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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. Dean Spade Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Spade, Dean, Awad, Nadia
    Date: Apr. 24, 2017
    Topics: Demonstrations, Feminists, Foster parents, Gay pride, Gender diversity, Health care, Hormones, Immigration, Imprisonment, Lawyers, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Peace movement, Spirituality
    Subject: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Audre Lorde Project (ALP), CUNY Law School, Dean Spade, FIERCE, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), National LGBTQ Task Force, Queers for Economic Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California Santa Cruz
    Description: Dean Spade relates his journey and politicization first through the support of his mother in conservative Virginia, his first tastes of feminism and increasingly his work to provide support and res...
  3. Eli Oberman Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Oberman, Eli, Milks, M. Henry
    Date: Feb. 20, 2017
    Topics: Breast cancer, Bullying, Coming out, Depression, Families, Femininities, Feminism, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, Homophobia, Hormones, Loneliness, Misogyny, Musicians, Passing (Gender), Patriarchy, Therapies, Transphobia
    Subject: Eli Oberman, The New School
    Description: Eli Oberman—one of, if not the first, trans-identified students at Eugene Lang— talks about coming out as one of two very different trans children to a family of feminists, misogyny in transmasculi...
  4. Iele Paloumpis Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Paloumpis, Iele
    Date: Mar. 6, 2019
    Topics: Abuse, Androgyny, Baptist church, Childhood, Christianity, Dancers, Disabilities, Eastern orthodox churches, Education, Humanistic, Gay theology, Gender diversity, Gender studies, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ theology, Liberation theology, Occultism, Pronoun, Sexually abused LGBTQ+ children, Spirituality, Terminal care, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia, Working class
    Subject: Arts and Literact Program, Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, End-of-Life Doula, Hollins University
    Description: iele is a nonbinary dance artist and end-of-life doula from Chicago. They describe growing up in the conservative Greek Orthodox Church, surviving domestic abuse, and homelessness, before leaving C...
  5. Interview with De Sube

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sube, De
    Date: Jul. 17, 2020
    Topics: LGBTQ+ support groups, LGBTQ+ visibility, Trans women, Transgender activism, Transgender community, Transgender political activists, Transitioning (Gender), White transgender people
    Subject: Gender Expression Movement, Transgender Assistance Program of Virginia, Virginia Values Act
    Description: An interview with De Sube is a white trans woman and activist based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she served as the Chairperson, Director of Client Services, and Treas...
  6. Interview with Dean Spade

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Spade, Dean
    Date: Nov. 9, 2019
    Topics: LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ people of color, Nonprofit organizations, Trans men, Transgender authors, Transgender political activists, White transgender people
    Subject: Sylvia Rivera Law Project
    Description: An interview with Dean Spade, a white trans activist, writer and teacher. He founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, int...
  7. 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...
  8. 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 ...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. Interview with Thalia Hernandez

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hernandez, Thalia
    Date: Aug. 3, 2020
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Gender non-conforming people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Non-binary people, Trans women, Transgender people, Transgender political activists, White transgender people
    Subject: Equality Virginia
    Description: An interview with Thalia Hernandez, a white and Latinx non-binary trans woman, trans activist, and advocate based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director ...
  12. 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, ...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Oral History Interview with Mary Boenke

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Boenke, Mary M.
    Date: Oct. 6, 2016
    Topics: Civil rights, Depressions--1929, Housing, Lesbians, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Our Trans Children, PFLAG, Ricketson LGBT Memorial Library, Trans Forming Families, Transgender Network
    Description: Interviewer: Mariana Araujo Interviewee: Mary Boenke Date: 6 October 2016 Duration: 1:01:49 Transcription prepared by: Erin McWethy, Chelsea Hutton, and Mariana Araujo
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. Oral History Interview with Riley Chattin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Chattin, Riley
    Date: Feb. 22, 2019
    Topics: Buddhism, Christianity, Coming out, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ bookshops, LGBTQ+ religious people, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Police entrapment, Safer sex, Trans men
    Subject: Girl Scouts, GLSEN, Hollins University, Out Word Connections, Outright, Planned Parenthood, Roanoke Community center, Virginia Western Community College, Wasena Park Police
    Description: Oral History Interview with Riley Chattin Interviewer: Jillian Barnard Interviewee: Riley Chattin Date: February 22, 2019 Location: Fintel Library, Roanoke College Total Duration: 57:35 Trans...
  22. 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...
  23. Oral History Interview with Trish Valentine

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Valentine, Trish
    Date: Feb. 25, 2016
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ support groups, Marriage, Pronouns, Public bathroom bills, Suburbs, Transgender people
    Subject: Dress Barn, Kappa Beta, Ladies and Gents of the Blue Ridge, Metropolitan Community Church, Tazi, Ted Cruz, The Red Hat Society
    Description: Oral History Interview with Trish Valentine Interviewer: Kerri Dalton (and Teddy Melnik) Interviewee: Trish Valentine Date: 25 February 2016 Location: Roanoke College, Fintel Library, 220 High ...
  24. Oral History Interview with Virginia Lindsey

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
    Creator: Lindsey, Virginia
    Date: Feb. 25, 2016
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Coming out, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ night life, Sexual orientation, Trans women, Transphobia
    Subject: Blue Ridge Society, Bristol High School, Fork Union Military Academy, Ladies and Gents of the Blue Ridge, Roanoke Pride, Tennessee Technological Univeresity, Unitarian Universalist Church
    Description: Oral History Interview with Virginia Lindsey Interviewer: Alexis Rixner Interviewee: Virginia Lindsey Date: 25 February 2016 Location: Roanoke College Fintel Library, 221 College Lane, Salem, V...
  25. 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
  26. Sage Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Sage
    Date: May 9, 2019
    Topics: Baptist church, Butches, Children, Christianity, Coming out, Conferences, Discrimination, Feminism, Flags--Confederate States of America, Gender, Homophobia, Internet, Judaism, Libraries, Microaggressions, Paganism, Pronoun, Racism, Religions, Rural areas, Social classes, Social justice, Soft butches, Taoism, Trade unions, Transgender people, Women's colleges, Youth literature
    Subject: American Library Association, LGBT Workers Association, Proposition 8, Stonewall 50, Tumblr
    Description: Sage discusses their growing up in a conservative evangelical Christian family in the Appalachia Mountains of Virginia, breaking from their family's religion through encountering children's and you...
  27. Tori Cooper Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Cooper, Tori
    Date: Feb. 26, 2021
    Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS education, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Public health advisory groups, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Presidential Advisory Council on HIV & AIDS, Tori Cooper
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Tori Cooper conducted by Andrea Pino-Silva on February 26, 2021 in College Park, GA. Tori Cooper is a health and equity advocate, community organizer, author, and leading fi...