July 17th, 2026

FTM was a quarterly newsletter started by activist and author Lou Sullivan in 1987. Sullivan, who had founded the organization FTM International, hoped to promote an understanding of transmasculine people and wanted to provide services and community to their lives. The FTM newsletter contained everything, like articles on topical FTM issues, local events, advertisements selling the latest stand-to-pee protheses, and a "classifieds" section for those looking for social connection. The FTM newsletter would run for sixty-seven issues over twenty-one years, from 1987 to 2008. After Sullivan's untimely death from AIDS-related illness, the responsibility passed on to author Jamison "James" Green. Some of the names and information in the newsletter below have been redacted for personal safety. Unable to view the PDF file? Download the content below: This newsletter is courtesy of the University of Victoria’s Transgender Archives. All rights belong to the original publishers. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Newsletter Format: PDF Date published: March 1997 Uploaded to TGA: July 17th, 2026 Last updated: July 17th, 2026

FTM was a quarterly newsletter started by activist and author Lou Sullivan in 1987. Sullivan, who had founded the organization FTM International, hoped to promote an understanding of transmasculine people and wanted to provide services and community to their lives. The FTM newsletter contained everything, like articles on topical FTM issues, local events, advertisements selling the latest stand-to-pee protheses, and a "classifieds" section for those looking for social connection. The FTM newsletter would run for sixty-seven issues over twenty-one years, from 1987 to 2008. After Sullivan's untimely death from AIDS-related illness, the responsibility passed on to author Jamison "James" Green. Some of the names and information in the newsletter below have been redacted for personal safety. Unable to view the PDF file? Download the content below: This newsletter is courtesy of the University of Victoria’s Transgender Archives. All rights belong to the original publishers. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Newsletter Format: PDF Date published: Autumn 1996 Uploaded to TGA: July 17th, 2026 Last updated: July 17th, 2026

EMBODIMENT is an experimental film, retracing the autoethnography of a transmasculine person from the Chinese diaspora. Artist's Statement: "This short film is the first of a series to come, it is born out of my political self-recovery and reflections on the meaning and crucial importance of racial passing in the context of a white-majority country. I saw myself reflected in the little girl of the world famous photo from the Vietnam War, then found myself to be haunted by her, this film is the first in a series, that explores art as an act of mourning and of holding emotional space for the common experience of marginalized people's uncanny relationship to the dead and the wounded." This documentary film is courtesy of Vimeo. All rights belong to Soleil Ren. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English, Chinese (subtitles) Resource type: Video, Documentary, Short Film Format: Video Time: 00:02:34 Director: Soleil Ren Date published: 2022 Uploaded to TGA: June 23rd, 2026 Last updated: June 23rd, 2026

DES!RE is an experimental film exploring the desire for transmascs, trans men, butch, stud, 'Agressives', masculine of center (MOC) people assigned female at birth. Trans men, femme women and butch and MOC people speak about the complexity of their desire. Soundtrack by Campbell L Sangster. Animation by Neelu Bhuman. This documentary is courtesy of Vimeo. All rights belong to the Campbell X and creators. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Documentary, Video, Movie Format: Video Time: 00:09:27 Director: Campbell L. Sangster (Campbell X) Date published: approx. June 23rd, 2023 Uploaded to TGA: June 23rd, 2026 (funny coincidence) Last updated: June 23rd, 2026

Transcription: Miss Caroline Hall, whose masquer-ade as a man was ended by death on an Atlantic steamer, as stated in our tele-graphic news Tuesday, spent her time smoking and playing cards, while her "wife" chatted with the ladies. The fact that her death was due in part to alcoholism hints that these ruder mascu-line ways were not new to her. This was not singular. Miss Hall's female predecessors in man's garb have often distinguished themselves as sol-diers, duellists* and in other ways indi-cating a bold spirit. the late Murray Hall of this city, who wore men's garb many tears, was versed in the ways of the ward politician and like her later namesake was "married." Several women served as soldiers in the civil war--one, Mrs William Lindley, fight-ing by her husband's side. That this is not a freak of the "new woman" mere-ly is shown by the valor of Deborah Sampson, who fought as was wounded in the Continental uniform in the Revo-lution. Mary Anne Taylor at about the same period was for 26 years a drum-mer boy, cabin boy on a privateer and finally a sailor fighting bravely at sea. Dr. James Barry, though a woman, was a cool duellist and rose to be British surgeon-general. The Count (Countess) Sandor (Sarolta) Vay of Austria, was also a duellist in recent days and disso-lute to the point of irresponsibility. "Jack" Jorgensen, an Australian woman after a wild life as a bushranger, served on the Mounted Rifles. Another Aus-tralian celebrity, De Lacy Evans, work-ed for years as a man in the mines and was three times married. The remark-able career of Ellis Glenn, arrested for yielding to a confused sense of owner-ship of property while in boy's clothes, is well remembered. The element of pathos, lacking in most of these cases, appears strongly in that of Mrs Julia Forrest, who, shrinking and feminine at heart, donned the clothes of her crippled husband to do the roughest work in a Pennsylvania coal mine. *This is the correct spelling for the era. Presently, we spell this word as "duelists". This newspaper clipping is courtesy of the Digital Transgender Archive. All rights belong to the original author. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Newspaper clipping, article Original Publisher: The Semi-Weekly Windham County Reformer (Battleboro, Vermont. Also possible New York City.) Format: Image Date published: October 8th, 1901 Uploaded to TGA: June 20th, 2026 Last updated: June 20th, 2026

