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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Robin Cohen Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Robin Cohen reflects on growing up Jewish, intellectually precocious, left-handed, athletic, and increasingly aware of lesbian difference in the Chicago suburbs. She describes family divorce, early isolation, painful messages about homosexuality, and coming out through bars, reading, and public speaking. Her story follows college, rugby, Israel, lesbian pulp fiction collecting, Seattle counseling and education work, mental health trainings, and efforts to document lesbian history. She also discusses adoption and foster-care barriers, workplace diversity failures, aging, and the lifelong labor of turning shame, exclusion, and invisibility into knowledge, humor, advocacy, and community memory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2020]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Julia Condolora Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Julia Condolora reflects on growing up in an Italian Catholic family in Syracuse, New York, where she felt shy, introverted, and privately drawn to women’s clothing from an early age. She describes shame, fear, and secrecy around dressing, later moving to Denver in 1974, where anonymity offered more room to explore identity. Her story follows electronics work, carpentry, woodworking, marriage, running a shop, online transgender forums, gradual self-understanding, hormones, coming out to friends, and involvement with the Gender Identity Center, where she found community, advocacy, and a fuller life as a trans woman. Note:  Julia donated the first collection specifically for transgender people due to her work at the GIC.  Find it here ---&gt; https://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/9167]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Condolora, Julia]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2021]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Duffield, David (interviewer)]]></dcterms:contributor>
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    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[Find her physical collection at Denver Public Library Western History <a href="https://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/9167">https://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/9167</a>]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jerry Gerash Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jerry Gerash talks about growing up in California, being Jewish, going to Berkley, becoming a lawyer, establishing the Gay Coalition of Denver, and becoming an activist and leader in the Denver LGBTQ community.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2012-2020]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fran and Ana Simon Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anna Cher Simon and Fran Simon reflect on love, marriage, parenting, and LGBTQ legal advocacy in Colorado. They met through Yahoo online dating in the Bay Area, built a relationship across distance, and moved to Denver after Anna accepted a position with the University of Denver and Denver Botanic Gardens. They describe buying a home, holding a Jewish wedding ceremony in 2005, becoming parents, and navigating costly legal work to protect their family before marriage equality. Their story follows civil-union testimony, public visibility through One Colorado, political setbacks, family acceptance, and the emotional labor of fighting for equal recognition.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2021]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Craig Dietz Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Craig Dietz reflects on growing up Jewish in Vail during its transformation from a small ski town into an international resort. Born in Philadelphia in 1965 and raised in Colorado after 1971, he discusses family construction work, antisemitism, school, skiing, student leadership, theater, and early awareness of being gay. His story follows travel to Kenya as an AFS exchange student, coming out in college, relationships, Capitol Hill gay life, AIDS-era fears, family acceptance, professional work in business and franchising, bankruptcy and rebuilding, and the ways travel, politics, class, and queer community shaped his identity.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2021-2022]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chocolate Waters Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chocolate Waters reflects on a life shaped by writing, rebellion, lesbian community, and artistic survival. Born in Maryland and raised largely in conservative Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, she describes feeling out of place before discovering lesbian identity at Lock Haven. After being left in Colorado, she built a life in Denver through women’s bars, house painting, poetry, and the radical feminist newspaper Big Mama Rag. Her story follows love affairs, feminist politics, performance, publishing, New York City, Paris readings, aging, memory, and the complicated joy of making an independent creative life outside conventional expectations.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2020]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chester MacQuary Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chester MacQuary recounts a life rooted in rural Colorado, political conscience, and queer self-understanding. Born in Granby in 1936, he describes poverty, family resilience, school, early awareness of male attraction, and finding language through Kinsey. His story follows college, National Guard service, growing antiwar politics, draft counseling, communal life in Denver, and work connected to alternative bookstores and peace activism. He also reflects on nuclear protest, beekeeping and small-scale agriculture with Donald, later friendship and partnership with Dan Leatherman, and aging in Fort Collins while maintaining commitments to community, sustainability, justice, and memory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2020]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wren Davis Pheonix Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wren Davis Pheonix’s oral history traces growing up in southwest Denver, navigating family trauma, foster care, gender fluidity, and early recognition of queer identity. Pheonix describes coming out, leaving college, working in Denver lesbian bars such as Three Sisters, and witnessing 1970s–1980s queer social worlds shaped by nightlife, gender roles, substance use, and community networks. They also discuss recovery, 12-step culture, AIDS activism, the Colorado AIDS Project, SPACE, hospice work, and friendships with key community figures. Their story highlights queer resilience, gender complexity, lesbian culture, AIDS-era activism, and Denver’s evolving LGBTQ community.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2016]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[William Arndt Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William Arndt’s four-part oral history traces his life from Boulder childhood through music, family, coming out, Philadelphia, public service, church, travel, and return to Colorado. He reflects on growing up as a loved only child, gender nonconformity, Methodist faith, piano, politics, gay identity, partnership, Center City Philadelphia, cruising spaces, heartbreak, and rebuilding his life. Arndt discusses returning to Boulder in 1986, work at CU, gay friendships, church choir, music, Europe, caregiving, and community connection. His story highlights queer self-understanding, cultural life, chosen friendship, faith, memory, aging, and the search for belonging.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2017]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Scott Perrin Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Scott Perrin’s oral history explores growing up gay in a restrictive Church of Christ family in suburban Denver, surviving childhood trauma, and finding escape through school, work, and Denver’s gay bars. He describes living a double life, coming out, family rejection framed as “I love you, but,” and the impact of religion on LGBTQ identity. Perrin also reflects on Denver’s LGBTQ nightlife, the AIDS crisis, marriage equality, chosen community, and the importance of self-acceptance. His story centers survival, justice, religious trauma, and the long process of claiming one’s own voice.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2016]]></dcterms:created>
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