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- 1990s (19)
- Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Phase 1 (19)
- 1980s (15)
- Friendship and Community (15)
- Family Relationships (13)
- Midwest (United States) (13)
- Work (12)
- Gender Affirming Care (11)
- White (11)
- Activism, Social Movements (10)
- Education (10)
- Harassment (9)
- Privilege (9)
- 1970s (8)
- Discrimination (8)
Creator
Contributor
Language
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Valerie Spencer is a Black woman (trans) from LA. At the time of the interview, she was working on a Masters in Social Work at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. In the interview, she discusses her difficult relationship with her father growing up, and how supportive her mother has always been. She discusses what it was like in the 1980s and 1990s ...
- Creator:
- Spencer, Valerie
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-10-05
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Rebecca Kling is a white trans woman from Chicago, Illinois. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood and college years, her transition, and her work within Camp Aranu'tiq and the trans activist movement at large. Specifically, Kling discusses learning about trans identity online in the 1990s and the narratives that impacted h...
- Creator:
- Kling, Rebecca
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-01-25
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Rachel Schroeder is white trans woman from Burnsville, Minnesota. She discusses how her desire and her decision to transition impacted her relationships, and the importance of being correctly gendered. She talks about trans visibility, including Caitlyn Jenner, and how having a trans community proved vital to support her during her transition.
- Creator:
- Schroeder, Rachel
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-02-23
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Nick Metcalf is an American Indian Two-Spirit person born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation located in South Dakota. At the time of this interview, Metcalf was working in the Twin Cities. In this oral history they talk about their early childhood on the reservation and later moving to Minneapolis in 1994. They talk extensively about working ...
- Creator:
- Metcalf, Nick
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-05-10
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Max Gries is a white genderqueer person from Wisconsin. At the time of this oral history, Gries was working at Capella University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history, Gries reflects upon exploring their sexuality in college, moving to Minneapolis in the mid-1990s, becoming involved with bisexual organizing, attending Michigan Womyn's...
- Creator:
- Gries, Max
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-10-28
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Mara Keisling is a white transgender woman from Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, Keisling was the Executive Director at the National Center for Transgender Equality. In this oral history, Keisling speaks at length about her family relationships, naming, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the importance of trans people ...
- Creator:
- Keisling, Mara
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-01-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Lourdes Ashley Hunter is a Black trans woman from Detroit, Michigan. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, her visions and thoughts on trans politics, and her decades of work in Black trans communities. Specifically, she recounts her work to found a support group for trans people of color in Detroit at the age of 17, her experience wi...
- Creator:
- Hunter, Lourdes Ashley
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-03-22
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Jane Fee is a white trans woman raised in Maryland. At the time of this interview, Fee was a retired and living in St. Petersburg, Florida. In this oral history, she touches upon her 29 years in the United States Military, her childhood, coming out in 1989, and her advocacy work. She also talks about organizations and entities she has been invol...
- Creator:
- Fee, Jane
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-03-18
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Jamison Green is a white male raised in California. At the time of this interview, Green was working as a Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In this oral history, Green speaks at length about coming out in 1966, his early experiences with his identity in childhood, the challenges of bullying in high school, and his frustr...
- Creator:
- Green, Jamison
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-03-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Gloria Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria", is a biracial woman from Bowling Green Kentucky and Chicago. in this interview she speaks at length about founding the Charm School at the Center on Halstead in Chicago. Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria". In this interview, she speaks transitioning in the 1970s, dating, her work as a licensed practical...
- Creator:
- Allen, Gloria
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-04-26
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Walter Bockting is a Dutch male from the Netherlands. At the time of this interview, Bockting was working as a Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University. In this interview, Bockting narrates a history of the evolution of medical transitional care from his perspective as a clinician and researcher. He touches upon his involvement wit...
- Creator:
- Bockting, Dr. Walter
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-05-12
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Dona Ewing is a white transsexual woman from Crookston, Minnesota. This is the first of two interviews between Jenkins and Ewing held in the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. At the time of this interview, Ewing was retired and living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ewing speaks at length about working the coat check at the Gay 90s...
- Creator:
- Ewing, Donna
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2016-04-05
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-20
- Description:
- Diana Green is a white female who has lived in New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Green was working as a caregiver for People with AIDS, an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and on her graphic memoir titled A Sharp Invitation. In this oral history, Green speaks at len...
- Creator:
- Green, Diana
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-06-27
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Breatta Bee Amore is a Black trans female from Chicago and Milwaukee. At the time of this interview, she was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Amore touches upon topics such as gay bars in the Twin Cities from the 1980s and onward, including the Gay 90s, the Saloon, and Brass Rail. She also speaks about working and perfo...
- Creator:
- Amore, Breatta Bea
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2017-02-16
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
- Description:
- Barbara Satin is trans woman from St Paul. She discusses growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, and her experience coming out later in life. She talks about the importance of visibility, and the difficulty of finding a trans community at a time when everyone had to be so secretive. She was president of the City of the Lakes Crossgender Community in ...
- Creator:
- Satin, Barbara
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
- Created:
- 2015-10-13
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-09-24
