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Title: Amelie Zurn Interview Part 1, June 8, 2021
Date: June 8, 2021
Creator: Amelie Zurn; Audrey Barnett
Description: Audrey Barnett interviews Amelie Zurn. Their conversation begins with Amelie discussing how she donated a large number of her papers from OUT! (Oppression Under Target) to the American University Archive. She then explains how she got involved with OUT! after volunteering with organizations such as Whitman Walker, National Organization for Women, and the Rape Crisis Hotline. Amelie talks more about her time with OUT!, including actions, other members, organizing tactics, and partnerships with other groups. Audrey also asks for more details about Amelie's work at and the evolution of Whitman Walker clinic. The interview then transitions to a discussion about feminist health practices and activism within AIDS organizing.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Oppression Under Target (OUT!); Whitman Walker; ACT UP; Black Lives Matter; Lesbian Health Services; Take Back the Night; National Organization for Women (NOW); Bowers v. Hardwick; 1987 March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights; disability justice; gay and lesbian organizing; Washington Blade; Ryan White Care Act; memorial actions; Washington Peace Center; abolitionist organizing; DC Council; Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); Clinton administration; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Immigrant Rights Movement; Webster v. Reproductive Health Services; reproductive rights; feminist health practices; mutual aid; transmasculine
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3263
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Amelie Zurn Interview Part 2, June 8, 2021
Date: June 8, 2021
Creator: Amelie Zurn; Audrey Barnett
Description: Audrey Barnett completes part 2 of her interview with Amelie Zurn. Their conversation picks up with Amelie continuing to discuss working with Whitman Walker. She identifies challenges in building support for and acknowledging the affects of grief on people involved in the movement. Audrey then asks Amelie about how her previous work with OUT! and Whitman Walker inform her present-day work and life.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Oppression Under Target (OUT!); Whitman Walker; ACT UP; Black Lives Matter; Lesbian Health Day; caregiving; cancer; grief; Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer; disability justice; Susan Hester; Reagan Administration; Bush Administration; state-sanctioned violence; Black lesbians; AIDS Memorial Quilt; Sharon Kowalksi; Karen Thompson; Jerry Green; City Hall; Sharon Bottoms; lesbian parents; social work; Jamie Grant; gender and sexuality; trauma
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3265
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Barbara Lewis Interview, October 26, 2019
Date: October 26, 2019
Creator: Cameron Sandlin; Barbara Lewis
Description: Barbara Lewis, Physician Assistant at Whitman-Walker Health, reflects on her experiences working and advocating for LGBTQ+ health. She talks about working at Whitman-Walker for 40 years, and remembers founding the first lesbian health clinic in 1979. She remembers promoting safe sex, and talking about safe sex between women in particular in the 90s. She defines safe sex as protecting yourself against giving/recieving an STI. Barbara reflects on her first time learning about AIDS at Whitman-Walker in 1981, and chronicles the steps the clinic has taken since. She hopes the next generation will take charge of their health and bodies, including practicing safe sex.
Subject: Whitman-Walker Health; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome); Barriers for safer sex; HIV (‎human immunodeficiency virus); HIV/AIDS activism; LGBTQ activism; Safe sex; Sex education; STIs (sexually transmitted infections); Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV; Bacterial vaginosis; HPV (human papillomavirus); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power); AIDS buyers clubs
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: Whitman Walker 5K 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1991
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Cedric Burgess Interview, March 19, 2020
Date: March 19, 2020
Creator: Cedric Burgess; Kai Walther
Description: Cedric Burgess speaks with Kai Walther about his activism around AIDS as a self-described Black gay man. Burgess describes the numerous volunteering efforts in which he is currently involved as well as what he did in the past. He discusses being diagnosed with HIV, how he came to be involved in activism around that subject, his struggles with mental health, and moving away from AIDS-specific activism. Additionally, Burgess speaks a bit about gay social life during the “disco days,” including time he spent at the Clubhouse and other gay bars and clubs.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; activism; Washington, DC; The Clubhouse; Names Project; mental health; Inner-City AIDS Network; LGBT seniors; Whitman Walker; Paradise Garage; Washington Blade; Bishop Rainey Cheeks; Black Light; DC Department on Aging and Community Living; AIDS Memorial Quilt; Us Helping Us
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS Activism in DC Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2378
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Donald Burch III Interview, June 8, 2020
Date: June 8, 2020
Creator: Donald Burch III; Kai Walther
Description: In this interview Donald Burch III discusses with Kai Walther his longtime history of volunteering, starting with church involvement in his hometown of Detroit while growing up. He then explains how he ended up in DC and the activism surrounding AIDS he has taken part in here. He also describes the mainly racially-segregated AIDS activism and gay social scene in DC and muses on why that may be. Additionally, Donald talks about his decisions to disclose his HIV status or not at work and while cruising, as well as how AIDS in DC has changed since the 1980s.
