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Bill Olson in New York (c. 1976) w/ Christi Layne and friends at DNC, met with Shirley Chisholm, pushed for gay plank in DNC

EPOC Meetings

Category 6 Book Store was the first gay book store in Denver formed around 1982 by partners Neil Woodward and Dan Otero. LGBTQ bookstores acted as centers of information distribution, resources, communication, and community. They held speakers,…

Robin was the first out member of the Denver City Council. In this oral history she talks about her life growing up in Wisonsin, journey through law school, and then election to the Denver City Council.

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…

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,…