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Teri Parker describes her experiences of the Three Sisters Bar

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.

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…