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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teri Parker Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Three Sisters Bar]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Teri Parker describes her experiences of the Three Sisters Bar]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1980s to 1990s]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2024]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Different Sisters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Three Sisters Bar]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This paper was written by Mary Romano in the 1990s a part of one of the first LGBTQ studies class in Colorado.  She intereviewed patrons of the bar, and gathered valuable insight into the nature and significance of the place.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Mary Romano]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1990s]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2024]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Phil Hoyle Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Phil Hoyle’s oral history traces his life from a religious Kansas upbringing into church work, marriage, fatherhood, and eventual self-recognition as a gay man. He describes long years of understanding himself through bisexuality, his loving but complicated marriage to Merna, and the careful process of coming out to his wife and children. After moving toward an openly gay life, Hoyle found community in gay bars, Denver’s LGBT institutions, the Terry Mangan Library, and volunteer massage work with people living with HIV/AIDS through the Colorado AIDS Project. His story blends spirituality, sexuality, service, grief, and self-creation.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2014]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aileen Gaumond Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesbian History, Colorado]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 construction, family hardship, caregiving, divorce, depression, and later finding LGBTQ community through The Center on Colfax. Her story highlights resilience, bisexual identity, women’s labor history, and the importance of community spaces in helping LGBTQ people find belonging and confidence.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2016]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Daniel Wenger Oral History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Colorado, HIV, Gay History]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Daniel Wenger’s oral history traces his life from rural Indiana to Denver, including childhood isolation, bullying, funeral work, military service, marriage, fatherhood, alcoholism, mental health struggles, and gradual self-acceptance as a gay man. He reflects on early same-sex desire, secrecy, relationships with men, depression, sobriety through AA, the death of his daughter, and the difficulty of coming out to family. Wenger also discusses Denver gay spaces, Cheesman Park, AIDS-era loss, aging, Parkinson’s, loneliness, and elderhood. His story emphasizes survival, grief, recovery, self-honesty, and the importance of coming out first to oneself.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2016]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jim Hipp Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[LGBTQ History in Colorado ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jim Hipp’s oral history traces his life from Minnesota to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, centered on Baptist upbringing, gay self-discovery, nightlife, work, friendship, and survival. He discusses leaving home, early gay bars and cruising spaces in Minneapolis, sexual freedom in Los Angeles and San Francisco, bartending, family relationships, fatherhood, and coming out later in life. Hipp reflects on Jonestown-related grief, drug use, the Triangle, Denver’s gay bar scene, and rebuilding his life through work at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. His story highlights humor, resilience, chosen family, recovery, and queer life across several cities.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2018]]></dcterms:created>
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</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/items/show/1908">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Robin  Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesbian Life in Colorado, Lesbian Business Owner]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Robin’s oral history traces her life from a military childhood in Michigan, Kentucky, Alaska, and Boulder to work, music, art, and lesbian self-understanding in Colorado. She discusses Catholic school, Boulder High, CU, Mountain High Ice Cream, Celestial Seasonings, auto electric work, Denver Free University, KUVO, and Tattered Cover. Robin reflects on early same-sex awareness, shame, first relationships with women, Three Sisters, Divine, friendships, humor, work as play, jazz radio, women in jazz programming, retirement, painting, and finding support through the GLBT Center. Her story highlights lesbian identity, creativity, work culture, music, resilience, and late-life self-acceptance.  {Special note:  This oral history contains the perspective of a woman loving woman owned business in the 1970s in Colorado)]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This license enables reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only if attribution is given to the creator. CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements:]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jenn Behind The Green Door]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Transgender History in Colorado]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jennifer “Behind the Green Door”’s oral history centers on the Gender Identity Center, Tommye Kelly, and the practical, emotional, and community realities of transition in Colorado. She discusses finding early transgender information through The Transvestian, contacting Kelly, attending groups, and understanding the “green door” as a symbol of safety, preparation, and entry into public life. Jennifer reflects on Kelly’s fierce advocacy, therapy, family-resolution model, job and school support, electrolysis, hormones, SRS in Thailand, Community College of Denver, and the importance of learning to live fully in the world. Access note: restricted until Jennifer gives permission or written release is obtained.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2019]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jerry Reese (Bublz La Rue)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Drag History, Seattle, Denver, South]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bublz La Rue is a long time performer and personal friend of Christi Layne.  In this oral history he talks about his career in drag as well as growing up in the South and his activist work in Seattle as well as the early days of the International Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2019]]></dcterms:created>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Joseph Bump Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Gay History ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Joseph Bump reflects on a life shaped by conservative religion, study, family, loss, and late-life LGBTQ community. Raised in an extremely conservative Methodist holiness tradition, he trained in education, theology, music, Greek, and Latin, later preaching, teaching Sunday school, and writing religious curriculum. He married Leanne Kelly, had children, and lived within church-centered expectations before leaving a difficult marriage and losing many long-standing religious friends after they learned he was interested in men. In Denver, he rebuilt community, studied scripture and sexuality, challenged anti-gay religious interpretations, and advocated for patience, education, and inclusion for LGBTQ elders.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2020]]></dcterms:created>
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