7 25 297 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=2&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Ken+McDonnell">Ken McDonnell</a> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=3&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Wallace+Lee+Corbett">Wallace Lee Corbett</a> Location The location of the interview. Adams Morgan Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Wallace Corbett Description An account of the resource <strong>Interested in listening to this audio?</strong><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request access Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2/26/2015 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. This oral history belongs to the Rainbow History Project Subject The topic of the resource The journey of a HIV/AIDS survivor Abstract A summary of the resource. 1982-2013 Wallace talked about moving to DC in 1982 when he was in his early 20's. He lived a fun young gay man life. Spending weekends out at clubs developing many friendships. He became HIV+ through a lover who became HIV+ through his hemophilia. This transformed Wallace's life. After his lover passed, he became an HIV activist. Worked two jobs and joined several gay and HIV activist groups. Wallace was in the first AIDS Ride from Philly to DC. Wallace was in several of the AIDS Rides. Wallace met a 10 year old boy on one of the rides who was born with HIV. This boy left a strong impression on Wallace. Someone Wallace would like to find today. He met a second love Myron Miles (?) through the MCC. In the mid-1990s Myron had a mid-life crisis, ended the relationship with Wallace and started dating a man named Everett Jennings. This proved a very dangerous for Mryon. Everett was mentally ill and tried to kill Mryon, Mryon's parents and grandmother. It was a big drama. Wallace talked about how he was out at his jobs throughout his working career here in DC. But when he was HIV and when friends and lovers died, he kept that to himself. Being gay was okay but HIV+ was to big of a stigma. 1980s 1990s 2000s African Americans Gay men HIV/AIDS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=2&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Diane+Barnes">Diane Barnes</a> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=3&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Jonathan+Blumenthal+%281969-+%29%0D%0AEric+Cohen+%281968-+%29">Jonathan Blumenthal (1969- ) Eric Cohen (1968- )</a> Location The location of the interview. Silver Spring, MD Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:50:54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Jonathan Blumenthal (1969- ) and Eric Cohen (1968- ) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=8+Feb+2015">8 Feb 2015</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Description An account of the resource <strong>Want access to this audio?</strong> <br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request access Abstract A summary of the resource. 1999 - 2015 Blumenthal and Cohen discuss their experiences at Gay, Lesbian, and Other Volunteer Singles (GLOVES), which disbanded in 1999, and their subsequent creation of Burgundy Crescent volunteers in 2001. The couple describes BCV's growth, administration, and organizational structure; the group's role in fostering relationships within the LGBTQ community; and its evolving relationship with the local clients it serves. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=2&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Moriah+Petty">Moriah Petty</a> Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=3&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Nicholas+Shi">Nicholas Shi</a> Location The location of the interview. Dupont Circle neighborhood, Washington DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 01:23:01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Nicolas Shi, 1958 - Description An account of the resource Gay Chinese-Latino immigrant faces racial tension and a struggle with personal acceptance coming out in the gay community in the early 1980's. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.+">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. </a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1986-present <br /><br />Nicolas Shi was born in El Salvador to full-Chinese parents, but moved to United States for college to escape building civil conflict. Shi moved to Washington in 1986 to start work. Not yet fully out of the closet, he secured brief relationships through <em>The Washington Blade</em> and frequented many gay bars and restaurants in Dupont Circle, where he often felt invisible. He sought out company from other Asians and eventually helped found and manage the social group 'Asians and Friends' even running their newsletter and marching with the group in early Pride parades. He experienced a lack of community among gay Latins but found a home in the Asian community despite tensions over Asian fetishes and emasculation. He and a partner bought a house between Dupont and Logan circle in 1986 and has lived there ever since, noting the changes in the neighborhood, which he borders with P St and 16th St NW. The rest of the family remains in the El Salvador with varying levels of acceptance of his sexual orientation and marriage to a long-term partner. He talks about 'de-gaying' the house when his relatives came to visit, until eventually coming out. Places mentioned include Lambda Rising bookstore, Friends, a showtunes piano bar, Mr. P's, P Street Station, The Fireside, JR's, Trumpets, Lost &amp; Found and The Glory Hole.<br /><br />Includes brief commentary from Shi's husband. Asians Latine Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=2&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Adam+L.+Weiss">Adam L. Weiss</a> Location The location of the interview. Washington, DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Jodi Morrison, 1945 - Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s-1980s. Jodi Morrison is a trans woman who came to DC as Joey Morrison in 1972. In this interview she discusses her involvement with the DC LGBT community in the 70s and 80s, describing many bars, clubs and restaurants where LGBT individuals gathered. She also discusses her service in the US Navy before coming to live in DC, as well as her transition from male to female, which she began while living in DC and continued after she left DC in the 80s. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=2&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elliott+Wrenn">Elliott Wrenn</a> Location The location of the interview. Dupont Circle, Washington, DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available. Two MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a) files Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Vincent E. Slatt, 1979 - Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=15+November+2014">15 November 2014</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2003-2014 Vincent Slatt was born in Indiana on March 26, 1979. In this Rainbow History Project (RHP) oral history Slatt discusses his background, relocation to the Washington, DC, area, and his work in DC’s gay community. Interests in languages and research opportunities in Poland led Slatt to the district in 2003. Slatt describes arriving around the time of Capital Pride 2003, his involvement as a Capital Pride volunteer, and his work on planning committees in subsequent years. Slatt worked on Pride from 2004-2008—years in which the Whitman-Walker Clinic (clinic) sponsored and planned the event. Slatt was a founding member of Capital Pride Alliance (CPA), the organization that organized Capital Pride when the clinic selected a non-profit to take over managing the event. Slatt discusses volunteering for the planning committee for Capital Pride 2008 and his