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Linda Rose’s oral history traces her life from Los Angeles and Elk City, Oklahoma, to Denver, centered on adoption, strict Church of Christ upbringing, athletics, work, lesbian identity, and community. She discusses feeling different as a teenager,…

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…

John Manchaca talks about his life in Colorado, work with the International Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire, and other non-profits in Denver.

Andy Maxwell reflects on growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a large working-class family shaped by loss, poverty, segregation, and resilience. He describes realizing he was gay as a teenager, navigating secrecy, police exposure, public cruising…