12 10 1877 https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/2615f610212d539670b66479528f2b11.docx ea4c6a758dea03c0af4653fe43e9abe3 https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d37e0781030def925d7337cb3a8041ea.MP3 c5c706bf0dec5002079f940075149fbc https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/7b150b8e9445b61188761207c7b24d96.MP3 d3a76115744295f934fc8848321ee95a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Karen Benson Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2019 Description An account of the resource Karen Benson’s two-part oral history traces her life from Manchester, Connecticut, through Syracuse, Montana, Oregon, and Denver, centered on empathy, spirituality, social work, activism, and LGBTQ student support. She discusses growing up in a supportive Lutheran family, early concern for outsiders, meditation, social justice awareness, anti-nuclear civil disobedience, bisexual identity, and later lesbian partnership. Benson reflects on social work, coming out, meeting Cindy, family support, marriage, and directing LGBTQ student services at Auraria/Metro, including coming-out support, religious shame, community-building, World AIDS Day, and campus advocacy. Her story highlights care work, faith, activism, counseling, and queer community leadership. (Special Note: Talks specifically about the creation of the LGBTQ Center of Auraria) Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Auraria LGBTQ Center Founder Connecticut Israel Lesbian Marriage Oregon Parenthood https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/a4b46987f1fea42403f7d42ff54c44b9.docx 34f7398a6c0706f2ca5e3c054e0d7051 https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d5932fb2afc8aa7b72ccb931c6839ab4.MP3 a94bfab8ef4a1b48ffa4229ce38969e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Karl Jaekl Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2021 Description An account of the resource Karl Jaekl reflects on family, memory, organization, and early queer self-understanding. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1955, he describes close family networks, grandparents, farms, genealogy, scrapbooks, school, paper routes, friendships, and a lifelong instinct for preserving records. His story follows moves from Iowa to Kansas and El Paso, where math club, friendships, and long conversations helped him understand his attraction to men. He recalls a formative relationship with Paul, coming out to his friend Mike, and entering college still resisting gay labels while using letters, documentation, and memory to make sense of himself. Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Colorado Square Dancing Club El Paso Iowa Texas Univerity of Texas Austin (UT Austin) Writer https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/fcc7695ff310f291098887f9cf7f2a92.docx 0f994e5a5ce0d5a8a7fab2aca35bbb49 https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/95e51d1c176e56b053d0d9296d099583.MP3 74bec5ee86fb54bf508ceaa37a1a7aa0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Kate Bowman Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2015 Description An account of the resource Kate Bowman talks about the founding the GIC Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Colorado Cross-dressing Gender Identity Center (GIC) Founder Military Transgender Washington https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/b7e136d3597442101fc434952a92833f.docx a73aa605f05b0a7d8c9f3da3dbbe5ade https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d14f21b25cdc28154b87f556b20e8e6c.MP3 6cbfc6e5a14fc7757d64efdff453f25b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Kaye Garms Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2018 Description An account of the resource Kaye Garms’s oral history traces her life from an Oklahoma farm to Wayland Baptist, Texas, and Colorado, centered on basketball, teaching, partnership, and outdoor life. She discusses growing up the youngest of seven, farm work, high school basketball, earning a college scholarship, playing for the Wayland Flying Queens, traveling to the Soviet Union with a U.S. women’s basketball team, and becoming an educator and coach. Garms reflects on falling in love with Cookie, teaching in Texas and Jefferson County, women’s athletics, LGBTQ social circles, house parties, Charlie’s, hiking, skiing, climbing fourteeners, and building a long shared life in Colorado. Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Basketball Charlie's Denver Coach Lesbian Life in Denver 1970-1985 Lesbian Sports Oklahoma Teacher Texas Tracks Night Club https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/73f4f3765e039a44dcd423cbfca2afd1.wav e0607836f9a43b5e8faae618af1f07e5 https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/795b3027602fd054c32ef3e03a6e87df.docx 4e3fbd0286cd6cf44a983445ecee830b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Alice Cookie Barron Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2014 Description An account of the resource 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 talks about being an educator, as well as founding many sports programs in Jefferson County Public Schools for girls and women. She talks about life for women loving women in Colorado in the late 20th century. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Ken Felts Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2020 Description An account of the resource Kenneth Felts recounts a life shaped by movement, secrecy, faith, family, and late-life liberation. Born in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1930, he remembers the Dust Bowl, Depression hardship, railroad towns, World War II, bullying, and early awareness of attraction to men. His story follows military service, education, work, marriage, fatherhood, divorce, and decades of suppressing his gay identity while building a conventional life. During the 2020 COVID lockdown, writing his life story led him to come out publicly, reconnect with LGBTQ community, and transform long-hidden memory into witness, advocacy, and self-acceptance. Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 California Dust Bowl Korean War Military University of New Mexico (UNM) World War II Writer https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/c47c6f5a223e999127f4bb1e36190b20.docx 1dd8659da24a5b1a586d4106dafb7dbc https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/e6002436c1df68e50f6507b800d770c0.MP3 4729e8da8834153e8f7b67ab43d22e5b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Ken Morgan Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2017 Description An account of the resource Ken Morgan grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin and graduated from Wisconsin State University at Whitewater in 1971. After 7 years living in the Chicago area, Ken Morgan moved to Colorado in late 1978. In Chicago Ken managed a large electronics store in Waukegan, Il. So, using that experience, in 1979 Ken opened a retail store, Stereo Plus, at 320 Broadway, and for 7 years served central Denver, advertising to the gay community in particular, with a place to find good sound for a reasonable price. After a couple of years traveling the country in the late 1980s, Ken taught himself relational database programming and worked as a consultant to U S West until 2000. For the last 20 years Ken has traded the stock market for a living. Ken met his partner, Lenny, in 2003. Ken and Lenny live in southeast Denver and are active in several gay groups including the Rocky Mountain Rainbeaus square dance club and Front Runners, a gay walking/running group. Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Business Owner Chicago Colorado Frontrunners Rocky Mountain Rainbeaus Square Dancing Wisconsin https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d63e34a75fafb685323f48e63554a917.MP3 9ed85ed690cb1cd1431d43186a9d824e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Kenny Smith Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016 Description An account of the resource Kenny talks about growing up in Denver, being adopted, coming out and struggling with his sexuality, struggles with substances and drinking, and living with an HIV diagnosis and living throught he HIV epidemic. Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Addiction Adoption Baylor University Gay Alcoholics Anonymous HIV/AIDS Texas https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/7249ad06d9303e6a34d06f00471382ec.docx 2d8c576ed734a9011c7cd1313a3d3012 https://lgbtqcolorado.cvlcollections.org/files/original/db2d5bec1bc6737e71bb24e845a2208e.MP3 74c8c772fca189f72791858649349785 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Larry Wegner Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2015 Description An account of the resource Larry Wegner’s oral history traces his life from Yuma, Colorado, to Boulder, Denver, Los Angeles, and back, centered on music, performance, publishing, and gay community life. He recalls growing up as a talented pianist in a small farming town, coming out gradually through Boulder and Denver gay spaces, touring with entertainer Al Boring, and experiencing West Hollywood in the 1970s. Wegner discusses Denver bars, bathhouses, police harassment, early gay publications, the Colorado Directory, Out Front, business advertising, AIDS-era loss, and the growth of LGBTQ visibility, culture, and community infrastructure in Colorado. Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral Histories Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Title A name given to the resource Laurie Theimer Oral History Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016 Description An account of the resource Laurie Theimer’s oral history traces growing up in Denver, coming out at CSU in 1971, and finding lesbian community through Fort Collins networks and Denver bars such as Three Sisters. She reflects on tomboy childhood, family caregiving, mental illness stigma, early lesbian identity, gender expression, and the safety of lesbian social spaces. Theimer discusses friendships, suicide loss, the Imperial Court, AIDS-era grief, chosen family, and the impact of friends such as Kasha, Randy, Michael, and John. Her story highlights lesbian bar culture, caregiving, community trauma, resilience, and the slow process of stepping out of the shadows. Subject The topic of the resource Oral History Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Colorado LGBTQ History Project Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Arizona Denver HIV/AIDS International Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire (ICRME) Lesbian Lesbian Life in Denver 1970-1985 Three Sister's Bar Youth Work