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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…

Kate Bowman talks about the founding the GIC

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…

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…

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…

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.