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July 22, 2014
Alanna Berger and Blaise Liffick are the co-founders of the Silent Witness Peacekeepers Organization. Alanna was born in 1954 in Hummelstown, PA. Before committing full time to Silent Witness, Alanna by profession worked as a systems analyst...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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Organizations: Silent Witness Peacekeepers Organization
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 007: Alanna Berger and Blaise Liffick
July 29, 2014
Ann Van Dyke was born in a farming community in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where she was raised in a devout Methodist home. After moving to Mechanicsburg to work at the Methodist Home for Children at age 19, Ann was exposed to the more...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: PA State Human Relations Commission
Organizations: Equality PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 118: Ann Van Dyke
August 2 and 29, 2014
Abstract for Interview 1 (August 2, 2014): Lawrence von Barann was born on June 26, 1928 in Queens, New York to an American mother from New York City and an immigrant father from Germany. Lawrence spent the majority of his upbringing living in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 120: Lawrence ''Larry'' Von Barann
August 9, 2014
This is an oral history with David Payne. It was recorded on August 9th, 2014. David Payne was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Temple University in Philadelphia as a communications major. The focus of his career has...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Men's Chorus of Harrisburg
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 090: David Payne
August 17, 2014
Arlene Ackerman was born in San Francisco, California, then adopted and raised in Lodi, California. Jacquie Bogle Ackerman was born and raised in northern Minnesota. Arlene became licensed as clergy with the Metropolitan Community Church in 1977...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Adoption
Organizations: Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 002: Arlene and Jacquie Bogle Ackerman
August 27, 2014
Nancy Datres was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1948 and first moved to Harrisburg to pursue computer science after becoming blacklisted by the Altoona Police Department when she was just 27 years old. Thereafter, Nancy moved through several...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 020B: Nancy Datres
October 10, 2014
Sharon Mahar Potter was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, commuting to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the first time when she was offered a position to build the early intervention system for disabled children in the...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Bi, Gay, Lesbian Youth Association of Harrisburg (Bi-GLYAH), LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 094: Sharon Potter
October 11, 2014
Emily Newberry was born in June of 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, shortly thereafter moving to West Haven, Connecticut, and then Schenectady, New York, after her parents got divorced—a shameful and hidden family secret—and her dad remarried. Emily...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Transgender Experiences
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 086: Emily Newberry
October 13, 2014
James “Jim” Bortzfield was born in Lancaster, PA in 1934. He received his undergraduate degree from Elizabethtown College as a business major. Upon graduation, Jim moved to Harrisburg to work as a buyer for Pomeroy’s, but after several years he...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 010: James ''Jim'' Bortzfield
October 15, 2014
Joseph "Joe" W. Burns is an LGBT activist who actively participated in LGBT organizations, marches, and protests especially throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s. In this interview, Joe discusses his involvement in several of those LGBT and women’s...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Feminism, Lancaster City Ordinance
Organizations: Allentown NOW, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 012B: Joseph W. Burns
November 22, 2014
MJ Dougherty was born on May 20, 1956 in Syracuse, New York. As a child of parents who traveled extensively for work, MJ had moved around quite a bit before settling into Williamsport, PA where she attended middle school and high school. Upon...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: 9/11
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 030: MJ Dougherty
November 25, 2014
Becky Boone, who identifies as heterosexual, was raised in a religious family that was accepting of homosexuality, although they rarely discussed it. Her involvement with the Pembroke United Church of Christ in Harrisburg and as a parent of a...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 008: Becky Boone
November 25, 2014
Mr. Boone is interviewed as an ally of the LGBT community. From a young age, he encountered members of the LGBT community but never judged or discriminated against them. He later joined the board of a Community Center, and through this Center...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 009: Tom Boone
December 3, 2014
Jerre Freiberg was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His family has close ties to the Lutheran Church, and he has remained affiliated with the church throughout his life. Jerre attended Elizabethtown College for two years...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 039: Jerre Freiberg
February 10, 2015
Kathy Fillman was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania to an Irish family that had their own business. Although she describes her childhood as idyllic, Kathy lived with her grandparents and three cousins due to her mother’s alcoholism and attended a...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 033: Kathy Fillman
February 24, 2015
Mary Nancarrow grew up in a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the 1950s and 1960s with divorced parents and two siblings. After graduating from Shippensburg University, she became prominent in the women’s movement and the LGBT movement in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Feminism, Coming Out
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 084B: Mary Nancarrow
March 8, 2015
Maria Warren grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, in a religious family with both her blood-related and adopted siblings. Maria was very involved in her mother’s church, attending Sunday services, Bible study, and choir rehearsal, but realized that...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 123: Maria Warren
March 19, 2015
David Walker was born in 1946 in Lancaster County, where he grew up in a strict Presbyterian family and always knew that he was different. He studied to be a teacher at Lebanon Valley College when the school was more fundamentalist, but after...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Men's Chorus of Harrisburg
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 121: David Walker
March 20, 2015
Peggy Allan grew up in Oregon, where she attended Northwest Christian College for a year before marrying and having two sons with her first husband, Gary, a pastor. After 10 years of marriage, while the two were living together in Northern...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Affirming Faith Communities, Family Unit
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 003: Peggy Allan
March 20, 2015
Paul Foltz grew up in Steelton in a very Catholic household, a background to which he attributes his unawareness of his sexuality until later in his college years. It wasn’t until he went to England to complete his graduate-level theatre studies...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Harrisburg Men's Chorus, Lily White & Company
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 036: Paul Foltz
March 22, 2015
Lindsay Snowden was born in Pittsburgh on March 15, 1976. Lindsay worked a bunch of odd jobs and has had an entrepreneurial spirit since a young age. Lindsay joined the military when sirb was 17. Lindsay realized after moving to Harrisburg that...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: House of Gains
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 110: Lindsay Snowden
March 22, 2015
Delma Welch was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Cardiff, Maryland as a Catholic with her three brothers and one sister. Delma began going to NOW [National Organization for Women] meetings in 1975 after becoming interested in feminism from...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out, Feminism
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 126: Delma Welch
March 22, 2015
Peg Welch was born in December of 1951 near in Chester County, Pennsylvania to her father, a carpenter, and her mother, a candy maker. A young mother to two children, Peg did not graduate from high school, but received her GED and worked at...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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Organizations: York Area LAMBDA, Lesbian Alliance
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 127: Peg Welch
March 23, 2015
The interview performed on March 23, 2015 is with Oral History project volunteer, Michele Metcalf and long-time LGBT activist and self-identified gay man, Phil Wenger. Wenger was born and raised in Ethiopia in a large Mennonite missionary family...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, Lancaster AIDS Project
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 128: Philip ''Phil'' Wenger
March 24, 2015
Joy Verner was born in 1963 and grew up in Franklin Pennsylvania near Erie, Pa. Joy was one of three children and a mother and a father. She relocated to central Pennsylvania during graduate school where she attended school near Shippensburg. She...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 119: Joy Verner