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Title
Robin Oral History
Rights
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Subject
Lesbian Life in Colorado, Lesbian Business Owner
Description
Robin’s oral history traces her life from a military childhood in Michigan, Kentucky, Alaska, and Boulder to work, music, art, and lesbian self-understanding in Colorado. She discusses Catholic school, Boulder High, CU, Mountain High Ice Cream, Celestial Seasonings, auto electric work, Denver Free University, KUVO, and Tattered Cover. Robin reflects on early same-sex awareness, shame, first relationships with women, Three Sisters, Divine, friendships, humor, work as play, jazz radio, women in jazz programming, retirement, painting, and finding support through the GLBT Center. Her story highlights lesbian identity, creativity, work culture, music, resilience, and late-life self-acceptance. {Special note: This oral history contains the perspective of a woman loving woman owned business in the 1970s in Colorado)