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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…

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…

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…

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…

Kate Bowman talks about the founding the GIC

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…

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…

Jim Clarke reflects on growing up in a young, working-class family shaped by frequent moves, masculinity pressures, divorce, and early responsibility. Born in Miami in 1963, he remembers childhood in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas, including outdoor…

Jerry Reese talks about his activism, drag performances, growing up in Louisiana and hist work in Denver with the International Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire.