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The Queer Joy Project of East Texas — Lavender Education

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Carolina Gonzalez formed the Queer Joy Project of East Texas after participating in How to Do Queer History with Lavender Education.

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Donaciano was born and raised in Colorado Springs. His family lived in an area which would later be torn down for "urban renewal" to make America the Beautiful Park. He grew up seeing signs which said things like "No dogs or Mexicans allowed."

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Myrl Beam is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, currently serving as the Fellow in Oral History at the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. His work focuses on queer and trans social movement, racialized projects of inclusion and normativity, and the affective economies of neoliberal capitalism. Beam received his PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2014. He is the author of Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). In addition to his scholarly work, Beam is active in queer and trans leftist movements, specifically around issues of prison abolition, homelessness, and supporting the leadership of trans youth in movements for justice.

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The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project

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Myrl Beam is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, currently serving as the Fellow in Oral History at the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. His work focuses on queer and trans social movement, racialized projects of inclusion and normativity, and the affective economies of neoliberal capitalism.

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New York City Trans Oral History Project

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New York City Trans Oral History Project

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NEW YORK CITY

TRANS ORAL HISTORY

PROJECT

a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories, organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library

Image by and with permission of T. Boucher

Trans

Justice

Funding Grantee

2020

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NEW YORK CITY TRANS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories, organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library Image by and with permission of T. Boucher Trans Justice Funding Grantee 2020

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LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory

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Welcome! Thank you for visiting the website of the Queer Newark Oral History Project. We are working to tell our community's stories in the words of its trailblazers and legends, by collecting audio-recorded oral history interviews. We hope you enjoy your visit - and consider sharing your own story with one of our trained project staff.

As a community-based and community-directed initiative supported by Rutgers University-Newark, QNOHP is dedicated to preserving the history of LGBTQ people and communities in Newark, New Jersey.

This website features interviews that we've already collected, a look at some of the primary-source documents we've archived, as well as a repository of published work on LGBTQ Newark by academic researchers and community members.

Video by Timothy Stewart-Winter

News and Media Mentions

"Audible.com Hosts Queer Newark History Exhibit", June 26, 2019

"The Queer Newark Oral History Project, August 15, 2018 (GET OUT!)

"The Brick City's Queer Oral History Project shines light on black LGBT past" April 22, 2017 (OUT IN JERSEY)

"Recording Newark's LGBTQ Community's Past and Present," (One on One with Steve Adubato), December 5, 2016

"How N.J.'s LGBT-friendly clubs have long strived for safety," June 20, 2016 (NJ.COM)

Queer Newark Oral History Project Wins Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award, April 13, 2016

"The History of LGBTQ Club Spaces," December 5, 2014 (WBGO)

"Rutgers Newark to Honor Essex County's Role in LGBT Solidarity With Events," October 6, 2014 (PATCH.COM)

"Sanctuary" series to feature month-long event schedule celebrating the LGBT Newark club, ballroom, and party scenes, September 19, 2014 (BRICK CITY LIVE)

"Gays in Newark: Our Stories, Our Lives," December 11, 2011 (NJ.COM)

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Welcome! Thank you for visiting the website of the Queer Newark Oral History Project. We are working to tell our community's stories in the words of its trailblazers and legends, by collecting audio-recorded oral history interviews. We hope you enjoy your visit - and consider sharing your own story with one of our trained project staff.

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The LGBTQ+ Oral History Collection is the home for oral history interviews conducted with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, and asexual individuals from various communities with a focus on those with a connection to Omaha, Nebraska. The interviews were consciously collected to be part of UNO's Queer Omaha Archives. Interviews to date are all audio recordings and include community members and UNO faculty; interviewees are described individually. Interviews to date have been conducted by UNO professor Jay Irwin, UNO archivist Amy Schindler, UNO students in Prof. Jay Irwin's Fall 2016 Introduction to LGBT Studies course, and UNO Libraries oral history associate for the Queer Omaha Archives Luke Wegener. Contact UNO Libraries' Archives and Special Collections about access to interviews not yet available online.

Oral history is one of many sources available to consult as part of your research. It reflects the experience of an individual and shares personal opinions offered by the interviewee in response to questioning. Additional sources can verify and provide additional information to the narrative of events presented in oral histories. Contact UNO Libraries' Archives & Special Collections to continue your research, find additional sources, or learn more.

