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  1. Aiden Simon Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Zavidow, Evan, Simon, Aiden
    Date: Aug. 16, 2017
    Topics: Artists, Coming out, Gender role, Military, Parents of transgender people, Photographers, Siblings, Social norms, Support groups, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Aiden Simon
    Description: Aiden Simon, a Brooklyn-based visual artist, details a life spent moving among different spaces both geographically and in terms of community. He discusses his experiences living in various cities ...
  2. Elsie Hupp Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Hupp, Elsie, Ramsay, Grace
    Date: Feb. 21, 2017
    Topics: Childhood, Christianity, Eating disorders, Education, Feminism, Isolation, Mental health, MtFs, Oppression, Sexual assault, Therapies, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Babycastles, Boy Scouts, DeviantArt, Elsie Hupp, Myspace, New York University, Twtich
    Description: Elsie grew up middle class in the Midwest where the church was a big presence in her life. Though she encountered a progressiveness in various ways within the religious communities she was part of ...
  3. Evan Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Tennenbaum, Ric, Evan
    Date: Jul. 29, 2017
    Topics: Artists, Bars, Childhood, Coming out, Crossdressing, Families, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Hormones, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Photography, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Evan, Pratt University
    Description: Evan is a Brooklyn based photographer whose photo work primarily touches upon issues of gender and identity, and in this interview he describes his perception of his own intersectional identity. Or...
  4. Interview Olivia Hnlicka

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hnlicka, Olivia
    Date: Jan. 14, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Art, Assigned gender, Beauty standards, Butches, Capitalism, Cisgender people, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Depression, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Femmes, Friendship, Gay community, Gender identity, Gender-affirming care, Hair, Hair--Removal, Health, Heterosexuality, HIV/AIDS, Homeless people, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ communities, Love, Masculinities, Medical care, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Religions, Sex, Sexual orientation, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel, White LGBTQ+ people, White people
    Subject: About Face Youth Theatre, Annoyance Theatre, Bear Culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Coed Prison Sluts, Crusty Girl, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, Vogue Magazine
    Description: Olivia “Liv” Hnilicka is a white trans woman from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In this oral history interview, she discusses her upbringing and early life as a queer person, her move to Chicago at the age...
  5. 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...
  6. Interview with Chishaun (CeCe) McDonald

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: McDonald, Chishaun Reed Mai'luv (CeCe)
    Date: Nov. 27, 2015
    Topics: Activists, Appearance, Assigned gender, Black people, Christianity, Coming out, Courts, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Families, Femmes, Gay boys, Gay identity, Gender dysphoria, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy, Hormones, LGBTQ+ relationships, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Neonazism, Physical violence, Prisons, Racism, Role behavior, Sissies, Suicide, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Verbal abuse
    Subject: Angela Davis, Brandon Teena, Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Dean Spade, Dorothy Day Shelter, Free CeCe, George Zimmerman, Honey Bear Royal, Howard Brown Center, Jerry Springer Show, Laverne Cox, Magic Johnson, Marci Bowers, Matthew Shepherd, Normal Life, The New Jim Crowe, Trayvon Martin
    Description: CeCe McDonald is a Black-Boricua-Taíno woman from the South Side of Chicago. At the time of this oral history, she was working in Minneapolis as a barista, activist, and social instigator. In this ...
  7. Interview with Crispin Torres

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Torres, Crispin
    Date: May 27, 2016
    Topics: Coming out, Education, Educators, Gay community, Gay culture, Gay families, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Latinos, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Mexican Americans, Misogyny, Musicians, Political movements, Roman catholicism, Surgery, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Lambda Legal
    Description: Crispin Torres is a Latino trans masculine person. At the time of this oral history, Torres was working for Lambda Legal. In this oral history, Torres speaks at length about his childhood, coming o...
  8. Interview with Gloria Allen

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Allen, Gloria
    Date: Apr. 26, 2016
    Topics: Actors, Art, Biracial transgender people, Black people, Church, Community life, Discrimination, Education, Entertainers, Family relationships, Friendship, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Love, Marriage, Mentoring, Middle West, Nurses, Older people, Racially mixed people, Religion, Sex, Singers, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transitioning (Gender), Women, Work
    Subject: Center on Halstead, Charm (play), Charm school, Gloria Allen, Mixed Blood Theater, Precious Davis, Trans 100 Legacy Award, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Gloria Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria", is a biracial woman from Bowling Green Kentucky and Chicago. in this interview she speaks at length about founding the Charm School at the Center on Halst...
  9. Interview with Kylar Broadus

