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 (47:26) 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 Esther S. Katzman 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%2F28%2F2001">3/28/2001</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+release+my+recordings+%26+related+transcript%28s%29+without+my+prior+permission.++Not+to+release+for+purposes+of+gaining+a+financial+profit.%22">"Not to release my recordings &amp; related transcript(s) without my prior permission. Not to release for purposes of gaining a financial profit."</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 Lesbian social groups, Gay Women's Alternative, Senior Health Resources Description An account of the resource Esther Katzman, founder of Senior Health Resources and former Board Member of Gay Women’s Alternative, discusses her work starting Senior Health Resources, an organization for aging LGBTQ+ people. She also discusses coming out to her family, moving to DC, her involvement in the DC LGBTQ+ community, how being a lesbian has impacted her professional career, and her past and current relationships. Abstract A summary of the resource. Esther Katzman moved to Washington, DC in 1979 with her girlfriend at the time, whom she met in college. In DC, Katzman became involved in her synagogue and Gay Women’s Alternative, which was an educational and social women’s organization. It was the first organization of its kind in DC. Katzman also discusses other clubs, especially gay clubs, that she went to in DC. She also shares some thoughts about presenting as a more ‘feminine’ lesbian and lessons she learned while in an interracial relationship. Katzman discusses her experience as a lesbian throughout her professional career in psychotherapy, sharing that she was out at most jobs but purposefully did not come out at several for a number of reasons. Katzman founded Senior Health Resources, an organization for aging LGBTQ+ people and their family and friends. She discusses the motivations behind starting the organization – namely that she was appalled by the lack of care for older people in the healthcare system – and the processes of starting it. She also shares about her partner at the time and the new lessons and boundaries she implemented in that relationship after coming out of a 10-year relationship. Katzman discusses coming from a family in which several of her sisters are also lesbian and her coming out process. While her mother initially took her coming out poorly, she has since become accepting. Katzman learned through that experience that just as it takes time for LGBTQ+ people to come to terms with their own identities, it sometimes takes family/friends time to process when a loved one comes out. Finally, Katzman discusses how Pride has changed over the years, sharing that she preferred the Pride events that were not as commercialized.