Vanessa Sheridan is a white transgender woman raised in the South. At the time of this interview, Sheridan was the Director of Transgender Relations and Community Engagement at Center on Halsted (Chicago IL). In this oral history, Sheridan speaks at length about the Center on Halsted, her involvement with the City of Lakes Crossgender Community,...
Creator:
Sheridan, Vanessa
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Toni Pajak is a white transsexual woman from North Minneapolis. At the time of this interview, Pajak was working as an Information Technology Specialist based out of Minnesota. In this oral history Pajak speaks at length about her time in the Marine Corps, her family relationships, her romantic relationships, Christine Jorgensen, Caitlyn Jenner,...
Creator:
Pajak, Toni
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-11-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Toni-Michelle Williams is a Black woman of trans experience who has spent time in Georgia and Norfolk, Virginia. In this interview, Williams touches upon topics such as drag, family relationships, loving Black men, silencing, and oppression. She also talks about her past work in HIV prevention. At the time of this oral history she was working fo...
Creator:
Williams, Toni-Michelle
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Taylor Foster is a white transman who grew up in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Foster was working as a 911 dispatcher for the City of Minneapolis. In this oral history, Foster talks about his college experiences, his work as a 911 dispatcher, coming out at work, his understandings of sexuality and dating, and trans poli...
Creator:
Foster, Taylor
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Stef Wilenchek is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Georgia and Ohio. At the time of this oral history, Wilenchek was living in Minneapolis and working at the University of Minnesota. In this oral history Wilenchek speaks at length about their childhood, growing up in the deep South, race and racism, family relationships, coming out, and...
Creator:
Wilenchek, Stef
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ryan Li Dahlstrom is a mixed Asian and white trans masculine person from Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Dahlstrom was working as a consultant. In this oral history, Dahlstrom discusses coming out in college, activism, building trans community spaces and trans leadership, racial justice within transgender and queer communities; and the...
Creator:
Dahlstrom, Ryan Li
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Roxanne Anderson is a Black gender non-conforming masculine of center person. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Trans & Racial Justice at the organization OutFront Minnesota. This is the second of two interviews the Tretter Collections hold with Roxanne Anderson. In this oral history Anderson speaks at length about growing...
Creator:
Anderson, Roxanne
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Richard Longnecker is a male from New York City who sometimes goes by the nickname Katherine. In this oral history, he speaks at length about being a crossdresser and spending over 20 years in the United States military. He talks about his early life, the perceptions of crossdressers in the 1950s and 1960s versus now, and returning home from the...
Creator:
Longnecker, Richard (Katherine)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Reneka Evans is a Black female who was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time of this oral history, Evans was working at The Red Door. In this oral history, Evans discusses moving to Minneapolis in the early 90s, drag culture, encounters with healthcare, sexuality, workplace discrimination, the importance of community, and her job as...
Creator:
Evans, Reneka
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Rehema Mertinez is a mixed Jamaican and Puerto Rican woman from Minnesota and Australia who goes by she and they. She talks about her early life, moving to Australia as a child, housing insecurity, and returning to the United States as a teenager. They also discuss the support they received from Avenues for Youth and the Trans Youth Support Netw...
Creator:
Mertinez, Rehema
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Raquel Willis is a Black trans woman from Augsuta, Georgia. At the time of this interview Willis was living in Oakland, CA. She is a writer, activist, and media maker, and, starting in 2018, the Executive Editor of Out Magazine. Prior to her work at Out magazine, Willis received a Soros Equity Fellowship to start the Black Trans Circles at the T...
Creator:
Willis, Raquel
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Qui Dorian Alexander is a Puerto Rican/Black/Afro-Latinx trans-masculine non-binary FTM person who goes by he/him and they/them. At the time of this interview, Alexander was a graduate student and working as a yoga teacher based in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Alexander speaks at length about self-determination, his experiences within ...
Creator:
Alexander, Qui Dorian
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Owen Marciano is a white genderqueer person from Rochester, New York. At the time of this interview, Marciano was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Marciano speaks at length about coming out, white lesbian communities, mental health, family relationships, abuse, and gender essentialism within queer spaces. Marciano also touches upon t...
Creator:
Marciano, Owen
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Oliver Schminkey is a white non-binary transgender person from Pine City, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Schminkey was living in Saint Paul attending Macalester College. In this oral history, Schminkey speaks about being a student, dating, growing up in a rural area, polyamory, their family relationships, and finding work as a non-bin...
Creator:
Schminkey, Oliver
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Nichole Moravec is a white nonbinary person from Faribault, Minnesota. They talk about growing up and their family relationships. At the time of the interview, they were one of the co-presidents of Full Spectrum Winona State’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance as well as on the council of KEAP, and they describe how attending the queer college confe...
Creator:
Moravec, Nichole
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Nasreen Mohamed is Tanzanian gender non-conforming person from the coast of Dar es Salaam. At the time of this interview, Mohamed was working in the field of post-secondary education. In this oral history, Mohamed talks about growing up in Tanzania in a Ismaili Muslim community and later studying abroad in Minnesota. Mohamed also touches upon to...
Creator:
Mohamed, Nasreen
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-06-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Monet (Kisha) Martin is a Black trans woman from Minnesota, Connecticut, and New York. At the time of this interview, Martin was living in New York. In this oral history she talks about her familial relationships, money, her encounters with law enforcement, sex work, and her experiences living and working in New York. She also touches upon drag,...
Creator:
Martin, Monet (Kisha)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-05-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Melissa Harl is a white female with transgender experience and history who grew up in Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Harl was working as a Professor at the University of Minnesota. In this oral history Harl talks about her childhood, bullying, and coming out in her late fifties. She also talk about her relationship with her late wife,...
Creator:
Harl, Melissa
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Melinda Lee is a Cambodian-American, Vietnamese-American, and Chinese-American gender non-conforming, non-binary person from Long Beach, California. At the time of this oral history interview, they were the Assistant Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life at the University of Minnesota. In the interview, Lee discuss...
Creator:
Lee, Melinda
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Marcus Waterbury is a white transgender man raised in Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Waterbury was working as a wealth advisor based out of the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Waterbury speaks at length about his childhood experiences with gender, his family relationships, and dating as a straight man. He also touches upon his enco...
Creator:
Waterbury, Marcus
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.