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  1. Aleshia Brevard Crenshaw Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Stryker, Susan
    Date: Aug. 2, 1997
    Topics: Drag community, Femmes, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Sexuality, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Aleshia Brevard Crenshaw, Christine Jorgensen, Finocchio's Club, Harry Benjamin, Li-Kar
  2. Angal Field Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Field, Angal
    Date: May 1, 2019
    Topics: Colonialism, Family members, Film, Gay identity, Gay liberation, Gender, Gender bending, Health care, Hormones, Lesbians, Liberals, Photography, Politics, Privilege (Social psychology), Religions, Roman catholicism, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Transgender community, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Visibility
    Subject: Barnard University, Celina Sciamma, Tomboy
    Description: Angal Field shares their experience of being a writer, filmmaker and photographer in today’s media landscape and discusses the trappings of trans visibility. Using the medium of film to “speak back...
  3. Ari Brostoff Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Brostoff, Ari
    Date: Jan. 2, 2023
    Topics: Jewish transgender people, Queer theory, Social advocacy, Transgender authors, Transgender community
    Subject: Beyond the Pale, Jewish Currents
    Description: Ari Brostoff is an author and editor at Jewish Currents magazine. In this interview, they recount reading Jewish historical fiction as a child growing up in California. After attending college on t...
  4. Beth Elliott Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Elliott, Beth, Funk, Mason
    Date: Aug. 12, 2021
    Topics: Gender dysphoria in youth, Lesbian separatism, LGBTQ+ musicians, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Beth Elliott, Daughters of Bilitis (DOB)
    Description: Beth Elliott was born on November 26, 1950 in Vallejo, California. Sometime during her teen years, Beth experienced what she calls her first goddess vision: looking down at her chest, and seeing br...
  5. Bradley Picklesimer Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Picklesimer, Bradley
    Date: Mar. 28, 2018
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Berdache, Drag, Drag queens, Gay discos, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormones, LGBTQ+ porn films, Police raids, Sexual assault, Siblings, Stonewall riots, Transitioning (Gender), Transvestites
    Subject: ACT UP, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), Bernard Jay, Bradley Picklesimer, Café LMNOP, Chi Chi LaRue, Club Agogo, Courtney Act, David Bowie, Divine, Francis Marion Picklesimer, Henry Faulkner, Jayne County, Judy Garland, Lee Angelique, Martha Lynn Stone, Miss Bradley, Sweet Evening Breeze, The Montparnasse, The Thrusters, Wade Littrell
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Bradley Picklesimer conducted by Kate Kunath on March 28, 2018 in Meally, KY. AT 20, Bradley opened his first downtown club in Lexington, KY with the help of his brother and...
  6. Fernando Feliciano Interview Transcript

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Schroeder, Kurt
    Date: May 31, 1995
    Topics: Arrests, Bars, Drag, Drag queens, Gay community, Gay culture, Health care centres, Navy, Police, Same-sex marriage, STDs, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities
    Subject: Society for Individual Rights (SIR), The Coits
  7. Interview with Alexis Paige

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Paige, Alexis
    Date: Sep. 23, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Asian transgender people, Bisexuals, Breast, Community centres, Drag, Families, Family relationships, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Hormone therapy, Intersex, Korean Americans, LGBTQ+ partners, Machismo, Passing (Gender), Psychotherapy, Race, Racially mixed people, Racism, Same-sex marriage, Sexism, Sexuality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, White, Work
    Subject: Basic Rights Oregon, Cascade AIDS Project, Corey Paige, Lambda Legal, RuPaul, Trans Lifeline, Transgender Working Groups, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Alexis Paige is a mixed Korean and white trans woman from Nevada and Oregon. At the time of this interview, she was working as a Legal Aid at Lambda Legal. In this oral history Paige spends a signi...
  8. Interview with Canyon Carballosa

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Carballosa, Canyon
    Date: Nov. 11, 2021
    Topics: Choreographers, Dancers, Gender roles, Non-binary people, White transgender people
    Description: An interview with Canyon Carballosa, a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professio...
  9. Interview with Jeff Gaudor (Kira Stone)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
    Creator: Gaudor, Jeff
    Date: Apr. 21, 2020
    Topics: Drag, Drag community, Drag families, Drag queens, Female impersonators, Substance abuse
    Subject: Miss Gay Massachusetts USofA, Miss Gay Rhode Island USofA
    Description: An interview with Kira Stone. Kira Stone is a drag persona performed by Jeff Gaudor since 2010. Gaudor identifies as a white; gay man. Topics in order of discussion include: growing up in Attleboro...
  10. Interview with Melinda Lee

