In this interview, Paula Beugen discusses personal information about where she grew up and where her family lived. They moved to St. Louis Park in 1957. They belonged to Beth El Synagogue, and she attended Talmud Torah. She attended the University of Minnesota and Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare and Child Psychology. She also has Senior Manag...
Creator:
Beugen, Paula
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Paula Overby is a white transgender woman from the United States. At the time of this oral history, Oberby was living in Minnesota. In this oral history, Overby speaks at length about growing up in Wisconsin and Minnesota and New Hampshire, divorce, language and identity, her friendships, her political career, encounters with healthcare, working...
Creator:
Overby, Paula
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-11-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Paulina Angel is a Hispanic trans woman from Indio, California. At the time of this interview, Angel was working as the Executive Director of the Transgender Community Project. In this interview she speaks at length about some of her work in passing the Fair Education Act in California. She also describes her experiences with language and identi...
Creator:
Angel, Paulina
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Paul Lundgren shared stories and perspectives as an active, social Duluth resident during the time of COVID-19. He has produced the Homegrown Music Festival field guide content every year since 2006, and this year the annual festival was cancelled due to quarantine right before the field guide was set to go to print. He also discusses his work o...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-07-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Paul Roitenberg (1931 - ) gives his personal and family background, including information about a family grocery business. He gives reasons for why he moved from the North Side, along with some of his family members.
Creator:
Roitenberg, Paul, (1931 - )
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Paul and Camille Schroeder give a general overview of how St. Louis Park and the North side developed from a teacher's perspective. The interview begins with Paul talking about how he lived on a farm until he went to college. He goes on to talk about how he moved to St. Louis Park. He became a teacher when he first moved there...
Creator:
Schroeder, Paul; Shroeder, Camille
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Maynard M. Cohen's interview with Per Giersten, a Norwegian physician who aided victims of the Nazis during World War II. This was a part of Dr. Cohen's research in creating his book, "A Stand Against Tyranny: Norway’s Physicians and the Nazis."
Creator:
Cohen, Maynard M.
Created:
1986
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
At the time of this interview, Peter Carr was a retired epidemiologist who had most recently worked for the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) as Minnesota's AIDS and STD Director. In his retirement, Carr served on the Pierce County (Wisconsin) Board of Health, as the technical assistance provider for the National Alliance of State and Territo...
Creator:
Carr, Peter
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2016-04-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Phillip Sher shares stories of his work, social and religious life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth, Minnesota. He describes the changes and shortages he has seen in the international meat packing market through work with his company, Pfeiveh Brokerage. He purchases animal glands that the pharmaceutical industry uses for production of medi...
Creator:
Sher, Phillip
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-08-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Phoebe Davis discusses her personal life and her experiences during the time of COVID-19. She shares that she had COVID-19 and mentions that she lost close to sixty pounds because of the illness. She details what this experience was like for her, including the “double quarantine” in her household. She mentions various native medicines that she u...
Creator:
Davis, Phoebe
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Phyllis Cook, who was the Program Director at the Program for Aid to Victims of ...
Creator:
Cook, Phyllis
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-11-08
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
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.
Quinn Villagomez, also nicknamed Shimmer, is a biracial Hispanic female based in Minnesota. In this interview Villagomez talks about the field of radio and broadcasting, including her work co-hosting Fresh Fruit on KFAI Radio (Minneapolis). Villagomez also discusses her experiences in the drag community, cultivating self-confidence, her upbringi...
Creator:
Villagomez, Quinn
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-09-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Quinton Neal is a Black and Native American gender-fluid person from Peoria and Philadelphia who goes by she and he. At the time of this interview, Neal was a student in graduate school. In this oral history, Neal talks at length about Black masculinity, her performance art, his childhood experiences, and her family relationships. Neal also touc...
Creator:
Neal, Quinton
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.
Rabbi Bernard Raskas (1924 - 2010), who led Temple of Aaron synagogue of St. Paul, Minnesota for 37 years, here gives a detailed account of his life and times as one of the most prominent leaders of the Twin Cities Jewish community. Highlights include meeting his wife and attending the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, the establishm...
Creator:
Raskas, Bernard, 1924 -2010
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
2005-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Rabbi Kassel Abelson (1924 - ) discusses his personal background, the details regarding the move of Beth El synagogue from North Minneapolis to Saint Louis Park, and the social-historical context in which the move took place.
Creator:
Abelson, Kassel, (1924 - )
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Rabbi Kassel Abelson speaks of his life, times, and views regarding Judaism. Abelson spent over forty years as senior Rabbi at Beth El synagogue in North Minneapolis and later Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, serving as a leader in the community and as a developer of national Judaic programs and policy. Abelson recalls his family ...
Creator:
Abelson, Kassel
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
1993-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Rabbi Yosi Gordon (1944 - ) worked as Associate and Acting Principal of the Los Angeles Hebrew High School. In 1978 he came to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he directed the Talmud Torah for 12 years and helped open the Talmud Torah Day School, where he taught for many years. He taught courses in Jewish studies and literature at the University of Mi...
Creator:
Gordon, Rabbi Yosi 1944 -
Contributor:
Kohen, Harriet (Interviewer)
Created:
1984-09-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
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.
Interview 27 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Randa Jo Downs, an actor, artistic director and worker to end child abuse. Her idea to create a lesbian soap opera led to Toklas, Minnesota, a play whose five episodes stretched over roughly a two-year period in the mid-1980’s. Toklas was a lesbian tow...
Creator:
Downs, Randa Jo
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2023-05-26
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.
Discussion of Minnesota Authors, a selected bio-bibliography compiled by the Minnesota Centennial Literature Group of the Minnesota Statehood Centennial Commission
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Contributor:
Shove, Raymond Howard; Booth, Audrey June
Created:
1958
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Raymond Rea is a Italian-English-American-white trans male raised in Massachusetts. At the time of this oral history, Rea was working as a Professor in the School of Media Arts & Design at Minnesota State - Moorhead. In this oral history, Rea speaks at length about the geographies of Minnesota, Massachusetts, and San Francisco; the San Francisco...
Creator:
Rea, Raymond
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Read Lewis, former executive director of the Common Council for American Unity 1940-1959 interviewed by William Beyer, 28 June 1977 at ACNS offices, New York. The interview begins by Mr. Lewis talking about the formation of Common Ground and the influences that it drew from to help it begin. He then elaborates more by citing an editorial called ...
Creator:
Lewis, Read
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
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.
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.
Renae Pagel is a white female from Cannon Falls, Minnesota. She talks about her early life and her family relationships, and serving as a mechanic in the Army from 1985-1990. She talks about relationships, what it was like for her to transition at work, and health insurance. She also emphasizes the importance of being surrounded by people who su...
Creator:
Pagel, Renae
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-08-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Renata Garcia is a Mexican transgender woman who grew up in Axochiapan, Mexico. At the time of this interview, Garcia was working as a Sales Associate in Minnesota. Jennicet Gutiérrez is a Mexican transgender woman who grew up in Tuxpan, Mexico. At the time of this interview, Gutiérrez was an Organizer at Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement...
Creator:
Garcia, Renata; Gutierrez, Jennicet
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-03
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.
In this interview, Reva Rosenbloom explains her parent's businesses, which includes her mother's children store, and her father's car and truck repair shop. Her family belonged to Beth El synagogue. Reva graduated with a Humanities degree from the University of Minnesota, so she became a museum guide at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the ...
Creator:
Rosenbloom, Reva
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2011-07-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