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The Queer Omaha Archives collects and preserves historical materials Omaha's LGBTQIA+ history as part of the UNO Libraries' Archives & Special Collections. Historical materials are shared with the public by archivists to boost Omaha's LGBTQIA+ stories.

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Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project

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Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project

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At the founding of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project in September 2015 we decided to focus on two core initiatives: Archives and Oral Histories. Recognizing that most LGBTQ history, especially here in Southwest Virginia, is not preserved within written documents, we decided that recording oral histories with a diverse cross-section of community members is an important methodology for saving our history before it is lost forever.

As of May 2020, we have recorded and transcribed hour-long interviews with 42 community members.

First, check out our Subject Index, a comprehensive guide to the oral history collection!

Then, you can view and listen to the Entire Collection here!

Phase One (Spring 2016)

Our first round of oral histories was completed in May 2016. All audio recordings and written transcripts are deposited in the LGBTQ History Collection, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Library.

Phase One Narrators:

James Ernest Best, Jr.

Larry Bly

Whitney B. Conley

Daddy Sam

Ronald "Ron" Davidson

Gerry Jennings

Daniel Jones

Virginia Irene Lindsey

Kim O'Donnell

Rodger Saunders

Peter Thornhill

Trish Valentine

Edna Whittier

Rosemary Wyman

Phase Two (Fall 2016), Oral Herstory Initiative

Our second round of oral histories are actually oral herstories! We decided to interview queer and trans women about their experiences. These interviews were completed in December 2016. All audio recordings and written transcripts are deposited in the LGBTQ History Collection, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Library.

Mary M. Boenke

Erika Joyner

Barbara Maberry

Sally Seagraves

Peggy Shifflett

Phase Three (Spring 2017), QPOC (Queer People of Color) Histories & More Oral Herstories

Our third round of oral histories focused both on the experiences of queer and trans people of color, specifically LGBTQ African Americans, as well as the continuation of our Oral Herstories Initiative with more lesbian women. These interviews were completed in May 2017. All audio recordings and written transcripts are deposited in the LGBTQ History Collection, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Library.

Phase Three Narrators:

Phase Four (Spring 2018), The QTPOC Project: Representation Matters, Oral Histories with Queer/Trans People of Color

Our fourth round of oral histories was led by interns with The QTPOC Project: Representation Matters, focused on the experiences of queer and trans people of color, specifically LGBTQ African Americans. These interviews were completed in May 2018. All audio recordings and written transcripts are deposited in the LGBTQ History Collection, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Library.

Anton Black

Larry Forrest

Miss Grace Kelly

Carolyn Sue Wilson

Phase Five (Spring 2019)

This fifth round of oral histories was completed in May 2019. All audio recordings and written transcripts are deposited in the LGBTQ History Collection, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Library.

Phase Five Narrators:

Gail Burress

Yoedie Cleveland Swain

Riley Chattin

Reverend Catherine Houchins

Phase Six (Spring 2020)

This sixth round of oral histories was completed in May 2020. All audio recordings and written transcripts are deposited in the LGBTQ History Collection, Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Library.

Phase Five Narrators:

Michael Blankenship

Joe Cobb

Nathaniel Preston

Myer S. Reed

Ashley Rhame

Here are some stats on the project (as of May 2020):

-somewhere just shy of 1,000 pages of written transcripts

-42 narrators

-a 38-page subject index

-approximately 40 hours of audio recording

-and around 200 people have participated in this project as narrators, interviewers, and transcribers. Thank you to all!

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At the founding of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project in September 2015 we decided to focus on two core initiatives: Archives and Oral Histories. Recognizing that most LGBTQ history, especially here in Southwest Virginia, is not preserved within written documents, we decided that recording oral histories with a diverse cross-section of community members is an important methodology for saving our history before it is lost forever.

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The Voices of Feminism Archival Development Project, funded by the Ford Foundation from 2002 to 2008, aimed to bring race, class, and sexual diversity to the holdings of the Sophia Smith Collection. The project consisted of several parts: a) searching for personal papers and organizational records of women of color, grassroots organizers, and others marginalized in traditional historical accounts, b) conducting oral histories, c) collaborating with Gloria Steinem as she works in her own papers and identifies potential donors, and d) developing plans for a video documentary series based on these new materials.

Project staff included Joyce Follet, director and oral historian; Kelly Anderson, oral historian; Sheila Flaherty-Jones, editor; Kathleen Banks Nutter, oral historian; Loretta Ross, consultant and oral historian; Revan Schendler, consultant and editor; Kate Weigand, oral historian. Interviews were also conducted by Martha Ackelsberg, Nancy MacLean, and Evelyn C. White.

