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.
Hannah Jo Stein is a white trans woman from Georgia. At the time of this interview, Stein was living in Minnesota and working as a jazz club host. In this oral history Stein talks at length about being closeted, her life after college, her relationships with her friends, and her work history. Stein is active in the theater community and has both...
Creator:
Stein, Hannah
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-10-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Gradylee Shapiro is a white butch from Missouri. Shapiro discuss what it was like moving a lot while growing up, butch identity, and how life is different when being perceived as a straight white man. Shapiro also talks about the importance of queer community, work in queer activism, including starting a GLBT youth organization called Prism in C...
Creator:
Shapiro, Gradylee
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.
George Hoagland is a Black American androgynous person who uses all pronouns. At the time of this interview, Hoagland was an Associate Professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In this oral history, they speak at length about changes in language and identity through time, his relationships with family members, and growing up in San...
Creator:
Hoagland, George
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Geena Rocero is a Filipino trans woman and supermodel from Makati City in the Philippines. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, her career as a model and founder of the production company Gender Proud, and her perspective of Filipino history and culture. Specifically, Rocero talks at length about the history and visibilit...
Creator:
Rocero, Geena
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-11-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Gavin Rouille is a white queer male from Burlington, Vermont. He talks about his art and how his artmaking process has evolved over time. He also discusses how his relationships have changed since his transition.
Creator:
Rouille, Gavin
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Gaebriel Lyrek is a white male from Montrose, Minnesota. At the time of this interview he was working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history, he speaks at length about his familial relations, growing up in a rural community, and his encounters with healthcare. He also touches upon topics such as drag, clothing, and his romantic relation...
Creator:
Lyrek, Gaebriel
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Freya Richman is a Jewish trans woman from Appleton, Wisconsin. She became involved with 20 Percent Theater and their show The Naked I, which she was able to use as a platform to tell her story. She discusses what it is like to come out as trans later in life, and the impact that had on her relationships. She talks about workplace discrimination...
Creator:
Richman, Freya
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-11-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
finn schneider is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Michigan. At the time of this interview, schneider was a student in graduate school. In this oral history, scheider speaks at length about gender and contextuality, fluidity, working in higher education, their family relationships, and their involvement in an educational organization ca...
Creator:
schneider, finn
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Faye Seidler is a white trans woman based out of North Dakota. At the time of this interview, Seidler was a writer, an educator, and a cook. In this oral history she speaks at length about her coming out process as well as her encounters with healthcare and healthcare providers. She also touches upon her experiences with passing privilege, her f...
Creator:
Seidler, Faye
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ethan O’Brien is a white male from Holliston, Massachusetts. He talks about his relationship with his family, and working at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality, including how the program has changed over the years. He talks about volunteering with different organizations, the problem with organizations prioritizing marriage...
Creator:
O'Brien, Ethan
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Erica Fields is a woman of transgender history from Edina, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Fields was working in Minnesota as a business woman selling rye. In this oral history Fields speaks at length about transitioning later in life, her friendships, family, relationships, and community networks. She also touches upon about attending...
Creator:
Fields, Erica
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-09-08
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.
Elliot Winter is a Korean male who grew up in Georgia but also spent time in Ohio, California, and New Jersey. In this interview, Winter talks at length about participating in online trans communities and chat rooms such as Laura's Playground and Youtube. He also talks about his family relationships, recovery, race in the South, and encounters w...
Creator:
Winter, Elliot
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-06-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ellie Krug is a white trans woman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, family, and relationships, her memoirs and experiences of transition, her thoughts on trans representation and visibility and representation, and her work in legal services. Specifically, Krug discusses coming of age "before St...
Creator:
Krug, Ellie
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Elle Hearns, founder of the Marsha P Johnson Institute and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, was assigned Black at birth. At the time of this interview Hearns was organizing in Ohio. In this oral history she speaks about the serial murders of Black trans women in Ohio alongside her experiences with law enforcement which led he...
Creator:
Hearns, Elle
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Eli Clare is a genderqueer disability advocate, writer and poet. In this oral history, Clare discusses how language gets re-claimed, taken up, or not; tensions in lesbian community around trans masculinity; passing; and the contradictions he felt medically transitioning and while simultaneously resisting pathologizing his body as needing a "cure...
