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Tagged with "Karen Wisely"

  • For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War-era veteran. Childhood in Phoenix, Arizona; decision to enlist in U.S. Naval Reserves; active duty career, including service on USS Yorktown, USS Bonhomme Richard, and USS…
  • For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam-era veteran of the U.S. Navy. Childhood in Rotan, Texs; father's military service; 1967 enlistment in U.S. Navy; service as hospital corpsman at naval hospitals in San Diego,…

  • Executive director of Resource Center Dallas. Childhood in Ohio and Bartlesville, Oklahoma; education at Northwestern University; decision to move to Dallas; career as a photojournalist and studio photographer; “coming-out” narrative; involvement…
  • Proprietor of Jack’s Backyard, a Dallas bar and restaurant. Childhood and education in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dallas; “coming-out” narrative; social life in Dallas’s gay and lesbian bars; effects of AIDS epidemic on Dallas gay community; career…
  • Longtime activists in the Dallas lesbian community. Armstrong’s childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, New Jersey, and California; decision to study nursing and settle in Denver, Colorado; “coming-out” narrative. Young’s childhood in Ada, Oklahoma;…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. President and CEO at AIDS Service of Dallas, lawyer, and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Michigan; move to Chicago, Illinois, and then to the Dallas, Texas area for college;…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Licensed counselor and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Big Spring, Texas; college in the Dallas area; work with Oak Lawn Counseling Center; AIDS crisis; involvement in the Human…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Retired statistics professor, former Dallas Gay Alliance board member, and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Police harassment of the Dallas gay community; Village Station arrests; coming out…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Businessman and long-time Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Cambridge, England; first realization of being gay; being gay in the post-World War II Royal Air Force; immigration to the U.S. in 1956; Texas gay…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Author and LGBT activist. Family history; childhood in Corsicana, Texas; gay high school culture in the 1960s; horsemanship; Dallas Gay Rodeo; lesbian culture in the 1950s and 1960s; Dallas LGBT community;…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Educator, politician, and LGBT rights advocate. Graduate school experience; gay community; memories of Donald Baker; discrimination against gay men in the public school system; struggle for LGBT civil rights…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Film producer, web designer, and longtime Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; coming out; LGBT Dallas history; LGBT activism; AIDS crisis in Dallas; current work in web design and marketing;…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Lawyer and longtime Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood as a Navy brat; education; time in the Navy; coming out; Dallas LGBT history; LGBT activism; Baker v. Wade; AIDS crisis in Dallas; The Dallas Way;…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Educator and longtime Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Austin, Texas; education; work history; coming out; Dallas LGBT history; AIDS crisis in Dallas; LGBT activism; The Dallas Way; diversity in the gay…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Administrator and co-founder of the UNT Ally program. Building LGBT resources at the UNT library and Ally program; Safe Zone programs; faculty training to support LGBT students in the DFW Metroplex;…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. English professor and longtime Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Iowa; educational and professional background; homosexuality in literature; Oscar Wilde; activism in women’s and gay rights movements; move…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Experiences attending bible-nursing schools as a gay woman. First memories of sexuality and crushes on women. Becoming a part of the gay community in Dallas. Gay bar scene in Dallas. Membership in various…
  • For the Dallas LGBTQ Oral History Project. Their lives prior to meeting. Injustices experienced by being gay. How they met in Dallas in 1961. Recalling the gay bar scene in Dallas and the gay movement in Dallas. Evans and Harris were the first same-…
  • For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Owner of Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair, Denton’s first LGBT-friendly bar. Childhood in East Texas and in Gainesville, Texas; brief marriage to a man; coming out narrative; experiences…