Harvey Katz is a white man with a transgender history from Miami. At the time of this interview, Katz was working as a performer and an educator. In this oral history, Katz talks about coming out, passing and privilege, his early childhood, and his family relationships. He also touches upon his storytelling act titled Athens Boys Choir, mental h...
Creator:
Katz, Harvey
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Joy Michael Starkey is a white genderqueer non-binary trans person from Washington. At the time of this interview, Starkley was a PhD student. In this oral history, Starkey speaks at length about starting a Gay-Straight Alliance in High School, their sister, race and gender, working in academia, racism, and being non-binary. They also touch upon...
Creator:
Starkey, Joy Michael
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Tracie Jada O'Brien is a Black female who grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of this interview, she was doing social work in San Diego. In this oral history O'Brien talks at length about her early family life, working and living in San Francisco in the 1970s, and working and living San Diego in the 1980s. She also touches upon drag comm...
Creator:
O'Brien, Tracie Jada
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Alexis Paige is a mixed Korean and white trans woman from Nevada and Oregon. At the time of this interview, she was working as a Legal Aid at Lambda Legal. In this oral history Paige spends a significant amount of time talking about her childhood and family relationships, racism, sexism, and how strangers read her race. She also speaks at length...
Creator:
Paige, Alexis
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-09-23
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.
Enzi Tanner is a Black intentional male raised in Missouri. At the time of this interview, Tanner was doing social work based out of Minneapolis. In this oral history, Tanner speaks at length about mentorship and working with youth, Judaism, his family, racism, masculinity, ex-gay, and his encounters with law enforcement. He also touches upon th...
Creator:
Tanner, Enzi
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-12-12
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.
Thalia Fontan is a Puerto Rican and white transwoman from Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Fontan was a student at the University of Minnesota. In this oral history Fontan speaks at length about her family relationships, mental health, bullying, street harassment, self worth, and racism. She also touches upon workplace discrimination, e...
Creator:
Fontan, Thalia
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Mara Glubka is a white transgender woman born and raised in Winona, MN. At the time of this interview, Glubka was retired and living in Minnesota. In this oral history, Glubka talks about her childhood, being forced to go to counseling with the Cathrolic Charities at age 15, her experiences in being a parent to three sons and hand having support...
Creator:
Glubka, Mara
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-04-11
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.