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  1. Interview with Venus DeMars part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: DeMars, Venus
    Date: Sep. 12, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Film industry, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Marriage, Masculinities, Mental health, MtFs, Music groups, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Pronoun, Rock music, Sexuality, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Human Rights Act
    Description: Venus de Mars identifies as a male to female trans female and assigned male at birth. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1960 and had surgery as a baby to appear more male. She came out as trans ...
  2. Joanne and Julie Nemecek Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Nemecek, Julie, Nemecek, Joanne
    Date: Jul. 17, 2017
    Topics: LGBTQ+ Baptists, Marriage, Transgender people
    Subject: Bethel College, Christine Jorgensen, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Joanne Nemecek, Julie Nemecek, Michigan Equality, PFLAG, Renee Richards, Roberts Wesleyan College, Soulforce, Spring Arbor University, Susan Stanton
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Joanne and Julie Nemecek, conducted by Mason Funk on July 17, 2017 in their home in Spring Arbor, Michigan. Julie is a proud grandmother, Presbyterian church elder, and publ...
  3. Kate Bornstein Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Bornstein, Kate
    Date: Nov. 4, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Actors, Buddhism, Cancer, Chat rooms, Childhood, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crowdsourcing, Cults, Death and dying, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Film, FtMs, Fundraising, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health, Health care, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Overweight people, Postmodernism, Religions, Scientology, SM, Suicide, Theatre, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, World war II, Wrestling, Writers, Youth
    Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, A Thousand and One Ways to Live Without Working, America Online (AOL), B'hai, Barbara Carrellas, Christine Jorgensen, Church of Scientology, Gazebo, Gender Just for the Fun of it: Compassionate Gender Strategies for Divisive Times, Gender Outlaw, Hello Cruel World, I Am Cait, Jamison Green, Laura Vogel, Lee Sullivan, On Our Backs, Power Surge, Tuli Kupferberg, We Croak
    Description: Kate Bornstein discusses her life as a writer and actor. Moving between growing up in a Jewish family on the New Jersey shore, studying acting in school, joining the Church of Scientology, finding ...
  4. McKenzie Wark Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Wark, McKenzie
    Date: Jun. 20, 2019
    Topics: Abortion, Bisexuality, Childhood, Children, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Femininities, Gay men, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Hormones, Immigration, Journalists, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mardi gras, Marxism, Masculinities, MtFs, Peace movement, Pronoun, Punk, Sexuality, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Transitioning (Gender), Upbringing, Writers
    Subject: Christen Clifford, Kathy Acker, Macquarie University, The New School of Social Reserach, Ugenia College, University of Technology Sydney
    Description: McKenzie Wark discusses their career as a cultural critic, journalist, academic, and author. They came of age as a radical and writer in underground counterculture scenes in Australia, moving to Ne...
  5. Nancy Nangeroni Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Nangeroni, Nancy
    Date: Feb. 8, 2018
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Coming out, Conservatives, Family members, Feminism, Gender dysphoria, Genderqueer people, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ chosen families, LGBTQ+ radio, Medicalization, Motorcycling accidents, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Public bathroom bills, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender people, Transgender political activists, Transgenderism, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Adrienne Lynch, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Bathroom Act, Bay Windows, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Brandon Teena, Caitlyn Jenner, Chanelle Pickett, Christine Jorgensen, Deborah Forte, Donald Trump, Emily Rooney, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), GenderTalk, Gordene Olga Mackenzie, Gunner Scott, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Holly Boswell, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Kate Bornstein, Lynn Conway, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), Merissa Sherrill Lynn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Nancy Nangeroni, Napoleon Hills, Renee Richards, Riki Anne Wilchins, Rita Hester, Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE), The Village Voice, Think and Grow Rich, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Transgender Nation, Transgender Tapestry, Transsexual Menace, Virginia Stephenson, Yvonne Cook-Riley
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  6. Oral History Interview with Jay Botsford, May 26, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Smith, Brice, Botsford, Jay
    Date: May 26, 2011
    Topics: Coming out, Gender identity, Intergenerational relationships, Oral history, Social work, Transgender people, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin, Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, Project Q
    Description: Jay Botsford (b. 1982) identifies as genderqueer and trans. Botsford describes zir experiences coming out and transitioning, and zir role as coordinator of Project Q, the youth development program ...
  7. Oral History Interview with Jolie McKenna, May 18, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: McKenna, Jolie, Smith, Brice
    Date: May 18, 2011
    Topics: Family, Identity, Intersex, Oral history, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin
    Description: Jolie McKenna (b. 1961), who identifies as inter-sex and transsexual, is the executive director at the LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin in Racine and a part-time teacher for Women and Children’s ...
  8. Oral History Interview with Loree Cook-Daniels, January 30, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Smith, Brice, Cook-Daniels, Loree
    Date: Jan. 30, 2011
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, FtMs, LGBTI community, Oral history, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin, FORGE, Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee, Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, Significant Others, Friends, Families, and Allies (SOFFAs)
    Description: Loree Cook-Daniels has been an active member in the Milwaukee LGBT community, affiliated with FORGE, Diverse and Resilient, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, SAGE Milwaukee, and the Lesbian Alli...
  9. Oral History Interview with Mary Boenke

