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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…

Chocolate Waters reflects on a life shaped by writing, rebellion, lesbian community, and artistic survival. Born in Maryland and raised largely in conservative Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, she describes feeling out of place before discovering lesbian…

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…

Judith Blair talks about growing up in the midwest, living in California during the 1950s as well as her band Sweet Honey in 1970s Colorado, as well as her life with her partner and founding a business for brain health.