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Title: Peter Burleigh Interview, September 24, 2021
Date: September 24, 2021
Creator: Peter Burleigh; Audrey Barnett
Description: Audrey Barnett interviews Peter Burleigh. In the virtual interview, Peter starts by describing his time working for the State Department and concurrently coming out in his personal life as gay. He then transitions into discussing his experiences with HIV/AIDS in DC, including his partner's diagnosis as positive and Peter's role as a caregiver. Peter explains that he publicly came out when writing his partner's obituary, making him the first "career person" in the Foreign Service to come out. The conversation then moves to Peter's time as an openly gay FSO and challenges he faced after his partner's death.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; gay and lesbian; Fulbright Grant; Foreign Service; Linda Thomas-Greenfield; United Nations; H.W. Bush Administration; Peace Corps; Jill Strachan; FBI; State Department; Clinton Administration; Reagan Administration; Gay and Lesbian in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA); Brian Dalton; Personnel Department; Anthony Fauci; LGBT; Food and Friends; Florida; vaccine; Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington; Washington Blade; Iraq Wars; gender roles; African American; Black; white; Meals on Wheels; gay pride
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3251
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Title: Preston Jones Interview, November 1, 2020
Date: November 1, 2020
Creator: Preston Jones; HopeLily Van Duyne
Description: Preston Jones is a Journeyman Silversmith with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation that runs the museums and historic houses and sites in Williamsburg, Virginia. Preston talks about his experiences working at Colonial Williamsburg since he was in high school. He addresses some of the issues that people of color face working at Colonial Williamsburg, especially when working as historical interpreters. This interview was conducted as part of class requirements for HIST:667 Oral History with Dr. Anna Kaplan in fall 2020.
Subject: family history; Colonial Williamsburg; College of William & Mary; school desegregation; Yorktown; Native Americans; Chickahominy; Fife & Drum; gender roles; unequal treatment; diversity
Country: United States
Collection: African American Historical Interpreters: The Experience of Working in the Past
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2574
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Title: Spencer Lawson Interview: Interviewer Reflection
Date: December 1, 2021
Creator: Colette Combs
Description: Reflective text by the interviewer, Colette Combs, for the Fall 2021 American University oral history course.
Subject: drag; gender; gender and youth; sexuality; gender roles; theater
Country: United States
Collection: Spencer Lawson Interview, December 1, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3490
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Title: Tanner Fraser Interview, October 27, 2021
Date: October 27, 2021
Creator: Tanner Fraser; Colette Combs
Description: In this interview, Fraser, a non-binary drag artist living in Maryland, reflects upon their life through a gendered lens. They discuss growing up as a tomboy, living in Arizona, their relationship to their parents, youth sports, family dynamics, coming out, grappling with trans identity, discovering drag, and life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fraser describes how serving in the U.S Navy, finding drag as a performance art form, and experiencing the pandemic changed their relationship to and Understanding of their own gender.
Subject: drag; Pretty Boi Drag; Gage Razor; non-binary; Washington, DC; Arizona; Scotland; tomboy; The L Word; One Direction; familial relationships; gender; youth and gender; US Navy; military and gender; gender roles; Catholicism; trans identity; COVID-19; quarantine; youth sports; ADHD
Country: United States
Collection: Tanner Fraser Interview, October 27, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3501
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