Biographical information about each of the narrators is available in the finding aid, below.

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Voices of Feminism Oral History Project oral histories

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The Voices of Feminism Archival Development Project, funded by the Ford Foundation from 2002 to 2008, aimed to bring race, class, and sexual diversity to the holdings of the Sophia Smith Collection.

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Leather Archives and Museum Oral History Exhibit

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Leather Archives and Museum Oral History Exhibit

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The Leather Archives & Museum is a library, museum and archives pertaining to Leather, fetishism, sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices. The geographic collection scope is worldwide and includes all sexual orientations and genders. The library collection contains published books, magazines, scholarly publications, films and electronic resources related to the subject matter. The museum collection contains original erotic art and artifacts from alternative sex organizations and individuals. The archival collection contains unpublished papers and records from notable activists, artists, businesses and organizations related to the subject matter.

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Okanagan QueerStory Podcast | a podcast by okanaganqueerstory

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Uncovering the queer history of the Okanagan. One story at a time. This podcast is generously funded by the UBC Okanagan Public Humanities Hub Impact Award.

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In the 1960s-90s Eugene, Oregon was known as a "lesbian mecca," drawing hundreds of young women from across the United States. Many came as part of the counterculture westward migration, identified as feminists, and had been involved in anti-war and civil rights protests. Oregon's reputation as a rural, forested state with cheap housing was a draw for those looking for communal living and collective work. The state's racist history and anti-Black policies resulting in an almost all-white population likely limited the racial diversity of those who came to Eugene to experiment with new ways of living. The lesbian-identified women who came founded cornerstone organizations central to Eugene's history and influenced Oregon's political landscape. These women worked in collective businesses that were typically considered to be in the male domain, ran printing presses, were the leaders of Eugene community service agencies, worked in City and State government positions, and produced and disseminated lesbian magazines, photographs, music, films, theater and art. A number were plaintiffs on key lawsuits challenging discriminatory Oregon statutes.

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The Eugene Lesbian History Project is a community-based, digital humanities project that preserves and shares the unique history of the lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon.

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OUTWORDS captures, preserves, and shares the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders, to build community and catalyze social change.

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The Country Queers podcast features oral history interviews with rural and small-town LGBTQIA+ folks in the U.S. Season One uplifts often unheard stories of rural queer experiences across intersecting layers of identity including race, class, gender identity, age, religion, and occupation. This podcast aims to complicate our collective ideas about rural spaces and queer communities. Subscribe now to get weekly episodes in your feed starting June 30, 2020!

Support BIPOC queer & trans led land & wellness projects:

( List updated weekly)

Maroon Grove Freedom Farm is located in so called Waverly, VA / Nottoway territory, on Black liberated land that was bought with reparations. The farm will provide plant medicine and food as medicine to queer and trans BIPOC communities. The farm is collecting ongoing reparations and donations to make repairs and updates to create a thriving community for QTBIPOC:

Venmo: @jas-battle
CashApp: $jasbattle
PayPal: paypal.me/jasbattle

Support Jennie & Delaney's goal for stable housing in rural Tennessee! Jennie is a Black, vegan, agender Aries mom of a 2-and-a-half year old agender Scorpio child. In Jennie's words: "I'd like to build us a tiny home so that we'll have stability, can move when we need to travel, eat, sleep & wash comfortably, and be active and present in community."

Black Soil: Our Better Nature works to reconnect Black Kentuckians to their heritage and legacy in agriculture. They represent over 60 Kentucky based Black farmers, culinary artists, value added product makers, artists/makers & are raising funds to match a foundation's donation.

FrontLine Farming is a Denver, CO based Womxn & POC-led grassroots nonprofit that focuses on building food sovereignty & farmer liberation. FLF works from an asset-based perspective to "feed our communities with healthy, affordable produce grown from our 5 acres of land, educate our constituents, create equitable policies, and honor the land and our ancestors." In response to COVID-19, FLF started an initiative called Project Protect Food Systems that seeks to support immigrant food workers across the nation by raising funds to provide PPE, proposing and advocating for equitable policy action, raising awareness of Food Worker strengths and plights, and illuminating Food Workers contributions to our society.

