Buron "Buff" Buffkin and Joelene "Jo" Wentz
Recorded
October 6, 2023
Archived
October 6, 2023
34:39 minutes
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Id:
mby023175
Description
Buron "Buff" Buffkin (70) and his friend Joelene "Jo" Wentz (72) talk about how their paths crossed at Food Outreach, an organization providing meals to those living with HIV or cancer. They also describe living through the peak of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and their journeys coming out and eventually being allowed to legally marry.Subject Log / Time Code
Joelene "Jo" Wentz (J) and Buron "Buff" Buffkin (B) talk about meeting at Food Outreach.
B asks J how she first found Food Outreach.
B describes living in NY in the 1980s during the peak of the AIDS crisis.
B tells J how his church connected him to Food Outreach.
B and J describe their career journeys and how they both landed in St. Louis.
B and J remember feeling afraid of being gay in the '80s.
"'Joelene, everyone knows you're gay.'"
J and B talk about legalization of gay marriage and share wedding anecdotes.
B asks J how Food Outreach has changed over the years.
Participants
- Buron "Buff" Buffkin
- Joelene "Jo" Wentz