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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,…

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.

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,…

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…

Don grew up in West Denver in a Catholic household. He became an elementary school teacher. He helped create and run the first men's coming out group at the First Unitarian Society of Denver and the Gay Community Center of Colorado. He is a life long…

Donaciano was born and raised in Colorado Springs. His family lived in an area which would later be torn down for "urban renewal" to make America the Beautiful Park. He grew up seeing signs which said things like "No dogs or Mexicans allowed." He…

Gabbie talks about being a member of the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire and growing up in Colorado

Gail Klock’s oral history traces her life from Pueblo, Colorado, through a career in physical education, coaching, and gifted education. She discusses Title IX, sexism in athletics, and discrimination against lesbian coaches in schools and…

Gillian Edwards was born near Sheffield, England. As a young girl she remembered the end of the second world war, and traveling around the world as a high school student. She realized she fell in love, realized she was a lesbian after college, and…

Gregg Looker talks about his work in the International Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire, being in the military, and working in the city of Denver.