Oral history interview of the Twin Cities Gay and Lesbian Community Oral History Project, 1993.

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Oral history interview of the Twin Cities Gay and Lesbian Community Oral History Project, 1993.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32500625

These interviews look into the lives of eight people connected with the local gay/lesbian community from the 1940s to the advent of AIDS in the early 1980s. Throughout the interviews, the narrators recount: early impressions of what they thought homosexuality was, personal experiences of how they came to terms with their sexuality, where they socialized with those like themselves, and the overall social environment they experienced in the Twin Cities. INTERVIEWEES: Richard Bosard, Dennis E. Miller, Koreen Phelps, Ashley Ann Rukes, Allan Spear, Leo Treadway, Jean-Nicholas Tretter, Kerry Woodward.

Sound recordings : 17 sound cassettes (60 min. each)Sound recordings : 1 sound cassette (90 min. each)Transcripts : 8 v. ; 28 cm.

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7342528

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Paulsen, Scott

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Phelps, Koreen

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Spear, Allan H.

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Allan H. Spear was born Michigan City, Indiana in 1937. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1958 and earned an M.A.(1960) and a PhD from Yale University (1965). In 1965, Spear was hired in the History Department at the University of Minnesota to teach American and African American History. He continued to teach at the University while serving in the Minnesota Legislature. Spear was elected to the Minnesota State Senate on the DFL ticket in 1972. He served in districts t...

Bosard, Richard,

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Treadway, Leo.

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Woodward, Kerry

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Rukes, Ashley Ann,

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Miller, Dennis E.

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Twin Cities Gay and Lesbian Community Oral History Project.

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Tretter, Jean-Nicholas,

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