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Leila talks about being pansexual, being an ally and being Iranian

The AIDS crisis affected communities across the country, including the Midwest in places like Dayton, Ohio. The AIDS crisis was a pivotal event in the LGBTQ community, our country and the entire world. Robert Harrison was an AIDS & HIV...

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...

Conversation with the founding President of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and the 1978 Marion Barry campaign

An interview with a lesbian in Anchorage, AK about living in the LGBTQ community and growing up with it, as part of a national series documenting the stories of LGBTQ elders to preserve the history of the community.

LGBTQ activism and intergenerational community support

Craig White, Supportive Schools Coordinator for the Campaign for Southern Equality, reflects on growing up in rural Maine, coming out as bisexual, and supporting young people in their own journeys along the way.

A conversation about being yourself, life in prison, and what comes next.

Joe talks about what it was like to watch the Stonewall Riots 50 years ago.

Ken Smith, a young gay African-American man from Dayton, Ohio, started coming out in the 1990s. His openly lesbian grandmother Grace (Thornton) Vaughn, gave him some important advice from 20 years earlier: "You do You!" Grace sued to marry her...

Stories from Piggy, speaking about topics of family, support, fear, and illness.

LGBTQ love story

Discussing how the LGBTQ+ community has changed, and where it will go next.

Deborah and her chosen granddaughter Kami compare high school experiences. Coming out in the 70s, transgender rights, the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Fighting stigma in the deep south.

Elizabeth Rose regales about the time when she was younger and how the stonewall riots broke out right outside her door. Now much older, she remembers what growing up was like from the 60s to the 90s.

I interviewed Guy Robison about his life experiences and opinions on things in the LGBT+ community

LGBTQ+ Her/History Project Steering Committee member Sue Elam interviews Pam Conine, Mayor of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Pam is a lesbian who shares her story about thriving in the Miami Valley as an out lesbian.

LGBTQ community in San Francisco during the time of Harvey Milk

Orbit Clanton (56) tells Eliel Cruz about growing up in Baltimore, MD, joining the navy, realizing he was gay, falling in love, and becoming an HIV activist.

Dan Belbey is 74 years old and lives in Greenville, SC with his husband Tom. The couple has been together for 48 years, married for five. Dan talks with Ivy Hill about his involvement in the Stonewall Uprising in New...

Janice James has been an out lesbian for a long time in Dayton, Ohio. She shares some her many experiences, including her opinions about the general lesbian community and her hopes for the future.

Jim tells the story of his own coming out process and how he has helped shape/guide the Dayton LGBTQ community through important pivotal periods and events since the 1980s, including a protest that led to the ouster of the editor...

Interview with Yvonne Ritter about her life as an LGBTQ pioneer, part 2: post-high school years.

“We got what we wanted, but we lost what we had.” Ken Latch and Gary Trout of NYC had their first date just months after the Stonewall Riots. Today, they are happily married and find community in a welcoming Catholic...

Talking with my mother about her father, her work, and her life prior to her death from cancer on May 3, 2019.