involvement in creating the successful CPA proposal in response to the clinic’s 2007 request for proposals to take over management of Capital Pride. Slatt also describes his three year term (2008-2011) as secretary on the CPA board of directors. In 2013 Slatt began volunteering with the Rainbow History Project, a membership organization committing to documenting the district’s gay community. Slatt discusses RHP collections (e.g. Cheryl Spector’s personal papers), public events, and community programs. Whitman-Walker Clinic Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Diane Barnes Location The location of the interview. Washington, DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Lynne Brown, 1955 - Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9 December 2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1974- 2014 Brown focuses on her business career at the Washington Blade newspaper, and begins with a description of her ancestral ties to North America's early European settlers. She came out as a lesbian in 1974 at Syracuse University, where she found strong acceptance partly rooted in the period's feminist politics. Brown moved to DC in 1977 in search of a local lesbian community she had started to discover through a college girlfriend and the publication "off our backs." She joined a car dealership and met the local activist Mary-Helen Mautner as a customer; Mautner introduced the young saleswoman to lesbian gathering places including the Owl and Tortoise, the Bachelor's Mill and Phase 1, and to several feminist theorists behind the journal,"Quest: A Feminist Quarterly." Brown became involved with groups that included the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington, the DC Area Feminist Chorus (later renamed Bread and Roses), and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, where she served as treasurer on the board of directors. The Blade hired Brown for an advertising sales role in 1984, after she had returned to DC from a costly one-year stay in San Diego with another girlfriend. Shannon Rodes, the sales manager who recruited Brown, soon resigned from her position so the women could begin a relationship that remains ongoing. Brown discusses the Blade office's culture; the classified section's critical role in connecting readers over the 1980s and 1990s; and the struggle to sustain revenue as Craigslist and social media applications gained prominence. She touches intermittently on subjects that include local Pride celebrations in the 1980s; the prominent gay nightclub Tracks; ambivalence over her business career as an avowed critic of capitalist institutions; and business disruptions linked to the 2001 anthrax mailings. The firm Window Media purchased the Blade from the newspaper's employees in May 2001, and Brown details an intensive staff and community campaign to save the newspaper after the company moved to halt its publication in November 2009. They published as the "D.C. Agenda" until April 2010, when staff members retook ownership of the "Blade" brand. She concludes by considering the future of newspapers and of "the gay community," and by describing efforts to digitize the Blade's sizable archive. Description An account of the resource <strong>Want access to this audio?</strong> <br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request access 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Bachelor's Mill Bars and clubs Chorus groups Feminism Nightlife Phase One Pride Publications Restaurants Tracks Washington Blade Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Cassandra Ake Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Jill Strachan, PhD Location The location of the interview. Capital Hill, Washington, DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available.<br /><br /><strong>LISTEN ONLINE</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_rmd0YNI039SHFsSXNfZlJDYlE/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-9NZfPW2T7jiZcszC_9dVnw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Part 1 of 2</a></strong><br /><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_rmd0YNI039UWF1aEo4YWVxMms/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-QX2_cXHh6FLQWZL0vXT5WQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Part 2 of 2</a></strong> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Jill Strachan, 1949 - Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 26 October 2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. Subject The topic of the resource 1977 - 2014 A DC resident since 1977, Jill has been primarily involved in the arts community, including groups such as the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington, GALA Choruses, and the GLBT Arts Consortium, in the early days of SMYAL and in delivering food to HIV/AIDs patients. She brings up some of the tensions between gays and lesbians in the GALA Choruses movement and mentions finding a DC-based feminist newspaper, Off Our Backs, that pointed her to under-the-radar GLBT bars in DC, particularly the Capitol Hill area. She also speaks about some of the early legal support for LGBTQ people in DC, particularly under former mayor Marion Barry. https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/468d54c0c4636454430177e59b5fa6d3.pdf 1e5d665fc9e8db96b1922313eb78b25d PDF Text Text 11/14/2014 Spc. Kushaba Moses Mworeko – Metro Weekly Home / Features / Spc. Kushaba Moses Mworeko Spc. Kushaba Moses Mworeko From Asylum to American By Will O'Bryan July 3, 2013 The first time Kushaba Moses Mworeko went to Texas, it changed his life. It was October 2009, and his first trip to the United States. He’d come all the way from Uganda to participate in an HIV/AIDS conference on South Padre Island. At least, that was the official reason. As legislators back home drafted a bill to make the already anti-gay nation more so – proposing the death penalty for ”aggravated homosexuality” – Mworeko made plans of his own. As a gay man, he had decided to ask the United States for asylum. A winding, asylum-seeking path took Mworeko to D.C., where he landed three months later, on his 31st birthday, Feb. 1, 2010. This July 4, however, finds Mworeko back in Texas. Specifically, Mworeko is at Fort Sam Houston completing his National Guard training as a combat medic. In June, that training even included some LGBT pride. ”We had a briefing on what Pride is,” Mworeko reported by phone from the base. ”We got a message from the president talking about Pride month. They actually talked about Frank Kameny, his history, how he fought for his rights and how the government finally apologized.” Mworeko seems particularly proud at the inclusion of Kameny. After all, the late gay-rights pioneer hails from Mworeko’s new hometown. After training, he heads back to D.C., enjoying his new identities as both an American and a Washingtonian. ”I love Washington, D.C.,” Mworeko says with one of his signature laughs, a smile you can practically hear over the phone. ”It’s home. It’s taken care of me. Washingtonians have sheltered me. I can never thank Washingtonians enough.” Spc. Kushaba Moses Mworeko It would be hard not to think of Mworeko’s new service to his new country as plenty of thanks. And while Mworeko feels certain he would be in a career helping people – with plans to earn a master’s degree in social work when he returns from Texas – wherever he may have ended up, he says it is important to him that he came to America. Had that 2009 conference been in Canada or the U.K, for example, Mworeko says he would’ve pushed to get to the U.S. Some of that stems from his interactions with Americans when he did contract work in Iraq – an experience that’s made him feel right at home in the National Guard. ”By going to Iraq, what I saw really influenced my goal of being in the military and helping people,” he shares. ”If I was in another country, I would