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  1. Charley Burton Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Burton, Charley, Bliss, Tom
    Date: Feb. 10, 2023
    Topics: Black transgender people, Electroshock therapy, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, Gender affirming surgery, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ people in recovery, LGBTQ+ people with substance use disorders, LGBTQ+ support groups, Segregation, Stealth (Transgender), Trans men, Transgender authors, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Alcoholics Anonymous, Black Trans Man Incorporated, Charley Burton, Morehouse College, The Boy Beneath My Skin: A Black Trans Man Living in the South, University of Virginia Hospital
    Description: Content warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to sexual assault, child abuse, suicide, and transphobic language.

  2. Interview with Essence Thompson

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Thompson, Essence
    Date: Aug. 7, 2020
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Family members, Harassment, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender people in the workplace, Transgender people of color, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Equality Virginia, Nationz Foundation
    Description: An interview with Essence Thompson, a Black trans woman, performer, community advocate, and union meatpacker based in Richmond, Virginia. In this oral history interview, Thompson discusses her upbr...

  3. Interview with Jay Corprew

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Corprew, Jay
    Date: Jul. 16, 2020
    Topics: Black transgender people, Homelessness, LGBTQ+ support groups, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, LGBTQ+ visibility, Queer people of color, Trans men, Transgender authors, Transgender people of color, Transgender political activists, Transmasculine people
    Subject: LGBT Life Center, Organizing for the Transgender Assistance Program of Virginia
    Description: An interview with Jay Corprew, a Black trans man, activist, poet, and mentor based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. At the time of this interview, he was the Director of Organizing for the Transgender ...

  4. 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: onica Joy Cross is a Pastor at First Christian Church of Oakland and Associate Pastor at Tapestry Ministries in Berkeley, who identifies as Black and trans. In this oral history, she shares many of...

  5. Interview with Shauntelle Hammonds

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hammonds, Shauntelle
    Date: Jul. 20, 2020
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Halfway houses, LGBTQ+ people of color, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender community, Transphobia
    Subject: Black Trans Lives Matter, Peter's Place
    Description: An interview with Shauntelle Hammonds, a Black trans woman, activist, and outreach worker based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was serving as the Executive Director of Pe...

  6. Interview with Tona Brown

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Brown, Tona
    Date: Sep. 22, 2016
    Topics: Classical music, Counseling, Entertainers, Family members, Hormones, MtFs, Parents of transgender people, Transgender people, Violinists
    Subject: Carnegie Hall, Tona Brown
    Description: Tona Brown is a world class, world renowned mezzo – soprano violinist. In this oral history, she shares her experience about growing up with an awareness of her gendered difference in Norfolk, VA, ...

  7. Interview with Toni-Michelle Williams

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Willliams, Toni-Michelle
    Date: Jun. 7, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Androgyny, Arrests, Black people, Coming out, Courts, Drag, Drag queens, Femininities, Gay men, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Heterosexuals, Hormone therapy, Legal process, Transgender people
    Subject: Access Aids Health Care, Barack Obama, Emerging Leaders Initiative with the National Black Justice Coalition, Jasmine Dyree, Jasmine Gray, Jim Crowe, Kimberly Waldon, Laverne Cox, Leading the Education of Gay and Straight Individuals (LEGSI), Morgan Harrison, National Organization for Women (NOW), Rob Burr, RuPaul, Sojourner Truth, Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellowship for Black Trans Women, Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, T Girls Empowerment, Tijuana Michelle Ponder, Toni Braxton
    Description: Toni-Michelle Williams is a 26-year-old heterosexual black woman of trans experience from Atlanta, Georgia where she was born. She’s attracted to black men, and she also identifies as a magical bla...

  8. Interview with Zakia McKensey

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: McKensey, Zakia
    Date: Jul. 21, 2020
    Topics: African American transgender people, AIDS education, Anti-transgender violence, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ communities, Trans women, Transgender community, Transgender people of color
    Subject: Nationz Foundation, Trans Justice Funding Project
    Description: An interview with Zakia McKensey, an African-American trans woman and native of Richmond, Viginia. At the time of this interview, she was the executive director of Nationz Foundation, a Richmond-ba...

