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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chocolate Waters Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 identity at Lock Haven. After being left in Colorado, she built a life in Denver through women’s bars, house painting, poetry, and the radical feminist newspaper Big Mama Rag. Her story follows love affairs, feminist politics, performance, publishing, New York City, Paris readings, aging, memory, and the complicated joy of making an independent creative life outside conventional expectations.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2020]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Craig Dietz Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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, school, skiing, student leadership, theater, and early awareness of being gay. His story follows travel to Kenya as an AFS exchange student, coming out in college, relationships, Capitol Hill gay life, AIDS-era fears, family acceptance, professional work in business and franchising, bankruptcy and rebuilding, and the ways travel, politics, class, and queer community shaped his identity.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2021-2022]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fran and Ana Simon Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 with the University of Denver and Denver Botanic Gardens. They describe buying a home, holding a Jewish wedding ceremony in 2005, becoming parents, and navigating costly legal work to protect their family before marriage equality. Their story follows civil-union testimony, public visibility through One Colorado, political setbacks, family acceptance, and the emotional labor of fighting for equal recognition.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2021]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jerry Gerash Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2012-2020]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Julia Condolora Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Julia Condolora reflects on growing up in an Italian Catholic family in Syracuse, New York, where she felt shy, introverted, and privately drawn to women’s clothing from an early age. She describes shame, fear, and secrecy around dressing, later moving to Denver in 1974, where anonymity offered more room to explore identity. Her story follows electronics work, carpentry, woodworking, marriage, running a shop, online transgender forums, gradual self-understanding, hormones, coming out to friends, and involvement with the Gender Identity Center, where she found community, advocacy, and a fuller life as a trans woman. Note:  Julia donated the first collection specifically for transgender people due to her work at the GIC.  Find it here ---&gt; https://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/9167]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Condolora, Julia]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2021]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Duffield, David (interviewer)]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[Find her physical collection at Denver Public Library Western History <a href="https://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/9167">https://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/9167</a>]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Colorado LGBTQ History Project]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Robin Cohen Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 coming out through bars, reading, and public speaking. Her story follows college, rugby, Israel, lesbian pulp fiction collecting, Seattle counseling and education work, mental health trainings, and efforts to document lesbian history. She also discusses adoption and foster-care barriers, workplace diversity failures, aging, and the lifelong labor of turning shame, exclusion, and invisibility into knowledge, humor, advocacy, and community memory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2020]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[5 together]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1976]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[CO LGBT History Project: 5 Activists Sent to 1976 DNC]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Atop Empire State]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1976]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[CO LGBT History Project: 5 Activists Sent to 1976 DNC]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bill Olson at DNC]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bill Olson in New York (c. 1976) w/ Christi Layne and friends at DNC, met with Shirley Chisholm, pushed for gay plank in DNC ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1976]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[CO LGBT History Project: 5 Activists Sent to 1976 DNC]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bill Olson at Oscar Wilde Book Shop]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bill Olson in New York (c. 1976) w/ Christi Layne and friends at DNC, met with Shirley Chisholm, pushed for gay plank in DNC ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1976]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[CO LGBT History Project: 5 Activists Sent to 1976 DNC]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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