Black Appalachian Young & Rising - is a Black-led program of the STAY Project. STAY (which stands for Stay Together Appalachian Youth) is a central Appalachian regional network of youth 14-30 working to create sustainable, equitable communities where young folks can and want to stay!

Disability Justice Work at the People's Hub - a nonprofit that offers live, interactive trainings and workshops to build community power and support grassroots work.

Healing & Housing for Black Womxn after Bail - the RESIST Campaign is a vision led by formerly incarcerated Black womxn. Their goal is to ethically find and steward Indigenous land, to build a green, sustainable nest - ultimately creating a space for formerly incarcerated Black womxn - who include caregivers, sex workers, and mothers - to hold, nurture, and heal themselves and their sisters in experience & struggle

Support Miguel Mendías in reclaiming his family's 4th generation Mexican-American adobe home in the high desert of Marfa, TX (unceded Jumano-Apache territory). Miguel is a queer, trans, artist and activist of Czech, Basque, and Raramúri Tarahumara (indigenous Mexican) descent. The house, which belonged to his great-grandmother, was threatened with public auction by the county and is in a remote part of Texas that has experienced rapid gentrification.

Reunion: Family & Black Land Stewardship Melisse Watson is a Black indigenous queer non binary artist from Tkaronto, Dish with One Spoon wampum territory. They are raising money to buy land in Georgia where their birth father's family has lived for generations - for the purposes of land regeneration, building community with Black and Indigenous farmers and earth workers, working towards land sovereignty, and protecting and restoring the land, reclaiming it from the state. If you'd like to support by offering building materials or support, equipment and more email melissewatson@gmail.com

My Sistahs House is a grassroots, direct services and advocacy organization that was founded in 2016 by two trans women of color who sought to bridge a gap in services for trans and queer people of color in Memphis, TN. They currently have a 6 bedroom house that serves as emergency housing for TGNC people of color, and they are fundraising to build 20 tiny homes for trans women - expanding on their housing security work!

Nav ajo Nation Covid-19 Relief Fund

White Mountain Apache Tribe's Covid-19 Relief Fund

Where Freedom Grows support Carlin Rushing - a Black queer southern organizer - in buying back a house her family lost to white banks nearly 50 years ago, that sits on land her family has stewarded for generations in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

Build a Black led regenerative Farm Kiley is a Black queer woman who is fundraising to start a farm on the west coast "where Queer folx can get their hands in the dirt, where our communities can thrive, laugh, and be fed."

Help sustain this rural-queer-led central-Appalachian-based project on Patreon!

Production Team

Host, Producer, & Lead Editor Rae Garringer (they/them) is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia and now makes their home in the mountains of east Kentucky. When they started this project in 2013 they had no formal training in media production or oral history, but an intense frustration with the lack of easily accessible rural queer history. Since then, Country Queers has evolved into an ongoing multimedia oral history project which includes a collection of 65 oral histories from 15 states, a traveling gallery exhibition, and the Country Queers podcast. Along the way Rae completed a MA in Folklore & American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and gained audio production chops as the Public Affairs Director at Appalshop's WMMT 88.7fm.

Assistant Editor & Musical Magic Tommie Anderson (she/they) came up through a hard scrabble life in East Kentucky, where the magic of the woods and the guidance of a found community of creators and storytellers gave her her roots. Tommie learned to express herself with sound starting as a baby beating on pots and pans. Later in life she worked as a teacher and program coordinator for two after-school traditional mountain music programs: WiseJAMs in southwest Virginia and WMMT's Passing the Pick and Bow in east Kentucky. Tommie learned the technical side of audio and visual production as a teenager at the Appalachian Media Institute, a project of Appalshop Inc. in Whitesburg, Kentucky, where she spent half her time as an intern/youth producer and the other half as a trainer. Knowing the importance of being able to speak and be heard, Tommie uses all the well-worn tools in her arsenal to amplify and motivate the voices and spirits of those who yearn to be heard and felt.

Editorial Advisory Dream Team

Hermelinda Cortés (she/they) is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant father and a white factory-workinʼ mama. Raised in the country amidst the Southern delicacies of potato salad and mole, she is a working class Xicana Queer Feminist mama from the heart of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A luddite techie at heart, she schemes and daydreams about liberation and movement driven communications to build lasting connections between communities and to strategically dismantle systems of domination. She currently works on narrative power building at ReFrame after a decade of organizing and communications brujería. Hermelinda returned to the rolling blue hills of Virginia in 2012 where she writes, cooks, and kicks it with her dogs, kid, chickens, and chosen familia. She believes in the magic, alchemy, strategy, and revolutionary possibilities of small towns and rural people.