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Broadus, Kylar
    Date: Jan. 14, 2016
    Topics: Activists, Black people, Coming out, Discrimination, Divorce, Drag, Education, Families, Family relationships, Gender, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Lawyers, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ artists, LGBTQ+ partners, Love, Malpractice, Masculinities, Oppression, Parenthood, Race, Racism, Religion, Sex, Sexism, Sexuality, Social movements, Social privilege, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Work
    Subject: Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Billy Tipton, Christine Jorgensen, Creating Change, HBIGDA Standards of Care for Hormonal and Surgical Sex Reassignment of Gender Dysphoric Persons, John Alexander Goodrum, Karen Broadus, Renee Richards, The Program on Human Sexuality, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: Kylar Broadus is a Black male from Fayette, Missouri. At the time of this interview, Broadus was working as a lawyer and an activist based out of Washington D.C. In this oral history, Broadus discu...
  10. Interview with Osiris Coleman

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Coleman, Osiris
    Date: Sep. 21, 2015
    Topics: Assigned gender, Atlantic Coast (Middle Atlantic States), Bisexuals, Black people, Black people--Race identity, Black transgender people, Celebrities, Change of name, Child abuse, Coming out, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Families, Family relationships, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health, Heterosexuals, Hormones, Hysterectomy, Lesbians, Medical care, MtFs, Ovariectomy, Passing (Gender), Phalloplasty, Police, Pregnancy, Prisons, Privilege (Social psychology), Race, Racism, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Work
    Subject: Curtis Crane, Janet Mock, Loren Cameron, New York City Department of Sanitation, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Osiris Coleman is a Black trans man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this oral history interview, he discusses his childhood in West Philadelphia and family relationships, his relocation to New ...
  11. Interview with Vanessa Sheridan

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sheridan, Vanessa
    Date: Jul. 12, 2016
    Topics: Assigned gender, Black people, Coming out, Families, Fundamentalism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homophobia, Law, LGBTQ+ partners, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Performing arts, Racism, Religions, Socioeconomic characteristics, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Chaz Bono, City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Crossing Over, HB2, Jerry Springer Show, Laura Jane Grace, Laverne Cox, Liberating the Transgendered Christian, Maury Povich, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Pulse Night Club, RuPaul, The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace, Virginia Prince, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
    Description: Vanessa Sheridan is a white transgender woman raised in the South. At the time of this interview, Sheridan was the Director of Transgender Relations and Community Engagement at Center on Halsted (C...
  12. J. Soto Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Soto, J., Milks, M. Henry
    Date: Oct. 20, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Artists, Arts, Childhood, Christianity, Coming out, Ethnic groups, Families, FtMs, Gay community, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Language, LGBTQ+ relationships, Migration, Night life, Social exclusion, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: J. Soto
    Description: J. Soto recounts his evolving understanding of gender and identity along his eastward migration across the United States. Born and raised in the Bay Area, J. attended graduate school in Chicago, IL...
  13. Juliana Moraes Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Moraes, Juliana, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Aug. 18, 2018
    Topics: Childhood, Dance, Discrimination, Education, Femininities, Hormones, Immigrants, Latinos, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Machismo, Mental health, MtFs, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: Juliana Moraes tells interviewer Sebastián Castro Niculescu about her family immigrating to New Jersey from Brazil, and how growing up as a dark-skinned gender non-confirming child has had lasting ...
  14. Memory Circle: Remembering Bryn Kelly

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Scholl, Zachary, Barton, Joss, Lewis, AJ, Kerr, Theodore, Clark, Naomi, Liederman, Katie, Crandall, Maxe, Parker, Chris, Cage, Diana, Shulman, Sarah, Novack, Rebecca, Buffalo Trace
    Date: Aug. 20, 2016
    Topics: Activists, AIDS phobia, Artists, Blogs, Christianity, Colleges, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Hospitals, Isolation, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, MtFs, Music groups, Night life, Self-help, Smoking, Solidarity, Suicide, Tarot, Transgender community, Transgender culture, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Writers
    Subject: ACT UP, Bryn Kelly, Lambda Literary Retreat, Testo Junkie
    Description: Story sharers include: Katie Liederman, Diana Cage, Maxe Crandall, Chris Parker, Naomi Clark, Buffalo Trace, AJ Lewis, Zachary Scholl, Rebecca Novack, Joss Barton, Sarah Shulman / / Friends of prol...
  15. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Griffin-Gracy, Major, Lewis, AJ
    Date: Dec. 16, 2017
    Topics: Care, Clothing, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Law, Legal aid, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Organisations, Police, Prisons, Stigmatisation, Transgender people, Transgender prostitution, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Angels for Care, Christine Jorgensen, Griffin Gracy Historical Retreat and Resource Center, Harry Benjamin, Major Griffin-Gracy, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, Sylvia Rivera, Tenderloin AIDs Resource Project, Trans Gender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project
    Description: In this interview, Miss Major talks about the culture of transwomen sex workers in New York City and Chicago during the 1960's through 1980's as well as her care-work and advocacy during the rise o...