Note: Pronouns in this biography may be inconsistent. As far as we can tell, McHarris personally used he/him/his and referred to himself as male/a man, though third party sources use she/her/hers and refer to him as female. In light of McHarris’ personal pronoun use, we will use he/him/his as well. James McHarris (formerly Annie Lee Grant) was born in 1924 in Meridian, Mississippi. McHarris’ parents died while he was young, and he was raised by foster parents. Little is known James McHarris. From Ebony Magazine, 1954. regarding McHarris’ earlier years, though Bishop Smiley Jones of Kosciusko’s True Tabernacle Church of the First Born, who had known McHarris since he was little, stated that McHarris had “funny habits” and that he would “sleep in a room with two or three other girls. But the girls said she was acting ‘funny’ so I had to change them up. We put her in a bed with an old lady, and there wasn’t no more trouble.” McHarris also apparently had a penchant for running away to the neighboring town of Jackson, Mississippi. Some time before he turned thirty, McHarris, who was 5’5” (167 cm) and, according to Ebony Magazine, weighed about 175 lbs (79 kg) began to dress in men’s attire and go by masculine pronouns and names. He smoked, sought tough physically laborious jobs, talked ‘rough’, and often regaled others with stories of his “triumphs over women.” First he moved to Memphis for a time, then to Chicago and other cities in the American midwest. McHarris moved back to Kosciusko in 1953. Bishop Jones said that, “She was wearing a dark coat, odd pants and looked very nice. If a person didn’t know it, he wouldn’t have guessed it. She walked up to me and said: ‘Don’t you be telling people I’m a woman. I’m a preacher now.’” McHarris lived consistently as male for just over fifteen years. He had several girlfriends in that time, including one high school-aged girl he had been intending on marrying, and one woman from Memphis whom he had been sending regular money to. He worked in a variety of blue collar jobs, like short order cook, cab driver, gas station attendant, auto mechanic, shipyard worker, and the aforementioned preacher position. McHarris at work as a car mechanic. From Ebony Magazine, 1954. While living in Kosciusko, he lived in a local boarding house and was scheduled to be elevated to the level of deacon at the True Tabernacle Church. James McHarris’ sex was outed to the public in 1954, during an otherwise average traffic stop. The officer had noted that McHarris had been driving with improper lights and that a pint of whiskey had been found in the car (for context, at this time, Mississippi was considered a “dry state”, so only drinks “having an alcohol content by weight of four percent or less” were permitted by law). According to the officer’s testimony, as he went to conduct a search, McHarris told him “Take it easy. I’m a woman.” It should be noted that, at this time, the concept of identifying as transgender had not yet been “invented.” The term transsexual had been coined in the early 20th century by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and many people who sought to transition their sex may have experienced a relationship with their assigned and personal gender differently than how modern trans folk do. Or, perhaps more reasonably, McHarris might have believed that he would receive less intense treatment from the officer as a Black woman rather than a Black man. We are unfortunately unable to provide a concise answer on the matter. Regardless, the police officer did not initially believe McHarris’ claim that he was a woman. When McHarris was brought before Mayor T.V. Rone, Rone stated “Annie Lee, if you want to prove to me you’re a woman you can do it. But you don’t have to unless you want to.” McHarris did so; he removed his shirt to expose his makeshift bandage binder. McHarris in his makeshift binder. From Ebony Magazine, 1954. He was given a choice in his punishment – pay a $100 fine (equivalent to $1,250 in 2026 money) or serve thirty days in jail at the prison farm. McHarris chose the latter option. During his prison stay, he served his sentence in men’s clothing and worked in the prison kitchen. Notably, he was housed with a female prisoner. McHarris’ outing created a controversy in the town. McHarris had built up a reputation as a “hard-working, God-fearing young man” that was “as tough with the ladies as anybody you even seen.” According to Ebony Magazine, the arrest became the talk of the town quite quickly: McHarris working at the prison farm. From Ebony Magazine, 1954. “White folks gathered in the town square, fanned away flies and chuckled over the news. Father back, along the tin-top stores of the “Negro street” and the frame houses of the Negro section, people who knew her well gathered and discussed the news in shocked seriousness.” The only person in Kosciusko who had known McHarris’ “secret” had been Bishop Jones, though when pressed by townsfolk who thought it “indecent” for him to have permitted a “known woman” to join him in the church as a man, the Bishop gave a fairly courteous response in McHarris’ favor: “I don’t feel like I did no harm though, cause everyone must be saved.” The consistent narrative in Ebony Magazine and other contemporary sources covering the topic considered McHarris’ crossdressing and masculine lifestyle to be a masquerade, or that he was “fooling” everybody with his appearance and personality. After he left prison, McHarris prepared to move to the capital city of Jackson. When asked about his crossdressing lifestyle, he replied, “I ain’t done nothing wrong and I ain’t breaking no laws.” He explained to Ebony Magazine that he had gotten a sex-change operation “up north.” McHarris continued to live as male after his outing and subsequent prison stay. McHarris (middle) with his mother Mrs. Katie Lee Edwards (right, presumably). From Ebony Magazine, 1954. When asked if he would ever sign up for the mandated selective service draft for all men over the age of eighteen, he quipped, “Man, I ain’t crazy.” Note: After this point, McHarris' story runs dry. We unfortunately have no surviving record of the rest of his life after 1955 -- what happened after he moved to Jackson, if he ever got married, etc. He might have changed his name after this time. If he lived to the age of 80 (average life expectancy in the US for men & women), he would have likely passed away in the early to mid 2000s. Rest in power. Bibliography Helstrom, Finn, ed. “Annie Lee (Grant) McHarris (1924 - Aft. 1955).” WikiTree, October 3, 2021. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grant-25443. Roberts, Monica. “Black Trans History-Jim McHarris.” Web log. TransGriot (blog), September 15, 2012. https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/black-trans-history-jim-mcharris.html. Snorton, C. Riley. "'Still Restive': the Shadow theater of McHarris/Grant" in Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. 2020, pgs. 166-74. University of Minnesota Press. “THE WOMAN WHO LIVED AS A MAN FOR 15 YEARS.” Ebony Magazine 10, no. 1, November 1954. https://archive.org/details/sim_ebony_1954-11_10_1.

