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Publications of the Transexual Action Organisation
editMoonshadow and Mirage was a LGBTQ newsletter and magazine published by Angela Lynn Douglass under the Transsexual Action Organization (TAO) in 1972 and 1974.
Both publications represented TAO and the organisations opinions, political views, activism and the members lives and experiences through columns written by TAO members and letters sent in by readers, in which they had a worldwide mailing list. Moonshadow and Mirage also reported a wide range of issues regarding trans people such as police brutality, homelessness, job security, transphobia, medical mistreatment and laws opposing transsexuals and transvestites.[1][2] Generally, TAO declined strategies that sought to build better relationships with law enforcement,[3] Moonshadow and Mirage expressed militant views on the rights and prejudices of trans people. Both publications would announce boycotts of companies, organisations and people who showed transphobic views or actions, including LGB organisations who at the time excluded trans people. This extended to encouragement that readers should send in emails and letters to targets. Moonshadow claimed to have sent over 100 letter protests. [4][5]
Douglas was the primary editor for TAO’s publications, she remained a consistent voice throughout the newsletter, the publications were substantially complemented by Douglas’s autobiographies.[6]
Moonshadow
editMoonshadow was a newsletter published (bi-)monthly starting in 1972 after the TAO reorganised their offices to Miami, Florida.[1][4]
In 1974 after Douglas stepped down as president of TAO to focus on Mirage, Moonshadow was strained and faced possible discontinuation due to lack of support and funds of TAO.[4]
TAO had most issues designed with remarkable and psychedelic artwork illustrated predominantly by Susan David,[3] the only exception being the September 1973 issue of Moonshadow that had been artistically directed by Vanessa Woolfe, and the 1985 issue which is lacking any illustrations, only featuring collages composed by Douglas.
The final issue of 1985 was published two years after Douglas self-published her book Triple Jeopardy: The Autobiography of Angela Lynn Douglas, which she advertised in the issue. Tonally, the issue differs from previous editions as its contents focus primarily on Douglas and was written in first perspective.[4]
Mirage
editMirage was an 8x10 inch, 32-page[7][8]LGBT magazine published (Bi-) monthly in 1974. The magazine was only published for one year and was discontinued in August 1975.
In its magazine, TAO expressed protest of mainstream media's priority of the ‘medical aspects’ of transsexuality over more severe problems transsexuals faced yet still included information on the prices of gender affirming surgery.[6] Mirage publicly promoted Dr. John Ronald Brown in exchange for several thousand dollars to help publish the magazine.[8] Dr. Brown was only promoted in volume 1, NO. 1 as Mirage decided to drop medical advice columns against laws forbidding public advertising of doctors.[5]
Occult beliefs
editMoonshadow and Mirage both included regular discussions on occult beliefs of UFO’s, ESP, extraterrestrials and witchcraft.[3]
In an interview featured in Mirage between Douglas and Colette Tisha Goudie, the third president of TAO, Goudie describes how black magic can be very helpful to transsexuals and provides an example soon after of how Douglas and Colette placed a curse on one of TAO’s rabid enemies. [5]
Moonshadow also gave thanks to UFO’s that had knocked down five telephone poles after TAO members had been “harassed” by Southern Bell telephone employees, a few days after the 1975 September issue of Moonshadow displayed art of an alien posed as a female TAO member communicating to extraterrestrial beings. [4]
References
edit- ^ a b Meyerowitz, Joanne (2009). How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01379-7.
- ^ Stryker, Susan (2017). Transgender history: the roots of today's revolution (Second edition, revised ed.). Berkeley: Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-689-2.
- ^ a b c Tourmaline; Stanley, Eric A.; Burton, Johanna, eds. (2017). Trap door: trans cultural production and the politics of visibilty. Critical anthologies in art and culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03660-3.
- ^ a b c d e Fellman, Isaac (2022-04-07). "Transsexual Action Organization materials". GLBT History Society.
- ^ a b c Fellman, Isaac (2022-04-07). "Mirage". GLBT Historical Society.
- ^ a b Peña, Susana (2010). "Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists". Gender & History. 22 (3): 755–772. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01617.x. ISSN 1468-0424.
- ^ "TVIC Journal Vol. 3 No. 27 (April 20,1974)". Digital Transgender Archive.
- ^ a b Douglas, Angela (1983). Triple Jeopardy. self published.