Feeling grateful for a lifetime of love and friendship

We love a good love story here at StoryCorps. But this one? It sucks … just not in the way you might think. Tom Gasko has been a vacuum repairman for over 35 years. He also collects vacuums — hundreds...

Dayton-area lesbian Janice James gives a tour of former lesbian and gay bars on the near West side of Dayton.

Nancy Blanchard was 44 at the time of the Stonewall Uprising.

Janice James started coming out at age 13 in 1960s in Dayton, Ohio. As an adult, she served on board of the Dayton Gay & Lesbian Center for a couple of years and also started a social dinner club for...

Janice James started coming out as a lesbian at age 13 with her first love for a neighbor girl in the 1960s. Since then, she’s survived stigma, mental health struggles, intimate partner abuse, a name change and ultimately a life...

Former Ohio Dept. of Health Epidemiologist Lois Hall and Dayton-are Physician Dr. Robert Brandt Jr. share their thoughts about current HIV treatment and their hopes for the future with regard to HIV.

Dayton-area physician Dr. Robert Brandt Jr. and former Ohio Dept. of Health Epidemiologist Lois Hall share their journeys as two principal people in the fight against AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s in Ohio.

Gay life in New York City before and after Stonewall.

Elizabeth Coffey-Williams was in her early 20s when she told her family that she was transgender. But back then, in the early 1970s, there were very few options for people who wanted to medically transition. She is now 71 years...