Lewis Raven Wallace (he/they/ze) is an independent trans journalist, a co-founder of Press On a southern movement journalism collective, and the host of The View from Somewhere a podcast about the history of "objectivity" in journalism and how marginalized journalists have challenged the status quo. Lewis focuses on the voices of people who are geographically, economically and politically marginalized, and loves stories about water, place and collective action. Lewis makes their home in Durham, NC.

Sharon P. Holland (she/her) is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the American Studies Department. She is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of RAISING THE DEAD: READINGS OF DEATH AND (BLACK) SUBJECTIVITY , The Erotic Life of Racism, and the co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism Crossing Waters / Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Sharon is also a horse riding, gardening, big-truck driving country queer who shared her story with this project in June 2017!

Music

Our theme song was written & performed on banjo by the sweetest singing country queer Sam Gleaves - who was one of the first people to share his story with this project in 2013! Pedal steel versions of the song were performed by Rebecca Branson Jones. Additional music on acoustic and electric guitar was written and performed by Tommie Anderson.

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The Country Queers podcast features oral history interviews with rural and small-town LGBTQIA+ folks in the U.S. Season One uplifts often unheard stories of rural queer experiences across intersecting layers of identity including race, class, gender identity, age, religion, and occupation. This podcast aims to complicate our collective ideas about rural spaces and queer communities....

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Project Summary

The Queer Appalachia Oral History Project captures the diverse stories of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and questioning individuals who grew up, and/or currently live in the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) designated Central Appalachian Region, especially Eastern Kentucky. The stories collected depict the conditions of growing up queer in Appalachia, starting with the 1960s onward. Interviews include a diverse group of subjects, including medical doctors, accomplished authors, journalists, hair dressers, public health professionals and artists. Topics covered include violence and discrimination, religion, rural to urban migration, health (including HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, mental health), sexual activity, education/carrer choices, public health, and art and humanities.

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The Queer Appalachia Oral History Project captures the diverse stories of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and questioning individuals who grew up, and/or currently live in the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) designated Central Appalachian Region, especially Eastern Kentucky. The stories collected depict the conditions of growing up queer in Appalachia, starting with the 1960s onward.

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The ACT-UP Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.

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San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project

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San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project

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Click on the "online items available" link, or go here: https://archive.org/details/glbthistoricalsociety?sort=title&and%5B%5D=creator%3A%22glbt+historical+society+san+francisco+act+up+oral+history+project%22

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Audiovisual recordings of oral history interviews with 23 San Francisco Bay Area activists discussing the history of ACT UP/San Francisco and other AIDS direct-action groups in the city. Interviews were conducted by the GLBT Historical Society in 2017-2018.

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San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project collection

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Audiovisual recordings of oral history interviews with 23 San Francisco Bay Area activists discussing the history of ACT UP/San Francisco and other AIDS direct-action groups in the city. Interviews were conducted by the GLBT Historical Society in 2017-2018.

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Lesbian Herstory Archives Audio Visual Archive

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Lesbian Herstory Archives Audio Visual Archive

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Herstories Digital Collection

The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities. "Herstories: Audio/Visual Collections" contains digitized copies of some of the 3,000 oral history cassettes in the Archives' Spoken Word Collection and 950 videotapes in the Video Collection.

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In 2008 we began a project to digitize our Spoken Word tapes. We worked with Prof. Anthony Cocciolo and students at the Pratt School of Information and Library Sciences (Pratt SILS), who began digitizing some of our tapes and created a website to host them for public access.

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Source Collection

This digital collection comprises selected materials from the following archival collection at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library:

Collection #RL.10066 | 24 Gigabytes (246 digital audio files, 69 digital text files, 850 image files, 442 textual image files (PDF).); 0.3 Linear Feet (1 box)

ABSTRACT
One hundred thirty digital oral history interviews documenting lesbian feminist activism in the South focused on the period 1968-1994.
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Southern Lesbian-Feminist Activist Herstory Project / Digital Collections / Duke Digital Repository

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This digital collection comprises selected materials from the following archival collection at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library: Collection #RL.10066 | 24 Gigabytes (246 digital audio files, 69 digital text files, 850 image files, 442 textual image files (PDF).); 0.3 Linear Feet (1 box) ABSTRACT One hundred thirty digital oral history interviews documenting lesbian feminist activism in the South focused on the period 1968-1994.

