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LGBT Center of Central PA
October 25, 2007
Founded in 1994, the Central PA Womyn’s Chorus “brings together a diverse group of women, united by the joy of singing, to celebrate and empower women and to affirm a positive image of lesbians and feminists.”
This event program is from the...
March 14, 2014
Teresa “Teddy” Maurer was born in Lykens, Pennsylvania. Following a move to Upper Dauphin County, she grew up and graduated from Halifax High School. From there she worked at the Nedrich shirt factory for a few years before moving onto a job with...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
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Transcription of LGBT Oral History 077: Teresa ''Teddy'' Maurer
March 26, 2014
John Folby was born in Pittsburgh in 1947. He was the oldest of five children in an Irish-Italian Catholic family. He relocated to Harrisburg in 1975 with his partner. John continues to live with his partner in Harrisburg in a relationship...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 035: John Folby
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
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 26, 2015
Growing up in the conservative Lebanon County of central PA, Barbara Darkes attended grade school through the beginning of her pre-law college career without experiencing any attraction to women. It was at her summer job at the local YMCA during...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 019: Barbara Darkes
March 29, 2015
Louie Marven moved to central Pennsylvania from his hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York to attend Messiah College in 2003 and has lived in the Harrisburg area ever since. The school’s conservative values and prohibition of “homosexual behavior...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, Common Roads
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 076: Louie Marven
September 16, 2017
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Center of Central PA (Harrisburg) began to form in the late 90s. To receive fundraising though the National Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership of New York, the founding group was led...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 065: LGBT Center History Group Interview
October 4, 2017
Barry Loveland interviews Alex Reber, now 32, who relates fascinating stories of what it was like growing up as an only child of an Evangelical Christian family raised on a farm in Bethel, a rural town between Harrisburg and Allentown and...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 097: Alex Reber
2000-2014
Shaashawn Dial is as a poet, radio broadcaster, educator, author, and businesswoman. Kown as Shaashawn “The Voyce” Dial, and she released her debut spoken word album, Voycemail, after that nickname. Dial became the program director of 1400 THE...
Collection: LGBT-025 - Dial
Topics:
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, Central PA Vipers
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-025 Shaashawn Dial Collection
1995 - 2005
This collection contains material related to the establishment of the LGBT Center of Central PA and the activities of the AIDS Community Alliance. It also includes a 1995-1996 Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg directory, a flyer for the...
Collection: LGBT-006 - Anonymous
Topics:
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, AIDS Community Alliance
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-006 Anonymous Collection
1990 - present
The LGBT Center of Central PA, housed in Harrisburg, PA, provides services, programs, and community space for the LGBT community in the region. These materials represent these initiatives, including the Common Roads program for youth and young...
