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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Laurie Theimer Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Laurie Theimer’s oral history traces growing up in Denver, coming out at CSU in 1971, and finding lesbian community through Fort Collins networks and Denver bars such as Three Sisters. She reflects on tomboy childhood, family caregiving, mental illness stigma, early lesbian identity, gender expression, and the safety of lesbian social spaces. Theimer discusses friendships, suicide loss, the Imperial Court, AIDS-era grief, chosen family, and the impact of friends such as Kasha, Randy, Michael, and John. Her story highlights lesbian bar culture, caregiving, community trauma, resilience, and the slow process of stepping out of the shadows.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2016]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Larry Wegner Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Larry Wegner’s oral history traces his life from Yuma, Colorado, to Boulder, Denver, Los Angeles, and back, centered on music, performance, publishing, and gay community life. He recalls growing up as a talented pianist in a small farming town, coming out gradually through Boulder and Denver gay spaces, touring with entertainer Al Boring, and experiencing West Hollywood in the 1970s. Wegner discusses Denver bars, bathhouses, police harassment, early gay publications, the Colorado Directory, Out Front, business advertising, AIDS-era loss, and the growth of LGBTQ visibility, culture, and community infrastructure in Colorado.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2015]]></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[Kenny Smith Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kenny talks about growing up in Denver, being adopted, coming out and struggling with his sexuality, struggles with substances and drinking, and living with an HIV diagnosis and living  throught he HIV epidemic.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2016]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ken Morgan Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ken Morgan grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin and graduated from Wisconsin State University at Whitewater in 1971. After 7 years living in the Chicago area, Ken Morgan moved to Colorado in late 1978. In Chicago Ken managed a large electronics store in Waukegan, Il. So, using that experience, in 1979 Ken opened a retail store, Stereo Plus, at 320 Broadway, and for 7 years served central Denver, advertising to  the gay community in particular, with a place to find good sound for a reasonable price. After a couple of years traveling the country in the late 1980s, Ken taught himself relational database programming and worked as a consultant to U S West until 2000. For the last 20 years Ken has traded the stock market for a living. Ken met his partner, Lenny, in 2003. Ken and Lenny live in southeast Denver and are active in several gay groups including the Rocky Mountain Rainbeaus square dance club and Front Runners, a gay walking/running group.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2017]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ken Felts Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kenneth Felts recounts a life shaped by movement, secrecy, faith, family, and late-life liberation. Born in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1930, he remembers the Dust Bowl, Depression hardship, railroad towns, World War II, bullying, and early awareness of attraction to men. His story follows military service, education, work, marriage, fatherhood, divorce, and decades of suppressing his gay identity while building a conventional life. During the 2020 COVID lockdown, writing his life story led him to come out publicly, reconnect with LGBTQ community, and transform long-hidden memory into witness, advocacy, and self-acceptance.]]></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[Alice Cookie Barron Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this oral history Alice Cookie Barron talks about her experiences growing up in Texas, becoming a basketball player, travelling to Russia during the Cold War, and finding her life long partner Kaye Garms.   Cookie moved to Denver in the 1960s, and talks about being an educator, as well as founding many sports programs in Jefferson County Public Schools for girls and women.  She talks about life for women loving women in Colorado in the late 20th century.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2014]]></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[Kaye Garms Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kaye Garms’s oral history traces her life from an Oklahoma farm to Wayland Baptist, Texas, and Colorado, centered on basketball, teaching, partnership, and outdoor life. She discusses growing up the youngest of seven, farm work, high school basketball, earning a college scholarship, playing for the Wayland Flying Queens, traveling to the Soviet Union with a U.S. women’s basketball team, and becoming an educator and coach. Garms reflects on falling in love with Cookie, teaching in Texas and Jefferson County, women’s athletics, LGBTQ social circles, house parties, Charlie’s, hiking, skiing, climbing fourteeners, and building a long shared life in Colorado.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2018]]></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[Kate Bowman Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kate Bowman talks about the founding the GIC]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Karl Jaekl Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Karl Jaekl reflects on family, memory, organization, and early queer self-understanding. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1955, he describes close family networks, grandparents, farms, genealogy, scrapbooks, school, paper routes, friendships, and a lifelong instinct for preserving records. His story follows moves from Iowa to Kansas and El Paso, where math club, friendships, and long conversations helped him understand his attraction to men. He recalls a formative relationship with Paul, coming out to his friend Mike, and entering college still resisting gay labels while using letters, documentation, and memory to make sense of himself.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2021]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Karen Benson Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Karen Benson’s two-part oral history traces her life from Manchester, Connecticut, through Syracuse, Montana, Oregon, and Denver, centered on empathy, spirituality, social work, activism, and LGBTQ student support. She discusses growing up in a supportive Lutheran family, early concern for outsiders, meditation, social justice awareness, anti-nuclear civil disobedience, bisexual identity, and later lesbian partnership. Benson reflects on social work, coming out, meeting Cindy, family support, marriage, and directing LGBTQ student services at Auraria/Metro, including coming-out support, religious shame, community-building, World AIDS Day, and campus advocacy. Her story highlights care work, faith, activism, counseling, and queer community leadership.  (Special Note: Talks specifically about the creation of the LGBTQ Center of Auraria)]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2019]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
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