6 100 745 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/b1b7815fcfdfee54e5f6b35a9d8cf901.png 97eae8d4a4459b6a115be1b5b12410ac Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Watkins Description An account of the resource Mary Watkins https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/cf9ed3a84f4b42569134bdc9a7ba616b.jpg 07d8c5955f294208b9ea1fe157bbe7f2 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/d699dab8933dd77dd1af880c26fb1ea4.mp4 de67f8df81a2002b8a59a2b54037d082 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barbara Smith Classroom Tapes & Interviews, 1988 Subject The topic of the resource Activism Barbara Smith Black feminism Education Lesbian fiction Description An account of the resource This collection contains video interviews with students in Barbara Smith’s Mount Holyoke College classes. Topics include Lesbian Feminism, Lesbian fiction, and intersectionality. There are also interviews with Smith herself. Barbara Smith graduated class of 1969 from Mount Holyoke and during her time as a student she was a co-founder of the college’s <a href="https://commons.mtholyoke.edu/blackhistoryatmhc/the-afro-american-society/">Afro-American Society</a>. She returned to the college as a professor in the 1980s and remains an engaged alumna and member of the college community.  Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Digitized October 2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/search?query=barbara+smith&query_type=keyword&submit_search=Submit">Barbara Smith</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/rights-statement">See the LHA Rights Statement</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Probably 1988 (Earliest 1983) Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meeka Interview (Tape 1) Subject The topic of the resource Women, Black Feminism Feminist literature Description An account of the resource Interview with 19 year-old Mount Holyoke student Meeka on the structure of and experiences in Barbara Smith's class. She highlights a presentation on “Homegirls”and talks about discussions in the class surrounding culture and experiences of women of color. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barbara Smith Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2023-10-24 (digitized) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 508.3 MB Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context tape_1_meeka_interview Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1988 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Digital Format MP4 Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:21:27 Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. U-matic Barbara Smith Education Lesbian Authors Lesbian Literature Literature https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/1c9d2a8bd0c46e1f58d9d5b1a7d730bd.jpg 4d94fb32f5b05c9019991b18d0495c81 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/1ffe1cc138252579e000aabbf6654463.mp4 4bc6cd6f14df95806232051113b242f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barbara Smith Classroom Tapes & Interviews, 1988 Subject The topic of the resource Activism Barbara Smith Black feminism Education Lesbian fiction Description An account of the resource This collection contains video interviews with students in Barbara Smith’s Mount Holyoke College classes. Topics include Lesbian Feminism, Lesbian fiction, and intersectionality. There are also interviews with Smith herself. Barbara Smith graduated class of 1969 from Mount Holyoke and during her time as a student she was a co-founder of the college’s <a href="https://commons.mtholyoke.edu/blackhistoryatmhc/the-afro-american-society/">Afro-American Society</a>. She returned to the college as a professor in the 1980s and remains an engaged alumna and member of the college community.  Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Digitized October 2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/search?query=barbara+smith&query_type=keyword&submit_search=Submit">Barbara Smith</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/rights-statement">See the LHA Rights Statement</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Probably 1988 (Earliest 1983) Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meeka Interview (Tape 2) Subject The topic of the resource Women, Black Feminism Feminist literature Description An account of the resource Interview with 19 year-old Mount Holyoke student Meeka on her experiences with taking Barbara Smith's class. She talks about Black Feminist analysis, colorism, and intersectional feminism. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barbara Smith Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2023-10-24 (digitized) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 537.1 MB Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context tape_2_meeka_interview Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1988 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Digital Format MP4 Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:22:39 Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. U-matic Barbara Smith Education Lesbian Authors Lesbian Literature Literature https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/5d1afc801b962a389085eb590fc2983e.jpg 2bc4a881e459601946014ba4180b157f https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/535d126d8caae0fbfb4fd837de33a1f7.mp3 e1d67e96cf37d2b633ea37e644a47f28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Assorted Audio Materials, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource Included in this collection are clips from radio shows including South Carolina Educational Radio Network, Radio Free People, KCRW-FM, and RCC. There are also clips of live music and poetry performances, as well as political discussions. These materials were likely donated by <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/105">Liza Cowan</a>. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Meg Christian and Holly Near Concert Side B Title A name given to the resource Meg Christian and Holly Near Concert (Side B) Description An account of the resource Live recording of Meg Christian and Holly Near performing at 1976 LFF concert. Note: Poor sound quality Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/6/76 Extent The size or duration of the resource. PT33M09S Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mpeg Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. 1/4" audio tape Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be used for publication without the express written consent of Liza Cowan. Contact the Lesbian Herstory Archive for Liza Cowan’s contact information. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Holly Near Meg Christian Music Women's Liberation Movement https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/018c454674d5ae27d2771cdd83567591.mp3 ef63bf0af817a9c9e09d0783c0ab0b44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Assorted Audio Materials, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource Included in this collection are clips from radio shows including South Carolina Educational Radio Network, Radio Free People, KCRW-FM, and RCC. There are also clips of live music and poetry performances, as well as political discussions. These materials were likely donated by <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/105">Liza Cowan</a>. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Megan Christian and Holly Near Concert Side A Title A name given to the resource Megan Christian and Holly Near Concert (Side A) Description An account of the resource Live recording of Meg Christian and Holly Near performing at 1976 LFF concert. Note: playback speed changes so there is a brief cut in audio around the 12 min mark; poor sound quality. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/6/76 Extent The size or duration of the resource. PT37M14S Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mpeg Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. 1/4" audio tape Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be used for publication without the express written consent of Liza Cowan. Contact the Lesbian Herstory Archive for Liza Cowan’s contact information. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Holly Near Meg Christian Music Women's Liberation Movement https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/85/708/cleaver.png 8fc0f8ed10500c64a32d29a923f59bd7 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/85/708/D.C._2nd_Part.mp4 819451376efe09222893de3ca78ca133 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Related Video Recordings, 1989-1995 Description An account of the resource This collection includes videos created during the course of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, including the 20th Anniversary of the Boston chapter and the memorial service for Diane Cleaver. Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:23:39 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 16 bit/32 kHz Frame Rate 29.97 Resolution .AVI: 720 x 480 .MP4: 320 x 240 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memorial Service for Diane Cleaver (Part 2) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D.C. 2nd Part Subject The topic of the resource Relationships, Friendship, Families, Aging, Death and Dying, Communities, Biographies, Writing, Songs Description An account of the resource Friends and family gather at the funeral of Diane Cleaver to share stories, reminisce, and pay homage to her. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sara Yager [videographer] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Morgan Greenwald [Still Photographer]; Manuela Soares Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ‎‎February ‎23, ‎2015 [digitized] 1995 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 4.92 GB PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. VHS Notes Any other notes or information about the media item, including bibliography/research information, contact information, and legacy metadata. Aspect Ratio: 4 : 3 Digital Format Preservation Copy: AVI with DV codec Access Copy: MP4 Aging Biographies Communities Daughters of Bilitis Death and Dying Diane Cleaver Families Friendship Music Relationships Songs Writing https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/56/355/[2014SP]Memorial_Service_Helen_J._Sandoz_7-19-87_[side_B].mp3 5432dd722a561f430835586e38380417 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio Recordings, 1971-1988 Description An account of the resource This assortment of digitized tapes from the DOB Video Project includes interviews, musical and comedy performances, and reminiscences from a memorial service. The audio collection also includes a set of recordings of feminist activist Ti Grace Atkinson, which are collected under "DOB Atkinson Tapes." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memorial Service Helen J. Sandoz, Side A, July 19, 1987 Subject The topic of the resource Memorials Christianity Relationships Description An account of the resource This tape is a recording from the memorial service for Helen Sandoz on July 19, 1987. The recording is of a religious service for Sandy with various readings from the Bible as well as religious music. After the religious ceremony, friends and loved ones told humorous and moving stories about Sandy. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1987-7-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Physical: Cassette Tape File: mp3 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 00:30:50 Language A language of the resource en Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Recording Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Christianity Daughters of Bilitis Death and Dying Helen Sandoz Relationships https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/9c93be740ce4453310ed1875395da1d5.jpg ef37af35a5fb6dcda20173f878629152 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/3d3c5d2641272ea88bc2bf366fa9a2cc.mp3 b3571714ae5e321706372d9756c5ca04 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource These radio programs were recorded onto compact audio cassettes by an unknown individual (or individuals) who documented over a hundred different broadcasts from WBAI public radio. The tapes may have been dubbed from the open reel tape masters before the masters were moved to the Pacifica Radio Archives. The audio cassettes were eventually donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cassettes were digitized by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program in 2024-2025. The tapes contain programs that are specific to feminism and lesbian communities, including panels, workshops and interviews featuring feminist writers, artists, poets and other cultural producers that were broadcasted via the radio. Radio programs include Amazon Country, Everywomanspace, The Lesbian Show, and Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, among others. Find out more about the context of the collection here: <a href="https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/feminist-programming/wbai-about">WBAI Women's Department and Feminist Programming</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1937A Title A name given to the resource Mischief Mime Description An account of the resource On this episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, Donna Allegra interviews members of Mischief Mime, a two woman theater troupe from Ithaca, New York. Mischief Mime tours and teaches nationally to prove artists can make it outside of the larger cities. Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian radio Performance art Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available WBAI radio Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Pacifica Radio Archives Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Recording; Radio talk shows PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. The Velvet Sledgehammer Host If applicable, the person hosting the broadcast piece. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Donna Allegra Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Mischief Mime Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. Audio cassette Digital Format Access Copy: MP3 Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 0:45:17 Feminist Theater Performing Arts Theater https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/33/47/34159_ca_object_representations_media_151_original.jpg d35e5db73f9310e4fe412280667e91b2 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 600 Width 400 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/33/47/spw1151_B.mp3 068bf23838ce0bbfd1d0a55e4abd1ce4 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/33/47/spw1151_A.mp3 307e4e491b28ef8def96d9de46a93452 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audre Lorde audio recordings, 1977-1986 Description An account of the resource Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a celebrated and influential Caribbean-American poet, novelist, autobiographer, and publisher whose art and life explored issues of race, class, sexuality, gender, and illness. The cassettes in this collection were deposited at the LHA by various donors. They document various public events including the 1979 National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights, a 1982 poetry reading, and writing conferences in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago, 1977 Subject The topic of the resource Poetry, Lesbianism, Feminism, Motherhood, Sexual orientation, Sexism, Abortion, Family, Health, Rape, Misogyny, Lesbian feminism, Description An account of the resource Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago, December 1977. Lesbian Feminist Poetry Reading featuring six poets. Side A includes Joan Larkin, Barbara Smith and Diedre McCalla. Side B includes Melanie Kaye, Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde; Audre Lorde appears at 28:07 on SPW1151_B (Side B). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Modern Language Association Joan Larkin, Barbara Smith, Diedre McCalla, Melanie Kaye, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Side A (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw1151_A.mp3 Side A (wav) http://herstory.prattsils.org/wav_files/spw1151_A.wav Side B (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw1151_B.mp3 Side B (wav) http://herstory.prattsils.org/wav_files/spw1151_B.wav Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Modern Language Association Date Created Date of creation of the resource. December 29, 1977 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. Digitized: June 2011 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original = Cassette Tape WAV MP3 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Digital reproduction of audio cassette. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Poetry Conference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1151 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Chicago, IL Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1977, December Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Abortion Adrienne Rich Audre Lorde Barbara Smith Conferences Families Feminism Health Language Poetry Sexuality https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/baab95676bbb428e54b4c8a809bb5ec1.jpg 2de043b6ba43e60628c625c18114f3c3 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/4e83373b788d569eecc0335a78917695.mp3 1b9a53e507ed70d60cfc4461f05f4235 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/6533d7cd6d255b4bb53db5c031677f58.mp3 abaf512fd32e32f7761061e68a89a623 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource These radio programs were recorded onto compact audio cassettes by an unknown individual (or individuals) who documented over a hundred different broadcasts from WBAI public radio. The tapes may have been dubbed from the open reel tape masters before the masters were moved to the Pacifica Radio Archives. The audio cassettes were eventually donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cassettes were digitized by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program in 2024-2025. The tapes contain programs that are specific to feminism and lesbian communities, including panels, workshops and interviews featuring feminist writers, artists, poets and other cultural producers that were broadcasted via the radio. Radio programs include Amazon Country, Everywomanspace, The Lesbian Show, and Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, among others. Find out more about the context of the collection here: <a href="https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/feminist-programming/wbai-about">WBAI Women's Department and Feminist Programming</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:03:16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1966 Title A name given to the resource Modern Scream Subject The topic of the resource Humor Description An account of the resource Side A opens with Viv Sutherland introducing Lily Tomlin’s comedy album Modern Scream on the WBAI Women’s Studies program. The bulk of the tape features Tomlin’s satirical sketches, where she voices multiple characters. Highlights include a bizarre monologue from a woman addicted to rubber, a mock celebrity interview parodying Hollywood shallowness, a chaotic sorority speech full of performative morality, and a child’s monologue touching on emotional contradictions. The humor is absurdist, character-driven, and rooted in media and gender satire. Side B continues with more sketches from Modern Scream, maintaining the format of comic vignettes performed by Tomlin. It features a flashback to Detroit high school life, a surreal phone company sketch, a spoof interview about playing a heterosexual woman, a parody detergent commercial that turns into a soap opera-style meltdown, and a long sermon from “Sister Boogie Woman” celebrating radical self-expression. The tape closes with Sutherland’s sign-off and a preview of upcoming feminist programming. Like Side A, it’s rich in satire but not thematically aligned with our themes. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived WBAI Radio Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available WBAI Radio Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a> PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Host If applicable, the person hosting the broadcast piece. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Viv Sutherland Humor Lily Tomlin Viv Sutherland https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/e25102cd849f9148a71eb69835bcac9a.jpg 24d89d22610c6b079c4712e7b79d98c4 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/9e1aef2dd1051a6fe256449e82e2ad6b.mp3 f66ce4a2b51398344046c3632b1aa2dd https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/accf2f2208a24a4652d5442f1d01d79a.mp3 31198f0dec7b1e54f86deb2bf38974c2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource These radio programs were recorded onto compact audio cassettes by an unknown individual (or individuals) who documented over a hundred different broadcasts from WBAI public radio. The tapes may have been dubbed from the open reel tape masters before the masters were moved to the Pacifica Radio Archives. The audio cassettes were eventually donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cassettes were digitized by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program in 2024-2025. The tapes contain programs that are specific to feminism and lesbian communities, including panels, workshops and interviews featuring feminist writers, artists, poets and other cultural producers that were broadcasted via the radio. Radio programs include Amazon Country, Everywomanspace, The Lesbian Show, and Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, among others. Find out more about the context of the collection here: <a href="https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/feminist-programming/wbai-about">WBAI Women's Department and Feminist Programming</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:02:53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1951 Title A name given to the resource More Than Half the World - A Pretty Face is not Safe in this City Subject The topic of the resource Women Feminism Music Civil Rights Description An account of the resource Side A: Host discusses women's rights and justice in the United States. Show features various feminist musicians. Side B: Host and callers discuss women in music, societal change as well as women’s rights. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived WBAI Radio Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available WBAI Radio Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a> PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Host If applicable, the person hosting the broadcast piece. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Judy Pasternak Civil Rights Feminism Music https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/6907232a58d91a2afae31395029dd26c.jpeg 073c87f7468b359ef56b70475e4e57a1 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/58a7b6aa06688bfc179143dcd2cc8fdc.mp3 ede5eb92c138367aedf34954adabef0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource These radio programs were recorded onto compact audio cassettes by an unknown individual (or individuals) who documented over a hundred different broadcasts from WBAI public radio. The tapes may have been dubbed from the open reel tape masters before the masters were moved to the Pacifica Radio Archives. The audio cassettes were eventually donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cassettes were digitized by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program in 2024-2025. The tapes contain programs that are specific to feminism and lesbian communities, including panels, workshops and interviews featuring feminist writers, artists, poets and other cultural producers that were broadcasted via the radio. Radio programs include Amazon Country, Everywomanspace, The Lesbian Show, and Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, among others. Find out more about the context of the collection here: <a href="https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/feminist-programming/wbai-about">WBAI Women's Department and Feminist Programming</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:56:53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1912 Title A name given to the resource More Than Half the World - Abortion Subject The topic of the resource Abortion Feminism Description An account of the resource Host, Judy Pasternak, discusses abortion and the struggle for the legal right of women to have control over their bodies. In her reflection upon the legal battle surrounding this issue, Pasternak notes that the majority of the individuals making these decisions from a federal level down to its local implementation are male identifying. In her past experience and many other of the callers, the medical infrastructure and service providers were male which they felt impacted their care and the comportment of the medical team. 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Title A name given to the resource Audio Recordings, 1971-1988 Description An account of the resource This assortment of digitized tapes from the DOB Video Project includes interviews, musical and comedy performances, and reminiscences from a memorial service. The audio collection also includes a set of recordings of feminist activist Ti Grace Atkinson, which are collected under "DOB Atkinson Tapes." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Morgan G, Side A, November 13, 1988 Subject The topic of the resource Alcoholism Friendship Description An account of the resource This audio recording is discussing her issue with addiction and alcoholism. She opens up about having good people by her side in these hard times. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1988-11-13 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Physical: Audio Cassette Digital: .MP3 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 46:13 Language A language of the resource en Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Recording Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Addiction Daughters of Bilitis Friendship Morgan Gwenwald Relationships https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/56/345/[2014SP]Letter_to_Morgan_from_Stella_Rush_Side_B.mp3 272d86dbc0742cd486059879ff5d6a77 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio Recordings, 1971-1988 Description An account of the resource This assortment of digitized tapes from the DOB Video Project includes interviews, musical and comedy performances, and reminiscences from a memorial service. The audio collection also includes a set of recordings of feminist activist Ti Grace Atkinson, which are collected under "DOB Atkinson Tapes." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Morgan G, Side B, November 2, 1988 Subject The topic of the resource Relationships Love Letters Description An account of the resource This is a continuation of a previous audio recording. The recording is taken in a car ride and it is a letter for Morgan. She discusses her daily routine. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1988-11-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. 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Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Myrna Lamb photo https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/c3da2608304aa1c406b5c59eed27b090.jpg ebce48063613c645040888af3bda97b8 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nanette Rainone at WBAI in 1969 Subject The topic of the resource Nanette Rainone at WBAI in 1969 Description An account of the resource Black and white photo of Nanette Rainone Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived WBAI/ NYTimes https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/e4c9c0e49fa44a31a644ac42ff5c2ebe.jpg d8facc391f3a7b7a7ab78aae53689ece Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource National Black Lesbian Conference Subject The topic of the resource National Black Lesbian Conference Description An account of the resource Scan of "National Black Lesbian Conference" written by Becky Bertha originally published in PLGTF Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 8, 1980. Includes Bibliography on Black Women. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Becky Bertha Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lesbian Herstory Archive Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PLGTF Bulletin Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1980 Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. National Black Lesbian Conference Black Lesbians Conferences San Francisco https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/12fa811760d64d08cb30b0f9909eecbf.jpeg f79feee17e457d2f66cca68bd6120f42 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/8ffdd510975096e939ed35b4d050b21c.mp4 d8a6d97737dd1b4e0eb988cb26795e86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Audre Lorde Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Neighborhood Voices Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Lourde, Audre Digital Format MP4 Physical Location An address for a physical media item. For an organization or producer acting as caretaker of a media resource, this field may contain information about a specific shelf location for an item, including an organization's name, departmental name, shelf ID and contact information. Lesbian Herstory Archives Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:19:54 Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. U-matic Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Audre Lorde Interview (Tape 1) Description An account of the resource Old Neighborhood Voices interviews Audre Lorde about living as a young Black lesbian in the Lower East Side (now referred to as the East Village). She discusses the interconnectedness of the lesbian communities in the neighborhood, the imperfect support systems they offered each other when there were no other options, and the pressures of living on the edge of society. Lorde also discusses the racism that was rampant in the gay community in the Village, and how the few black lesbians within these communities were met with apathy when discussing political matters. She also discusses the effects of McCarthyism in the 1950s on her lesbian communities, as well as how she gained political consciousness growing up with the Brown v. Board of Education case, as well as by living near the Women’s House of Detention in the Lower East Side and seeing Black incarcerated women for the first time. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Audre Lorde Interview (Tape 2) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource U-matic video Description An account of the resource In the second part of the Old Neighborhood Voices interview with Audre Lorde, she talks about living around the Village in the 1950s - from the migrators who came into the gay bars just for the weekend, to the imagined mythos of the Village as a place for anyone outside of white, middle-class America, and to the conflicts between the older residents and the newcomers to the area. Lorde touches on what her apartments were like and the rent situation of the area, as well as scrouging together food to share with her communities as a poor person. Then, Lorde discusses the multiple lives lesbians of the time had to live and the incredible gift that integrating every aspect of herself was as she got older. She touches on the Stonewall Riot, as well as the way she had to stop arbitrarily dividing aspects of herself to make others more comfortable. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neighborhood Voices Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 30, 1985 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource WNYC-TV <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VID011 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Audre Lorde Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Neighborhood Voices Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Lorde, Audre Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. U-matic Digital Format MP4 Physical Location An address for a physical media item. For an organization or producer acting as caretaker of a media resource, this field may contain information about a specific shelf location for an item, including an organization's name, departmental name, shelf ID and contact information. Lesbian Herstory Archives Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:19:55 Audre Lorde Black Lesbians Class New York City Lesbians & Gays Racism Stonewall WNYC https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/df30769acfe19ce4c18826e382082fcc.jpeg 3e231629933ae343d8e797a1fa686929 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/dbec8874525259a3956d6aecf6ae8ea4.mp4 7ed9b4482ab598d351f0a58d4044aebe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Audre Lorde Interview (Tape 3) Description An account of the resource In the third part of the interview, Audre Lorde discusses the lure of the Village for gay people, black people, and others who wished for an egalitarian environment, and how sometimes they would ignore the homophobia and racism they faced in the neighborhood to hold onto this dream. Also, she discussed in more depth what she thought about the Stonewall riot, and how it felt tied to the black revolutionary movement of the time. Furthermore, she discusses at length the different gay bars she would frequent, their ties to the mafia, and the different women that would frequent them. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neighborhood Voices Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 30, 1985 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource WNYC-TV <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VID012 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Audre Lorde Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Neighborhood Voices Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). 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Format: HH:MM:SS 00:19:20 Bars Black Lesbians Lesbians of Color New York City Lesbians & Gays Racism Stonewall https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/fd09cf570fbec313c6c3bbdd285b3db7.jpeg f5935e04917f60c5bb619401c3f516e6 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/83d220984b528ed5bba4c13885325256.mp4 55f5662b60fc8f32364d055f75d69ae2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Audre Lorde Interview (Tape 4) Description An account of the resource In the final part of the Old Neighborhood Voices interview with Audre Lorde, she wraps up the talk with a discussion on the drama of lesbian life in her youth. She talks about the difficulties and joys of living in community with lesbians in the 1950s and how being on the edge of society gives you a different worldview. She stresses how everyone should view themselves as an outsider so they don't lose perspective on the true sense of power structures at play in the world. 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Format: HH:MM:SS 00:10:47 Audre Lorde Black Lesbians Lesbian Youth New York City Lesbians & Gays Racism WNYC https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/a93bd3910e3a2aede8a7e662fe9b570f.jpeg f627067447e0a73bf9b8da8e18d1571e https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/2ed5d0402973d999a0d61f603cfd60ca.mp4 4fda464f12bd165546947ae842cdfa3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Irving Cooperberg [Partial interview] Description An account of the resource Irving Cooperberg discusses the importance of having a physical, experimental space and what it means for the legitimacy and stability of the community. He discusses different LGBT groups and community spaces throughout NYC, and the ways in which they promote life and hope amidst the HIV/AIDs epidemic. He talks about how these spaces give legitimacy to the community and allow for the melding of all different cultures and people. He also discusses the gay Synagogue and its role in the larger gay and lesbian community. 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Irving Cooperberg Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. U-matic Physical Location An address for a physical media item. For an organization or producer acting as caretaker of a media resource, this field may contain information about a specific shelf location for an item, including an organization's name, departmental name, shelf ID and contact information. Lesbian Herstory Archives Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 21:23:00 Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Irving Cooperberg Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Neighborhood Voices New York City Lesbians & Gays WNYC https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/29a5e9114f0e88367248d7b64733c451.jpeg a8ca5deab639ddd4bffd661929f2bd8b https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/0a3d44be881c4dbcada1d6cd4259eeac.mp4 ffb3ac3af619c7a92bac4c48fa2f809d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Sonny Wainwright Interview (Tape 1) Description An account of the resource Sonny Wainwright discusses coming out in 1948, navigating the Village bar scene as a young college student with her lover Kelly, and the social life of lesbians in the 1950s. Wainwright found support in the bars as well as her close circle of closeted friends prior to the formation of the Gay Women’s Alternative. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VID014 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neighborhood Voices Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource WNYC-TV <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. 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U-matic Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:20:30 Bars Coming Out Communities LGBTQ+ Support Groups New York City Lesbians & Gays Police Harassment Police Raids Social Life Sonny Wainwright WNYC https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/026ffbbf70534deed377994467c739c6.jpeg 1e017a7b2bd51b6bac274c022281d637 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/0d340fe7268ece8f33e8937dc5281083.mp4 9f5aee1b7b60ece06ac865689bf001e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Sonny Wainwright Interview (Tape 2) Description An account of the resource Wainwright remembers her youth and feeling on the “fringes” of society. Growing up and attending an all girls highschool, she was aware of her feelings about women and only later realized what it meant after graduating high school and meeting her first lover. Despite understanding her identity and sexuality, she made the choice to “live straight” in the 1960s due to the lack of acceptance by society and the threat of losing her job as principal of a junior high school while raising her daughter alone. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VID015 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neighborhood Voices Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource WNYC-TV <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Digital Format MP4 Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Sonny Wainwright Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Neighborhood Voices Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). 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Format: HH:MM:SS 00:19:47 Coming Out Heterosexuality Lesbian Identity Lesbian Literature Passing (Sexuality) https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/aa5aead23b29aaab32c14858e7c4c97e.jpeg bc669a9ad8a7cf1957a438f671ad9bc8 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/752a8f77214168022a06884e56449281.mp4 eaf15f7b2b53f7e4d99daf094c0097e2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Sonny Wainwright Interview (Tape 3) Description An account of the resource The New York gay bar scene in the 1950s gave Sonny Wainwright and her peers a place to be together without the interference of straight society. She left New York in 1953 to become a college teacher at University of New Hampshire. Wainwright oscillates between ideas of identity and stories of different instances of being outed in her personal and professional life, including a story about developing a relationship with a student at the University of New Hampshire, who outed her sexualty leading to her dismissal. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VID016 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neighborhood Voices Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource WNYC-TV <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Digital Format MP4 Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Sonny Wainwright Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Neighborhood Voices Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). 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Format: HH:MM:SS 00:20:52 Bars Coming Out Communities Homophobia New York City Lesbians & Gays Sonny Wainwright WNYC https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/7455b5d582b0a50a695a17388c87e291.jpeg c75a4cbc49cfbe68118a82fca45d99b0 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/10661659f60da9b7ebddd27ffcf2b3c8.mp4 ee0070edd87fcfdbba65e0c5766446c2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Sonny Wainwright Interview (Tape 4) Description An account of the resource Sonny Wainwright discusses being closeted, her group of closeted friends, and keeping her private life private. She also discusses labels as being necessary because the word “woman” does not define every part of her, and when she is free to be who she is she will no longer feel the need to be labeled a “radical lesbian feminist” because woman will be sufficient. Also mentioned is Wainwrights’ battle with breast cancer, and how it brought her first book Stage V: A Journal Through Illness. 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Format: HH:MM:SS 00:20:45 Coming Out Illness LGBTQ+ Support Groups Radical Feminism Sonny Wainwright WNYC https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/abeec0e6ec122ddd93a29eb907aa0776.jpeg 6015431e985a2031bb32004ca9e68059 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/4de57b211b89d6a48d035209e5c15192.mp4 b20ad235fb45499153b24ea8ffeec2a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices, 1985 Subject The topic of the resource New York City Description An account of the resource Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context C1 Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 10 videos Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=WNYC">WNYC</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lourde</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sonny+Wainwright">Sonny Wainwright</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Irving+Cooperberg">Irving Cooperberg</a> Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neighborhood Voices: Sonny Wainwright Interview (Tape 5) Description An account of the resource Sonny Wainwright provides discourse about the privilege of marriage as it pertains to illness and becoming a parent. She explains her choice to "live straight" for several years so that she could have a child. It was not until she met Audre Lorde that she realized she had "choices", whom she called her teacher. Wainwright also discusses the need for lesbian illness support groups due to unjust experiences brought on by the illegality of same-sex marriage. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context VID018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neighborhood Voices Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource WNYC-TV <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Digital Format MP4 Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Sonny Wainwright Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Neighborhood Voices Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New York Radical Feminists Newsletter, 09/01/1974 Description An account of the resource Creative Commons: Attribution- Non Commerical https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/f877a914414a46604a42c416e4417beb.m4v 49e3fd08cbd7ed4d5834411560c95356 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/66abeea6d237bcf88f73307700d36bf6.m4v b2479b6c309311ee7adb62146a943cf9 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/b06fa2c9527637cbe1684d6d550993fb.jpg d3ed032f5057e00dc18d1ed4421f75d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club Interviews, 2021-2022 Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews with members of the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club. The Club consists of over one hundred residents of the Rossmoor, a community for people 55 years and older located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Club members themselves organized these interviews in order to preserve their personal histories. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Amy+Klitsner">Amy Klitsner</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Bobbi+Ausubel">Bobbi Ausubel</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=EJ+Koch">EJ Koch</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Carol+Newhouse">Carol Newhouse</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ann+Bidderman">Ann Bidderman</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Marlene+Michelson">Marlene Michelson</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Rhona+Lishinsky">Rhona Lishinsky</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Nicole+Schapiro">Nicole Schapiro</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Renee+Archer">Renee Archer</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Judy+Greyboys">Judy Greyboys</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Janet+Seldon">Janet Seldon</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sharon+Noteboom">Sharon Noteboom</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Lynn+Gold">Lynn Gold</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jade+Martner">Jade Martner</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Deb+Mayer">Deb Mayer</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Cecelia+Wambach">Cecelia Wambach</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Andrea+Gourdine">Andrea Gourdine</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Andrea+Gilbert">Andrea Gilbert</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Stephanie+Singer">Stephanie Singer</a> Shirley Kaiser Celenia Desol <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Victoria+Rue">Victoria Rue</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Kathryn+Poethig">Katheryn Poethig</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jean+Lerner">Jean Lerner</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Liz+Salen">Liz Salen</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Bev+Lyon">Bev Lyon</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicole Schapiro Interview Date Created Date of creation of the resource. February 1, 2022 Description An account of the resource In this oral history conducted by the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club, Nicole Schapiro discusses her founding on the Bay Area Career Woman group, her family, her coming out process, and her work as a professional speaker and coach. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Please see the Lesbian Herstory Archive's Rights Statement and the donor agreement form. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. GLBT Historical Society PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, 1987-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection includes videos created as part of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project collection. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and activist group founded in 1955. The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29:97 Resolution .AVI: 720 x 480, .MP4: 320 x 240 Data Rate 16 bit/32 kHz Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nikki Nichols Interview, May 14, 1987 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archive s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Photograph by Morgan Gwenwald Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Recording, Oral History Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Description An account of the resource Nikki Nichols describes her coming out process, and experiences with older lesbian women as a teenager. Discusses changing views on butch/fem issue. Laments the lack of lesbian groups in Sacramento, as well as describing issues with and fears of gay bars. Talks about how the discovery of DOB saved her life – socially and otherwise. Describes first DOB convention in 1960. Discusses her research into Native American attitudes towards homosexuality, as well as Native American rights movement. On tape 2, she talks about The Ladder and its role in lesbian history, and gives her thoughts about which leaders loomed large in the DOB. She brings up the Act or Teach “controversy” of the early 60s. She mentions problems with drug culture in San Francisco during the 60s. She also talks about her enthusiasm for active protest/picketing, and the difficulties of getting gay activists and rallies in California outside of San Francisco. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. 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VHS Digital Format Preservation Copy: AVI with DV codec Access Copy: MP4 Activism Bars Butch and Femme California Childhood Colleges and Universities Coming Out Conferences Daughters of Bilitis Demonstrations Drugs Intergenerational Relationships Native Americans Nikki Nichols Police Harassment https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/933b88f0d2022fea63e95a6aae0ead9f.mp4 db90ff70d7a6b16360b903ddfbf18cb8 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/b1f104a42ff6da890e2f6f5366ac1601.pdf f80cd6091b16b79b37932d8cae9cca70 PDF Text Text SAVING PRESERVATION STORIES: DIVERSITY AND THE OUTERBOROUGHS The Reminiscences of Anne Maguire and Maxine Wolfe 2017, New York Preservation Archive Project �PREFACE The following oral history is the result of a recorded interview with Anne Maguire and Maxine Wolfe conducted by Interviewer Liz H. Strong on November 5, 2017. This interview is part of the Saving Preservation Stories: Diversity and the Outer Boroughs oral history project. The reader is asked to bear in mind that s/he is reading a verbatim transcript of the spoken word, rather than written prose. The views expressed in this oral history interview do not necessarily reflect the views of the New York Preservation Archive Project. The Lesbian Avengers, founded in the early 1990s, was an action group that worked to raise public awareness of lesbian issues. The first action the new group took was to advocate for rainbow curriculum in New York Public Schools by organizing a march and event at a public school in Queens. Alice Austen House was brought to their attention by Amy Khoudari who was at that time writing her Ph.D. dissertation on Alice Austen. The Lesbian Avengers staged a protest on the day of a nautical festival, dressed in old-style bathing suits as lifeguards, bearing life preservers with “Dyke Preserver” written on them. They stated that the board of the Alice Austen House was denying Alice Austen’s existence as a lesbian and were advocating for the museum to tell the whole story of her life, including her partner Gertrude Tate who was unmentioned at that time. Both Maguire and Wolfe comment on the erasure of lesbian’s contributions to the modern LGBTQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Queer] movement and in history. They also speak about the importance of visibility of lesbian and gay history in general, and lesbian figures and history in particular, which has been under-represented, noting that the Alice Austen House is the first queer national historic landmark to be given to a woman. Political and lesbians activists, Anne Maguire and Maxine Wolfe founded the Lesbian Avengers in the early 1990s. Anne Maguire, originally from Dublin, Ireland, came to New York City in 1987 and was one of the founders of ILGO, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization. Maxine Wolfe, a native of Brooklyn, was a professor at the City University of New York for over thirty years and before she retired. She now volunteers with the Lesbian Herstory Archives and previously was active with ACT UP. �Transcriptionist: Matthew Geesey Session: 1 Interviewee: Anne Maguire, Maxine Wolfe Location: Brooklyn, New York, NY Interviewer: Liz H. Strong (Q1), Anthony Date: November 5, 2017 Bellove (Q2) Q1: All right. Q2: Lights on. Watch your eyes. Wolfe: Okay. Q2: And it is November 5, 2017. We are at the home of Maxine Wolfe with her dear friend, Anne— Q1: Maguire. Q2: Maguire, a nice Italian name. And we’re at Park Slope, Brooklyn. And here we go, clapping. Q1: Anthony Bellov is the videographer— Q2: Yes, Anthony Bellov— �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 2 Q1: Liz is the interviewer; this is for the New York Preservation Archive Project. Q2: That’s all right. Now I’ll clap again. Q1: All right, thank you so much for being with us. As I said, we like to learn a little bit about who you are to get started. So each of you in turn let me know when and where you were born and a little bit about your life growing up. Wolfe: Okay, I’ll start, Maxine Wolfe. I was born—you asked me where I was born. I was born in Brooklyn, New York in Maimonides Hospital, which is not too far from here. I grew up in Brooklyn and I’ve lived in Brooklyn all my life except for two years when I lived in Copenhagen actually. So I moved to Park Slope in 1970. Otherwise I lived in Borough Park, Flatbush, Midwood, everywhere in Brooklyn you could live. And I moved to this house thirty-three years ago. Before then, I was a renter who was gentrified out three times as Park Slope got gentrified. I’ve been a lesbian activist for a very long time. I’ve been a political organizer for a really long time in lots of different movements. I have two daughters who are now in their—one is fifty and the other is forty-seven. And that’s about it. I guess it’s good enough unless you need more information. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 3 Q1: I’m going to ask some follow-up questions. How did you—I guess to go back further, just tell me a little bit about your family life as a kid and what your life growing up was like. Wolfe: My mother was an immigrant. She came to this country when she was fourteen years old in 1927 and she was the first person—her father was here beforehand. He came somewhat earlier, like seven years earlier and sent for her as the first person. And then when Hitler was elected in 1933, he borrowed money and got everybody else out. So her mother, my grandmother and my two uncles and one aunt came in 1933. We grew up in Borough Park. My father’s family was originally from Austria and then moved to England and then came here but they were here in the early part of the twentieth century. He was the only one of his siblings that was born here. His other siblings were born in Europe. I grew up in Borough Park and I went to PS 131 and I went to [John J.] Pershing Junior High School [I.S. 220] and New Utrecht High School. And then I went to Brooklyn College and I stayed at the City University [of New York] and got my Ph.D. Then I became a professor at the graduate school of the City University in 1969-1970 and I taught for thirty-some odd years and then I retired. And put my full time into both the Lesbian Herstory Archives which I started volunteering at in 1984 and I still am a volunteer there and a coordinator and doing all kinds of other political work which I’ve done since I was a high school student. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 4 Q1: Talk to me about that transition in high school of getting involved in activism and politics. Wolfe: I always tell this story, which there was a girl that lived in my neighborhood whose parents were very political and she invited me one time to hear Pete Seeger sing when he was blacklisted. And he sang This Land is Made for You and Me and I believed him. Seriously, that sounds stupid but it was true. I always—my family was not political at all. My mother and father were not formally political or even at all political in the sense that people think about it. Although from what I understand my grandfather was but I never knew him. My grandmother just became more religious as she got older but he died five years after he brought everybody to this country. So she was alone most of that time. But they always had basic politics, in the sense of sort of very common sense working class politics. For instance, once I asked my mother who she was voting for. I think I must have been eleven. It’s when Adlai [E.] Stevenson [II] was running and she said she wasn’t voting and I gave her a big argument about being an immigrant and why wasn’t she voting. And her answer was, “Because none of them are for us. None of them are for the working people.” That was my mother, okay [laughs]. My father just never basically said much about it but she had those kinds of basic understandings of the world. And she made us stay out of school when it was the Jewish holidays even though she wasn’t religious at all in the sense of highly religious because �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 5 she said, “You always let people know you’re a Jew.” So that was the sort of legacy of the Holocaust and losing so many people in her family. You always let people know you’re a Jew. So those kinds of basic politics and I always felt—I think the first stuff that I got involved in was about the Civil Rights Movement. Well, actually [Joseph] McCarthy probably because I remember watching the McCarthy hearings at a neighbor’s house, but also anything that had to do with civil rights. It just seemed like totally natural to me that something was wrong with the world, that people of color were not—especially AfricanAmericans were not being treated right in this country. So that’s sort of my history. Then I just went from there to everything else. I did antiapartheid stuff, I did work about unions. I always feel like I have to be out there doing something. It’s basically my modus operandi. I just feel like with the world being the way it is, people have to speak up. And I think that was one of the premises what I learned from my family, was that people have to speak up. Q1: Thank you. I’m going to ask you to go on the same journey. Start telling me when and where you were born and just a little bit about your life. Maguire: Okay, I was born in Dublin in Ireland in 1962 and grew up there, left when I was twenty-five and came here to New York in 1987. So I’ve been here for thirty years this year. October 1 was my thirtieth anniversary which I had forgotten until now. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 6 So I grew up in Ireland, attended Catholic school, Ireland’s version of public school, on the north side of Dublin, the eldest of four kids and also it’s interesting to hear the stories. I also started to become kind of political or aware of politics in high school. It was around the prisoner, Irish Republican prisoner stuff and the Dirty Protest or the Blanket Protest as it was called because prisoners wanted to be treated as political prisoners—Irish Republican prisoners in the north of Ireland, not in the south where I grew up. And they were not being treated as political prisoners. They were in the regular criminal status. It culminated in what was called the Dirty Protest. So basically they weren’t allowed to clean out their cells. I mean I’m not going to go into details because it was so kind of disgusting but I was in the city when I was about fourteen in Dublin on a Saturday and there was a big protest going through the streets. There were people just wearing blankets because that was another term for it, it was also called the Blanket Protest because they refused to wear prison clothing. So the authorities decided no clothing then. These prisoners wore blankets. So it was the Blanket or the Dirty Protest and I do very clearly remember standing and not being able to cross O’Connell Street and being furious that I couldn’t go about my business because of this stupid protest. What were they doing down here anyway? It had nothing to do with us in the south of Ireland. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 7 Then just for a split second, I thought, you actually don’t know anything about this, so until you learn a little bit about why these people are marching in the streets in blankets when it’s freezing cold, go off and like read about it or learn about it. I also had the thought at the same time of, uh oh, this is not good because if I think this now and I go and do the reading and figure out what’s going on and I think it’s wrong, then I have to do something. So it was kind of like uh, oh, this is trouble. I know this is trouble. I can already tell this is trouble. I guess that was the beginning of my road to trouble [laughter]. I’m causing trouble and feeling like this is what you have to do sometimes. You should probably ask a follow-up [unclear] [laughter]. Q1: I will, yes. I’m just wondering—I’m waiting for you to finish your thought if you had more but from there, tell me how you went about causing trouble. What were some of your first engagements? Maguire: So the first demonstration I went on, I was still in high school and it was during the hunger strike. This was under Margaret [H.] Thatcher, same battle more or less, but the next phase of it. It was when Bobby [Robert G.] Sands died. So he was the first of ten political prisoners who died on hunger strike. When it happened, the country was kind of waiting and waiting and waiting and not actually believing it would happen and thinking Thatcher would have to figure out something. Then it came on the news that Bobby Sands had died. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 8 And I think I was fifteen and my brother was a year younger than me and we just sat at home, looking at each other and then thought we need to go into the city center. It was just an automatic thing. We went into the center of Dublin, outside the general post office, which is kind of a spot—you just knew to go. We knew to go there. There was a big demonstration. We were still very young. We didn’t understand everything but it was a feeling of absolute rage and disbelief, and needing to do something, needing to be able to put all that fury and confusion and grief into something. So we showed up at this thing and that was basically for both of us. He also got personally involved and that’s where I started. I started with going on demonstrations, going on marches, going to meetings. Then from there, I eventually found some people that I was interested in hearing their point of views. So I would go to things that they were doing in particular. That’s where I learned about feminism. There were a huge amount of feminists involved. So it was really political prisoner stuff where I started and then the rest of my work in Ireland really was around reproductive rights, abortion stuff, very little lesbian and gay stuff. I also worked on two general election campaigns for the civil rights leader, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, who ran against the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), and leader of the Fianna Fail Party, Charles Haughey, in the early 1980s. Haughey happened to be running in the constituency I grew up in, Dublin North-Central, which included Donnycarney. His �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 9 mother and two sisters lived on the street next to the street I grew up on. Since then I have never worked for a candidate in an election in Ireland or in the US. I came out when I was in Ireland but didn’t do—besides letting everyone know that I was a lesbian, doing this work and doing this work. I was not involved in any kind of gay rights movement. I feel like that really solidified when I came here. I mean I went on Gay Pride parades, like the first one in Dublin in 1985 or 1986. But the AIDS [acquired immune deficiency syndrome] activism was just starting before I left. So basically I came to New York and it was where I really met what I consider to be absolutely ferocious lesbians and gay men [laughter]. That like blew my mind. I thought okay, this is the right place at the right time [laughs]. Q1: How did you come to the United States? What was that transition like? Maguire: I won a green card in a lottery and was basically desperate to get out of Ireland. It was really—I mean the political stuff that had been going on had been horrifying. The misogyny and the Catholic Church and it was totally homophobic and there was a whole set of cases where a young fifteen-year-old died giving birth in a grotto in Leitrim, like in the church car park. A teacher had been fired from a school because she was involved with a separated married man and she had a child. There was just a whole series of absolutely horrifying political things going on. And I felt like I just needed to get out of here for a while, just to get out. I just wanted to get out. I �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 10 did not want to come here. I didn’t want to go to England. I had been to London a few times and found that anti-Irish stuff because it was extremely political and the IRA [Irish Republican Army] were quite active. The anti-Irish sentiment in London I would not have been able to handle it at all. It was really awful. Like for example, every time we went, only Irish people had to fill in a really long form, which was called the Prevention of Terrorism Act. It’s the kind of thing that’s going to be happening here soon. But Irish people on the plane or on the ferry were the only people who had to fill in this form and hand it in at customs or the passport check going to England. So there was a lottery and the whole country came to a standstill. There was very high unemployment. Almost fifty percent of the population was under the age of twenty-five. The unemployment rates were skyrocketing. I actually had a job but this was a whole move here, which has now been discussed again. What is the visa, they’re calling it? Wolfe: Diversity. Maguire: Diversity. This happened in the ‘80s and it was really focused on Irish people. So it was Irish politicians worked this whole Donneley visa thing. You sent your name, your date of birth—your name, address and your date of birth to a P.O. box in Washington, D.C. And the country came to a total standstill because there were so many people applying. I think the odds were a couple of thousand—couple of hundred thousand to one that you �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 11 would get it. I didn’t really want to come but as soon as I got that piece of mail from the embassy, I was like I am so out of here. So I was one of the lucky ones and came here. Within three months, I was gone. Q1: To New York? Maguire: Yes. Q1: What was New York like? Was it your first visit? Maguire: Yes. I had a sister here. My younger sister was a nanny in Larchmont. From high school, she had gone immediately out of high school to Larchmont and I had two friends that I kind of knew, that I had gotten in touch with. So I moved in with them— one, and she was moving right around the time that I was planning on coming. She said, “You want me to look for a place for the two of us?” I said, “Yes.” So I moved into Park Slope actually, Tenth Street and Seventh Avenue for a year and my sister eventually moved as a live-in nanny in Brooklyn. So we were like a little posse and there were lots of Irish people here. Marie [Honan] knew Maxine already. This was the woman I moved in with, the Irish woman, who I ended up being with and have been ever since. But Marie had already met Maxine at an Irish political event. But there was also the lesbian stuff. I think Maxine gave Marie her first ever tickets to the dance on the pier around Gay Pride. So that connection was made immediately. And this Thanksgiving, I �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 12 went to my first ever Thanksgiving meal here in November 1987 and this year, I’ll be back for my thirtieth at Maxine’s house. So I’ve basically known Maxine since I came here. Wolfe: Yes. Q1: You were having Thanksgiving here in this very house? Wolfe: Yes, in this house. Q1: Tell me about that night if you can remember. Wolfe: I just remember Anne and Marie coming. We always used to have a big crowd and I asked them to come because I met Marie at some political meetings and we hit it off. And she said that Anne was coming and I said, “Well, bring Anne.” And that was it. Maguire: It was amazing. I mean I had been here a month and most of the table besides Karen and Amy, Maxine’s daughters, were lesbians and gay men from ACT UP [AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power]. Wolfe: ACT UP. Maguire: Feisty and ferocious and— �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 13 Wolfe: Loud [laughs]. Maguire: And loud and opinionated and out there. I didn’t open my mouth for the whole meal. It was just like oh, my god. It was culture shock. I also got quite a shock because I thought, I’ve been out. I’ve been out in my life and I thought oh, my god, I so have not been out. I don’t even know what that is anymore. So it was such a big deal. It was kind of amazing. Wolfe: It was a lot of people too. Maguire: Huge. Wolfe: Probably fifteen people for dinner and it was all people from ACT UP other than my daughters. Yes, people were just going on and on and on and having opinions about everything. When Anne told me afterwards, many years afterwards, what a shock it was. I was like, right, it must have been horrifying [laughter]. She didn’t know anybody except for Marie and everybody was blah, blah, blah which was the way Thanksgiving always is here, which is that people just talk forever, cover every topic under the sun from anything political to anything anything. Sex, politics, art— Maguire: Art, books. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 14 Wolfe: Books, whatever. Maguire: Family, everything. Wolfe: Everything. Q1: How did you become connected with ACT UP originally? Wolfe: The way I became connected with ACT UP was in 1984, which was when I went to the archives, in the early ‘80s, almost every group that I belonged to had fallen apart. When [Ronald W.] Reagan was elected—people don’t really get it. So the way that I got connected to ACT UP was that nothing was going on and I kept looking for something to do politically. So I did individual things like there were demonstrations against Cruising, the movie, and there was some bars in Times Square that had been raided by the cops. There were just sort of these disparate demonstrations. Meanwhile AIDS had started but at that time, I was not really focused on that. The men that I knew, I had been active in a couple of different mixed groups, men and women, gay men and lesbians, and the men were not talking about AIDS at all at that time. In fact, fortunately for them, most of those men never were infected. So I kept looking for things to do. Then this group started at the City University that I was part of at the beginning which was called CUNY Lesbian and Gay People. I had also �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 15 done some things around the sodomy rulings and this incredible action, I think it was the Statue of Liberty Centennial where we sort of busted downtown without a permit, to protest against the sodomy ruling by the Supreme Court. That was when they upheld it. Then I went to some meetings of the Gay and Lesbian—what’s now called GLAAD [Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation] which then was called Gay Anti-Defamation Group. But it was very top-down and I didn’t love it [laughs]. I had also gone to Democratic Party things. I was just looking for what I could do that I would feel good about. Then I was in this CUNY group and we went to Gay Pride that year as CUNY Lesbian and Gay People and we were behind ACT UP on the march. I saw ACT UP and it looked amazing and a friend of mine had also said, “There’s this new group that started that’s meeting at the center. Do you want to go?” And I said, “Yes.” We said we’d go that Monday. And this was Sunday. They were in front of me and they had this amazing tableau that year. It was the first year of ACT UP and they had this concentration camp because it was at that time what’s his name, Bennett⎯was it Bennett? No, it was—the other right-winger, who had sort of suggested that gay men should be tattooed? Okay? It was sort of this whole concentration camp mentality. There was a huge amount of homophobia around the AIDS stuff. And they had built this concentration camp. They were wearing gas masks and they were �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 16 handing out these leaflets. And I went over to a woman and I said to her, “Are there women in this group?” And she said, “Oh, yes, definitely.” I said, “Okay.” So Monday, I went to this meeting and I walked into this room and there were like four hundred gay men and like four visible women [laughter]. I said, “Well, whatever.” I had done some—and I didn’t know—one of the things that people don’t know about ACT UP is that originally the group was not made up of people who had been active in New York City lesbian and gay politics, at least no one that I knew—radical politics. Nobody that I knew was in that room. So I just sat there for a month and I didn’t say anything. I just listened to what was going on. I really thought it was a great thing because anybody could do anything. People had a lot of energy, a lot of anger. If you had a good idea, you could do it and you could get up and speak your mind. In fact, one of the first things that I did was to speak against something that Larry Kramer said and I had no idea who Larry Kramer was at the time because I had not been involved in kind of the mainstream gay part of the movement. And he stood up and we were doing this action. He said something and I stood up and disagreed with him and everybody gasped. I thought, “Oh, my God, what did I say?” I must have said something terrible and no, the only thing was that I disagreed with him. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 17 And he never cared. He liked that people disagreed with him. Even if he would yell back at you, it was only because he was arguing. I just felt really comfortable in the place. I just felt this was a place that I could do something about something I cared about which was AIDS and I stayed. I was very active in ACT UP for ten years, organized a lot of actions and stuff. That’s how I got involved in ACT UP. Q1: Now you guys are part of the founding core group of the Lesbian Avengers here in New York. Tell me what led to that. What were some of the conversations that made you think this group would be necessary? Wolfe: Well, you also ought to ask Anne about ILGO because she was one of the people who started the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization— Q1: Oh, yes. Wolfe: That did all the protests at the St. Patrick’s Day parade. That was sort of dovetailed with ACT UP. Maguire: And the Avengers. Wolfe: And the Avengers, yes. Q1: Thank you. Let’s get those stories first. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 18 Maguire: Well, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, we started that in 1990 because there were so many Irish immigrants here and it turned out a lot of people had fled because they were gay or lesbian. And we started this group, met at the center. The vast majority of the people in the group were undocumented and totally and utterly closeted. Because I was such an experienced political activist at that point given that there were very few people in the group that were, so there was a bunch of us who wanted to do stuff. Basically the first political discussion we had was over naming the group, which happened at our very first meeting. And there were a lot of people who wanted to give it a Gaelic name like cairde which is friends in Gaelic. We’re like, uh-uh, nobody’s going to know what that is. It’s so closeted, you know? So that was the first battle, whether we were going to use a Gaelic name or say who we were. Then when it came to saying who we were, we wanted lesbian to come before gay and that was a whole other battle. We wanted to be the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization and not the Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization. So we had a little battle and at but one meeting, after the very first meeting, we had a name. So I thought it was really important one, that we were not going to be closeted and two, that lesbians were going to be welcome in this group and were definitely going to be part of the leadership. