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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…

In this oral history Alice Cookie Barron talks about her experiences growing up in Texas, becoming a basketball player, travelling to Russia during the Cold War, and finding her life long partner Kaye Garms. Cookie moved to Denver in the 1960s, and…

Andy Maxwell reflects on growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a large working-class family shaped by loss, poverty, segregation, and resilience. He describes realizing he was gay as a teenager, navigating secrecy, police exposure, public cruising…

Annie Brenman-West talks about her life in Denver, as well as her work with the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire.

This oral history talks about Beth Kahmann being a teacher, growing up being a woman loving woman, and survivor of traumatic brain injury.

Bill Fry reflects on adoption, repression, faith, travel, and gay life across several decades. Raised in small-town Attica, Indiana, he describes a loving but emotionally limited family, early awareness of difference, military school expulsion,…

Bill Olson talks about his life growing up on Chicago, joining the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire, and living through the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Bill Threllfall talks about owning his family newspaper and gay life from the 1960s to 2010

BJ talks about his life in Denver, going to DU, and being the owner of an LGBTQ business.

Bob talks about growing up in New York, meeting his partner Phil Nash, being an out doctor, as well as the murder of Irene De Soto