The Transgender Newsbank is a collection of news and magazine articles which mention or address transgender subjects. Currently containing more than 400 articles or features, the Newsbank is intended to serve as a reference guide for transgender researchers or those just interested in browsing our history.

As most of the articles are scans of old newspapers and magazines, they are in Acrobat or JPG format, and not directly searchable. However, along with each article I have attempted to summarize the high points of each. Thus, searching for key names, places, and events with the standard site Search function should work. I have placed the highest-resolution scan of each article which I have where the text is readable. I have higher-resolution scans of each article, but as the original quality was poor in many cases, there is little gained by a higher-resolution scan. If you see something you’d like, mail transascity at gmail dot com and I’ll see if I can help you.

Note that especially in the cases of older articles, news about crossdressers and “female impersonators” is included. This is because in many cases these folks were transgender persons under another name, or living their life as a woman in the only venue where they would be mostly free from arrest or harassment – the stage.

The Newsbank is organized by year, with each year being a separate page. Click on the links below to visit each year.

1951 and Prior Transgender News
1952 Transgender News
1953 Transgender News
1954 Transgender News
1955 Transgender News
1956 Transgender News
1957 Transgender News
1958 Transgender News
1959 Transgender News

1960 Transgender News
1961 Transgender News
1962 Transgender News
1963 Transgender News
1964 Transgender News
1965 Transgender News
1966 Transgender News
1967 Transgender News
1968 Transgender News
1969 Transgender News

1970 Transgender News
1971 Transgender News
1972 Transgender News
1973 Transgender News
1974 Transgender News
1975 Transgender News
1976 Transgender News
1977 Transgender News
1978 Transgender News
1979 Transgender News

1980 Transgender News
1981 Transgender News
1982 Transgender News
1983 Transgender News
1984 Transgender News
1985 Transgender News
1986 Transgender News
1987 Transgender News
1988 Transgender News
1989 Transgender News

1990 Transgender News – IN PROGRESS
1991 Transgender News – IN PROGRESS
1992 Transgender News – IN PROGRESS
1993 Transgender News
1994 Transgender News

Due to the large amount of transgender news articles available after 1994, only major news articles may be added after that year.