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Rob talk about growing up in Ohio, coming out, getting involved in politics and anti-war work in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as starting a gay coffee house. He was involved in politics in Denver in the 1970s, as well as the 1980s, as well as a…

Robert Reister’s oral history traces his life as a military child born at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center, shaped by Germany, Denver/Aurora, Louisiana, Ohio, Catholic faith, family, and early political awareness. He reflects on the Berlin Wall,…

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,…

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…