  9. Oral History Interview with an Anonymous Person

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 24, 2017
    Topics: Bounty hunters, Drug control, HIV/AIDS, Queer Christians, Sex work, Substance abuse, Transvestites
    Subject: Backstreet Cafe, Campbell Avenue, Galax Police Department, Highland Avenue, Police Brutality, Roanoke College, Roanoke Police Department Vice Squad, Salem Avenue, The Park
    Description: Oral History Interview with Anonymous1 Interviewers: Roanoke College students Date: 24 February 2017 Location: Downtown Roanoke Duration: 52:17

  10. Oral History Interview with Anton Black

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Black, Anton
    Date: Feb. 22, 2018
    Topics: Androgyny, Drag, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ people of color, Same-sex marriage, Sexuality
    Subject: Agoraphobia, Anton Black, Elmwood Park, PRISM Foundation, Roanoke Pride
    Description: Interviewer: Caitlyn Lewis; Kitty Bridgewater Interviewee: Anton Black Date: 22 February 2018 Duration: 66:22 Transcription prepared by: Caitlyn Lewis

  11. Oral History Interview with Erika Joyner

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Joyner, Erika
    Date: Sep. 29, 2016
    Topics: Bi+ people, Christianity, LGBTQ+ musicians, Public bathroom bills, Trans women, Transgender activism
    Subject: 1968 Democratic Convention, Appalantic Federation of Co-ops, Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Ladies and Gents of the Blue Ridge, Loose Gravel, Metropolitan Community Church, People Against Racism, Roanoke Diversity Center, Students for a Democratic Society, The New Left, Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self, Wayne State Univeresity
    Description: Interviewers: Rebecca Proctor, Kalyn Fowler Interviewee: Erika Joyner Date: 29 September 2016 Duration: 57:17 Transcription prepared by: Kalyn Fowler and Sarah Groft

  12. Oral History Interview with Miss Grace Kelly

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Kelly, Miss Grace
    Date: Feb. 24, 2018
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Bondage, Christianity, Drag, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members, Female impersonators, Gender expression, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ night life, Pageants, Sex work, Sexuality
    Subject: Body Image, Carolyn Sue Wilson, City Market, Jefferson Center, Kristina, Lady Bunny, Miss Gay Roanoke Pageant, Murphy's, Neely O'Hara, Pride in the Park, RuPaul's Drag Race, Salem Avenue, The Horoscope, The Park, The Trade Winds, Tim Clark
    Description: Interviewer: Ashleigh Griffin; Princess Carter Interviewee: Miss Grace Kelly Date: 24 February 2018 Duration: 1:41:40 Transcription prepared by: Ashleigh Griffin

  13. Oral History Interview with Nathaniel Preston

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Preston, Nathaniel
    Date: Feb. 22, 2020
    Topics: Anti-gay discrimination, Christianity, Coming out, Gender identity, Hormone therapy (Gender), Legal name change, Sports
    Subject: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Barnes and Noble, Bassett Furniture, Joe Cobb, John Edwards, Laverne Cox, Roanoke Diversity Center, Sam Rasoul, Southern Baptist Convention, Tanglewood Mall
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.

  14. Oral History Interview with Rissa

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Rissa
    Date: Feb. 18, 2017
    Topics: Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ religious people, Sexual assault, Stealth (Transgender), Transgender people
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Ferrum College, Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority, Rissa, Roanoke Diversity Center
    Description: Oral History Interview with Rissa Interviewer: Omari Chancellor, Emily Brun Interviewee: Rissa Date: 18 February 2017 Location: Roanoke Diversity Center Total Duration: 56:22 Transciption pre...

  15. Oral History with Carolyn Sue Wilson

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Wilson, Carolyn Sue
    Date: Feb. 25, 2018
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Drag families, Genderfluid identity, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ families, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Pronouns, Public bathroom bills, Transgender identity
    Subject: Carolyn Sue Wilson, Elmwood Park, Miss Gay Roanoke, The Bowties, The Horoscope, The Trade Winds, Trade Winds, Trump Administration, YMCA
    Description: Interviewer: Kitty Bridgewater Interviewee: Carolyn Sue Wilson Date: 25 February 2018 Duration: 1:22:48 Transcription prepared by: Kitty Bridgewater