Subject: AIDS; HIV; gay; Washington, DC; Metropolitan Community Church; Faith Temple; cruising; Us Helping Us; Inner City AIDS Network; Whitman Walker; African American; segregation; US Navy; Bread for the Soul; Dupont Circle; PreP; support groups; Logan Circle
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS Activism in DC Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2345
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Faith Mitchell Interview, October 26, 2019
Date: October 26, 2019
Creator: Cameron Sandlin; Faith Mitchell
Description: Faith Mitchell of Whitman-Walker Health talks about why she attended the 5K and why she thinks talking about safe sex is important. She shares why she thinks it's important to be part of the activist community, and the work she does as a Prevention Programs Coordinator with Whitman-Walker. Faith discusses her own experience leaning about safe sex as a gay-identifying woman growing up, and why parents and teachers need to talk to more kids about the importance of safe sex.
Subject: Whitman-Walker Health; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome); HIV (‎human immunodeficiency virus); HIV/AIDS activism; Safe sex; Sex education; Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: Whitman Walker 5K 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1992
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Frances Reed Interview, October 26, 2019
Date: October 26, 2019
Creator: Cameron Sandlin; Frances Reed
Description: Whitman-Walker Health board member Frances Reed discusses their experiences learning about safe sex and AIDS. As a queer trans person growing up in Texas in the 1980s, they remember learning that sex was basically death. They reflect on learning about sex in college as a "rapid absorption" of information and sex positivity. Frances sees safe sex as a dicsussion between sexual partners at the beginning of a relationship. They remember first learning about AIDS when two close friends of her family were diagnosed, and they reflect on being personally compelled to fight the disease. They talk about why it's important to view AIDS as an ongoing problem, especially in underserved communities. Frances hopes the next generation will learn their history, understand the loss the LGBTQ+ community has suffered, and see sex not as death but as something that is pleasurable and liberating.
Subject: Whitman-Walker Health; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome); HIV (‎human immunodeficiency virus); HIV/AIDS activism; Safe sex; Sex education; STIs (sexually transmitted infections); Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV; Polyamory; PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: Whitman Walker 5K 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1993
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: HOLA-GAY business card
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Description: Business card advertisement for the HOLA-GAY hotline sponsored by ENLACE and the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Hotlines (Counseling); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Nonprofit organizations -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; HIV/AIDS; AIDS awareness
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_holagay_0013
Type: fliers (printed matter)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98783
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Kiersten Morris Interview, October 26, 2019
Date: October 26, 2019
Creator: Kai Walther; Kiersten Morris
Description: Kiersten Morris talks about learning about safe sex for the first time. She remembers having an abstinence-only sex education in high school, so the first time she learned about safe sex was through an LGBTQ organization at her university. Kiersten discusses learning about AIDS in high school as "a gay thing" and how her perspective changed after taking a gay and lesbian documentay class in college. She hopes the next generation will learn about how to have safe sex with their specific partners, and how to prevent each STI.
Subject: Washington, DC; Whitman-Walker Health; HIV/AIDS healthcare; LGBT healthcare; gay activism; lesbian activism; queer activism; LGBTQ activism; The Walk and 5K to End HIV; 2019 The Walk and 5K to End HIV
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: Whitman Walker 5K 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1994
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Kirsti Lattu Interview, July 22, 2021
Date: July 22, 2021
Creator: Kirsti Lattu; Audrey Barnett
Description: Audrey Barnett interviews Kirsti Lattu over Zoom. Kirsti starts by discussing how and when she first learned about HIV, especially when people in her friend group became infected. She then started getting involved in HIV/AIDS activism, especially as a member of OUT! (Oppression Under Target). Kirsti emphasizes the community-centered focus of OUT!, both in the organization's activism and between its members. She also describes a few specific OUT! action events in which she took part. Kirsti then explains how her time with OUT! has continued to shape her life and activism and what her life in DC as a queer person was like in the late 1980s.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Oppression Under Target (OUT!); Whitman Walker; gay and lesbian; University of Mary Washington; Mount Pleasant, DC; Peace Corps; AIDS in-service budget; Washington Blade; safe sex; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Robert Mapplethorpe; stigma; Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence Everywhere (GLOVE); police violence; self-care; DC Metropolitan Police; Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL); National AIDS Network; Doctors Without Borders; public health; human rights; El Salvadorian immigrant community; Tracks; Marion Barry
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3260
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Larry Neff Interview Part 1, October 26, 2021
Date: October 26, 2021
Creator: Larry Neff; Audrey Barnett
Description: In this interview, Larry Neff shares his experiences living in DC through the AIDS epidemic. He describes his gay community in DC prior to the outbreak of AIDS and then describes how the crisis transformed the community. Bet Mispachah, a queer synagogue in DC, proved to be an important support system for Neff through the height of the AIDS crisis and into the present day. He speaks on how his relationship with this organization has evolved throughout the years.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; Foggy Bottom; Dupont Circle; George Washington University; gay and lesbian community; Lambda Rising bookstore; Connecticut Avenue; Kramers bookstore; government employees; racial segregation; Washington Blade; Washington Post; Whitman Walker; President Reagan; NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt; stigma; Bet Mishpachah; US Department of Transportation; PTSD; Judaism; University of Maryland; Bet Simchat Torah; David Green; Washington Hebrew Congregation; caregiving; Dace Stone; Jewish funeral practices; gay marriage; lesbian weddings; queer Jewish community; COVID-19; parenthood
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3330
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Letter from Amelie Zurn to Yolanda Santiago
Date: 1991-08-05
Creator: Zurn, Amelie
Description: Letter from Amelie Zurn, director of Lesbian Services at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, to Yolanda Santiago, of ENLACE, inviting a female member of ENLACE to serve as a panel member in a forum titled "Lesbian and Bisexual Women Confronting Violence" during the 13th Annual Rape Awareness Week.
