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Title
Bruce Gipson Oral History
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date Created
2018
Subject
Oral History
Description
Bruce Gipson’s oral history traces his life as a Black gay man born in Denver in 1955, shaped by Park Hill, Five Points, family expectations, race, class, sexuality, and education. He discusses his father’s role as Colorado’s first Black board-certified surgeon, Denver’s informal segregation, integrating Grayland Country Day School, East High School, Jack and Jill, Morehouse, depression, and the pressure to be “twice as good.” Gipson reflects on early awareness of attraction to men, Black middle-class respectability, racism, gentrification, interracial gay community, BWMT, HIV/AIDS loss, and the lifelong burden of navigating race and sexuality. Note: Bruce passed away in 2022
Type
Sound
Is Part Of
Colorado LGBTQ History Project
Format
audio/mp3