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Articles 1 - 7 of 7
Full-Text Articles in History of Gender
Barteaux, Kennedy, Kayla Woodward, Nathanial Koch
Barteaux, Kennedy, Kayla Woodward, Nathanial Koch
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Kennedy Barteaux is a 38 year old trans man who grew up in Norridgewock, Maine who knew from a young age that he was queer. He was outed to his parents as a lesbian at age 14 and was kicked out of the house and moved in with a supportive friend’s family in Skowhegan. He moved to Portland at age 18 and got involved with the Dyke March. Barteaux discusses his discomfort with existing gender expectations and stereotypes in both the gay and trans communities. He talks about community organizing and public speaking with and for the trans community (including …
Solomon, Howard, Richard Morin, Michelle Johnston
Solomon, Howard, Richard Morin, Michelle Johnston
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Howard Solomon is a 76 year-old man who grew up in New Castle, Pennsylvania. During his early years, and still today, Judaism played a significant role in his life. His dad was a Kosher butcher, and Solomon attended a Hebrew school while growing up. Solomon’s profession was teaching history as a college professor at New York University, Tufts University, and the University of Southern Maine. Towards the end of his full-time teaching career, he taught a class about Lesbian and Gay History. During the same period, he openly discussed his homosexuality in the university context. He witnessed the AIDS epidemic …
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …
Vermette, Jean, Annie Holland, Olivia Tryon-Nadeau
Vermette, Jean, Annie Holland, Olivia Tryon-Nadeau
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Jean Vermette, born in 1954, is a transgender woman from Skowhegan, Maine. At the age of three, Jean knew that her biological sex did not match her gender identity. When Jean came out as transgender to her wife in the 1980s, her marriage soon dissolved. After Jean filed for divorce, she spent five years transitioning. In addition to working as a self-employed electrician, Jean has dedicated her adult life to advocating for Maine’s transgender community. She created the Maine Gender Resource and Support Service and spent over fifteen years speaking publicly to Maine college students and medical professionals about the …
Parsons, Betsy, Shanisa Rodriguez, Madison Leblanc
Parsons, Betsy, Shanisa Rodriguez, Madison Leblanc
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Betsy Parsons grew up in a Midwestern town in the 1960s and 1970’s in a middle class educated family active in the local community. Her father and mother were both teachers. Her mother and father met in Orono, Maine in English class before migrating to the Midwest. Parsons describes developing a love a teaching from her parents; she knew from a young age that she wanted to become a teacher herself and began teaching at Portland High School in 1977. She describes herself as a ‘late bloomer’ in terms of her sexuality; she didn’t come out to herself until her …
Bull, Steven, Alanna Larrivee, Tracy Payne
Bull, Steven, Alanna Larrivee, Tracy Payne
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
In this interview (part 1 of a two part interview), Steve Bull describes growing up in the 1950s in Kennebunk and Cape Porpoise and becoming conscious at a young age of being “different.” At age 6 or 7, he was discovered having sex with a playmate. When, at age 13, his family moved to New Jersey, Steve instead secured a scholarship to instead attend an expensive boarding school in Massachusetts where he found himself surrounded by children from wealthy families and became aware of social justice, anti-war, and civil rights activism. After attending Johns Hopkins University for two years he …
Arbor, Kelly, Alanna Larrivee, Emma Wynn Hill
Arbor, Kelly, Alanna Larrivee, Emma Wynn Hill
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Kelly Arbor, who identifies as genderqueer, was born in Rumford, Maine in 1977. Arbor is an artist, educator, and proud activist. They have been involved with activism throughout their life including in college at the University of Vermont. In this interview, Arbor talks about overcoming challenges growing up trans in a rural community, and discusses such issues as poverty, classism, LGBTQ representation, sex education in schools, incest, consent, AIDS, and substance abuse. Kelly Arbor also describes being involved in the Maine-based group MESH – Maine Educationalists on Sexual Harmony – a group working to create a dialogue surrounding sex positivity …