What do witches, LSD, and aliens have to do with trans rights?? In this week's episode of One From the Vaults, we head to Miami Beach to tell the story of the largest international trans activist network of the 1970s and their larger than life leader, Angela Douglas.
Sources:
Triple Jeopardy by Angela Douglas (1983)
https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/bh030020
https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/bh030019
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2015/07/history-of-tao-part-3-aftermath.html
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2007/06/angela-douglas-1943-2007-musician.html#obituary
The Transsexual Empire by Janice Raymond (1979)
https://www.transadvocate.com/transphobic-radical-hate-didnt-start-with-brennan-the-sandy-stone-olivia-records-controversy_n_4112.htm
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2015/07/history-of-tao-part-2-1972-82-tao-in.html
https://www.aclufl.org/news/florida-was-once-trans-activist-hub/
Moonshadow and Mirage newsletters by TAO
AJ Lewis’s essay in Trap Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRFcCfw2I_4