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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.

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…

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…

Jim Clarke reflects on growing up in a young, working-class family shaped by frequent moves, masculinity pressures, divorce, and early responsibility. Born in Miami in 1963, he remembers childhood in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas, including outdoor…