Dublin Core
Title
Andy Maxwell Oral History
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date Created
2020
Subject
Oral History
Description
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 spaces, and pressure to appear more masculine. After leaving Tulsa, he moved to Denver in 1955, found work, and built an independent life connected to Capitol Hill, employment, friendships, travel, and gay community spaces. His oral history preserves memories of family hardship, sexuality, survival, humor, and the everyday realities of gay life across mid-twentieth-century Tulsa, Denver, and beyond.
Type
Sound
Is Part Of
Colorado LGBTQ History Project
Format
audio/mp3