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disability physician, world traveler
Montreal, QC, Canada
Legacy of Voices is an oral history project created in 2008 by Lara Spotts and Brian O’Donnell, inspired by their realization that to better understand...
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artist, storyteller; gay marriage trailblazer
Eureka Springs, AR
Zeek Taylor was born in the Arkansas Delta in 1946, and raised in the small town of Marmaduke, where his mother was a hairdresser and...
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Minister, artist, and HIV/AIDS advocate
Decatur, GA
Duncan Teague’s parents met at choir rehearsal at his local Baptist church, and his father was a retired Baptist minister. Duncan was born on January...
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Chicano artist, community activist
Glendale, CA
A second-generation Mexican-American, Joey Terrill was born on October 8, 1955, in Los Angeles. Joey’s father was an artist and furniture maker; his mother was...
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Stutterer, Professor, and Novelist
Seattle, WA
John Whittier Treat was born on August 10, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, and was raised Catholic in a close-knit family. At age twelve, John...
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LGBTQ historian
St Paul, MN
Jean Tretter was born in 1946, in Little Falls, Minnesota, into a German-Catholic family who had immigrated to the United States a century before. During...
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rural gay men's community builder
Ukiah, CA
Ron Vanscoyk was born in 1949 in Logansport, Indiana, and moved with his family to San Diego in 1953. Although he was attracted to boys...
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Emmy-winning comedian
West Hollywood, CA
Bruce Vilanch was born in 1948 in New York City, and raised by his adoptive parents Jonas and Henne in Paterson, New Jersey. He developed...
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Wisconsin LGBTQ politician, historian
Madison, WI
Dick Wagner was born in 1943 in Dayton, Ohio into a traditional German Catholic family (his great grandparents ran a successful beer brewery). Dick attended...
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interior designer, art gallery director
New York, NY
Rags Watkins was born in San Francisco on Halloween night, 1948. After his parents separated, Rags lived in San Francisco with his mother Peggy Tolk-Watkins,...
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AIDS community activist; founder, The Victory Fund
Linden, VA
William Waybourn was born in 1947 in Houston, Texas, and raised on a farm in Matador, Texas, 95 miles east of Lubbock – in other...
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Concert Pianist, Composer, Activist Living with HIV/AIDS
Cleveland, MS
Robin Webb was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1957. Robin’s parents loved him and his two brothers unconditionally; he describes them as the “best parents...
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Performance Artist and Musical Director
Seattle, WA
Timothy White Eagle Turner was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1966. His mother was an enrolled member of Mohave (CRIT) tribe. He was adopted by...
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businessman; founder, The Williams Institute
Malibu, CA
Chuck Williams was born in Los Angeles to parents who moved to California to get away from their uptight religious families in Texas. From early...
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