https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/c01be3b3e87a334194b524ff55066d65.pdf 4d58eb50f39b9f2a57346986fb24248e 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=Krista+Gettle%0D%0A">Krista Gettle </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=Christina+Cauterucci">Christina Cauterucci</a> Location The location of the interview. MLK Library, Washington DC Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed. Time coded notes. 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 (.mp3, 85 MB) Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:01:44 Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview Born in New Jersey in 1987 Moved to Manchester, NH at 10 Moved to Washington DC in 2006 for college at Georgetown. Family More interested in politics than her family. Family is very supportive of her agitating. 1 older sister. Mother did a lot of odd jobs. Dad in sales for MCI/Verizon Georgetown Wrote for the Georgetown Independent While she was a student there was a hate crime against a LGBT student and there was 1 university sponsored person to support the students afterwards. At Georgetown, she was involved in the LGBT activism as an ally until her senior year. As an ally, it felt like gay and queer students were at the margins. There was one group called GU Pride that organized events but it was mostly white gay men. Queer women organized a lot around the Women’s Collective because GU Pride didn’t feel like it represented their needs. GU can appear very homogeneous from the outside and not gay positive. The administration would accept and tolerate but not necessarily support. After this incident the university president, who was the first layperson of a Catholic University in the U.S. He stood up and said that we can and should support the LGBT community. A LGBTQ resource center was created. As the director of the resource center, "Shiva" Subbaraman made a point to enlist the support for the Center from all of the Jesuit priests. She realized how much the culture had shifted at her Lavender Graduation, when Kara Swisher, a tech reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, came back to speak and talked about not being back since the 80’s because of how toxic the environment had been. Also at that time, GU Pride was suing the administration for acknowledgement of their organization. Now there are 2 full time employees, large alumni community, bring speakers to campus, hold parties. Journalism After working at Georgetown for a few years and getting her graduate degree, she interned at NPR on the Arts desk. Moved to Washington City Paper as the Arts Editor. Found that the pieces that spoke to her the most were those that had to do with gender, identity and justice issues. Amanda Hess left her beat at Slate and Christina saw it as an opportunity to write about a broad range of topics (science, arts, etc) through a lens of gender. Writes 2-3 pieces a day, generally more opinion pieces that flesh out the story after the major story breaks on national day. Loss of Queer Spaces Where the Girls Go - Defunct blog that was an events calendar that aggregated all the events for queer women in DC. Another gay blog, The New Gay Created a number of one off gay parties Hosted a number of the parties at The Islander, a DC restaurant ‘Blast-off’ ‘Honey I Shrunk the Kids’ Would charge a cover to keep random people out for safety. Still host one during the Summer called ‘Overeasy’ Phase I Long narrow bar with stage opposite, dark, poor sound system Did Jell-o wrestling in a big inflatable pool with jello (industrial gel) MC - Stacy Lockerman (sp?) Pride Wrote an article about the commercialism of Pride. Fear for a community that loses its capacity for protest. Getting married was the one issue a lot of gay people and there are still a lot of the other issues with which queer people struggle. Coming Out & Early Years Dated a Transgender person as her first relationship - Presented as femme with a transgender man. The relationship was very queer but looked like a straight couple in public. Her partner had mostly straight friends and she wanted a queer community. Large family - some were supportive some weren’t Parents took it hard at first but are very accepting especially since meeting her current partner. Activism Black Lives Matter vigils Vigil after the Orlando shooting Message for youth today There’s no right path. Things will make sense when you look back on them but things never make sense when you are trying to look forward and plot out your life. 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 Christina Cauterucci, 1987 - Description An account of the resource <strong>Want access to this interview? </strong><br />Email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> to request it Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/25/2016 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The interview belongs to the Rainbow History Project. The RHP release form was used and all rights belong to RHP. Abstract A summary of the resource. Christina Cauterucci is a journalist and activist in Washington DC especially interested in women’s and queer issues. She speaks about her time at Georgetown University in the late 2000’s as the LGBTQ Resource Center was established. She is currently a staff member at slate.com. She describes the loss of queer spaces in DC and organizing alternative women’s parties. She also discusses her experience coming out and societal perceptions of a femme-presenting woman dating a transgender man. Academic organizations Community centers Justice Parties Phase One Publications Student life Transgender people Washington D.C. Women