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Varnish apprehends Fidelia, disguised as a man, inside his house; a footboy enters to tell him that his coach has arrived. Engraving by Rivers after W.M. Craig.

Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth night. Stipple engraving by W.H. Mote, 1836, after Meadows after W. Shakespeare.

A transvestite nurse attending a man yelling with pain on a hospital bed; advertising fair rates of medical insurance for people who are sick or dying of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Wolfgang Mudra and Jürgen Rocholl for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 1992.

A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "Familien-Bande"; an advertisement for the support services for all those affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.

Cartoons of gay people attending the Mayence Rosé, the 7th Mainz gay cultural festival; advertising the festival. Colour lithograph, 1997.

Be a wild and an untamed thing!! : Your master needs you to support The Terrence Higgins Trust at a special charity screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! : Saturday 13th June 1992 at the Prince Charles Cinema. Leicester Place, London WC" ...

Ich mach mit - Du auch? / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Jörg Reichardt ; Gestaltung Augenblitz.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Mezzotint by Vispré.

Catalina d'Erauso, a Spanish nun who lived as a male soldier in America. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1833, after F. Pacheco.

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

Sex ephemera. Box 1.

A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "A family takes care"; an advertisement for the support services for gay men affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.

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Ich mach mit - Du auch? / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Jörg Reichardt ; Gestaltung Augenblitz.

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

Sex ephemera. Box 1.

Varnish apprehends Fidelia, disguised as a man, inside his house; a footboy enters to tell him that his coach has arrived. Engraving by Rivers after W.M. Craig.