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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 …

Amjambo Africa! (May 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue Moonglade .............................2/3

Boys and Girls Club program .4

Color of Climate .......................5

Kwibuka..................................... 6

New Voices ................................7

Financial literacy ...........8-11/33

Market Basket ...................14/15

Karkangee drink

Coffee in Burundi

rice in Maine

Update from Augusta ............16

Revolution from Afar ............17

On being Black ......................18

Armenian genocide ...............18

Scots-Irish immigrants ..........19

Community happenings ..20/21

Photos from community events Tips & Info .............................. 22

Health&Wellness. ..............24-31

Sexually Transmitted disease

Tuberculosis

Ask the doctor In english & translation

Columns ..................................32

Professional Development .....33

Arts Section .......................34/35

land of Peace

ebenezer Akakpo

Maine Humanities Council

Moon in Full book release

Racism in …

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 …

August 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Stan Tetenman,Community Notices

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 …

Amjambo Africa! (April 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Editorial: Migration ................Page 3

Senegalese Storytelling .......Page 12

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 …

May 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Café Shalom; From the Rabbi; Presidents Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices; Food,Film and Commentary; Passover Seder Success

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 …

Our Paper 02/1990, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Our Paper 04/1988, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

06/02/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding attendance at Saturday services; life on base; colleague at ordnance depot; pamphlets received in the mail; Churchill.

Last Leaves Of American History Comprising A Separate History Of California By Emma Willard., Emma Willard

Osher Map Library Collection Books

Autographed copy by Emma Willard "To Miss A.M. Moore, affectionately presented by Emma Willard". Hartford, December 1, 1858. The book belonged to Ann Maria Moore whose son Ethelbert Allen gave it to his sister Ellen Maria on her birthday, December 4, 1912.