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Frankie Siebert talks about his work as a business owner, his work witht he Colorado AIDS Project, and living through the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Inga Larson talks about living in Durango, Colorado during Amendment 2 and her work as a therapist.

Janet Lewallen’s oral history traces growing up in Denver’s Park Hill community, East High School, Methodist church life, music, college, VISTA service, and coming out as a lesbian in the 1970s. She reflects on family, her close bond with her mother,…

Jerry Reese talks about his activism, drag performances, growing up in Louisiana and hist work in Denver with the International Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire.

Jim Clarke reflects on growing up in a young, working-class family shaped by frequent moves, masculinity pressures, divorce, and early responsibility. Born in Miami in 1963, he remembers childhood in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas, including outdoor…

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…

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…

Kate Bowman talks about the founding the GIC

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…