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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:: 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 Laura Hesselton, who talks about her time as Coordinator at the Aurora Northland...
Creator:: Hesselton, Laura Stolle Schmidt
Contributor:: Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:: 2014-11-20
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2025-03-19

Description:: In this interview, Judge Lawrence Cohen, mayor of St. Paul during the 1970s, gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan, politician and legal practitioner. Cohen recounts that he was born in St. Paul and has always lived in the western part of the city. He continues talking about how his father was a merchant who sold general wares. Coh...
Creator:: Cohen, Lawrence
Contributor:: Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:: 2008-11-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-02-06

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:: Lee Andel Dewey is a white nonbinary organizer, HIV/AIDS activist, and abolitionist based in Chicago. They are the founder of LADhoc Accounting, a business providing sliding-scale-to-free accounting, bookkeeping, and consultation servivces to BIPOC- and queer and trans-focused political groups and community organizations. At the time of this int...
Creator:: Dewey, Lee Andel (interviewee)
Contributor:: Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager and transcriber)
Created:: 2020-12-18
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2021-10-29

Description:: 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 Lee Hemming, who talks about her experiences with the Aurora Northland Lesbian C...
Creator:: Hemming, Lee
Contributor:: Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:: 2014-12-14
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2025-03-19

Description:: At the time of this interview, Lee Lewis was the former executive director of Clare Housing, an organization that provides housing for people living with HIV and AIDS in the Twin Cities. He also was the chair of the Minnesota HIV/AIDS Housing Coalition, and served on the Board of Directors of the National AIDS Housing Coalition. Lewis's involvem...
Creator:: Lewis, Lee
Contributor:: Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:: 2015-02-05
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-07

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:: Audio file of an interview with Lena Senensky conducted by Lois Devitt. The interview includes: family history in Russia and immigration to the United States; daily life on St Paul's Lower West Side; creation and early years of the Jewish Home for the Aged.
Creator:: Lena Senensky, 1893-1984
Contributor:: Devitt, Lois (Interviewer)
Created:: 1977-07-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-02-06