probably still be pursuing my goal of helping people, but I would’ve still wanted to be American. ”When I talk to my instructors about my Iraq experience, they tend to look at me differently. They know, because I was there, that I know what happens there. I have an idea. So when they’re talking about the experience to trainees about what happens in a war zone and how people are supposed to conduct themselves, all that stuff, they know that I know because I was there. That sets me apart.” Mworeko jokes that his accent also sets him apart, but it seems he wouldn’t have it any other way. http://www.metroweekly.com/2013/07/spc-kushaba-moses-mworeko/ 1/2 �11/14/2014 Spc. Kushaba Moses Mworeko – Metro Weekly ”I don’t think my accent will ever change,” he says playfully. ”My mother languages determine how I’m going to be speaking. I talk to my brothers in my native language, so it’s difficult for me to change my accent. But I like my accent. It makes me different. And America is full of people from around the world, so this makes me a good American.” As Mworeko takes pride in the unique qualities he adds to the American ”melting pot,” he also speaks with enthusiasm about his role in the military, of being part of a team charged with defending the Constitution, the nation’s democratically elected government, and his fellow Americans. And as Spc. Kushaba Moses Mworeko spends the Fourth of July marking his last day of two weeks of field training – ”The fireworks will be there! It’s the military.” – it would be hard to argue that the U.S. made a mistake opening its doors to him. ”We’ve been raised differently, with different backgrounds, but the moment we put on that uniform, we are all the same,” says Mworeko, a bit more seriously. ”Whether you’re from Uganda or you are born here, when you put on that uniform you are the same. You are not going to help your friends because you are white or you are brown or you are black. You are going to help your friends all the same way. It’s one mission. ”We talk about ‘We the people.’ I’m part and parcel the ‘We.’ I am American. I am a patriot. I raised my hand to serve my country. This is my country. This is the country that’s given me protection, that’s given me the peace that I have. I am privileged.” Adam Ebbin: A Leading Legislator Spc. Kushaba Moses Mworeko: From Asylum to American Kiva Wilson: The Peaceful Patriot Follow Will O'Bryan on Twitter @wobryan. Like 0 Please Leave a Comment Add a comment... Also post on Facebook Posting as Vincent Slatt (Not you?) Comment Facebook social plugin http://www.metroweekly.com/2013/07/spc-kushaba-moses-mworeko/ 2/2 � https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/aec1e1e1fea5c8c114c6890a8b0038d1.pdf 0ac93bf0e82b59c0c13236d4b3c687b5 PDF Text Text 11/14/2014 New Neighbor – Metro Weekly Home / News + Politics / New Neighbor New Neighbor Gay Ugandan living in D.C. wins asylum in the U.S. by Will O’Bryan May 26, 2011 While the ongoing uncertainty of Uganda’s ”kill the gays” bill – a for-now tabled proposal to radically reinforce Ugandan law, which already criminalizes homosexuality – has Ugandan gays and lesbians fearing for their futures, one gay Ugandan is finally breathing easy. Earlier this month, Kushaba Moses Mworeko, received his official notice that the United States has granted his request for asylum. ”The letter says I have asylum status indefinitely,” says Mworeko, who arrived in the U.S. from Uganda in October 2009. ”After one year, I have to apply for permanent residency.” Coming to the U.S. for an HIV/AIDS conference in Texas, Mworeko knew he would try to stay in America. That determination, aside from prompting his asylum request, brought him to D.C. where he helped Truth Wins Out and the Human Rights Campaign protest the 2010 National Prayer Breakfast. The breakfast organizers, The Fellowship, aka The Family, have reportedly fueled Uganda’s homophobic fires. Initially, the Ugandan parliamentarian who authored the ”kill the gays” bill, David Bahati, had even been invited to the breakfast. From D.C., Mworeko moved to the San Francisco Bay area to work with another attorney. But with strong indications that his case would reach a successful conclusion, Mworeko returned to D.C. in March. ”I love Washington,” Mworeko says, adding that he hopes to one day visit Uganda without danger. ”This is my home. I will go to school. I will get a job and start working. I want to do a master’s of social work with a concentration in mental health and substance abuse. I feel that’s where I can make a difference.” He’s already making a difference by working with Get Equal to challenge The Family. To that end, he’s contributing to the ”Venus Plus X” organization’s blog with the component ”Global Sexual Freedom Rights.” Kushaba Moses Mworeko (Photo by Todd Franson) In the meantime, Mworeko is excited to celebrate his second Capital Pride, and notes the contrast between his old home and new in the Capital Pride Parade. ”The encouragement from these leaders – the congresswoman, the police, all these people – being in the front and leading is awesome.” Follow Will O'Bryan on Twitter @wobryan. Like 0 Please Leave a Comment http://www.metroweekly.com/2011/05/new-neighbor/ 1/2 �11/14/2014 New Neighbor – Metro Weekly Add a comment... Also post on Facebook Posting as Vincent Slatt (Not you?) Comment Facebook social plugin http://www.metroweekly.com/2011/05/new-neighbor/ 2/2 � https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/607b5d2c8aa30d595a1282b5b6771c8d.pdf 10d9b63bda62ff2e7e8f2d12113591d4 PDF Text Text 11/14/2014 The Promised Land – Metro Weekly Home / Features / The Promised Land The Promised Land Kushaba Moses Mworeko left Uganda to seek asylum in America, but now he's living in limbo by Will O'Bryan July 28, 2010 Ugandan politics took a sad walk onto the world stage at the end of 2009, when David Bahati, a member of Parliament, introduced a bill to gruesomely enhance his country’s existing laws against gay people – making it a crime not to report gays, and going so far as to call for the execution of gays in some circumstances. The death penalty provisions have not become law, but Uganda remains hostile territory. Kushaba Moses Mworeko, a 31-year-old Ugandan, knows that firsthand. In October 2009, the same month Bahati introduced his bill, Mworeko, who usually goes by Moses, made his first trip to the United States. While the official purpose of his trip was to participate in an HIV/AIDS conference on South Padre Island, Texas, Mworeko already had hopes of finding a U.S. port to shelter him from the homophobic storm back in Uganda. ”You are subjected to police arrests and torture, and sometimes these people die in jail,” Mworeko says of the situation for gays in Uganda. ”Unexpected house searches sometimes lead to bribes to protect oneself from being exposed by the media.” Mworeko’s visa expired in November, but he has remained. From Texas, he came to D.C., where he participated in a press conference organized by the Human Rights Campaign, Truth Wins Out and others to oppose February’s National Prayer Breakfast. Organizers of that annual breakfast, ”The Fellowship” (aka ”The Family”), are reported to have ties to Bahati and other homophobic elements in Uganda. Bahati was even initially invited to the breakfast. That conference and other efforts helped draw attention to the plight of gays in Uganda, leading President Obama to use the breakfast as a platform to criticize Bahati’s bill as odious. While the furor over Bahati’s bill has died down, Uganda remains one of the world’s most inhospitable countries for gays and lesbians. But it’s not alien. Actually, it’s much like America of just a few decades ago. Kushaba Moses Mworeko (Photo by Todd Franson) ”Americans struggled with gay rights for a long time,” Mworeko points out. ”I know it was very hard at the beginning. The way it was very hard for Americans at