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

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

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,…

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…

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…

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.