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University of Victoria BC Trans Activism Oral History Project

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University of Victoria BC Trans Activism Oral History Project

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Original illustration and graphic design by Ayo Tsalithaba.

In a joint partnership with the University of Victoria's Transgender Archives, we collected 21 oral history interviews with trans elders about their history of activism on behalf of trans people and communities in order to establish trans-specific and trans-positive primary source historical narratives that can be preserved for future generations.

The project began in academic year 2019-2020. Dr. Evan Taylor was the lead interviewer. Our main collaborators are The Transgender Archives (Dr. Aaron Devor, Director) and The ArQuives Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archive (Toronto). Eli Holliday, former MI student at the iSchool, University of Toronto, was the Project RA. In March, 2020 we were joined by the Collaboratory's co-applicant Dr. Chase Joynt (filmmaker).

In 2020, we donated the oral histories to The ArQuives and The Transgender Archives, and we are currently in the process of providing access to the interviews and to short clips that highlight specific narratives within the full interviews.
THE NARRATORS
Of our 21 narrators, 14 have agreed to have their interviews available online. We have uploaded 6 of these interviews to Vimeo in full, which you can access below, along with 6 excerpted clips.

To access the full collection of available interviews, visit The Vault at the University of Victoria.

MARSHA BOTZER

Oral History Interview with Marsha Botzer recorded February 19, 2020.

JOANNA CLARK

Oral History Interview with Joanna Clark recorded December 30, 2019.

LYNN CONWAY

Oral History Interview with Lynn Conway recorded February 4, 2020.

LIN FRASER

Oral History Interview with Lin Fraser recorded February 7, 2020.

Dr. Lin Fraser is a cisgender psychotherapist living and practicing in San Francisco, CA, USA, where she has been working with trans clients for over 35 years. In addition to her clinical practice, she has an international reputation as a leading expert in transgender health. She has recently served as the President of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Transgenderism.

In the following clip, Fraser reflects on her psychotherapy practice.

JUDE PATTON

Oral History Interview with Jude Patton recorded December 19, 2019.

BEN POWER ALWIN

Oral History Interview with Ben Power Alwin recorded February 18, 2020.

KIMBERLY NIXON

Oral History Interview with Kimberly Nixon recorded June 29, 2020.

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LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory

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In a joint partnership with the University of Victoria's Transgender Archives, we collected 21 oral history interviews with trans elders about their history of activism on behalf of trans people and communities in order to establish trans-specific and trans-positive primary source historical narratives that can be preserved for future generations.

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Two Spirit People of Manitoba Oral Histories

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Two Spirit People of Manitoba Oral Histories

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The Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Oral History project was developed by Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc., the University of Winnipeg Archives, the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg, and supported in part through the financial contributions of the Government of Canada and the Manitoba Department of Sport, Culture and Heritage. The oral history collection was donated to the University Archives in 2018 as an accrual to the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc. fonds. This is the first phase of what is intended to be a continuing effort to preserve and provide access to the voices and history of Two-Spirit people across Turtle Island.

The stories of Two-Spirit people have been mostly absent from history owing to white settler colonization and discrimination within communities, including within Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities. The goal of the project was to record Two-Spirit histories for future generations by sharing their lived experiences, including their experiences at Two-Spirit Gatherings, any rites of passage they have experienced as a Two-Spirit person, how being Two-Spirited has changed their lives, what they think future generations of Two-Spirit people will experience, and how their home and adopted communities responded to them. These stories will help to provide source material for new histories, research, and creative works about Two-Spirit people, and they may also assist young people who are struggling to come to terms with being Two-Spirited through these examples.

The interviews were conducted by individuals who identify as Two-Spirit, or those who are knowledgeable and culturally aware of being Two-Spirited. Interviewers received training in conducting oral history interviews through the Oral History Centre. Interviews were conducted during the 31st International Two-Spirit Gathering at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre near Beausejour, Manitoba on August 3-6, 2018. Interviews have been transcribed and indexed, and transcriptions and indexes have been synced for ease of access. Copyright to the interviews is retained by the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba, Inc. and is managed by the University Archives as a component of its stewardship responsibilities for the collection.
18.29-01BU: Interview with Ryan Buffalo 18.29-02CH: Interview with Ma-Nee Chacaby 18.29-03CO: Interview with Maariu Costa 18.29-05DO: Interview with T. Sharp Dopler 18.29-06DU: Interview with Joshua Dunn 18.29-07KE: Interview with kēr 18.29-08LA: Interview with Monique LaPlante 18.29-09MO: Interview with Albert Beck 18.29-10PR: Interview with Gayle Pruden 18.29-11SY: Interview with Theo Syrette 18.29-12TA: Interview with Vanessa Tait
Project Administration: Coral Baisch, Holly Berofe, Darrell "Gav" Chippeway, Brett Lougheed, Kimberley Moore

