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Title
Janet Lewallen Oral History
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date Created
2016
Subject
Oral History
Description
Janet Lewallen’s oral history traces growing up in Denver’s Park Hill community, East High School, Methodist church life, music, college, VISTA service, and coming out as a lesbian in the 1970s. She reflects on family, her close bond with her mother, her gay brother, racial tensions in Denver schools, Kennedy/King-era violence, early gay spaces, women’s bars, and lesbian identity formation. Lewallen discusses coming out to her parents in 1978, her family’s later connection to PFLAG, church, choir, activism, and community memory. Her story highlights family acceptance, lesbian community, faith, Denver history, and intergenerational LGBTQ resilience. --->Helpful Link: Lewallen Family Papers - https://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/6820
Type
Sound
Is Part Of
Colorado LGBTQ History Project
Format
audio/mp3