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Wren Davis Pheonix Oral History
Wren Davis Pheonix’s oral history traces growing up in southwest Denver, navigating family trauma, foster care, gender fluidity, and early recognition of queer identity. Pheonix describes coming out, leaving college, working in Denver lesbian bars…
Shawan Turner Oral History
Shawan Turner’s oral history traces her life from the Bronx to Colorado, centered on poverty, family, survival, motherhood, racism, sexuality, and community. She recalls growing up in New York tenements, being raised among Black and Puerto Rican…
Shari Wilkens Oral History
Shari was born and raised in Denver. In this oral history she talks about her life growing up in Park Hill. She didn’t hear about same-sex love growing up, and became a teacher. In this oral history she talks about her activism in the women’s, LGBTQ,…
Phoebe Butsch Oral History
Phoebe Butsch’s oral history traces her life from Rochester, Minnesota, to Europe, Africa, graduate school, teaching, and Colorado, centered on education, travel, history, feminism, and later lesbian self-understanding. She discusses her Mayo Clinic…
Mary Celeste Oral History
Mary Celeste was the first out and proud lesbian to be elected in Denver County. She is also a founding, long time member of the Colorado GLBT Bar Association, LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, and was a leader with the Colorado Legal Initiatives Project…
Laurie Theimer Oral History
Laurie Theimer’s oral history traces growing up in Denver, coming out at CSU in 1971, and finding lesbian community through Fort Collins networks and Denver bars such as Three Sisters. She reflects on tomboy childhood, family caregiving, mental…
Alice Cookie Barron Oral History
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…
Karen Benson Oral History
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…
Gillian Edwards Oral History
Gillian Edwards was born near Sheffield, England. As a young girl she remembered the end of the second world war, and traveling around the world as a high school student. She realized she fell in love, realized she was a lesbian after college, and…
Beth Kahmann Oral History
This oral history talks about Beth Kahmann being a teacher, growing up being a woman loving woman, and survivor of traumatic brain injury.