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    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/items/show/1907">
    <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>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[https://creativecommons.org/cc-licenses/; CC BY-NC-ND<br />
<br />
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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/items/show/1905">
    <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[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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/items/show/1903">
    <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[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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/items/show/1901">
    <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[Sandra Ewing Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Lesbian Bar History in Colorado, Three Sisters ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This is an oral history of Sandra Ewing talking about her experiences in the Three Sisters. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1980s to 1990s]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2024]]></dcterms:created>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/items/show/1899">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary Romano Oral History ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Three Sisters Bar]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This oral history talks about Mary Romano&#039;s experiences in the Three Sisters bar from about 1980 to the bar closing in 1996.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[David Duffield]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2024]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2024]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Creative Commons License ]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Three Sisters Clippings and Articles ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Three Sisters Bar]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This file contains clippings from Big Mama Rag, Out Front, and several newspapers on the Three Sisters Bar. (Sources are cited in titles, via ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.com, gathered between 2024 to 2026) (Click Link Below)(<a href="https://1drv.ms/f/c/ca63316353910d3f/IgA_DZFTYzFjIIDKoFQAAAAAASG5fzFOikbrfJmlxNsuo8A?e=7THCcb" title="Three Sisters Articles and Clippings">https://1drv.ms/f/c/ca63316353910d3f/IgA_DZFTYzFjIIDKoFQAAAAAASG5fzFOikbrfJmlxNsuo8A?e=7THCcb</a>)]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1973 to 1996]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Creative Commons ]]></dcterms:rights>
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