Interviewers: Brielle Beardy-Linklater, Seneca Chartrand, Darrell "Gav" Chippeway, Connie Merasty, Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie

Transcriptions/Indexes: Amber Ali, Kent Davies, Kayla Villebrun-Normand

OHMS Administration: Mark Jenkins, Kimberley Moore

Preservation Services: Kent Davies

Training: Kimberley Moore

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Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Oral Histories

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The Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Oral History project was developed by Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc., the University of Winnipeg Archives, the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg, and supported in part through the financial contributions of the Government of Canada and the Manitoba Department of Sport, Culture and Heritage.

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Join the ball and battle at fafswagvogue.com #fafswagvogue

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Under the Rainbow: LGBTQ Oral Histories in Kansas

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Under the Rainbow: LGBTQ Oral Histories in Kansas

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Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Intersex and Queer People in Kansas

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Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Intersex and Queer People in Kansas

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HIV/AIDS Caregivers Oral History Project

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HIV/AIDS Caregivers Oral History Project

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Collection highlights | University of Minnesota Libraries

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Notable subject areas in the Tretter Collection

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Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community

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In 2012 historian Amy Sueyoshi initiated The Dragon Fruit Project.

The Dragon Fruit Project is an intergenerational oral history project that explores queer Asian Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Dragon Fruit represents our efforts around cultural preservation, knowledge production, and dissemination. By uplifting our queer API community histories, we're breaking through the silence that is a byproduct of systematic and institutionalized oppression. When community members engage with this work as interviewers, transcribers, cataloguers and archivists, we are actively resisting the systems that have isolated us from each other and keep us out of mainstream present-day and historical narratives. Not only are we active agents archiving our individual histories, we are also piecing together organizational, community, and movement histories that will contextualize our collective narrative. When we document our history we're also laying the groundwork for future work.

Interested in joining the Dragon Fruit Project team?
No experience required! All you need is a great attitude and a willingness to make a small time commitment.

Transcribe audio recordings

Interview an LGBTQ API person

Be interviewed

Catalogue transcriptions

Sit on our Dragon Fruit panels

Manage history dissemination

Outreach and bring our materials to campuses, classrooms, and groups

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In 2012 historian Amy Sueyoshi initiated The Dragon Fruit Project. The Dragon Fruit Project is an intergenerational oral history project that explores queer Asian Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Dragon Fruit represents our efforts around cultural preservation, knowledge production, and dissemination.

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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

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The Stonewall Oral History Project

Over 80 oral histories were conducted from 2018-2019 through the National Park Service's Stonewall Oral History Project, in partnership with The Center and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Hear from community members, activists, West Village residents and more about their personal experiences related to the Stonewall Riots, as well as organizing before and after the events.

Listen to the oral histories below or by visiting the playlist on YouTube.

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Over 80 oral histories were conducted from 2018-2019 through the National Park Service's Stonewall Oral History Project, in partnership with The Center and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Hear from community members, activists, West Village residents and more about their personal experiences related to the Stonewall Riots, as well as organizing before and after the events.

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Project Summary

The Queer Appalachia Oral History Project captures the diverse stories of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and questioning individuals who grew up, and/or currently live in the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) designated Central Appalachian Region, especially Eastern Kentucky. The stories collected depict the conditions of growing up queer in Appalachia, starting with the 1960s onward. Interviews include a diverse group of subjects, including medical doctors, accomplished authors, journalists, hair dressers, public health professionals and artists. Topics covered include violence and discrimination, religion, rural to urban migration, health (including HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, mental health), sexual activity, education/carrer choices, public health, and art and humanities.

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The Queer Appalachia Oral History Project captures the diverse stories of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and questioning individuals who grew up, and/or currently live in the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) designated Central Appalachian Region, especially Eastern Kentucky. The stories collected depict the conditions of growing up queer in Appalachia, starting with the 1960s onward.

