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Rand, Erica - 2022 Follow Up, Sofia Oliveri
Rand, Erica - 2022 Follow Up, Sofia Oliveri
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Erica Rand is a professor of Arts and Visual Culture at Bates College, an adult figure skater, author and activist. This is a follow-up interview to her previous interview for Querying the Past in 2017. Erica Rand was heavily involved with ACT- UP Portland and more specifically the branch of ACT UP called: Pissed Off Dyke Cell and Women’s Health Action Crew. But more recently she has been involved with a new form of activism through sports and writing. At Bates, she is pushing the importance of trans-inclusion policies in sports and even testing the gender limitations put in place …
Gifford, Dan, Erin Schott, Hailey Kamenides
Gifford, Dan, Erin Schott, Hailey Kamenides
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Dan Gifford is a gay white man who grew up in Arkansas, and eventually moved to Maine with his partner. Dan is now an employee at the Portland Museum of Art, where he enjoys his job and being close to art. Dan has always known he was gay, yet to some in Arkansas this was viewed in a negative light or simply swept under the rug. Dan explains that the first time he visited Maine he felt “home”, and enjoys that he can be his true authentic self here, without the scrutiny that he experienced in the South. Dan also …