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Grindle, Charles, Gwendolyn Wolf, Johnna Ossie
Grindle, Charles, Gwendolyn Wolf, Johnna Ossie
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Charles Grindle is a 66-year-old man from Ellsworth, ME. He is a piano player, as well as a minister. He has been heavily involved in church, music and theater since childhood. He has also done a lot of traveling- he’s lived in Portland, Boston, San Diego and England. He has years of experience working for churches- doing sermons and weddings, etc. In his earlier years, he played piano at many hopping places- such as The Front Porch and the Inn By the Sea. He worked at Blackstones when it first opened. Other bars that he frequented were Styxx and Rollins. …
Brooks, Frank, Rachel Spigel, Elizabeth Wise Horan
Brooks, Frank, Rachel Spigel, Elizabeth Wise Horan
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Frank Brooks is a 64 year old Social Worker and Social Work educator born and raised in Maine. He when came out as gay in 1976, he was in a heterosexual marriage and he has a son from that marriage. He was involved in an LGBT parent's group, LGBT social worker's group, volunteered for the AIDS project, worked on referenda and political campaigns, and was a board member of both the MLGPA (now Equality Maine) and the MCLU (now ACLU of Maine). His life's work has been serving the LGBTQ community through both activism and social work. …