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 community.

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; importance of younger LGBT generation knowing and preserving LGBT community history.

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; current activism; Cathedral of Hope.

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; childhood and young adult years; family history; work within the gay community; Dallas Women’s Political Caucus; activism and advancement of the Dallas LGBT community.

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 Oriskany, concluding with assignment to Naval Air Station Grand Prairie, Texas; “shellback” initiation; opinions regarding benefits of military service; daughter’s military service.

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 as employee, manager, and eventually owner of various bars; involvement in and support of various Gay Pride events; thoughts about future of gay rights movement.

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 with groups such as Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Dallas Gay Alliance/Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance; decision to enter SMU Law School; relationship with partner and adopted son, and with family members.

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; education at East Central State University and the University of Colorado; “coming-out” narrative. Their meeting and early relationship; descriptions of Denver’s gay and lesbian communities. Involvement with various groups such as the Daughters of Bilitis and Gay Liberation Front. Decision to move to Dallas.