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Brodack, Jason, Emily Cook
Brodack, Jason, Emily Cook
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Jason Brodak is a 44 year old man of Polish heritage, currently working at the University of Southern Maine and living in Bath, Maine, with his husband. Brodak discusses living in Detroit Michigan, Chicago Illinois, and New York. He attended Michigan State University and later received his bachelor's degree in Interior Design from an arts school in Chicago. He discusses his childhood, coming out, briefly joining the Navy, the role of gay bars and gay chatrooms in his life, gay marriage, and the HIV AIDS epidemic.
Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, …
The Gray Area: Sexuality And Gender In Wartime Reevaluated, Natalie Pendergraft
The Gray Area: Sexuality And Gender In Wartime Reevaluated, Natalie Pendergraft
War, Diplomacy, and Society (MA) Theses
These three works, two academic papers and one screenplay, challenge traditional notions of gender and sexuality during wartime. Queer Vietnam service members did not all experience oppression, all the time, but rather carved out a space for themselves amongst their peers. Female nurses in the early cold war could keep their careers in the medical field due to its unique gendered history despite demobilization efforts across the country in different industries. Finally, through the medium of historical fiction, a Civil War soldier’s fears and desires are questioned as he experiences the phenomenon of the Angel’s Glow, a blue light that …
Koen, Susan, Michelle Pelletier, Skyler Hebert
Koen, Susan, Michelle Pelletier, Skyler Hebert
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Susan Koen in a lesbian women who has participated in many political and feminist movements throughout her lifetime. She was raised in New Orleans, but moved around a lot during her life, giving her a vast array of life experiences. She participated in the Anti-Nuclear Movement of the 70s and co-wrote a book called Ain't Nowhere We Can Run: A Handbook for Women on the Nuclear Mentality. In addition to this, she has studied and participated in a number of feminist collectives, including the Off Our Backs newspaper, the Women's Pentagon Action, and the Maine Won't Discriminate campaign. Koen wrote …
Quezada, Alzenira, Wendy Chapkis
Quezada, Alzenira, Wendy Chapkis
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Alzenira Quezada, also known as Lady Zen, is a queer artist, singer and performer. Quezada was born to Brazillian parents and raised by white adoptive parents who were members of the Church of the Nazarene, a branch of evangelical Christianity. She was cut off by her adoptive parents when she came out at 17. She studied music at Evergreen College in Washington State. She grew up in Arkansas and spent many years in Portland, Maine before moving to Mexico where she currently resides. Quezada owns a production company in Mexico and also works at a queer run bar. Her current …
A Conversation With Keith Plummer
A Conversation With Keith Plummer
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2017.
A Conversation With Mario A. Leiva
A Conversation With Mario A. Leiva
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2014.
A Conversation With Emily Breakell
A Conversation With Emily Breakell
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2017.
A Conversation With Stephen T. Coady
A Conversation With Stephen T. Coady
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1999. Highlights of this conversation include Stephen's experience in starting ABiGaLe at Holy Cross, his description of the campus climate during the late 1990's, and his reflections on being an activist during this time period.
Interview keywords: student groups, activism, support, coming out, ABiGale, Chaplain's Office
A Conversation With Meghan Griffiths
A Conversation With Meghan Griffiths
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on the role of Jesuit and faith-based education on personal development and identity formation. She speaks largely about her roles as an Orientation Leader and cochair of the LGBTQ Alumni network.
Interview keywords: Jesuit, faith, orientation leader, Catholic, queer, bisexual, LGBTQ Alumni Network
A Conversation With Philip Dardeno Ii
A Conversation With Philip Dardeno Ii
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2002. Highlights of this converation includes content on being involved in Allies and ABiGaLe, being gay at the turn of the century at Holy Cross, community and campus involvement.
Interview keywords: Allies, ABiGaLe, Millennial March, September 11 Terrorist Attacks
A Conversation With Karen Mcshane
A Conversation With Karen Mcshane
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2006. Highlights of this conversation include content on feelings of homesickness in college, events demonstrating global context such as teh 9/11 terrorist attacks, organizations on campus such as ABiGaLe, hate crimes, relationships, support systems, Holy Cross' Jesuit identity, the patriarchal language of Catholic services, mental illness and post-graduation resources.
Interview keywords: homesickness, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, coming out, ABiGaLe, hate crimes, relationships, support, Jesuit, Catholicism, atheism, Chaplain's Office, Counseling Center, clinical depression, Spanish, LGBT Alumni Network
A Conversation With David B. Harvie
A Conversation With David B. Harvie
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1982. Highlights of this conversation include content on how Mr. Harvie commuted from home for his first two years at the College, as well as how his experience junior year while studying abroad in Germany helped him to be more confident in his sexuality. Furthermore, Mr. Harvie is very involved in the Catholic community. He helps organize a church, "In God's Image," for the LGBTQ community in New Jersey.
