OH 1751 | Oral History

OH 1751

Executive Director of Resource Center Dallas and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; college years at Northwestern University; awareness of sexual orientation; coming out to family, friends, and co-workers; supportive reactions of family; decision to move to Dallas, Texas for job; involvement in Dallas LGBT community; thoughts on Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the Sodomy Law); impressions of Don Baker; name change of Dallas Gay Alliance to Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance; impressions of Judge Jerry Buchmeyer and his decision to overturn penal code 21.06; struggle for gay men to receive AIDS treatment at Parkland Memorial Hospital; DGA’s activism in AIDS treatment and care; DGA’s activism in struggle for equal treatment and human rights; changes in Dallas’s LGBT community; family life; Resource Center Dallas’s history and services; attending law school; future plans for Resource Center Dallas; thoughts on the younger generation in the LGBT community.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 93 pp. plus documents (48 pp.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Michael Mims
Date of Interview March 14, 2012

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