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Title
Karen Benson Oral History
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Date Created
2019
Subject
Oral History
Description
Karen Benson’s two-part oral history traces her life from Manchester, Connecticut, through Syracuse, Montana, Oregon, and Denver, centered on empathy, spirituality, social work, activism, and LGBTQ student support. She discusses growing up in a supportive Lutheran family, early concern for outsiders, meditation, social justice awareness, anti-nuclear civil disobedience, bisexual identity, and later lesbian partnership. Benson reflects on social work, coming out, meeting Cindy, family support, marriage, and directing LGBTQ student services at Auraria/Metro, including coming-out support, religious shame, community-building, World AIDS Day, and campus advocacy. Her story highlights care work, faith, activism, counseling, and queer community leadership. (Special Note: Talks specifically about the creation of the LGBTQ Center of Auraria)
Type
Sound
Is Part Of
Colorado LGBTQ History Project
Format
audio/mp3