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Community and Identity in North America
Part 6 of Archives of Sexuality and Gender focuses on North America, adding collections from the US, Canada, and Mexico.  Highlights include:

• The papers of disabled activist, writer, and performer Judy Freespirit, co-author of the 1973 Fat Liberation Manifesto.
• The papers of activist and historian Eric Garber who wrote extensively about LGBT people in the Harlem Renaissance, with notes from T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Homosexuality in Harlem in the 1920s.
• The papers of anthropologist and sexologist Clark Taylor who documented the gay community in Mexico in the 1970s; his field notes include rich interviews with Mexican gay men.
• The papers of Jiro Onuma, a Japanese American gay man who was imprisoned at the Topaz concentration camp during the Second World War and documented his experience through personal papers and photographs.
• FTM (Female-to-Male) International Records — the largest and oldest continuously running organization serving the transmasculine community and their allies.
• The papers of advocate, activist, and former sex worker Tamara Ching, a transgender activist who managed a support group for Asian and Pacific Islander trans people.
• The papers of Graydon Louis Sullivan (1951-1991), a gay and transgender activist who was notable as a community organizer, lay historian, and particularly as a diarist.