Creator:
Clare, Eli
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-03-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
EJ Olson is a white gender-queer person from Empire, Michigan. At the time of this interview, Olson was working as the Clinical Operations Director at Family Tree Clinic. In this oral history they talk about growing up in a small town, language about identity, their experiences with performance art, and working at Family Tree Clinic. They also t...
Creator:
Olson, EJ
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ejay Jack is a white trans male who grew up in Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, Jack was working for Hennepin County. In this oral history Jack speaks at length about how his identity has changed through time. Jack also reflects up on his time in the Peace Corps, his passing privilege as a white man in a relationship with a woman, da...
Creator:
Jack, Ejay
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-09-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.
Katie Spencer is a white cisgender woman who grew up in Farmington, Missouri. At the time of this oral history, Spencer was living in Minnesota and working at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality. In this oral history, Spencer speaks at length about her childhood, her time in college, and her experiences with femininity. Spen...
Creator:
Spencer, Dr. Katie
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-02-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dr. Eli Coleman is a professor and director of the Program in Human Sexuality, one of the first programs in the country of its kind, at the University of Minnesota Medical School, as well as the first endowed chair in sexual health at the University of Minnesota. Coleman describes his experience coming to work at the Program in Human Sexuality a...
Creator:
Coleman, Eli Dr.
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-02-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Aren Aizura is a white trans guy from Australia. At the time of this interview, Aizura was an Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. In this oral history, Aizura describes his experience of coming out; researching and teaching in the field of transgender studies; the issues aroun...
Creator:
Aizura, Aren
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dona Ewing is a white transsexual woman from Crookston, Minnesota. This is the second 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 the Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ewing speaks at length about drag she performed under the nam...
Creator:
Ewing, Donna
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.
Dominic Giovon Chilko is a bi-racial Afro-Latinx trans man from Eagan, Minnesota. In this oral history interview, he discusses his childhood, relationships, and experiences of transition, his thoughts on chosen family, trans politics, and the trans agenda, and his experience as a performing artist and drag king. Specifically, he discusses his ex...
Creator:
Chilko, Dominic Giovon
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.
Destinee Salinas is a Hispanic female from Indiana. She talks about her experiences growing up, doing drag, and some of the obstacles she has faced as a trans woman. She also discusses relationships, self-care, and her work at Hennepin County Medical Center.
Creator:
Salinas, Destinee
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-09-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Denise Sudbeck is a white trans woman from Maine. At the time of this interview, she was in school writing a dissertation on queer theology. In life she also was a member of the United States Navy; a police chaplain in Alaska; and also worked as an American Baptist pastor for churches in Maine, Minnesota, and Alaska. In this oral history Sudbeck...
Creator:
Sudbeck, Denise
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dee Dee Ngozi Chamblee is a Black trans woman from Georgia and the founder of LaGender Inc. At the time of this interview, Chamblee was the Executive Director of LaGender. In this oral history, Chamblee talks about her HIV/AIDS activism, housing insecurity, clubbing in Georgia during the 1970s/1980s, and her encounters with law enforcement. She ...
Creator:
Chamblee, Dee Dee
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Darcy Corbitt is a white transgender woman from the South. At the time of this interview, Corbitt was pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at North Dakota State University. In this oral history, Corbitt speaks at length about her childhood, coming out to her parents in college, and her family relationships through time. Corbitt also touches u...
Creator:
Corbitt, Darcy
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Danika Ragnhild is a white trans woman from Crookston, MN. At the time of this interview, Ragnhild was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ragnhild speaks about her childhood, disability, abuse, her process of naming, renewal, polyamorous relationships, dating, and partnerships. Ragnhild also talks about her involvement with organizatio...
Creator:
Ragnhild, Danika
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Damion Mendez is a Latino trans masculine identified person from St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Mendez was living in Minnesota. In this oral history Mendez speaks about transracial adoption, bullying, being raised in a primarily white family, his family relationships, bodily autonomy, masculinity, and transitioning. Mendez a...
Creator:
Mendez, Damion
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Crispin Torres is a Latino trans masculine person. At the time of this oral history, Torres was working for Lambda Legal. In this oral history, Torres speaks at length about his childhood, coming out, being a musician, family relationships, chosen family, religion, racism, encounters with healthcare, and the shifts he's seen in transgender polit...