Subject: Lesbian activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Forums (Discussion and debate) -- Washington (D.C.); Rape; Intimate partner violence; Latino/a/x lesbians; Hispanic lesbians; Bisexual women; LGBTQ+ victims of sexual abuse
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0088
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98416
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Brian Scott to Letitia Gomez
Date: 1993-03-08
Creator: Scott, Brian
Description: Letter from Brian Scott, director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic of Suburban Maryland, to Letitia Gomez, president of ENLACE, requesting an endorsement of the Clinic's grant application for funds to provide services to individuals with HIV/AIDS in suburban Maryland. Includes a sample endorsement letter.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Nonprofit organizations -- Washington (D.C.); HIV infections -- Maryland -- Prevention; Grants-in-aid -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; HIV/AIDS; AIDS education; Health care for LGBTQ+ people
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0066
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98394
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Dennis Medina to Jim Graham
Date: 1990-08-30
Creator: Medina, Dennis
Description: Letter from Dennis Medina, president of ENLACE, to Jim Graham, director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic notifying Graham that a guide recently published by the clinic included Medina's personal phone number instead of ENLACE's contact information.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Nonprofit organizations -- Washington (D.C.); Latino communities -- Washington (D.C.); Community health services -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; Health care for LGBTQ+ people
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0083
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98411
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Jose Perez to Rita Soler-Ossolinski
Date: 1990-10-23
Creator: Perez, José
Description: Letter from Jose Perez, a person living with HIV, to Rita Soler-Ossolinski, Executive Director of the Office of Latino Affairs. Perez is writing to express his disappointment in the Office of Latino Affairs decision to award AIDS prevention money targeting Latinos to the Whitman-Walker Clinic and not SALUD, Inc.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Nonprofit organizations -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; HIV-positive people; AIDS awareness
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0051
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98379
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Letitia Gomez to Jim Graham
Date: 1992-09-14
Creator: Gomez, Letitia
Description: Letter from Letitia Gomez to Jim Graham, an administrator at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, asking to schedule a time to meet to discuss various issues around HIV/AIDS services in the gay and lesbian Latina/o community.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); AIDS activists -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; LGBT community centers; LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; AIDS awareness; AIDS education
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0023
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98351
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Letitia Gomez to Jim Graham
Date: 1993-02-18
Creator: Gomez, Letitia
Description: Letter from Letitia Gomez, president of ENLACE, to Jim Graham, director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, regarding the development of the clinic's Partner's Connection Project.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Nonprofit organizations -- Washington (D.C.); Latino communities -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; HIV/AIDS; AIDS activists -- Washington (D.C.); Serodiscordant couples
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0143
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98471
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Richard Kulick to Manuel Guevara
Date: 1992-01-09
Creator: Kulick, Richard
Description: Letter from Richard Kulick, treasurer of ENLACE, to Manuel Guevara, outreach specialist for the Proyecto DCDC at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, agreeing to co-sponsor monthly video parties.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Nonprofit organizations -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; LGBTQ+ events; AIDS education
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0063
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98391
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Russell Brady to Letitia Gomez
Date: 1993-02-26
Creator: Brady, Russell
Description: Letter from Russell Brady, program supervisor for Gay Men's Outreach and Education with the Whitman-Walker Clinic, to Letitia Gomez, president of ENLACE, following up on a previous conversation about developing a program advisory committee.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Gay community -- Washington (D.C.); Nonprofit organizations -- Washington (D.C.); HIV infections -- Washington (D.C.) -- Prevention; Grants-in-aid -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic gay men; HIV/AIDS; AIDS awareness; AIDS education
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0068
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98396
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter from Shirlene Showell to Dennis Medina
Date: 1991-04-10
Creator: Showell, Shirlene
Description: Letter from Shirlene Showell, director of Sunnye Sherman AIDS Education Services, to Dennis Medina, director of ENLACE, asking if ENLACE will support the Aseo-Ashe Project for a third year in a row. The Aseo-Ashe Project is run by the Whitman-Walker Clinic in efforts to reach African American and Latino gays, bisexuals, and lesbians through outreach and education activities.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Whitman-Walker Clinic; Community health services -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; LGBTQ+ people of color; HIV/AIDS; AIDS awareness; AIDS education
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0050
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98378
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

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