the beginning, it is very hard, very difficult for Ugandans, and Africans in general.” What is very different, however, is that when American gays of the mid 20th century were taking their first swipes at oppression, there were not other countries recognizing gays as an oppressed minority and offering them asylum. Today, America is one of those countries that does. Whether or not it will offer safe haven to Mworeko remains to be seen. METRO WEEKLY: How long have you been in Washington? KUSHABA MOSES MWOREKO: My birthday was the first day I was here in D.C., Feb. 1. MW: Was that a good birthday present? MWOREKO: Yeah, I think it was. [Laughs.] MW: I know you came from Uganda, but is that where you were born? MWOREKO: Yes. I’m from a district called Bushenyi in the southwestern part of Uganda. The village is Kagonge. I lived there until I was 20. I did not live in the village where I was born, but I went to boarding school in the district. I went when I was 7. All my life I was in http://www.metroweekly.com/2010/07/the-promised-land/ 1/7 �11/14/2014 The Promised Land – Metro Weekly boarding school. MW: What was your childhood like? MWOREKO: My childhood was good. I was from a well-to-do family. My dad used to live in town, in Ishaka, and I would stay with my dad. It was fun, although at times I used to miss the country life. Cows, gardening…. MW: And your relationship with your parents? MWOREKO: My parents passed. My dad died when I was finishing elementary school. My mom died when I was 15, in junior school. MW: They were victims of the AIDS pandemic? MWOREKO: Yeah. And I have two brothers and three sisters. I am the firstborn. MW: So you became – MWOREKO: The head of the family. The others were between 9 and 14. The oldest were responsible for the house, for working. The others were just kids. My dad was rich. He had some businesses in town. When he died, everything shut down. Everything stopped. My mom was a housewife and she lived in the village. I made sure that when it was time for holidays, we would all go back to our house and do gardening, prepare crops. Other times, everyone would be at school. MW: For a 15-year-old boy, the challenges of raising your family must have been overwhelming. MWOREKO: Definitely. I didn’t see myself as head of the family. ”Moses, what do we do?” ”Moses, what about fees?” And I had to look for people to take care of the kids when I was not there. Whenever it was time to go back to school, I would send them to those uncles who would help them during school time. When they would come back for holidays, we would be in our house, just alone. MW: Was this also the time you began to think you might be gay? MWOREKO: Actually, even before my parents died, they knew I was gay. It was known at my elementary school. At first, people could tell because of my behavior. Then, at school, with the boys I used to live with in the dormitory, there was a guy. We came from the same village, we went to the same school, we were studying in the same class and sitting at the same table. There was attraction between us. We started having sex, and that spread in the boys’ dormitory. MW: News that you were having sex spread? MWOREKO: No, the kids started having sex. We were young. It was experimental. Of course, I definitely had those feelings. All that spread through the dormitory of like 40 people. What happened, I think, is that one of the boys did not like it and was forced to do it. There was a conflict between him and the one who was imposing it on him. They fought, and that’s when the news came out and the teachers found out. They said, ”Okay, who has done it?” We were all rounded together and beaten, punished. Because it started with me and my friend, it all came to us. They had to send for our parents and it was nasty. My dad was furious. Of course, he had to punch me before the teachers. Then when I went home for the holidays, they had to beat me. I mean, the firstborn – ”You are shaming us. This can’t happen to us, to our family.” After my parents passed, during high school, I was free. Although, in my high school I was being helped by my guardian, an Anglican priest, who decided to help me with my education. I remained in the closet because of that. MW: Did you meet this man through church? MWOREKO: He was a friend of my dad. They went to school together. He was a family friend. I went to university after high school, but I waited for like three years because I didn’t have the money for university. I did a lot of work to take care of my siblings. I taught at a junior high school. Then I worked in a taxi. Then I learned how do to do hairdressing. MW: Here, the cliché is that if a man is a hairdresser, he’s probably gay. Was that the perception in Uganda? MWOREKO: Yeah, that’s how they thought of it. I was braiding hair. That is a ”woman’s job.” But they liked my service. I enjoyed it, but http://www.metroweekly.com/2010/07/the-promised-land/ 2/7 �11/14/2014 The Promised Land – Metro Weekly I didn’t want to keep doing it. I still had my dream of going out to help people who are so disadvantaged. I really wanted to go to university and get the resources, that body of knowledge, I needed to help. MW: And when you eventually got to university, what was the environment like? MWOREKO: I started in 2002, studying social work and social administration at Uganda Christian University in Mukono, 20 miles from Kampala. The person paying my fees was my guardian, the priest. And this was a Christian university, so my social life wasn’t all that. When I started university, the Internet wasn’t there – just a few people accessed it. But toward the end, by graduation, the Internet had come. We had [gay] websites to go to. The Internet exposed me more to this. That was 2004, 2005. MW: Was there anything like gay bars in Kampala? MWOREKO: No. Absolutely not. Even if gay people went somewhere, you would not tell, you would not know. But I met some gay people through the Internet. I got in touch with people who started the gay websites, other Ugandans. MW: It was an e-mail with one of those friends that put you in jeopardy? MWOREKO: Yes. That was when I was already working. After I graduated, I was given a job at that very university. I was teaching. And my guardian’s office was in that university. He was the director of a church program: Theological Education by Extension. That’s the time I had the freedom to do whatever I wanted. I lived in my own house. I was free. I felt like I could do whatever I wanted to do. MW: Did you have any reason to think your guardian might have suspected you of being gay? MWOREKO: No. People would comment on my behavior, my lifestyle, and it would just stop at that. But this one day, I was in his office accessing the Internet. I was communicating with my boyfriend. My guardian called for me abruptly while I was in his secretary’s office. I knew I was coming right back, but as soon as I went to his office, the secretary came in. She read my mail. When I came back, she said, ”Moses, were you the one on my computer?” I said yes. ”What’s this?” she asked. ”What?” ”What’s this?” ”Well, what do you think it is? And what’s the problem?” MW: This secretary, did you know her very well? MWOREKO: I did. She had worked for my guardian for many years. She was my friend. I was part of that group who worked in that office. But when she saw this, it ended with her intimidating me and threatening to report me to my guardian. Of course, she knew the consequences if she reported me to my guardian or to the school officials. By then, I was also a student. After I’d earned my bachelor’s degree, I decided to enroll for my master’s in public health. So I was teaching and a student at the same time. The rules and regulations were so clear about homosexuality. The moment they get you, you are expelled from school. If you are an administrator or staff, then your services are