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Boenke, Mary M.
    Date: Oct. 6, 2016
    Topics: Civil rights, Depressions--1929, Housing, Lesbians, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Our Trans Children, PFLAG, Ricketson LGBT Memorial Library, Trans Forming Families, Transgender Network
    Description: Interviewer: Mariana Araujo Interviewee: Mary Boenke Date: 6 October 2016 Duration: 1:01:49 Transcription prepared by: Erin McWethy, Chelsea Hutton, and Mariana Araujo
  10. Oral History Interview with Meredith Leischer, May 27, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Leischer, Meredith, Smith, Brice
    Date: May 27, 2011
    Topics: Educational psychology, Family, Intersex people, Marriage, Oral history, Transgender people
    Subject: Gemini Gender Group, Pathways Counseling Center
    Description: A Milwaukee native, Meredith Leischer identifies as a transgender person and psychic hermaphrodite. Leischer discusses her marriage and family life, career in the oil industry in the 1970s and 1980...
  11. Oral History Interview with michael munson, April 25, 2011

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Creator: Smith, Brice, munson, michael
    Date: Apr. 25, 2011
    Topics: Civil rights, FtMs, Genderfluid identity, Oral history, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: FORGE, Milwaukee LGBT Community, Pathways Counseling Center, Significant Others, Friends, Families, and Allies (SOFFAs)
    Description: michael munson (b. 1968) founded FORGE in 1994 to provide peer support primarily to those on the female-to-male spectrum and significant others, friends, family, and allies (SOFFAs). munson discuss...
  12. Oral History Interview with Trish Valentine

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Valentine, Trish
    Date: Feb. 25, 2016
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ support groups, Marriage, Pronouns, Public bathroom bills, Suburbs, Transgender people
    Subject: Dress Barn, Kappa Beta, Ladies and Gents of the Blue Ridge, Metropolitan Community Church, Tazi, Ted Cruz, The Red Hat Society
    Description: Oral History Interview with Trish Valentine Interviewer: Kerri Dalton (and Teddy Melnik) Interviewee: Trish Valentine Date: 25 February 2016 Location: Roanoke College, Fintel Library, 220 High ...
  13. Paisley Currah Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Currah, Paisley
    Date: Jun. 27, 2019
    Topics: Activists, Birth certificates, Children, Conferences, Divorced people, Feminists, Gender, Gender role, Gender studies, HIV/AIDS, Internalized homophobia, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ parents, Marxism, Political science, Prisons, Religions, Rural areas, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, Zines
    Subject: ACT UP Ithaca, Biddy Martin, Carolyn Riccardi, Carrie Davis, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), City University of New York (CUNY), Connor Brotus, David Valentine, Empire State Pride Agenda, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Jamison Green, Jennifer Levi, Joann Prinzivalli, Melissa Sklarz, Ned Brinkley, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Pauline Park, Queens Homophile Association, Queer Nation, Roz Blumenthal, Sarah Schulman, Shannon Minter, Sierra Showman, Sophia Pazzos, Spencer Bergstedt, Susan Stryker, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), The Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), Trans Day of Action, Transgender Law and Policy Institute (TLPI), True Spirit Conference
  14. Robbi Ann Mecus Oral Hisory

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Mecus, Robbi Ann
    Date: Aug. 23, 2019
    Topics: Anti-gay violence, Anti-transgender violence, Bathrooms, Crossdressing, Disabilities, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Forest rangers, Gay pride, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gentrification, Health care, Homophobia, Internalized homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Machismo, Masculinities, Parenthood, Passing (Gender), Police, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Roman catholicism, Secrecy, Sexism, Siblings, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Visibility
    Subject: 2017 Women's March, Bizarre Bushwick, Donald Trump, Kate Bornstein, Renee Richards, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Second Serve, Stonewall, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), Trans Day of Action
    Description: In this interview, Robbi Ann Mecus describes her journey from growing up with her family, experiencing gender dysphoria in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, to living as her ...
  15. Sage Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Sage
    Date: May 9, 2019
    Topics: Baptist church, Butches, Children, Christianity, Coming out, Conferences, Discrimination, Feminism, Flags--Confederate States of America, Gender, Homophobia, Internet, Judaism, Libraries, Microaggressions, Paganism, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Rural areas, Social classes, Social justice, Soft butches, Taoism, Trade unions, Transgender people, Women's colleges, Youth literature
    Subject: American Library Association, LGBT Workers Association, Proposition 8, Stonewall 50, Tumblr
    Description: Sage discusses their growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, breaking from their family's religion through encountering children's and you...