Interview keywords: Study Abroad, Chaplain's Office, Munich, Germany, coming out, night life, day student, commuter, New Jersey, …
A Conversation With Mark Campbell-Foster
A Conversation With Mark Campbell-Foster
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on a variety of experiences, including living through 9/11, being an RA [resident assistant], and dating men who were in and out of the closet while at Holy Cross. He also offers unique insight to being LGBTQ+ at Holy Cross as he describes his experience with hearing loss and how he was openly gay going into college. Mark was a Psychology major, Deaf Studies minor while at Holy Cross and is now an audiologist.
Interview keywords: Chaplain's …
A Conversation With Jamie Hoag
A Conversation With Jamie Hoag
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998.
Interview keywords: Outfront, Chaplain's Office, Catholicism, religious, relationships, student involvement, government
A Conversation With Christopher Brown
A Conversation With Christopher Brown
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross Alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on the interviewee’s transition to the Holy Cross community, extracurricular involvements, spiritual life, and career in student services at St. Benedictine College in New York state.
Interview keywords: Allies, ABiGaLe, Office of Student Affairs
A Conversation With Mark Thivierge
A Conversation With Mark Thivierge
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1970.
Interview keywords: social movements, 1960's, activism
A Conversation With Michael Mccarthy
A Conversation With Michael Mccarthy
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1973.
Interview keywords: theater, law, Fenwick Scholar, Vietnam War
A Conversation With Suzanne Lamoureux Kriesant
A Conversation With Suzanne Lamoureux Kriesant
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998. Highlights of this conversation include content on being bisexual at Holy Cross.
Interview keywords: ABiGale, bisexuality
A Conversation With George Grattan
A Conversation With George Grattan
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1991. Highlights of this conversation include George's reflections on the Holy Cross campus climate during the early 1990's, bisexuality, and the coming out process.
Interview keywords: closet, college, coming out, family, Jesuit, professional life, study abroad, support
A Conversation With Connelly Akstens
A Conversation With Connelly Akstens
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1968. Highlights of this conversation include reflections on living as a closeted transgender person at Holy Cross in the 1960's and her transgender outreach efforts following her time at Holy Cross.
Interview keywords: activists, academics, basketball, closet, colleges, coming out, communities, compartmentalisation, Digital Transgender Archive, conferences, educators, free inquiry, intersex, Jesuit, musicians, provision of information, relationships, Roman Catholicism, sports, sportspersons, students, transgender community, transgender identity, transgender people, writers
A Conversation With Anonymous (3)
A Conversation With Anonymous (3)
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who attended in the early 2000s and came out during her senior year. She provided insights on her experiences as a queer woman on the Holy Cross campus and shared how her life has changed since leaving "the Holy Cross bubble."
Interview keywords: alum, ally, Catholic shame, college, identity, Iraq War, Jesuit, microaggressions, multicultural, oppression, post-college, social justice, queer/dyke
A Conversation With Joe Sasso
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1975. He discusses his experience of Holy Cross during the 70's and the lack of awareness the student body had for any type of gay identity. Additionally, he describes his experience coming out at age 45. In the interview, he reflects on how it would be or would not be different if he had been out on campus at this time and his recommendations on how Holy Cross can continue to support LGBTQ students.
Interview keywords: adulthood, alum, Catholic Church, college, cycling, family, friendship, gay …
A Conversation With Alisha Thompson
A Conversation With Alisha Thompson
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2014. Highlights of this interview include the interviewee's reflections of campus life as a closeted and out GLBTQ student as well as the sources of support she turned to throughout her four years.
Interview keywords: closet, college, coming out, family, Jesuit, professional life, study abroad, support
A Conversation With Anonymous (1)
A Conversation With Anonymous (1)
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in the late 1980s. Conversation topics range from the cultural climate at HC to coming out to family and career.
Interview keywords: adoption, career, children, coming out, college, dating, first generation, friendships, identity, labeling, love, parenthood, partners, relationships, sexuality, social class, social norms
A Conversation With Tim Mooney
A Conversation With Tim Mooney
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1992. Highlights of this conversation include Tim's reflections on the Holy Cross campus climate during the early 1990's and the coming out process.
Interview keywords: academics, campus, coming out process, conservative, family, friendship, heteronormativity, Jesuit, LGBT, relationships, religion, stereotypes, Worcester
A Conversation With Carmine Salvucci
A Conversation With Carmine Salvucci
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1984. Along with sharing his reflections on his experiences at Holy Cross, Carmine offers personal reflection on family life, acceptance, and the relationship between LGBTQ identity, Jesuit ideals, and the Catholic Church.
Interview keywords: athletics, Catholicism, college culture, coming out, counseling, donations, families, first-generation students, gay men, identity, Jesuit, LGBTQ, masculinity, normalization, reflection, student life.
A Conversation With Jeff
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2013. Jeff discusses their experiences at Holy Cross as an out student and as a student leader and activist.
Interview keywords: activist, battle fatigue, coming out, friendship, heterosexism, higher education, Jesuit, leadership, progress, relationships, residence life, student organizations, training
A Conversation With Anonymous (2)
A Conversation With Anonymous (2)
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1987. This alum was not out at Holy Cross. He reflects on his time on and off the hill and on the state of LGBT legal protections today.
Interview keywords: activism, college, coming out, dating, friendship, gay men, HIV/AIDS, legal protections, marriage, media, politics, professors, social class, theatre, work, working class.