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Lee, Melinda
    Date: Aug. 17, 2017
    Topics: Activism, Asian American LGBTQ+ people, Asian Americans, Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, Atlantic Coast (North America), Dating, Education, Families, Family relationships, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Labeling, Language, LGBTI community, Love, Middle West, Politics, Pronoun, Race, Racism, Rape, Schools, Sex, Sexual orientation, Social media, Social movements, Surgery, Transphobia, Violence, White supremacy movements--United States, Work
    Subject: Black and Pink, Khmer Rouge, Lobby Days, OutFront Minnesota, The Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans, Trans Advisory and Action Team, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Melinda Lee is a Cambodian-American, Vietnamese-American, and Chinese-American gender non-conforming, non-binary person from Long Beach, California. At the time of this oral history interview, they...
  11. Interview with Monica Cross

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Cross, Monica, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Feb. 6, 2017
    Topics: Black people, Clergy, Counseling, Discrimination, Gender minorities, Grandparents, Harassment, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ parents, MtFs, Navy, Passing (Gender), Spirituality, Suicide, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), White nationalism, White supremacy movements
    Subject: Authenticity and Imagination in the Face of Oppression, Monica Cross, Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellowship for Black Trans Women, Tapestry Ministries, The Collaborative Community Planning Council
    Description: Monica Joy Cross is a Black trans woman raised in California. At the time of this oral history, Cross was the Pastor at First Christian Church of Oakland and an Associate Pastor at Tapestry Ministr...
  12. Interview with Renata Garcia and Jennicet Gutierrez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Garcia, Renata, Gutierrez, Jennicet
    Date: Oct. 3, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Alien detention centers, Catholic Church, Dating, Families, Family relationships, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, Illegal residents, Immigrants, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ immigrants, MtFs, Nativism, Race, Racism, Religion, Sexuality, Social movements, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender people
    Subject: Bamby Salcedo, Barack Obama, FAMILIA Trans Queer Liberation Movement, Jennicet Gutierrez, Renata Garcia, Sylvia Rivera, Trans Latina Coalition, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Renata Garcia is a Mexican transgender woman who grew up in Axochiapan, Mexico. At the time of this interview, Garcia was working as a Sales Associate in Minnesota. Jennicet Gutiérrez is a Mexican ...
  13. Interview with Ryan Li Dahlstrom

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Dahlstrom, Ryan Li
    Date: Mar. 28, 2016
    Topics: Activism, Activists, Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, Coming out, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Communities, Community life, Discrimination, Education, Family relationships, Friendship, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTI community, Liberation movements, Love, Middle West, Pacific Islander American LGBTQ+ people, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Race relations, Racially mixed people, Sex, Social movements, Transgender people, Violence, White people--Race identity--United States, Work
    Subject: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Board, Gender Blur, Transgender Youth Support Network, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ryan Li Dahlstrom is a mixed Asian and white trans masculine person from Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Dahlstrom was working as a consultant. In this oral history, Dahlstrom discusses c...
  14. Interview with Shawn Demmons

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Demmons, Shawn
    Date: Apr. 23, 2021
    Topics: AIDS activists, BIPOC, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, Trans men, Transgender activism
    Subject: California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), Center of Excellence for Transgender Health (CoE), LA Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Transgender Law Center (TLC)
    Description: An interview with Shawn Demmons, MPH, a Black trans man, community organizer, public health and HIV/AIDS advocate, and trans health activist based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interv...
  15. Interview with Taya Mitchell

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Mitchell, Taya
    Date: Apr. 6, 2016
    Topics: African American transgender people, Appearance, Assigned gender, Bathrooms, Black race--Color, Bullying, Clothing, Coming out, Families, Femininities, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Identification cards, Inclusive education, Language, Medical care, Privilege (Social psychology), Racism, Representation, Reproduction, Schools, Social media, Surgery, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, OutFront Minnesota
    Description: Taya Mitchell is a performance artist and community organizer who was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. In this oral history, she shares many of her experiences with being homeschooled; bullying ...