terminated. MW: Would they inform they police? MWOREKO: No, they would just expel you. Just get rid of you. MW: Did she tell your guardian? MWOREKO: She did not tell my guardian, but she did tell the dean of students. I happened to go to junior school with the dean of students. She knew who I was. We used to talk and joke. She called me to her office and she said, ”Moses, you have a problem.” ”What problem?” ”No, you have a problem.” http://www.metroweekly.com/2010/07/the-promised-land/ 3/7 �11/14/2014 The Promised Land – Metro Weekly ”No, I don’t have any problem.” MW: When she called you to her office, did you know it was for the accusation that you were gay? MWOREKO: No, I did not know. I thought it was for our usual conversations we would have. But with her tone, the way she spoke, I thought, ”This must be something different.” All of a sudden, of course, my mind went to that. Then she said, ”You need to confess and we have to have some counseling for you.” I said, ”I have nothing to confess, and I don’t need any counseling because I don’t have any problem.” MW: Were you frightened? MWOREKO: Definitely. I was thinking of my job, my career. If I’m expelled, what next? It was going to be catastrophic. So I said I didn’t know anything. She said that if I didn’t confess to her so that she could put me on counseling, then she would report me to the administration. I think she was trying to put herself in a better position: If she didn’t confront me to confess and the school administration knew about it before she reported it, then she would be in trouble. But I denied everything. In the time since graduation, even before that, my guardians and aunties had started telling me, ”You have to get married, because you are the firstborn and you need to bring a wife who is going to be at home in the village.” So when all this was going on – reporting me to the administration – then the marriage issue also came in. It helped. I went to my guardian and I said, ”Okay, I think I need to get married.” MW: But to whom? MWOREKO: I had never seen her, but my guardian knew her dad. They went to school together in Kenya. He’s also an Anglican priest. They organized it. I saw the girl for the first time, and we talked. She was ready for marriage. My guardian called her and told her she would have a great responsibility if we got married: ”Moses is the head of that family and you will need to take care of those people.” She said, ”Fine, I have no problem with that.” MW: How long did all of this take? MWOREKO: It was just a short period of time. Everything was just happening – boom, boom, boom. [The dean] took about two months to report me. It was in bits, in just half a year. When the administration called me, I said I was not gay. The dean of students was given the task of following up the case. Then it was the counseling department. I kept reporting to those people, so there was no way they could terminate my contract, because they had no proof. I expected her to submit [the e-mail] proof, but she did not. When it came out that I was to get married, I think she was like, ”No, let’s not….” MW: And you got married? MWOREKO: I did. MW: Were you hoping that the marriage would make all your problems disappear? MWOREKO: No. I absolutely did not have that in mind. Actually, my boyfriend told me, ”Moses, you cannot get married.” I said, ”Well, I am going to get married because of these reasons: I want my job, I want to continue studying, this pressure from my family, my students no longer respect me. I can’t keep on like this. I don’t want to die now. I need to have a stable mind. I need to do this.” So I went ahead and got married. MW: Was your boyfriend furious? MWOREKO: He wasn’t furious, because he knew what was going on. MW: How was married life? MWOREKO: We did not have sex. There was no arousal. MW: Did your wife know what was happening? MWOREKO: Before we got married, there was the church counseling. The priest said, ”You don’t have to have sex the first night or the second night. At times you are nervous. You don’t know each other. When things don’t work out, that’s okay.” http://www.metroweekly.com/2010/07/the-promised-land/ 4/7 �11/14/2014 The Promised Land – Metro Weekly I knew what was going on, but I said, ”Okay, the priest told us this.” She had the hope that maybe things would work out. Unfortunately, things did not work out. I had to ask her, ”What do we do?” She had no idea. I came up with a suggestion. I told my boyfriend. He was a medical doctor. I told him about it and he said, ”Okay, both of you can contact me. If she is willing to accept you taking medication for arousal, fine.” We had a phone conversation with him, the three of us, and we agreed on that. MW: This doctor was your boyfriend, and your wife didn’t know? MWOREKO: She had no idea. But he worked in a good, international hospital. We’d gone there before our marriage for our HIV testing, but she had no idea who this person was. MW: Did this situation hurt your boyfriend? MWOREKO: He was hurt. But we got the medication and I used it and I was able to have sex with her. She was happy with me and got pregnant. We had a baby. He turned 2 years on the 16th of June. Mworeko (Photo by Todd Franson) But we never lived together. [My wife and I] worked in different places, about 200 miles apart, and it was too expensive to commute. And my son was born when I was not there. I was working in Iraq. MW: What were you doing in Iraq? MWOREKO: I went to work for the U.S. Army. The job was ”security specialist.” I took that on because, first of all, I wanted to get out of the country. I was so tired of the job at the university and all that was going on. I needed a break. I was no longer concentrating on my studies. I was so depressed. I just wanted to leave. MW: So Iraq was your vacation? MWOREKO: Iraq was my vacation. [Laughs.] I went to Iraq just to relax, and it helped me. After six months, I went back to Uganda and I got the job with the AIDS organization. MW: And that’s the job that brought you to America. What happened once you got here? MWOREKO: When I came, I had in mind that I wasn’t going back because of what was going on in Uganda. I have already told people, going to jail in Uganda for just one night, one would rather spend his whole life in jail here. I did not know any person here. Well, there were people I knew, had been in touch with, just friends. But I did not rely on them. I was going to Texas and they were in New York and Tennessee. I did not have a person to go to and say, ”Okay, I’m here. I need this.” So when I was in Texas, I looked for organizations that would help me. I came across Other Sheep. It’s part of the [Metropolitan Community Church]. I contacted the executive director and he responded positively. He lives in New York, but they have an Africa coordinator in Texas. He connected me to that person, who is from Kenya. He also got asylum here. We got in touch with him and I had to travel after the conference from South Padre Island to Dallas. In Dallas, I went to an organization called Human Rights Initiative (HRI). They referred me to Immigration Equality. He helped me get in touch with some other organizations that could help me, because I was not mentally well at the time. I had some problems. I had nightmares, all that. He took me to the Center for Survivors of Torture and I went through some counseling. I met a doctor there and he gave me some drugs. I still use those drugs. They help me. I don’t know how HRC and Truth Wins Out found out that there was a gay person in Texas who was trying to seek asylum, but they organized the press conference during that time that The Family was going to have its National Prayer Breakfast. HRC and Truth Wins Out, they contacted me. They took all the expense of bringing me up here so I could speak, and that’s how I ended up in D.C. After that, of course, they had paid for my return