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Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT)

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Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT)

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Lesbians and queer women have been excluded from the official historical record, but their experiences tell a great deal about the past. They reveal what it meant for a woman to desire and love other women, and to survive and resist against a culture that treated them as sinful and deviant. Their stories open a window onto a world that once was, and help us imagine a world that might yet be.

The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony collects and makes available the oral histories of people who presently or at one time identified as same-sex and same-gender attracted women.

▶ Find out more about how to donate your oral history collection, or contribute your interviews today.

Many different stories

Testimonies come in many forms.

Materials in the Archives include oral history audio and video recordings, radio and television programs, and associated materials.

Read more about ALOT's collections, browse our content, or search the site for keywords.

Contribute

Find out how to join ALOT and contribute your own oral history interviews and use other participatory features. Or, find out how to donate archival materials to ALOT.

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Lesbians and queer women have been excluded from the official historical record, but their experiences tell a great deal about the past. They reveal what it meant for a woman to desire and love other women, and to survive and resist against a culture that treated them as sinful and deviant.

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Trans Oral History Project and Media Project

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Trans Oral History Project and Media Project

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The Transgender Oral History Project is a community-driven effort to collect and share a diverse range of stories from within the transgender and gender variant communities. We accomplish this by promoting grassroots media projects, documenting trans people's experiences, maintaining a publicly accessible digital archive, and teaching media production skills. Click here to learn more.

How do trans people of color thrive? Join Chicagoans on their journeys to find love, creativity, and healing. Synopsis: America may be discovering trans people, but we've been here [...] Read more...

Z Shane Zaldivar is a former Marine who has been living, working, and community organizing in North Carolina for years. He's been an activist for 15 years in various locations [...] Read more...

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The Transgender Oral History Project is a community-driven effort to collect and share a diverse range of stories from within the transgender and gender variant communities. We accomplish this by promoting grassroots media projects, documenting trans people's experiences, maintaining a publicly accessible digital archive, and teaching media production skills.

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ACT UP San Fransisco Oral History Project

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ACT UP San Fransisco Oral History Project

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The ACT UP/San Francisco Oral History Project will be active through 2019. The outcomes will include the following:

Oral histories with at least 40 former members of ACT UP/San Francisco to be permanently archived and maintained by the GLBT Historical Society.

An exhibition at the GLBT Historical Society Museum incorporating high-quality documentary-style video portraits, photos, and other materials.

A multimedia Internet presence.

A series of culminating public events offering opportunities for dialogue and debate.

Through oral history recordings, the project will document ACT UP/San Francisco's legacy of protest and politics. In addition, the project will focus on the unique artistic and sexual cultures fostered through the constellation of San Francisco groups of which it was a part, including AIDS Action Pledge; Mobilization Against AIDS; Stop AIDS Now or Else (SANOE); Queer Nation/San Francisco; Boy With Arms Akimbo/Girl With Arms Akimbo; Bad Cop/No Donut; Diseased Pariah News; and Transgender Nation.

Project director

The current project director is Eric Sneathen, a poet and doctoral candidate in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With Daniel Benjamin, he is the co-editor of The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture, and he organized a series of essays and interviews focused on the intersection of gay liberation and queer writing for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space platform.

Project Founder

The recipient of the American Historical Society's Allan Bérubé Prizefor work in public history, Joey Plaster originated the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project, leading trainings and conducting interviews from 2017 to 2018. From his current position as Curator in Public Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, he continues to advise the project staff.

Contact

Interested in sharing your story or volunteering? Contact Eric Sneathen. To take part in the conversation and get regular updates, join the Facebook group.

Project Staff, GLBT Historical Society

Terry Beswick, Executive Director

Elisabeth Cornu, Museum Working Group Chair

Kelsi Evans, Director of Archives & Special Collections

Nalini Elias, Curator of Exhibitions

Project Advisors

Gerard Koskovich, a public historian formerly active in ACT UP/San Francisco, Queer Nation/San Francisco and Bad Cop/No Donut.

Marc Stein, professor of history at San Francisco State University

Amy Sueyoshi, Associate Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.

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Oral History Projects - GLBT Historical Society

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The ACT UP/San Francisco Oral History Project will be active through 2019. The outcomes will include the following: Oral histories with at least 40 former members of ACT UP/San Francisco to be permanently archived and maintained by the GLBT Historical Society. An exhibition at the GLBT Historical Society Museum incorporating high-quality documentary-style video portraits, photos, and other materials.