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Description:: Lee Levingston Perine is a Black genderqueer person from St. Louis, Missouri. They talk about their early life, college, and grad school, as well as having a very supportive family. They talk at length about masculinity and race, and the difference between their community in DC and in Minneapolis. They talk about relationship dynamics, especiall...
Creator:: Perine, Lee Livingston
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-12-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Lawrence Tanner Richardson is a Black trans man from St. Paul, Minnesota. He talks about his childhood, including being raised by his grandmother and being very involved in the Southern Baptist church. He talks about how his transition affected his relationships. At the time of the interview, he was a United Church of Christ pastor, doing digita...
Creator:: Richardson, Lawrence Tanner
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-06-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Laura Jane Grace is a female from Florida who uses she and they. At the time of this interview, Grace was working as a musician for the band Against Me! In this oral history, Grace reflects upon moving around as a child in military family, dropping out of high school to play music, experimenting with cross-dressing and eventually coming out in 2...
Creator:: Grace, Laura Jane
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-06-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: Kylar Broadus is a Black male from Fayette, Missouri. At the time of this interivew, Broadus was working as a lawyer and an activist based out of Washington D.C. In this oral history, Broadus discusses topics such as his early realizations of his gender from a young age; his relationship with his father; his spirituality; employment discriminati...
Creator:: Broadus, Kylar
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-01-14
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Kye Allums is a Black queer fluid trans person from Minnesota who goes by he and they. In this oral history, Allums speaks at length about playing Division I basketball for George Washington University. He talks about navigating his changing understandings of masculinity, femininity and gender fluidity; and his national and his local advocacy work.
Creator:: Allums, Kye
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2015-09-04
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Kya Concepcion is a mixed Native, Black, and white trans femme person from Marietta, Georgia. At the time of this interview, they were living in the Twin Cities. In this interview Concepcion touches upon topics including homelessness, their family relationships, recovery, and workplace discrimination. They also talk about their goals for the fut...
Creator:: Concepcion, Kya
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2017-10-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: K. Davis Senseman is a white gender-queer person from Pittsburgh who uses all pronouns. At the time of this interview, Senseman was working as a lawyer based out of Northeast Minneapolis. In this oral history, Senseman speaks at length about language and identity, being a parent, intersectionality, and their familial relationships. She also touc...
Creator:: Senseman, K. Davis
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2017-01-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Kate Bornstein is a white trans non-binary person raised in the Midwestern United States. At the time of this interview, Bornstein was working as an author. In this oral history, Bornstein speaks at length about language and identity, their encounters with healthcare and cancer, language and identity, Caitlyn Jenner and other trans celebrities, ...
Creator:: Bornstein, Kate
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2015-08-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: Karl Meyer is a white autogynephilic gender non-conforming person from Faribault, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, Meyer was a writer and a researcher pursuing what he calls divine-source justice. In this oral history, Meyer speaks at length about his family relationships, encounters with healthcare, sexuality, and spirituality. He also...
Creator:: Meyer, Karl
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2015-10-05
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: This video features an interview with two people who are good friends––June Taylor and Isabelle Wedin. June Taylor is a white trans woman from Winston-Salem North Carolina, and Isabelle Wedin is a white woman from Long Island. They both discuss their childhoods, the realizations that they were transgender, and how their wives supported them with...
Creator:: Taylor, June
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-10-31
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24