to Dallas, but I felt being in D.C. helped me. I met some people and they proved to be in positions to help me. I would have more opportunities here than in Dallas. That’s how I ended up staying. MW: At the time, the proposed ”kill the gays” bill in Uganda was big news here. How was it being debated back in Uganda? MWOREKO: Gay issues making headlines started in 1997. That’s when the media started saying, ”We need to expose these people that are shaming us, shaming the community,” and put names in the newspapers. They would put your name, the organization you http://www.metroweekly.com/2010/07/the-promised-land/ 5/7 �11/14/2014 The Promised Land – Metro Weekly were working with. They would put where you live. The moment they put the organization, you are fired. When people know where you live, they chase you. It was crazy. That’s when things started becoming so bad. MW: Although President Museveni has been saying awful things about gay people for years, the climate today seems even worse. MWOREKO: The ”ex-gay” people and ”The Family” have gone to Uganda and they have said there is therapy for gays, meaning you can ”cure” that. And the Ugandan church believes them. But it was already there – it just helped turn the stone. A straight, indigenous person full of this Africanism says, ”Well, these people are coming to help us because this is a disease. And it’s a white-man’s disease. So if a white man comes to help us get rid of it, then it is fine.” In the ’80s, in the ’90s, no one talked about this. It’s not there, never exists. No one is looking for you. But because the president used to come here, travel around the world, hear gay people demonstrating for equal rights, he would come home and use them as examples: ”Can you imagine people, instead of fighting for education, they are just talking about homosexuality?” In ’96, ’97, many gay Ugandans started knowing each other, coming to groups, having parties, meeting. That’s when things started coming out and the media started talking about it and it caught people’s attention. ”What’s this? What’s happening?” Africans, in general, have their own culture. It is just an African way of life, of looking at things. It is family. My grandparents gave birth to 13 children. My uncle, he has four women and I don’t even know the number of children. Everything is centered on family, family, family, children, children, children. I can give you an example: If I married and we had only girls, my family would advise me – not to divorce – to get another wife so that I can have a boy. That boy is looked at as a person who will continue the family. If you are gay, not having any kids, what is going to happen to you? When you die, you are dead. What happens to the family? It’s dead. MW: Where does your request for asylum stand? MWOREKO: On the 16th of June in Alexandria, that’s when I had the interview with the asylum officer. On the 29th of June I went back for the results. I went to the counter and she said, ”Sign here.” I said, ”What is it?” She said, ”Well, the officer did not grant you asylum. You are signing that you are going to appeal.” I asked what could be the reason. Of course, they were stated. One was like, ”material inconsistencies,” then ”lack of details.” And then, ”material implausabilities with regard to country conditions.” I signed the paper and I asked her about the material implausabilities, the conditions in the country. That’s when she said that maybe things aren’t bad in Uganda. But then she said, ”We have not denied you asylum. You still have the court to go to. You can still appeal.” There were other people there receiving the same news – no, no, no, no…. Because of what I have gone through in life, I know how to take care of myself in certain situations. That’s it for now. I accept the charges against me, that I am an alien and I am here illegally, all that stuff. And I will put my case before the judge why I am here illegally, why I decided to stay, and then we’ll request an appeal. MW: In the meantime, Bishop Rainey Cheeks is housing you? MWOREKO: Yes. I became friends with Rainey Cheeks the first day I came to D.C., even before the press conference. Some friends of mine organized a talk for me about what was going on in Uganda and that’s how we met. When I went back [to Dallas for my belongings], he’s the one who brought me back. MW: So now Bishop Cheeks is your guardian? MWOREKO: Yes, he is my guardian. MW: You have a history of strong religious people in your life. MWOREKO: And I am religious. MW: Do you go to Cheeks’s Inner Light Ministries? MWOREKO: I do. It’s a very good place. It incorporates today’s Christian way of life and African tradition. They mingle the two together and come up with something complete. As an African, I think it’s good. I feel a sense of belonging. It’s like a family. MW: Do you pray for asylum? MWOREKO: It’s my prayer. I have been religious my entire life. All that I have gone through, all my achievements, everything is because of God. I tend to put my hopes in him. http://www.metroweekly.com/2010/07/the-promised-land/ 6/7 �11/14/2014 The Promised Land – Metro Weekly Follow Will O'Bryan on Twitter @wobryan. Please Leave a Comment http://www.metroweekly.com/2010/07/the-promised-land/ 7/7 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Elliott Wrenn Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Moses Mworeko Kushaba Location The location of the interview. Silver Spring, MD Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available in two digital files. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Moses Mworeko Kushaba, 1979- Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18 October 2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1979-2014 Description An account of the resource <strong>LISTEN ONLINE</strong><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_rmd0YNI039dlVvOXZLcmI0OGM/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-Ru1r8psB0bBaLeHSKuOXSg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Part 1 of 2</a><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_rmd0YNI039ZDJZMHFabFNTdUk/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-duLkGZxGJWTfgKblbE6H9g" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Part 2 of 2</a> Abstract A summary of the resource. Moses KUSHABA was born in Nyarweshama, Uganda, on February 01, 1979. In this RHP oral history Kushaba discussed his life growing up in Uganda, traveling to the United States, and subsequently applying for asylum in the US because of anti-gay legislation in his native Uganda. Kushaba describes his young life in a wealthy family in the Ugandan countryside and his life at day and boarding schools. Kushaba discusses sexual experimentation among school-aged children in both co-ed and all-boys schools, particularly the stigma attached to homosexuality and homosexual acts in years preceding anti-gay laws in Uganda. Kushaba describes an underground LGBT community during his secondary school, university, and graduate school years. Kushaba discusses the threat of losing his job in 2007 after being accused of being gay and his subsequent marriage and the birth of two children. Kushaba details his careers as a teacher, social worker, and HIV/AIDS activists in Uganda and as a military contractor in Iraq before attending an HIV/AIDS conference in South Parade Island, Texas, in 2009. Kushaba discusses his application for asylum after arriving in the United States and mentions organizations that provided assistance (e.g. Immigration Equality and the Other Sheep). During his asylum application Kushaba lived in Dallas, TX; Washington, DC; and San Francisco, CA. At the National Prayer Breakfast in 2009 (Washington, DC) Kushaba came out publically as a gay man and spoke about conditions for the LGBT community in Uganda. He discusses his LGBT media activism in the US (Metro Weekly and Sexual Freedom blog publications) and tabloid publications in Uganda (Red Pepper). Kushaba’s asylum application was approved in 2011 and he relocated to Washington, DC. At the time of the interview he lives in Langley Park, MD. Kushaba closes the interview discussing his service as a medic in the US National Guard (Washington, DC) and his wife and children’s immigration to the United States. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=2&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Adam+L.+Weiss">Adam L. Weiss</a> Location The location of the interview. Eastern Market, Washington, DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet available Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Sean Roach, 1951 - Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=5+August+2014">5 August 2014</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1969-1973. Sean Roach attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate from 1969 to 1973, and became involved in the Washington DC Gay Liberation Front in 1970. In this oral history he describes his life as a student, the activities of the Gay Liberation Front, the relationship between the Gay Liberation Front House and its Dupont Circle neighborhood, gay hangouts and bars in DC, and applying for a job in DC as a gay man, all in the period from 1969 through 1973. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. David B. Quick Location The location of the interview. Washington, DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available. <br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13OKh9vgJ6FvMmhqMiPHPhfUTvXk2O9bY/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LISTEN ONLINE</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Craig L. Gidney, 1967 - Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/1/2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. Abstract A summary of the resource. Craig Gidney is a fiction writer living in Washington, DC. He spent his childhood in 16th Street Heights, a middle-class, African-American neighborhood of Northwest DC in the 1970's. His parents moved here from [North Carolina] for his father's work as a dentist. Topics of the interview include: − Parents' move to Washington, DC for father's dental practice. − Growing up in 16th St. Heights neighborhood – predominantly African-American, middle-class neighborhood − bookish childhood – free time spent at MLK library − attending private school − responding to personal ad in Blade newspaper – reflection on difference between personal ads then and now − discovery that brother is gay − going to Hampshire College – alternative curriculum − going to SMYAL youth center when on summers home from college − developing cohort of friends from SMYAL friendship − gay uncle Description An account of the resource <strong>Interested in listening to this audio?</strong> <br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> for access Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with William J. Lipsett Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1%2F26%2F2001">1/26/2001</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s Gay experience, Alexandria, Gay Men's Chorus https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/14df56368d86cd6a2e5e181db0152624.doc f95270164ba5101cc07bfdc7647d4777 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Yes, see attached. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Wayson Jones Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=9%2F10%2F2001">9/10/2001</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%22Not+to+be+used+for+commercial+purposes%22">"Not to be used for commercial purposes"</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s Native Washingtonian, African-American gay experience, Coffeehouse, gay performance art, Cinque, Essex Hemphill https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/0a87b83d94308d4591948ffd16ef9863.jpg 85e4ddaca09124c03f36ce4d1dbb62c5 https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/a96569f33e4b6223702eb7fe31b22fe7.doc e0a2614b231c3104dc44cdb3238af5d1 https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/33ecb36419c9912480763d1a1b429886.pdf 9ca43151e1fb6a884522bcae362d1050 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Wanda Alston Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2/21/2001 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 80s-00s African American lesbian experience, DC Coalition, DC government Description An account of the resource <strong>Want to listen to this audio file?</strong><br />Fill out this <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScm76nkatHa6G4zBJS84vVWUMEtrSZha5NUE2cZeDJ7yOSMBQ/viewform">form</a> or email oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org<br /><br />Wanda says: <br />"... I can't stop fighting racism, because no matter how old I get I'm still going to be black. I can't stop fighting [sexism] because no matter how old I get I'm still going to be a woman. I can't stop fighting some of the other isms I see because I can't change those things. I'm going to change the culture and begin to work with people who want to change the culture." <br />"I was victimized all my life behind this bullshit called racism, sexism, homophobia. I put names on my pain. I had not done that. If there was anything that changed my life more than my sexuality, it was understanding that there was a place to take my pain." Abstract A summary of the resource. Wanda Alston was an officer in the cabinet to Mayor Anthony Williams liaising between the mayor and the LGBTQ community from 2001 until she was murdered in March 2005. She was at the peak of a career in public service which had taken her to senior positions in the National Organization of Women (1992-1996)and in the Human Rights Campaign Fund. Along the way Wanda learned how to handle oppression by building coalitions and by reaching out to create safe places for others. Her vision was not necessarily political but one of healing and supporting and reaching out. When she organized the 1997 Black Pride event for CLOAVE (Collective Lesbians of African-Descent, Voices Everywhere) it " was about bringing people together from anywhere." Wanda moved to DC from Newport News in 1985, after a difficult and unsupported coming out. In DC, she quickly moved into the LGBTQ community with the help of her gay brother. By the end of the decade she was involved with the DC Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays and by mid-decade was co-chair (with Darren Buckner). She volunteered at the National Organization of Women (NOW) in the early 90s and within days was a special assistant to Patricia Ireland, head of NOW. Following NOW, she joined the staff of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in 1996. Her HRC experience gave a good overview of the gay political movement, one gave her important experience in marketing and fundraising but also one that left her feeling "I got to see who and what I didn’t want to be like." She earned her MBA from Southeastern University and her BA in Mass Communications from Norfolk State University in Virginia. From 1998 to 2000 she served on the board of NOW and on the DC Commission on Women. 1980s 1990s 2000s Advocacy groups Black Local government National Organization for Women (NOW) Pride Washington D.C. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Vic Basile Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Vic Basile Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=8%2F16%2F2009">8/16/2009</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%22I+reserve+the+right+to+use+this+history+for+my+own+purposes%22">"I reserve the right to use this history for my own purposes"</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s Early gay male experience, Democratic politics, Stein Club, early Human Rights Campaign foundation Subject The topic of the resource Early gay male experience, Democratic politics, Stein Club, early Human Rights Campaign foundation Description An account of the resource <strong>Want access to this audio?