Creator:
Torres, Crispin
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-05-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Cressida Silver is a transgender lesbian from Minnesota. She discusses her family and experiences growing up, starting a family, and her experience with work and getting her Master’s degree. She also talks about her changing relationship to activism over the years.
Creator:
Silver, Cressida
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
CJ is a mixed Native American and white trans man from Grand Forks, North Dakota. At the time of the interview they were a freshman at UND Grand Forks. They discuss how their first exposure to thinking about gender was by having a genderfluid partner in high school, and then later seeing a trans speaker talk about their transition made them real...
Creator:
Vondal, CJ
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Chloe Alexa Landry is a white trans lady from Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this oral history, Landry was retired and living in Minnnesota. In this oral history, Landry speaks at length about early childhood, family relationships, losing friends to AIDS, changes in identity through time, encounters with healthcare, experiences with a Tr...
Creator:
Landry, Chloe Alexa
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Charlene Bradshaw is a Black lesbian born and raised in Hawaii. In this oral history, Bradshaw speaks about his experiences being a Black transgender person in Minneapolis, alongside serving in the military for 22 years. He also touches upon his early childhood experiences of his gender awareness, Don't Ask Don't Tell, being a parent, harassment...
Creator:
Bradshaw, Charlene
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Chad Pitts is a white transgender man from Arizona. At the time of this oral history, Pitts was a student living in Fargo, North Dakota. In this short oral history Pitts speaks about coming out, his romantic relationships, his family relationships, and transitioning.
Creator:
Pitts, Chad
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
CeCe McDonald is a Black-Boricua-Taíno woman from the South Side of Chicago. At the time of this oral history, she was working in Minneapolis as a barista, activist, and social instigator. In this oral history she talks extensively about her early life in Chicago, the prison industrial complex, the matrix of domination, and the TLGB community. S...
Creator:
McDonald, Chishaun (CeCe)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Catalina Velasquez is a Colombian transgender goddess. At the time of this interview, Velasquez was a political consultant based out of Washington DC. She speaks at length about topics including self-love, feminisms and feminist analysis, xenophobia/nativism, and systems of oppression. She also touches upon her involvement with organizations suc...
Creator:
Velasquez, Catalina
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Carter Thurmond is a white trans dyke from Louisiana. At the time of this oral history, Thurmond was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Thurmond touches upon their childhood, community building, coming out to family, their gender and sexual evolution, their relationship experiences, combating heteronormativity, and gender...
Creator:
Thurmond, Carter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Cal Evoniuk is a white male from North Dakota. At the time of this interview, Evoniuk was a student at North Dakota State University. In this oral history, Evoniuk briefly shares his experience of growing up in a rural area, how his identity has changed through time, and his experience with just recently coming out as trans.
Creator:
Evoniuk, Calum
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.
Branwen Zakariasen is a white trans woman originally from Texas who later spent time in Minneapolis and Portland. At the time of this interview, she was working as a customer support specialist. In this oral history Zakariasen discusses naming, healing from trauma and abuse, taking up labels, family relationships, sexism, and the video game indu...
Creator:
Zakariasen, Brawen
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Billy Navarro Jr. is a mixed Puerto Rican and white gender-queer trans-man from Mound, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Navarro was a youth worker and teacher at the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition. In this oral history, Navarro speaks at length about starting The Shot Clinic with his friends, his involvement in drag communities,...
Creator:
Navarro, Billy, Jr.
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-02-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Billie Sage Ashton is a white trans woman who grew up In Austin, Minnesota. At the time of this oral history, Ashton was working with Delta Airlines. In this oral history, she describes her early life during the 1960 and 70s in Austin, MN. She also talks about coming out in the 1980s, her romantic relationships, her involvement with the City of ...
Creator:
Ashton, Billie Sage
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ben Singer is a white trans guy from Illinois. He talks about how rural identity and class shaped his idea of gender, and his research on transgender identity. He talks about his experience in the lesbian community during the 1980s, his journey to activism, and his work in trans healthcare activism. He discusses the Philadelphia Trans Healthcare...
Creator:
Singer, Ben
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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.