{"id":108,"date":"2018-04-30T04:54:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2018-05-08T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:12:15","slug":"cross-country-connections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/cross-country-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Country Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a curious document that caught my attention in the Sexual Minorities Archive.<\/p>\n

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A 1994 letter from the advertising manager of a group called Connect Communications, based in Beverly Hills California, to the East Coast Female to Male Group (ECFTMG), which was a support group that ran in the \u201890s in western mass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This letter documents another tactic some gender nonconforming people used to support each other across place and space\u2014from California to Western Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n

People were passing along information to help each other navigate spaces with the goal of safety.<\/span><\/p>\n

That said, the motivations of this for-profit Beverly Hills-based organization are unclear. \u00a0Offering ads for beauty treatments and shopping, Connect Communications Inc. was likely getting their services to a very different clientele than an organization like the TGI Justice Project<\/a>\u00a0 was. \u00a0Most likely white folks with some degree of class privilege would have been the ones accessing this resource.<\/span><\/p>\n

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More Connections via Periodicals<\/h2>\n
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Networking section from the XX Club\u2019s \u201cTwenty Minutes\u201d newsletter, page 10, 1990.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A cartoon from the newsletter \u201cGender Euphoria: A peer support\/social group for TV\/TS, their family & friends,\u201d Aug.-Sept. 1990.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Twenty Minutes”, a trans-centered newsletter that ran from 1988-1997, was another way trans people got information and support to one another across place.\u00a0 The content varied from essays, personal entries, networking information–such as that pictured above– , and ads–such as that pictured left–related to being trans.<\/p>\n

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Similarly,\u00a0Gender Euphoria, which ran in the late 80s through 2000, was a trans-centric newsletter.\u00a0 It was made by the Boulton and Park Society., which formed in 1986 in San Antonio, Texas.\u00a0 Their newsletters cover many different aspects of the trans community.\u00a0 Pictured left is an advertisement for a weekend event which ran in a 1990 edition.<\/p>\n

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