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  1. Susan Gapka Oral History, Part 2 (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Law, LGBTI rights policy, Transgender people
    Subject: Ontario Health Insurance Plan
    Description: Second oral history with Susan Gapka, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/...
  2. Nick Mule Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario, Ki Namaste, Nick Mule, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Rainbow Health Network
  3. Martine Stonehouse Oral History (2016)

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator: Brown, Elspeth
    Date: 2016
    Topics: Activists, Discrimination, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Human rights, Law, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Martine Stonehouse
  4. Interview with Xaundra Nawa

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Nawa, Xaundra
    Date: Aug. 29, 2017
    Topics: Androgyny, Assigned gender, Bisexuality, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Definitions, Discrimination, Drug abuse, Families, Femininities, Gay identity, Genderfluid identity, Health insurance, Hormone therapy, Non-monogamous relationships, Police, Poor, Racism, Racism in language, Sexual orientation, Transgender people, Unemployed
    Description: Xaundra Nawa identifies as a black pansexual fluid demi girl and was assigned male at birth. She is the oldest of two brothers and was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her parents protect...
  5. Interview with Toni Pajak

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Pajak, Toni
    Date: Nov. 23, 2015
    Topics: Acceptance, Assigned gender, Body image, Christianity, Classism, Coming out, Crossdressers, Dating, Depression, Diabetes, Discrimination, Divorce, Employment discrimination, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Hair--Removal, Health insurance, Heterosexual women, Hormones, Information technology, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Military, MtFs, Politics, Pregnancy, Public safety, Racism, Religions, Sexual orientation, Sexual practices, Social media, Sports, Therapies, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Description: Toni Pajak identifies as a transsexual woman assigned male at birth. She was born in 1968. She grew up in North Minneapolis, Minnesota and went to grade school in the early 1970s. Her parents divor...
  6. Interview with Tamara Urban

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Urban, Tamara
    Date: Jan. 22, 2017
    Topics: Child sexual abuse, Dating, Electrolysis, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Hypospadias, Intersex, Murder, Suicide, Transgender people
    Subject: Board of Directors of Equality South Dakota, Trans Action South Dakota, Trans Justice Funding Project
    Description: Tamara Urban identifies as a transsexual female and was assigned male with an intersex condition when she was born in 1953. She was 63 at the time of the interview. She grew up in Sioux Falls and F...
  7. Interview with Stef Wilenchek

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wilenchek, Stef
    Date: Sep. 11, 2015
    Topics: Bisexuality, Coming out, Depression, Disabilities, Discrimination, Eating disorders, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Health insurance, Heteronormativity, Higher education, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersex, Justice, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ partners, Parenthood, Police brutality, Politics, Pronoun, Puberty, Race, Racism, Schools, Self-acceptance, Sexism, Sexuality, Transgender community, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Laverne Cox
    Description: Stef Wilenchek shares their experiences growing up middle class in the South, coming out as gay in college and discovering their genderqueer identity through their work in LGBTQ college student ser...
  8. Interview with Spencer Fugate

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Fugate, Spencer
    Date: Sep. 5, 2015
    Topics: Bisexuality, Families, Femmes, Health insurance, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Polyamory, Sexuality, Students
    Description: Spencer Fugate is a trans femme who attends Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. In this interview, Fugate describes her experiences learning about trans identities and beginning to identify as tran...
  9. Interview with Reneka Evans

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Evans, Reneka, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Aug. 21, 2016
    Topics: Black people, Dating, Drag, Educators, Employment discrimination, Families, Health insurance, Hormones, MtFs, Surgery, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Red Door Clinic, Reneka Evans, University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality
    Description: Reneka Evans was born and raised in Memphis, TN. In this oral history, Evans discusses moving to Minneapolis in the early 90s, drag culture, sex after surgery, workplace discrimination, the importa...
  10. Interview with Rachel Schroeder

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Schroeder, Rachel
    Date: Feb. 23, 2016
    Topics: Anxiety, Bisexual identity, Bisexuality, Body building, Child custody, Children, Counseling, Crossdressing, Depression, Divorce, Electrolysis, Family members, Femininities, Gay pride, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), Intolerance, Lesbian identity, Marriage, Medication, MtFs, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Self-acceptance, Social exclusion, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Janitorial Company, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
    Description: Rachel Schroeder identifies as trans was assigned male at birth. She grew up in Burnsville, Minnesota in a trailer park and worked on her grandparent’s farm. She experimented with crossdressing at ...
  11. Interview with Quinn Villagomez

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Villagomez, Quinn
    Date: Sep. 17, 2015
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Bullying, Coming out, Depression, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Health insurance, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ radio, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Pronoun, Schools, Self-acceptance, Support groups, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Brown College, Caitlyn Jenner, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, University of Minnesota
    Description: Quinn Villagomez identifies as a biracial female and trans woman. She was assigned male at birth and was born and raised in north Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has an older sister who struggles with ...
  12. Interview with Moe

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Moe
    Date: Nov. 12, 2015
    Topics: Assigned gender, Bisexual identity, Bullying, Coming out, Dating, Employment discrimination, FtMs, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, Hormone therapy, Islam, Lesbians, Masculinities, Mysticism, Nursing, Roman catholicism, Sufism, Testosterone, Tomboys, White people
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Program in Human Sexuality, RECLAIM!, The Trans Youth Support Network
    Description: Moe identifies as a white trans man and was assigned female at birth. He was raised in Walnut Creek, California. He has two sisters and went to the Meher School, a Sufism school, which is connected...
  13. Interview with Lou Weaver

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Weaver, Lou
    Date: Dec. 9, 2016
    Topics: Adoption, Bullying, Change of name, Coming out, Family members, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Health insurance, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Human rights, Hysterectomy, Identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Patriarchy, Polycystic ovary syndrome, Pregnancy, Same-sex marriage, Sexuality, Sports, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), RuPaul
    Description: Lou Weaver identifies as a queer trans man and was assigned female at birth. He was born in 1970 and raised in El Centro, California. He was also adopted. Weaver then moved to Denver, Colorado when...
  14. Interview with James Schwartz

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Schwartz, James
    Date: Jun. 15, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Assigned gender, Change of name, College students, Coming out, Development, Environmentalism, Film, FtMs, Gay identity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-nonconforming people, Health insurance, Hormones, Internalized homophobia, LGBTQ+ movement, Masculinities, Religions, Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Social media, Social norms, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender community, Transphobia
    Subject: Forest and Natural Resource Management, Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, Gender Education Center, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota
    Description: James Schwartz identifies as a trans man and was assigned female at birth. He was born in Maple Grove, Minnesota where his parents grew up and then moved to Monticello, Minnesota in second grade. S...
  15. Interview with Jae Bates

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Bates, Jae
    Date: Jun. 28, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Adoption, Assigned gender, Bullying, Coming out, Depression, Diabetes, Discrimination, Gay men, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health insurance, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Partners of transgender people, Racism, Sexuality, Sports, Transgender people, Transphobia, Verbal abuse
    Subject: Korean War, OutFront Minnesota, Vietnam War
    Description: Jae Bates identifies as a queer trans man or trans male and was assigned female at birth. He has one older brother who is adopted. He was born in South Korea in 1996 and grew up around Hopkins, Min...