FTM was a quarterly newsletter started by activist and author Lou Sullivan in 1987. Sullivan, who had founded the organization FTM International, hoped to promote an understanding of transmasculine people and wanted to provide services and community to their lives. The FTM newsletter contained everything, like articles on topical FTM issues, local events, advertisements selling the latest stand-to-pee protheses, and a "classifieds" section for those looking for social connection. The FTM newsletter would run for sixty-seven issues over twenty-one years, from 1987 to 2008. After Sullivan's untimely death from AIDS-related illness, the responsibility passed on to author Jamison "James" Green. Some of the names and information in the newsletter below have been redacted for personal safety. (note: Due to a processing error, you may have to zoom in to read this file. Apologies) Unable to view the PDF file? Download the content below: This newsletter is courtesy of the University of Victoria's Transgender Archives. All rights belong to the original publishers. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Newsletter Format: PDF Date published: May 1996 Uploaded to TGA: June 15th, 2026 Last updated: June 15th, 2026

FTM was a quarterly newsletter started by activist and author Lou Sullivan in 1987. Sullivan, who had founded the organization FTM International, hoped to promote an understanding of transmasculine people and wanted to provide services and community to their lives. The FTM newsletter contained everything, like articles on topical FTM issues, local events, advertisements selling the latest stand-to-pee protheses, and a "classifieds" section for those looking for social connection. The FTM newsletter would run for sixty-seven issues over twenty-one years, from 1987 to 2008. After Sullivan's untimely death from AIDS-related illness, the responsibility passed on to author Jamison "James" Green. Some of the names and information in the newsletter below have been redacted for personal safety. Unable to view the PDF file? Download the content below: This newsletter is courtesy of the University of Victoria's Transgender Archives. All rights belong to the original publishers. No copyright infringement is intended. The Trans Guy Archive shares this resource on our website for the purposes of education, research, and historical empowerment. Language: English Resource type: Newsletter Format: PDF Date published: January 1996 Uploaded to TGA: June 15th, 2026 Last updated: June 15th, 2026