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Hine, Rook, Ty Bolduc

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Rook Hine is a 47-year-old transfemme non-binary person from Connecticut. In this interview, Hine describe their life experiences, from challenges in her household, zir benefits and complications within education, and finding their identity as ze grew up. They discuss masking, performing arts as an outlet for gender expression, activism in college and beyond. Ze also mentions developing their non-binary identity, use of the term metagender, polyamory, and internalized transphobia, as well as adventures around the country - attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York, spending time in New Orleans as a tarot card reader, stripper, and phone sex operator after …

Mccormick, Dale, Wendy Chapkis

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

In this interview, Dale McCormick discusses her early life in New York City and in Iowa City. She describes a college era lesbian relationship that, when discovered by her mother, led to several years of failed psychiatric conversion therapy. McCormick describes the vibrant second-wave feminist community in Iowa City of the 1960s and 1970s and the role anti-(Vietnam)war activism played in her life. She discusses in detail the process of becoming a union carpenter apprentice and the harassment she faced as the only woman on construction crews. With the publication of her book “Against the Grain, a Carpentry Manual for …

Elze, Diane, Wendy Chapkis

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Diane Elze is and has been an active member of the LGBTQ community in Portland, Maine for many years. Diane has spent most of her adulthood and professional life participating in activism and advocacy for LGBTQ adolescents. She was involved with the Wilde Stein club at the University of Maine at Orono, where she also founded the Greater Bangor Rape Crisis Center. After being unable to find a job in the Bangor area, Diane moved to Portland where she began working with the MLGPA, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and taking a leadership role with Outright, among many other …

Kawamoto, Eric, Cosette Holmes, Tiana Cope-Ferland

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

This interview with Eric Kawamoto reveals a journey of self-discovery in Chicago, L.A., Boston, and Portland; an intersection between being Asian American and being queer; and survival of AIDS as a result of reserve. Kawamoto places these personal themes among his account of the LGBTQ+ and Asian American communities’ overarching struggles, like the fight for domestic partnership benefits, representation of Asian American gay men, and spreading awareness about Japanese American internment in California.

Citation

Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in …

O'Day, Janet, Johnna Ossie

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Janet O'Day is 71 years old. She lives in Maine with her wife, Rosemary. She has one adult son. She was raised in a Catholic Family in Quincy, Massachusettes. She came out later in life after being married to a man and having a son. Religion is important to Janet and she was involved with Dignity in Boston and Maine, an organization that provides Catholic Mass and religious support to Catholic LGBTQ people. Janet continues to stay involved in her church community. During the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Janet worked at the Deaconness hospital in Boston as a discharge nurse with patients …

Apex : A Point Of Departure, Vol.3, No.08 (October 1994), Annette Dragon, Naomi Falcone, Diane Matthews, Madeleine Winter

Apex : a point of departure (1992-1995)

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Community Pride Reporter, 01/1994, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Apex : A Point Of Departure, Vol.2, No.10 (November 1993), Annette Dragon, Naomi Falcone, Diane Matthews, Madeleine Winter

Apex : a point of departure (1992-1995)

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Our Paper 02/1990, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Our Paper 04/1988, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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Gay Community News: 1978 July 01, Volume 5 Issue 50, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 5 Issue 50 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1978 June 24, Volume 5 Issue 49, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 5 Issue 49 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1978 March 25, Volume 5 Issue 36, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 5 Issue 36 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1978 January 28, Volume 5 Issue 29, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 5 Issue 29 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1977 December 24, Volume 5 Issue 25, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 5 Issue 25 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1977 December 17, Volume 5 Issue 24, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 5 Issue 24 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 April 17, Volume 3 Issue 42, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 42 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1975 September 20, Volume 3 Issue 12, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 12 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1975 July 26, Volume 3 Issue 5, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 5 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1975 March 01, Volume 2 Issue 36, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 2 Issue 36 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1975 January 18, Volume 2 Issue 30, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 2 Issue 30 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Fag Rag November-December 1975, Fag Rag, Inc

Fag Rag

Issue 14 of Fag Rag, a gay liberation newspaper published in Boston, MA in November-December of 1975.

Gay Community News: 1974 April 27, Volume 1 Issue 44, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 1 Issue 44 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1974 March 09, Volume 1 Issue 37, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 1 Issue 37 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1974 February 23, Volume 1 Issue 35, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 1 Issue 35 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Fag Rag Winter-Spring 1974, Fag Rag, Inc

Fag Rag

Doube issue 7 and 8 of Fag Rag, a gay liberation newspaper published in Boston, MA in the winter-spring of 1974.

Fag Rag January 1973, Fag Rag, Inc

Fag Rag

Issue 4 of Fag Rag, a gay liberation newspaper published in Boston, MA in January of 1973.