Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Gradylee Shapiro
Gradylee Shapiro is a white butch from Missouri. Shapiro discuss what it was like moving a lot while growing up, butch identity, and how life is different when being perceived as a straight white man. Shapiro also talks about the importance of queer community, work in queer activism, including starting a GLBT youth organization called Prism in Columbia MO, and moving to Minneapolis to work at District 202, and the impact District 202 had on the community.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- k643b143j
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Shapiro, Gradylee
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Jan. 17, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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District 202
Ethan Laubach
Gender Blur
GLBT Youth Organization
Prism
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Michigan
>
Wayne County
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City of Detroit
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Detroit
Montana > Gallatin > Bozeman
Midwest
- Topic(s)
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Acceptance
Appearance
Assigned gender
Bisexuality
Bullying
Butches
Classism
Clothing
Coming out
Community life
Dating
Death and dying
Depression
Discrimination
Divorce
Family members
Femininities
Friendship
Gender identity
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Homelessness
Homophobia
Hormones
Hysterectomy
Lesbian identity
LGBTI community
LGBTQ+ partners
Marriage
Mental disorders
Mental health
Ovariectomy
Passing (Gender)
Poor
Racism
Schools
Social movements
Social privilege
Soft butches
Swindlers and swindling
Testosterone
Transitioning (Gender)
Violence
Whites--Race identity
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
- Rights
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In copyright
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