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Social Reform and Advocacy
March 22, 2014
Barry Loveland was born December 28th, 1956 in Schenectady, New York. After graduating from high school, Barry attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he obtained a Bachelors of Science degree in Architecture and Building Sciences....
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Common Roads, Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 070: Barry Loveland
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
May 8, 2014
Jon Johnson was born in Southern Lancaster county, Pennsylvania and lived on his family’s farm in his early life. Charles (Charlie) Maser was born in Brownstown in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Jon spent most of his life in Pennsylvania. He went...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Lancaster AIDS Project, The Betty Finney House
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 052: John Johnson and Charles Maser
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
Topics:
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
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
Organizations:
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 086: Emily Newberry
October 15, 2014
Joe 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 rights...
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
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
Topics:
Organizations:
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 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
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
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
Organizations:
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
Topics:
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 27, 2015
Walter Heiliger was born in 1944 and grew up in rural Carroll County, Maryland, the second of three children. Walter, who describes himself as “severely hearing-impaired,” encountered difficulties in school and in connecting...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Family Unit, Coming Out
Organizations: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 046: Walter Heiliger
March 29, 2015
Cindy Lou Mitzel was born in April of 1942 in York County, Pennsylvania as the youngest in a big family. Growing up, Cindy knew that she felt attraction towards women but married a man just after graduating from high school and had three children...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), Lesbian Alliance, Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), Central PA Womyn's Chorus
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 083: Cindy Lou Mitzel
April 6, 2015
Eva O’Diam was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1953 to her mother, a school teacher, and her father, an engineer. Growing up in conservative, rural Ohio, Eva lost her father at the age of 12 and moved to Covington, Ohio where she graduated from high...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out, HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 088: Eva O'Diam
April 9, 2015
Dr. Eric Selvey was born and raised in Harrisburg, PA. He attended optometry school in Philadelphia, but returned to the Harrisburg area after graduating. In his interview he discusses his relationship with his mother and grandmother — and coming...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Lily White & Company, South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 104: Eric Selvey
April 29, 2014
Joy (Ufema) Counsel was raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania. After completing high school, Joy began studies to become a nurse at the Altoona Hospital, and later completed a nursing program at Harrisburg Area Community College. Joy worked in numerous...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: York Hospice House (York, PA)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 116: Joy (Ufema) Counsel
July 24, 2015
Daniel Maneval was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on October 3, 1947. In this interview, Daniel speaks frankly about his experiences growing up as an only child, about the homophobic violence he has experienced, and the gay organizations he...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU), Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 072B: Dan Maneval
October 28, 2015
Lorraine Kujawa was one of the co-founders of the Lavender Letter in Harrisburg during the late seventies and eighties. The Lavender Letter was created to provide events for the lesbian community to attend in Pennsylvania. She started the...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations:
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 061: Lorraine Kujawa
November 11, 2015
Cathy Nelson was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Staten Island, New York, at the age of two with her strict Italian-Swedish family. As a child, Cathy loved music and did well in school. She also participated in Catholic youth group...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Central PA Womyn's Chorus
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November 19, 2015
Gretchen Little was born on October 26, 1958 in Elmira, New York. As a child, Gretchen was interested in sports and experimented with wearing women’s clothing in the home. While studying Media Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Transgender Experiences
Organizations: TransCentral PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 067: Gretchen Little
November 23, 2015
Benjamin Dunlap was born in Lancaster County Pennsylvania on December 23, 1957. He was born to a family with a mother, father, and sister ten years older than him. Throughout his life he was highly involved with LGBT community life and in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Common Roads
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 031: Benjamin Dunlap
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