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Dr. Sara Winter reflects on her life, medical career, and role as a founding member of Denver’s AIDS Family Support Group, formed in 1985 through PFLAG. She describes how the group supported families confronting AIDS, grief, stigma, and the…

Robin was the first out member of the Denver City Council. In this oral history she talks about her life growing up in Wisonsin, journey through law school, and then election to the Denver City Council.

This oral history talks about Lisa's experience growing up in Denver, as well as what life what like in the 1970s and 1980s for trans women. This story includes stories of active sex work as well as histories of violence against transgender women. …

Randy Hardwick’s oral history traces his role in Denver’s LGBTQ nightlife, politics, publishing, and education. He discusses the founding of the Colorado Tavern Guild, the growth of Tracks, tensions between gay bars, police relations, racial and…

Phil Wade reflects on Catholic childhood, shame, survival, teaching, and Denver LGBTQ community. Born in Manhattan and raised in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, he describes feeling different early, struggling with masculinity, Catholic guilt, school…

Bill Fry reflects on adoption, repression, faith, travel, and gay life across several decades. Raised in small-town Attica, Indiana, he describes a loving but emotionally limited family, early awareness of difference, military school expulsion,…

Joseph Bump reflects on a life shaped by conservative religion, study, family, loss, and late-life LGBTQ community. Raised in an extremely conservative Methodist holiness tradition, he trained in education, theology, music, Greek, and Latin, later…

Bublz La Rue is a long time performer and personal friend of Christi Layne. In this oral history he talks about his career in drag as well as growing up in the South and his activist work in Seattle as well as the early days of the International…

Jennifer “Behind the Green Door”’s oral history centers on the Gender Identity Center, Tommye Kelly, and the practical, emotional, and community realities of transition in Colorado. She discusses finding early transgender information through The…

Robin’s oral history traces her life from a military childhood in Michigan, Kentucky, Alaska, and Boulder to work, music, art, and lesbian self-understanding in Colorado. She discusses Catholic school, Boulder High, CU, Mountain High Ice Cream,…