</strong><br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request access 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Advocacy groups Democrats Employment Gay men Gertrude Stein Democratic Club Political organizations Politics https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/0b00a12fecadc05535d35fc10fbbe053.doc 533b69f5882895bb922f873208040bec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Yes Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available. <br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_rmd0YNI039ZGJSZ1dBc2MxOHc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click here to listen to recording</a><span>.</span><br /><span>Must have </span><a href="http://www.driveplayer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Music Player for Google Drive</a><span> enabled.</span> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Valerie Papaya Mann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=3%2F5%2F2001">3/5/2001</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s African-American lesbian experience, Sapphire Sapphos, Coffeehouse, DC Space, foster parent Community Pioneers Valerie Papaya Mann Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Tyrone M. Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=5%2F12%2F2001">5/12/2001</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-90s Native Washingtonian, African American gay experience Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Tony Compton Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/8/2001 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. This oral history belongs to the Rainbow History Project Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s Native Washingtonian, African American gay experience Description An account of the resource <strong>Interested in listening to this audio?</strong><br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request access African Americans Gay men Native washingtonian Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Toni Collins Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/8/2009 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. This interview belongs to the Rainbow History Project Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s Native Washingtonian, African-American transgender experience, Transgender Health Empowerment Description An account of the resource Interested in listening to this audio?<br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request access Native washingtonian Transgender people Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available, not digitized. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Tomi' Finkle Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Researchers+must+contact+Tomi%27+Finkle+directly+for+access+or+to+conduct+a+new+interview.">Researchers must contact Tomi' Finkle directly for access or to conduct a new interview.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s Native Washingtonian, transgender experiences https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/12705b3eb32c95714df4fba4465a3a45.pdf 5947128ae9af782dfb01a12b9206166c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Yes, transcription available Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Tom Chorlton Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/5/2007 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource "Not to be used for commercial gain or financial profit without my written permission" Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1971-1991 Democratic politics, Gay Activists Alliance Abstract A summary of the resource. Tom Chorlton, died January 5, 2014, at age 67, embodied a determined and well respected gay man. While living in D.C. from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, Chorlton advocated for LGBT rights on a local and national level. He vocalizes his unwavering interest in political science. Chorlton received a bachelor’s in political science in 1968 from St. Louis University. Upon graduation, he served as a teacher in the Peace Corps in Kenya before returning to the U.S. He talks briefly about his journey in Kenya as well. His astounding activism and keen persistence as a spokesperson for the LGBT community serves as an example to all who wish to leave a print in any community. Description An account of the resource <strong>Interested in listening to this audio?</strong> <br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> for access 1960s 1970s 1980s Academic organizations Activism Friends Radio Gertrude Stein Democratic Club Politics Television and radio U.S. Congress Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Tiik Pollet Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=7%2F7%2F2004">7/7/2004</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%22Not+to+be+released+without+my+permission.%22">"Not to be released without my permission."</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-90s Native Washingtonian, lesbian experience, women's music Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Thomas W. Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=9%2F29%2F2005">9/29/2005</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%22Not+without+my+permission+for+commercial+gain%22">"Not without my permission for commercial gain"</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1979-00s 1979 March on Washington, Adventuring, Dignity (and the Defenders), Brother, Help Thyself, AIDS Advocacy groups Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Mark Meinke Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Thomas Bastow Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 45:56 / 45:59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Thomas F. Bastow Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1%2F24%2F2004">1/24/2004</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use. This oral history belongs to the Rainbow History Project Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1967-00s Subject The topic of the resource Gay political activities, political campaigns, Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, gays in Democratic politics Description An account of the resource <strong>Want access to this audio?</strong><br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request access 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Democrats Employment Gay men Gertrude Stein Democratic Club Political organizations Politics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Theodore Kirkland Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=4%2F26%2F2003">4/26/2003</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 70s-00s African-American gay experience, Gay Liberation Front, gay collectives, Best Friends, Black Pride, Skyline Collective Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Susan Hester Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oral history interview with Susan Hester Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=11%2F14%2F2012">11/14/2012</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%22No+permissions+release+on+file.%22">"No permissions release on file."</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 80s-00s National Organization for Women, National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), Mary-Helen Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer Description An account of the resource <strong>Interested in listening to this audio?</strong> <br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> for access 1980s 1990s Advocacy groups Community Pioneers Healthcare Lesbians Medical conditions National Organization for Women (NOW) Susan Hester Women's rights