Time magazine’s cover story, ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’, positioned trans woman and actress Laverne Cox on the front cover (Steinmetz, 2014). The article posited that trans rights were the next civil rights cause, and that increased visibility of transgender people in media was a wholly positive move that had led to this historic moment. In the intervening years, critics of Steinmetz have raised questions: does the visibility of a select few transgender celebrities equate to progress for everyday transgender people? Resoundingly the answer has been no (Feder, 2016; Stryker, 2017; Berberick, 2018). The Tipping Point also draws attention to the visibility of trans women as opposed to the invisibility of trans men (Cromwell, 1999; Green, 2004; Dowling, 2016). Popular media representations of trans people and the right-wing press focus on trans women (Serano, 2007, Faye, 2021; Butler, 2024). Transmasculinity however is largely absent in wider conversations about trans people. To create more accurate representations of trans people now and in the future, we must first look backwards. To do so, this project will locate under-researched trans male and transmasculine subjects during the HIV/AIDS crisis, beginning in the 1980s. This project will use the 20^th and 21^st century moving-image archive to find queer trans men in the US and UK; to tell and understand their stories.