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Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to suicide.
An interview conducted by Gareth Watkins in which Dana de Milo shares details about her life. de Milo discusses topics such as her early life in Auckland, her decisions to leave school at age 13 and to leave home at 16, the conservative social norms of the 1960s, and the challenges she faced trying to gain access to gender affirming surgery.
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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PrideNZ
- Creator(s)
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de Milo, Dana
Watkins, Gareth
- Date Created
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Dec. 4, 2012
- Dates Covered
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1946
1960
1963
1970
- Genre
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Oral Histories
- Subject(s)
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Backslang
Carmen Rupe
Dana de Milo
John Money
The Club Exotique / The Club Exotic
The Purple Onion
Vivian Street
- Places
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New South Wales
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Sydney
Cairo
Wellington > Wellington City
Auckland
- Topic(s)
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Arrests of LGBTQ+ people
Gender affirming surgery
Gender identity
Homophobia
Hopkins model
Hormones
Maori (New Zealand people)
Maori language
Medicalization
Parents of LGBTQ+ people
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Race discrimination
Sex work
Transphobia
- Resource Type
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Audio
- Language
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English
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