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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.

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…

Phil Hoyle’s oral history traces his life from a religious Kansas upbringing into church work, marriage, fatherhood, and eventual self-recognition as a gay man. He describes long years of understanding himself through bisexuality, his loving but…

Aileen Gaumond’s oral history traces her life from New Jersey to Colorado, including childhood, athletics, hitchhiking, education, marriage, motherhood, and work as one of the early women electricians in Colorado. She reflects on sexism in…

Daniel Wenger’s oral history traces his life from rural Indiana to Denver, including childhood isolation, bullying, funeral work, military service, marriage, fatherhood, alcoholism, mental health struggles, and gradual self-acceptance as a gay man.…

Jim Hipp’s oral history traces his life from Minnesota to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, centered on Baptist upbringing, gay self-discovery, nightlife, work, friendship, and survival. He discusses leaving home, early gay bars and cruising…