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university dean, HIV educator
Newark, NJ
James Credle was born in 1945 in Mesic, a small town on North Carolina’s eastern shore. After graduating from the all-black Pamlico County Training School...
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INTERNATIONAL PERFORMER & NIGHTLIFE FIGURE
Chicago, IL
Guest interviewer Zackary Drucker recorded Marlow Monique's oral history for OUTWORDS in 2021. Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, filmmaker, and cultural producer. She has performed...
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FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GLITS
Ozone Park, Queens, NY
Brooklyn-born Ceyenne Doroshow grew up in a traditional Black middle-class family, religious and conservative to a fault. Her mother was an educator and neighborhood staple,...
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Blogger, Author, Photographer, Activist
Richmond, VA
Sokari was born on May 15th 1949 in London, UK. After four years of living with their grandmother, they moved to Lagos, Nigeria to live...
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Freeman Thomas Freeman and Steve Levine
Sexuality workshop organizers
Wayne, NY
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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FOUNDING MEMBER, NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK LESBIANS AND GAYS
Cathedral City, CA
From the earliest moments of Gil’s life in Panama, his father taught him the importance of improvisation and truth, both of which would shape Gil’s...
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black lesbian vampire novelist
San Francisco, CA
Jewelle Gomez was born on September 11, 1948 and grew up in Boston. Jewelle is of Cape Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway descent, and was largely raised by her...
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co-founder, salsa soul sisters
Brooklyn, NY
Cassandra Grant was born in 1947 in New York City. Her family lived in the Lincoln Projects in Harlem, a haven for Black World War...
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Author, Psychologist, APA Leader
Brooklyn, NY
Beverly Greene was born in 1950 in East Orange, New Jersey. She grew up in a multi-generational household within a close-knit local community; she describes...
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transgender women of color activist
Little Rock, AR
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was born in the 1940s in Chicago, Illinois. Around age 13, she came out to her parents as transgender. After a psychologist,...
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Stonewall arrestee, early trans catalyst, entertainer, author
Palmdale, CA
Christy Henderson-Jenkins was born on November 11th, 1949. She spent her childhood years in Philadelphia before moving to Arizona with her mother and stepfather at...
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carnival krewe performer, social worker
Slidell, LA
Michael Hickerson was born in New Orleans in 1955. His dad was a longshoreman, and his mom ran the cafeteria at New Orleans City Hall....
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Co-founder, Southerners On New Ground (SONG)
Decatur, GA
Pat Hussain was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1950. She attended segregated schools though high school. In 1963, Pat attended a civil rights sit-in at...
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Award-winning nurse, great-great-grandmother, and healthcare envoy to Africa
New York, NY
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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ED of TGI Justice Project, mentored by Miss Major
San Francisco, CA
Janetta Johnson was born on November 12, 1964 in Tampa, Florida. Assigned male at birth, she was bullied and reprimanded growing up for presenting more...
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Artist, Scholar, and Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
Los Angeles, CA
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones was born on October 25th, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois. Around 1960, her family moved to a new development in the...
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