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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gabbie Butzin Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gabbie talks about being a member of the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire and growing up in Colorado ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Donaciano Martinez Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Donaciano was born and raised in Colorado Springs.  His family lived in an area which would later be torn down for &quot;urban renewal&quot; to make America the Beautiful Park.  He grew up seeing signs which said things like &quot;No dogs or Mexicans allowed.&quot;  He also grew up when gay men had few spaces to find each other and had only the &quot;bars and the bushes.&quot;  Donaciano grew up, went to college, and was a member of the Gay Liberation Front at Colorado College, later founded La Gente Unida, led efforts to pass Denver&#039;s first anti-discrimination ordinances, and is a life long Chicano activist.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Don McMaster Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Don grew up in West Denver in a Catholic household. He became an elementary school teacher. He helped create and run the first men&#039;s coming out group at the First Unitarian Society of Denver and the Gay Community Center of Colorado. He is a life long member of the Denver Gay Men&#039;s Chorus.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Denis Gerdes Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Denis Gerdes’s oral history traces his life from St. Louis to Colorado Springs and Denver, centered on family responsibility, Catholicism, gender expression, trauma, art, skating, and queer self-understanding. He discusses growing up as a feminine boy in a large military family, feeling responsible for siblings, complicated relationships with parents, early loss, abuse, and the need for safe spaces for LGBTQ youth. Gerdes reflects on figure skating, music, art, Manitou and Catholic schools, Colorado Springs bars, AIDS-era fear, and later self-direction through college. His story highlights resilience, creativity, vulnerability, survival, and the long process of reclaiming agency. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2017]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dee Galloway Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dee Galloway’s oral history traces her life from Beatrice, Nebraska, to Five Points and Denver’s lesbian community, centered on race, religion, reading, coming out, and community survival. She discusses childhood asthma, National Jewish, bullying, Baptist church life, early awareness of attraction to women, and finding language through Rubyfruit Jungle and a mentor at Bloomsbury Books. Galloway reflects on Denver school busing, Manual and JFK, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Everywoman’s Coming Out Group, Woman to Woman bookstore, Velvet Hammer, Three Sisters, the Broadway, police harassment, marriage, feminism, and Black lesbian identity.  She reads her poem &quot;The Slice The Air&quot;.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2019]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deb Pollock Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Deb Pollock talks about her work in theater, coming from Northern Colorado, working and living through the HIV/AIDS crisis in San Francisco and becoming the CEO of the Center on Colfax.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2019]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Daniel Dearmin Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Daniel Dearmin’s oral history traces his life across North Carolina, Hawaii, Vermont, and Colorado, shaped by family instability, music, poverty, racism, sexuality, and survival. He discusses his Hawaiian mother, Southern Appalachian childhood, bluegrass culture, divorce, sibling separation, domestic violence, early sexual experiences, and the lasting influence of Aunt Rosalie. Dearmin reflects on bisexuality, HIV, caregiving, chosen family, migration, and the complicated overlap of love, harm, beauty, and trauma. His story highlights resilience, cultural mixture, queer sexuality, memory, and the lifelong work of understanding how childhood, family, and survival shaped his identity.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2018]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Corky Blankenship Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Corky Blankenship’s two-part oral history traces his life from southeast Denver and Cherry Creek through Fort Lewis, Greeley, San Francisco, teaching, family business, and Denver gay nightlife. He discusses childhood creativity, paper dolls, early attraction to men, family acceptance, an older gay brother, cruising at Washington Park, the Capitol, and Cheesman Park, and early Denver bars such as the Court Jester. Blankenship reflects on San Francisco’s Polk Street and Castro scenes, returning to Denver to run the family daycare, caregiving, business stress, Tracks, dancing, friendship, and long-term gay community life. His story highlights joy, resilience, sexuality, nightlife, family, and queer Denver memory.<br />
<br />
Corky Blankenship was a long time community member.  In this oral history he speaks about his art, social life, and owning a family childcare business.  He grew up in Denver in the 1950s and made his mark by becoming a well known community member later in life.  He talks about his experiences knowing Harvey Milk, living through San Francisco in the 1970s, and returning home to Denver through the HIV AIDS crisis.  Corky passed in the middle of the COVID-19 Pandemic.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2019]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cole Hart Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cole Hart’s oral history traces her life from Nashville and Texas to military service and Colorado, centered on evangelical Christianity, sexuality, family, education, and identity. She discusses growing up in the Church of the Nazarene, gifted education, family therapy, purity culture, first crushes on women, coming out, Oxford, massage therapy, Catholicism, and spiritual deconstruction. Hart reflects on lesbian community in Nashville, serving in the Army during Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Arabic language training, Fort Bragg, graphic design, and moving to Colorado. Her story highlights faith, shame, resilience, military life, queer self-discovery, and rebuilding identity beyond religious constraint.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2017]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chris Sloan Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chris Sloan is a dancer and community activist, he helped to found the first Pride Parade in Denver in 1976.  He is a drag performer, Christi Layne, whose is internationally known.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:created>
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