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 19 So I think the kind of tie-in between that and the Avengers was the lesbian thing being part of the leadership, saying we are here, we’re not going anywhere. We’re feisty. We’re interested in power. We’re not backing away. So the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization was very much like that. We had policies, like if anyone is invited anywhere, it has be a gay man and a lesbian. Gay men do not go anywhere on their own representing us. There’s always going to be a lesbian. And it turned out that most of the work in the group was done by lesbians anyway. So at one point within our first year, somebody brought up at a meeting, “Wouldn’t it be kind of funny if we marched in the St. Patrick’s Day parade?” Most of us were like, “Are you kidding me?” But anyway, we sent in an application and it just completely blew up. It totally blew up. Including ACT UP and AIDS, it was so totally and utterly homophobic in the ‘90s. It was a massive wave and I think a lot had to do with the AIDS crisis. So we sent in an application. It was rejected. We were on a waiting list but Joe [Joseph] Nicholson [Jr.] who was a gay reporter at The New York Post; he didn’t work as a gay reporter. He was a gay man who was a reporter at The New York Post. And feisty and willing to do the work. He tracked us down and the next day, it was on the front page of The New York Post, “Irish Gay Furor”, or “St. Patrick’s Day Furor”. And the whole thing blew up. So basically the group, we had to meet and decide are we going ahead with this or not? And the people in the group who were quite political and active were saying we’re not �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 20 backing down. This is like they want us to be closeted. They want us to go away. We cannot back down now, despite the fact that eighty percent of our membership were completely closeted and terrified and also undocumented. So I stayed in that group for ten years and we marched in the first and only parade ever in 1991 with Mayor [David N.] Dinkins as an invited group, not as the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, and were pelted with stuff, had people throwing beer cans and screaming at us for the whole thing. Dinkins actually said it reminded him of Selma. He never expected to experience anything like that in his life in New York City. He was appalled by it. Then it turned, the group got quite radical. A lot of people totally came out of the closet, told their family in Ireland so they could work on this. The Avengers started. The Avengers got involved, people got involved in different stuff. And basically I stayed with this for ten years and then it went on for twenty-five years. The first group got to march—the first Irish gay group got to march this past March. So that’s twenty-five, twenty-six years later. That’s how long it took them. So I think the Avenger thing tied in for me with the fact that a lot of lesbians were really shocked that a lesbian was like so upfront in a group that was for gay men and lesbians and it was a big deal. It was a big deal to have like an opinionated, tough, strong, very political lesbian being a spokesperson for this group. It was quite unusual at the time for a �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 21 mixed group. So I think there must have been something simmering underneath, Maxine, with the Lesbian Avengers and the timing. Q1: Give me a little bit—both of you can help me with this, a little bit of context on that. What were the expectations for women in queer rights organizations? What were the dynamics that you were coming into in the ‘90s and why was it so unusual to see lesbians in leadership? Wolfe: Well, for a long time, if you read histories of the lesbian and gay movement, first of all, they all focus on electoral politics and very few lesbians were involved in electoral politics. Lesbians were involved in radical politics. So in organizing against the war, like lesbians surrounded the Pentagon while other people were marching. So it was that kind of thing or they formed like the peace camps or Greenham [Common Women’s Peace Camp], where lesbians climbed over the fence and tried to destroy missiles. This is what lesbians were doing. They were part of the feminist movement and the women’s movement, but the radical end of that, not the National Organization for Women although there were lesbians there as well. I always—on the left, I had been involved with mixed groups, it was never an issue but they were never like big mass organizations. They were small ones, like a group called CRASH, which was the Committee Against Racism, Anti-Semitism, Sexism, and Heterosexism and it was like a leftie male and female group. But it was never anything that was visible or that was in the newspaper or anything else. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 22 Most of the other groups because of finances and also the difference in politics, were run by gay men. They never gave any attention—and also the mainstream media, to them, gay means men. They can’t pronounce lesbian. Getting the word out of their mouth doesn’t work. If they described any organization, they would say it was gay. Even if people eventually wrote about ACT UP, they would say all gay men or mostly gay men. Well, the leadership of ACT UP was largely lesbians. We were the people who organized, taught people how to do civil disobedience, organized the marshalling, did the logistics of the actions and got arrested. My affinity group had loads of women in it and we were organizing all the time. But originally that was not the way. So when you read the history, it always sounds like it was gay men. Then when people describe what did lesbians do in the ‘70s, well, they were cultural. They did cultural work. Yes, we had to start our own publishers, our own record companies, our own everything because gay men wouldn’t publish our books. The straight press wouldn’t publish our books and they wouldn’t publish our music. So yes, we did that but we also did stuff about the murder of children in Atlanta because we also didn’t only do lesbian and gay politics. We did other politics. We did civil rights. People marched at Selma who were lesbian. People did a lot of stuff around the murder of the black children in Atlanta in the ‘80s and other kinds of issues like that. So in the same way that in the Vietnam War movement, eventually women left to form the feminist movement, lesbians left both of those to form a lesbian movement because none �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 23 of them were giving any play, any perspective on lesbians. So that was one of the biggest issues. So everybody always talks about ACT UP as being one of—the AIDS crisis actually as being one of the only times that lesbians and gay men worked together or one of the first times that they visibly worked together in some kind of a radical movement. In ways that’s true because beforehand, it was lesbians who were radical, not gay men, with radical politics. So I think that was the big difference. But we also, when we started the Avengers, we felt, even though we had worked with gay men and I kept working in ACT UP and Anne kept being in ILGO, we also felt really strongly that we wanted to work with other lesbians to focus on lesbian issues because there were lesbian issues that nobody was dealing with. Even in AIDS, people would make fun of the fact that there could be lesbians who had AIDS and we knew lesbians who had AIDS and they didn’t get it from a needle. But nobody would ever talk about lesbian sex, so people couldn’t imagine. Like how could lesbians spread AIDS? Well, they could spread AIDS because they have blood and other bodily fluids that are involved in sex, if they’re not just doing sex the way people think that lesbians do it but they’re actually having sex the way that lesbians have it. So even in the AIDS crisis, that became an issue. And also as lesbians in the AIDS crisis, we did a lot of stuff about women in AIDS and that’s the other thing that people never talk about when they talk about ACT UP, they always talk about drugs into bodies and it �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 24 was all about that—no. We also did work on changing the Centers for Disease Control [and Prevention] definition to include women and poor people and the people who spearheaded that were lesbians. We had these groups that worked together and my affinity group which had sixteen men in it and eight women—I think it was sixteen and eight—those men worked on getting the definition changed. They spent—and several of them are dead. They didn’t work on drugs into bodies for themselves. They worked on making sure that other people could get access to medication who were not even thought of as having HIV. So I think that those ideas and the idea of trying to work also in an all-lesbian group— and also at that time, I should say that at that time, this group started—what was the name of it? The one with the—the women’s group that you went to the meetings of? Maguire: WAC, Women’s Action Coalition. Wolfe: And they started doing stuff about abortion again. People called me and said, “We’re going to start this group.” A group of lesbians called me to say, “We’re starting this group.” And I said, “Is it a lesbian group?” They said, “No, it’s a women’s group.” I said, “Been there, done that.” Fifteen years of working on abortion and then tried to get people to deal with lesbian issues and they threw me out [laughs]. So I said, “I have done that already. I’m not doing that again.” �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 25 So then I wanted to do some kind of an action group and I was friends with Sarah Schulman at the time and I said to her, “We need to do something about getting lesbians to do some actions.” There were those two women that I think were attacked on the Appalachian Trail and nobody did anything. Maguire: Yes. Wolfe: Nobody did anything. And I said, “We’ve got to do something that’s like that.” And she knew that Ana [M.] Simo who is a lesbian who was out for many, many years and ran this theater company called Medusa’s Revenge, this theater group, the first lesbian theater in New York, that she was interested in doing something as well. So Ana and I met for lunch that May and we talked about different ways, different things that we could do and we decided that we would each invite some people to a meeting. And so we each asked our friends to come and the end result of that was Anne, Marie—her partner Marie—Sarah Schulman, myself, Anne-[Christine] D’Adesky and who else? Maguire: That’s it. Wolfe: That was it? Maguire: Yes, six, only six of us. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 26 Wolfe: Six of us, yes. So we met at Ana’s house and we decided that we wanted to do something and somehow we came up with the name, Lesbian Avengers. We said, “What about the Avengers?” And somebody said, “Lesbian Avengers.” We said, “Great.” And Ana’s son is the one who came with the logo, which was the anarchist bomb. He was the one that suggested it. And we decided as a group that we wanted to do something. At that time, a big issue in New York was the rainbow curriculum. Well, we decided a couple of things. We decided that we didn’t want to integrate gay bars, that we wanted to do serious politics but in a really good way, a fun way and not like dour, but in some way that would involve people. But it had to be not minor issues. Like sometimes people do things, like oh, it’s an all male bar; we should go there and make them take women. We didn’t care. That was not important to us. The rainbow curriculum was important. They were going to create this curriculum for the public schools and it had three lines in it about gay people, three lines. And already these people, superintendents and stuff were lining up against it. But really what they were against was not just that it had three lines about gay people, it also had stuff about people of color and it had the truth about Native Americans, minor things that had not been included in the curriculum beforehand. So we decided we would do something about that. We decided that we would do it on the first day of school but other than that, I think that the thing that made it work—and we made up a club card, a little card that basically said—I have one inside. It said something �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 27 like lesbians, gay men, dykes; cold-blooded liars are in the White House, what are you doing about it? Help us take revenge. Then it had a phone number. The phone number was the one that was upstairs that was my daughter’s extension, their phone, because I was getting phone calls. They were getting phone calls when they were teenagers. So I got them a phone. The message said, “You have reached the Lesbian Avengers. We are doing an action on the first day of school. We’re having a meeting on July sixth. Come to the meeting and leave a message.” And the first message was from Lydia who left this message saying, “You are either my dream or my nightmare. I hope you are not the sergeant behind the local desk.” And that tape is at the archives. Anyway, so we decided that we’d hand out those at Gay Pride— Maguire: Thousands of them, six of us. Wolfe: Yes. But we would not give them to any one that was already in a group, that we would only give it to people on the sidelines because they were not committed to anybody else. And we decided that—we also decided that we would not create the whole action, just the concept so that people could own it. All of us were incredibly democratic and we did not want a top-down organization. We wanted one from the bottom-up. But in the lesbian community at that time, when we had tried to do that, it never went anywhere. If we called a meeting, everybody had their own interests and nothing would happen. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 28 So we decided we had to make it fait accompli. The group existed and by giving these out, the women who came were taking a risk because who were we? We didn’t have our names on it. It didn’t say who we were. It just was a phone number and telling people to come to a meeting. So the women who came were definitely risk-takers, which is what we wanted. What else did we do that was—I think that was it. Maguire: That was it. It was really the palm card, like thousands of palm cards at Gay Pride. Wolfe: We gave them out the entire time. Maguire: Yes. Wolfe: So the first meeting was on July 6 and sixty lesbians showed up. And we each took a head—ran a committee. Like I did the logistics and Ana did—well, Sarah did media. And who did research? I think you did— Maguire: I did research on the rainbow stuff— Wolfe: Did you do research? Maguire: Yes. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 29 Wolfe: Research and then somebody did props or something like that. Then other people in the room joined those committees. So by doing that, it wasn’t us running it—and we didn’t even pick the place. The research committee, totally luck involved, ended up picking this district in Middle Village, Queens where nobody goes to do actions because most of the people who do organizing, they don’t go to places where they’re not wanted. They go to the [Greenwich] Village. Who wants to give out things in the Village? It’s like speaking to the converted. So this was Middle Village and the woman who was the superintendent was a homophobe par excellence. She had basically said that would be no rainbow curriculum, over her dead body [laughs]. She was like so amazing. Mary Cummins was her name. Maguire: Yes, she was pretty bad. Wolfe: She was terrible. She was the worst and she was getting all this publicity. So she basically gave us publicity. So we arranged this first action out in Middle Village, Queens. We arranged to do a march through the village, through the main street to the public school and to do something on the first day of school. And we ended up having a band, a women’s band was in the front singing, We Are Family. And then we had a big banner that said “Teach About Lesbian Lives.” Maguire: And t-shirts. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 30 Wolfe: And t-shirts that said, “I Was a Lesbian Child.” And then we had balloons. The balloons said, “Ask about Lesbian Lives.” I think that one of the interesting things was we decided, the six of us that we would do this if nobody else wanted to. The six of us would do it. So when we had at the first meeting, as I said, were the risk-takers and they were all totally behind it. But at the second meeting, other people had come who had heard about it and they were the naysayers. So they would say things like— Maguire: “Stay away from children.” Wolfe: Right. Maguire: “We cannot be near children.” Wolfe: Right, and they would say, “This is the first day of school and you’re going to make it terrible.” I said to them, “Do you have any kids?” I said, “I have two kids. This is going to be the best first day of school they have ever had. There’s going to be a marching band and balloons and everything.” [Laughter]. Wolfe: I said “And the second day is going to be totally disappointing and depressing.” Then they would say something like, “Well, but the balloons, it’s like manipulating kids.” I said, “If it said, Save the Whales, would it be okay?” It’s like homophobia and fear which people have—because we were going into this hostile environment basically. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 31 Well, we went to Middle Village, Queens and we marched down that street and there were loads of people supporting us. They came out— Maguire: The children took the balloons. Some of them didn’t have parents saying, “Don’t give my child a balloon.” They walked to school holding their balloons and asked about lesbian lives. Wolfe: One woman made her kid— Maguire: Yes, one out of all of them. Wolfe: One out of all of them and nobody got arrested. The cops were there finally when we got to the school and of course, they tried to tell us that we couldn’t march on the sidewalk and we told them what the law was. They had to let us do it. And then it was all over the newspapers and that sort of launched the Lesbian Avengers. So those were the kinds of actions that we tried to do the whole time. We did a lot of really wonderful—we actually worked on Boycott Colorado stuff and prevented the mayor of Denver from continuing his economic development tour of New York. He left because every radio station he went to asked him questions about the anti-gay proposition because we did demonstrations in front of everyone while he was there. We called in on the phone. We followed him around, including to the Plaza Hotel. We were just fearless. We really didn’t care. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 32 Maguire: I wouldn’t say we were fearless. I always have a tremendous amount of fear and anxiety going into these things but fearless in a different way. Doing all those actions, it can be—I guess part of it is you never really know what’s going to happen and if some maniac is going to be there. There’s always an element of fear and anxiety— Wolfe: Which is good. Maguire: Yes, I think it’s normal. But I also think people don’t get that about activism or activists. We’re just out there shouting our heads off, waving banners and never about the thought that goes behind it and what it actually means for a person to go out there with our bodies and do this thing. Wolfe: We always plan things very, very well. We always had somebody who was there, a legal person. I mean I agree, when I say fearless, I mean we went and did it. Maguire: I know. Wolfe: But you always have to be anxious enough to be careful and to see what’s going on. So we did things like that here and also one of the things that grew out of the Lesbian Avengers was a civil rights organizing project. In 1994, there were all these bills around the United States that were anti-gay bills. There was a proposition in Oregon that would make it legal to discriminate against gay people and these two people were killed. A �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 33 bomb went off in their basement apartment, a disabled gay man and a lesbian of color and both of them were killed. And people didn’t get that. This was the same kind of stuff you were seeing during the civil rights movement. So we got in touch with people across the United States—lesbians across the United States to ask them if they needed help. In all of these different states, we traveled. Usually two of us would go to introduce ourselves because we knew that we had resources and in a lot of the smaller places, they didn’t. So we did some work first with some people in Maine about an anti-gay resolution or bill there and then we ended up doing a big action in New York around the anti-violence march that pointed out the information about all the anti-gay bills that were in the United States and the killing of these two people. That was when we started eating fire which was our trademark and people always think that that was a joke but we did that because on this anti-violence march, one of the Lesbian Avengers gave—the anti-violence project asked people to do something at different places. So we set up a shrine and we actually slept out there for four days from the night of Halloween to the election which was the following Tuesday. And people could bring candles and people brought candles for people with AIDS and not just for the people who were bombed in Oregon. So it became a shrine to all the violence that people in our communities had experienced. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 34 And one of the things, the first night there was a march and you stopped at each of these places. And we stopped. This woman, Lysander gave a talk and basically one of the things that she said was that people, that you’re are afraid and there’s a reason to be afraid but what you should do is take the fear and put it in you and then make it your own and have it come out as anger and determination to do something. So we had one woman who taught us how to eat fire and a group of women stood in a circle and swallowed the fire as other people chanted, “We take the fire within us and we take it and make it our own.” And that was the point of it. It wasn’t like a joke. It was to basically say you can be afraid but you need to do something and not let people’s fear get you to run away. Instead you should come out and do something. Q1: On that thought, I kind of wanted to go back. It struck me that you said a lot of people don’t understand how activists feel. You mentioned fear but we didn’t really get to go into a specific experience and I was wondering if you could say a little more about that and draw out that experience and what is important for people to understand about how you feel going into a situation like this. Maguire: Well, I guess every action is kind of different. I think the thing with direct action in particular is that everything is involved. You are going out with your body and I think for groups like the Avengers and for ILGO and experience direct activism makes it easier because you know everyone has your back. While you can never predict what’s going to happen, the great thing is—I mean I always have anxiety. I’m always scared. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 35 I’m always worried that the thing I’m supposed to do with the banner is not going to happen and very recently I did have a whole banner thing that didn’t happen and it’s disappointing but we got to keep our banner. But I think it’s just being aware of everyone around you, being aware that people have your backs. While I am always scared, I’m also always like totally, full on for it. Okay, I’m going out here and all these people are with me. We also have support and if something goes wrong, I kind of know we’re all going to figure it out together. It’s not going to be I’m going to be left here on my own because I fell or I got thwacked or something went wrong, I went in the wrong door, where we’re supposed to be going somewhere else. It’s a commitment. I mean it’s a commitment everyone makes. We make it to each other. We make it to this action we’ve all been working on for quite awhile. I do know that people think, oh, also now we’re paid. We don’t have jobs. We’re like on George Soros’ payroll. In fact, no, I’ve had a full-time job all this time for the last forty years. I have always had a full-time job. I take my vacation time. I take my personal days to do actions. And most activists are like that. I don’t think it’s people who don’t agree with your position. Sometimes it’s people who feel guilty because they feel like, “Oh, I should really be doing something but I go on one march a year and I know it’s not enough.” So I think sometimes there’s a kind of attitude about out there, shouting your heads off, waving your placards, blah, blah, blah. But you �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 36 know, you’ve been doing it for your entire life. I’ve been doing it for my entire life and there’s a reason why we’re doing it and it’s valid and it takes guts and it takes a huge amount of commitment. Wolfe: I would also say that there’s real fear. I have been pushed around by the police. I have been handcuffed too tight and my wrists have turned blue. I’ve been on a bus in South Carolina with a cop who had a knife in his boot. The very first ACT UP action we did at Cosmo [Cosmopolitan Magazine], the women’s committee, there was a cop that came after me with a club. It’s also, there are actual reasons to be afraid about the possibility of physical harm and it’s often coming from police. But it can also come from counter-protestors as we saw in Charlottesville and so when you go out and you make a commitment to do this, you have no idea who’s going to be out there. One of the things that we do when we teach civil disobedience and teach marshalling is to teach people how to handle hecklers and people who come after you, so that you don’t engage them and you don’t escalate it but sometimes you don’t do anything and they do it. And if you’re going to resist arrest, if you’re going to do civil disobedience and resist arrest and police pick you up, they throw you into the van and they don’t care if you hurt your back. And there are people who have hurt their backs. There was a woman at the Matthew—what was his name? �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 37 Maguire: Shepard. Wolfe: Shepard, a very spontaneous action that happened in New York where thousands of people showed up and nobody originally organized it. It’s just like thousands of people showed up. And it’s sort of like the first Occupy [movement] thing. So some of us who had experience as marshalls, we just immediately—it kicked into gear even though we hadn’t organized it. One woman got hit by a horse and to this day, she limps. There’s a guy that I know who got a concussion. So there are things that can happen that are actually physically terrible. Most of the fear is about what can happen that you have no idea what’s going to be out there. So you have to sort of go—and that’s why what Anne was saying is true. One of the best ways to do it is be with a group of people who you know and you know you can count on. So in ACT UP, we had an affinity group structure where small groups worked together. So you knew those people really well and whatever you organized to do together, you knew that they would be there. It’s also how you organized support structures, so somebody who’s going to follow, find out what jail you’re taken to and be there while you’re there and when you come out. One action that I was in ACT UP, we were strip searched, which was illegal. We knew that was illegal. When we came out, there were lawyers there. We said we’ve got to do something about this, this was illegal, and we ended up suing the city. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 38 So there’s actually the possibility of physical violence as well as just the pumped-up-ness of the fact that you’re going into this situation that you have no idea and also, that when you’re in those situations, you have to be self-confident because the police lie. No offense to the police, actually, in that sense. We have a job to do. They have a job to do. Now that’s not excusing physical violence but I’m saying even in general when they’re not physically violent, when we do the Dyke March, the cop will say—I’ll say to one of the police, like, “We need to stop because there’s a gap in the march.” “Oh, no, there’s no gap in the march.” I never believe them. Okay, it’s just something you learn. It’s not to do that. So that’s what the physical—just the courage that you need to do things and the confidence. Q1: It’s significant then that you target specifically bringing in people that have never been involved or not currently involved in anything before. So talk to me about working with people you personally didn’t know. Talk to me about training people who didn’t have the skills already. Do people stick with it after this initial onboarding? Was there a lot of turnover? Just talk to me about that whole process and experience. Maguire: You have more to say. You were more involved at the beginning of the Avengers and I was back with the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization. Wolfe: People stayed. ACT UP had people come and go but a huge number of people stayed and a huge number of people kept doing activism when they left ACT UP, other �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 39 kinds of activism. That is one of the points but one of the things is we did trainings. One of the things again that people don’t know is we did teach-ins first of all. When we did work with— Q1: As ACT UP or as the Lesbian Avengers? Wolfe: Both. So if we were doing something about an issue that we wanted to target, we learned everything we could about it. So in ACT UP, one of the things we did was, we did teach-ins about the [United States] Food & Drug Administration, when we did a big action there, about the National Institutes of Health, about the Center for Disease Control’s definition of AIDS. We wrote booklets. We wrote books actually. The ACT UP Women’s Caucus wrote a book about women in AIDS but before we wrote the book, we did a teach-in and we made a photocopy booklet which ended up being—we made fifteen hundred copies and not only did we give them out at all of our teach-ins at ACT UP but we sent them all over the world. And eventually when we needed support from people in other parts of the world to get that definition changed, they came to do it because they understood how it affected them. So the teach-ins were one way that people learned but we also did trainings. We did civil disobedience training. So whenever we had an action, we asked if there were any people who hadn’t been trained and if they hadn’t been, we did civil disobedience trainings. We did marshal trainings. We did facilitator trainings, so that if you were facilitating a meeting, you were trained. We did those in the Avengers; we did those in ACT UP. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 40 Maguire: And then the booklets. Wolfe: The booklets, yes. Maguire: The booklets, the Lesbian Avengers have a handbook and it is just the best thing ever. It’s the A to Z of how to have a direct action group, what you need, if you’re doing an action, a check-off list of all the things you need to have covered, running a meeting, facilitating, organizing outside— Wolfe: Examples of leaflets. Maguire: Leaflets, yes. Wolfe: Press releases. Maguire: Press releases, everything. And part of it came from an ACT UP handbook and we did the same thing in the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization. It’s like okay; this is your first year doing this. Here’s a history, here are the players, here’s what we do. This is when our trainings are. So those things get moved around from group to group. And now the Lesbian Avenger handbook is being used in Rise and Resist which formed after the election of Donald [J.] Trump and people open it up and start reading and go, “Oh, �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 41 my God. This is the best thing I have ever seen.” So it’s like okay [crosstalk]. Here you go. It’s fantastic. Wolfe: And one of the big things that we did in the Lesbian Avengers was the civil rights organizing project and we ended up in Idaho because there was a group—we wanted to make sure that we were invited somewhere. We didn’t just come somewhere. And there was a group of Lesbian Avengers that formed after—we did the first dyke march in Washington, the night before the 1993 march on Washington and twenty thousand lesbians showed up without a permit and we marched to the White House. And from that, all these chapters started and they started all over the country. So this group in Idaho invited us to come and help them because there was an anti-gay amendment in Idaho. So six lesbian—we raised money from our friends and six Lesbian Avengers went and lived there for ten months. And then ten of us came on weekends, various weekends and we organized. And we organized direct action in Moscow, Idaho; Boise, Idaho; Sandpoint, Idaho, all over Idaho to get—not just to be against the anti-gay amendment but to organize people there to come out. And we got support. We did actions. We also wrote stuff up for people there. So we ended up finding one lesbian who lived in a small town that was sort of a center for the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] because they had logging unions. And she ended up getting—we ended up going with her to the local AFL-CIO chapter. They wrote a letter that we put in a �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 42 brochure. Then we went door to door with her and gave it out and we had the support of the AFL-CIO. We went to the Nez Perce reservations and worked with Native Americans. We went to Sandpoint and worked with the local librarian because part of this law would have eliminated gay books from the library. This was a straight man and he had no problem working with the Lesbian Avengers. We did a march in Sandpoint, Idaho. So eventually the proposition was defeated and one of the things that was in the local paper was that the most surprising thing was that the rural areas that we worked in, voted against the amendment and that that was something totally surprising that nobody expected. The mainstream lesbian and gay groups that were campaigning were doing all top-down campaigning with videos and television advertising and whatever but they weren’t going to these places. We went to these places and also in one of the small towns, a group of lesbians and gay men who had never been out, came out. They did a panel at the local community center and then eventually when we left had formed a group to continue the work. So when I say that we wanted to do serious stuff, that’s what I mean. What we did there was fun. We had things like we went to the county fair and did all kinds of actions that people could relate to but they were about a serious issue and we followed through on it. So those kinds of things, for instance being in Idaho, that took courage because a lot of the—Sandpoint had a big right-wing community. A lot of places have that and we just �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 43 said, “If we’re not willing to go there, then what’s the point?” Every movement teaches another. One of the things that the civil rights movement made clear is that you need to go to the belly of the beast. If you’re not going to go there, what’s the point? So that is something that ACT UP did, that the Avengers did, that ILGO did which is you don’t just stay in your neighborhood. You don’t just go where there are people who agree with you. You have to go to places where people don’t agree with you. And the one other thing that I guess where we differ from as just sort of a—I don’t even know the word for it but kind of this touchy-feely thing, is that it’s not about having to just have dialog with people. It’s showing people that you are someone to be reckoned with. And that was always especially important for the gay movement because the image of the gay movement and especially of gay men but also just of gay people in general was that we kind of were like these sort of flimsy faggots and dykes who really weren’t going to do anything because we didn’t have any courage. So Stonewall [riots] started the image of no, don’t screw with us. But it’s a very important thing to say to people, “You cannot tell me that I am less than you and you cannot do something that makes me less than you. So I have to be here as a full human being. I’m not going to stand for certain things that you’re going to do and I’m not going to be nice about it.” I’m not going to be violent about it. Everything that we’ve ever done has been nonviolent but it was strong and definite and courageous, I think. I met some wonderful people. I mean the people who did all this were just amazing people. And you wouldn’t �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 44 meet them on the street and say, “Oh, that’s an amazing person.” But they were amazing people. They basically did things that were way out of their comfort zone. Q1: Thank you for that. Let’s take a short break. Q2: Perfect. Q1: And then we’ll move on and talk about the Alice Austen House [laughter]. Wolfe: When we went to the middle of the belly of the beast. Maguire: Yes. Q1: Yes. Wolfe: The women with rolled gloves who were so nasty. Q1: Oh, my God, I can’t wait for that story. How long does it take to change your battery? Q2: Oh, I don’t have to change the battery out. I actually—I need to break just to create a new file. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 45 Q1: Okay. [INTERRUPTION] Q2: Okay, and this is the November 5, 2017 interview with Maxine Wolfe and Anne Maguire. Maguire: Maguire. I’m going to give you my name, the spelling too. Q1: I have it. He doesn’t. Wolfe: And it’s Wolfe with an “e”. Q1: Yes, it is. Q2: Anthony Bellov’s videographer, Liz Strong is the interviewer and I’m going to clap. Q1: So tell me a little bit about how you heard first about what was going on with the history of the Alice Austen House, whoever wants to take that away. Wolfe: Do you want to start? Maguire: I think you probably heard first from the academic. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 46 Wolfe: [Laughs] So how did we hear about the Alice Austen House? This researcher, Amy [S.] Khoudari, is how I think you pronounce her name, came to an Avenger meeting. She had also been at the archives doing research but she came to an Avenger meeting and she basically said to us that she had been doing research about Alice Austen who was this very famous photographer. And that she had been doing her research at Alice Austen House and it was for her Ph.D. dissertation. And she did a talk in Staten—so the Alice Austen House is in Staten Island and she did a talk in Staten Island. She was invited to do a talk, not at the Alice Austen House but somewhere else and I don’t even know where and she gave that talk. The next time she went to the Alice Austen House, she sort of was cold-shouldered and they started telling her that she couldn’t have access to everything. And previous to that, she had gone there and done a lot of research but suddenly they were restricting how often she could be there and what she could see, et cetera. And she knew that it had to be about the fact that when she gave this talk about Alice Austen, she mentioned that she was a lesbian, that she had lived in the Alice Austen House with her partner, Gertrude Tate for more than thirty years. And that they must have been homophobic and they really didn’t want this to be the perception of the Alice Austen House. And she also kind of implied that it was a very conservative board that ran the Alice Austen House and that they were never going to be happy about it. So she told us that they were having this nautical festival that they have every year and that it would be a �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 47 good place to leaflet people because the whole board would be there and then all these people who come to this festival and some of them are members. I guess there was a membership thing that you could be at the Alice Austen House. So we got together and we decided to leaflet—we don’t just want to leaflet. What can we do that’s more interesting than just leafleting? So do you want to pick it up from there? Go ahead. Maguire: Well, we both went out to Alice Austen House. We thought we should go out and check out the whole place, how to get there and what was there to see. And we found they had a video, so you could sit and watch this little video about her life and her work. The house had a name, it was like Sunny—I can’t— Q1: Clear Comfort. Maguire: Clear Comfort, that’s it. So basically a little bit of history about the house but absolutely nothing about Gertrude Tate, her partner and nothing about the fact that she was a lesbian. And this is a fake of the brochure they had. So they had a brochure in the little store where they also showed the video. So we bought a copy of the brochure and then we made our own. And decided because it was a nautical theme and there would be song, that we needed to write our own songs and that we should go dressed as turn of the century, so it would have been turn of last century in the funny bonnets and stripy— [crosstalk]. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 48 Wolfe: Like lifeguards, we were going to save her. Maguire: Lifeguards. So basically we were going to come and save Alice Austen from the board of the Friends of Alice Austen House. Wolfe: And the homophobia, right. So we sort of had these shower caps and we wore striped tops so that we looked like we were from the turn of century, bathers or lifeguards. Then we made these life preservers from the inner tubes of tires and we wrote Dyke Preserver on it. Then we made up this brochure. Anne wrote everything in this brochure. It’s funny. I don’t know if you want me to read any part of it. Q1: Sure, if you have a favorite piece. Go for it. Wolfe: I’ll just read the end of it. The end of it says, “We have come as lesbian lifeguards to rescue Alice Austen from the homophobes. Too often our history is denied us. Our papers, diaries, photographs and letters have been destroyed, lost, buried and deliberately misinterpreted. Here at the Alice Austen House museum, there is a wealth of lesbian herstory. Because Alice can’t tell the liars on the board to take a hike and to get the hell off her lesbian land, we’re here to do it. We demand that Alice Austen’s lesbian identity become an integral part of the museum’s interpretation of her life. If the board refuses to embrace the real Alice Austen, they should resign and take their sinking ship of lesbophobia with them. We are dyke preservers and we know all about Alice Austen. We �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 49 will preserve and celebrate Alice Austen’s life long after the liars and the homophobes are gone. This here is a lesbian museum.” And we called it a national historic lesbian landmark. The thing that was interesting, I think, besides the thing, she was an amazing photographer and she took photographs of many, many parts of the city. She was amazing, A, that she was a woman photographer at her time. She carried around heavy photographic equipment. It wasn’t lightweight and she took it to the Lower East Side. She took it all over the city. But she also took these amazing photographs of her friends in these very funny tableaus that were kind of in drag. She has one where three women are dressed as men. She has women dancing with each other in couples. One of her most famous ones is this one of women couples dancing. She had them dressed as Romeo and Juliet characters. She just used her friends to make the most funny, lesbian, gay photographs. And they’re historic because they were of that moment which is from the turn of the century really. And none of that was there. None of those photographs were there and no mention of it and no mention of Gertrude Tate and it’s a sad story because Alice Austen was a spendthrift. She threw away her entire family fortune and at the end of her life was a pauper. And the only place that there was for her—for years, she and Gertrude Tate lived in an apartment of their own and they couldn’t afford it. Then Gertrude had relatives out on Long Island, but they didn’t want the two of them to come together. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 50 And so Alice Austen ended up in a poor person’s—a pauper house and died there alone. Gertrude would come and visit her but she was alone. And then this entire history was erased. It was so sad and angering that she would get no—that Gertrude would get absolutely made invisible and that no one would know that these people were devoted to each other, these two women, for thirty years. So that’s why we wanted to do something, but in the typical Avengers fashion. So we made these brochures, which by the way, at the end of our action, we went into the bookstore and put them in every single book in the bookstore. So that anyone who bought something would find the actual— Maguire: The real story. Wolfe: The real story of Gertrude. But we also—it was a nautical day and we wanted to engage the people that were there. So we started by walking down the street with—oh, we started on the Staten Island ferry and before we got on the ferry, we sang all the songs waiting for the ferry. Then we sang the songs on the ferry which believe it or not, turned out to be the Alice Austen ferry which we were just like oh, my goodness, we got the Alice Austen ferry. Then we marched from the ferry to the house and we came down the block and we marched into the nautical thing singing, [singing] “Ho, Ho, Homo Sex, Homosexual. Alice and Gertrude were lesbians and we are as well!” [Laughs]. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 51 Maguire: Over and over. Wolfe: Over and over and over. And by the way, these songs were written by Anne and myself and my friend, Ed [Edward T.] Rogowsky who is no longer with us. He died some years ago, but who loved music and he was so happy to write these songs with us. And they were really great and some of them were exactly about what it was. This one was about the photos that she took. Maguire: Oh, yes, so we made blowups— Wolfe: Blowups of her photographs. Maguire: —of her photographs. So we had these big black and white blowups of her photographs and then we had a song to go, so we could hold up the photos we were actually referring to. We did this because they had singers there. So what actually happened was they sang one song—and we actually worked this out with them, under their little tent and then it was our turn. Then they sang one and then we sang our next one. So it actually got completely incorporated into what was going on at the time, which was great. Wolfe: Yes. This one—you just have to read this. Okay, [singing] “Alice Austen was a dyke, Alleluia. Alice Austen on a bike, Alleluia. Alice Austen dressed in drag, Alleluia. Alice Austen with a fag, Alleluia.” �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 52 Maguire: It goes on. Wolfe: So we had all of these where we pointed out all her different photographs— Maguire: Her work. We had Alice Austen drinking beer. Wolfe: Right and Alice Austen, you were queer. “Alice Austen, your lesbian life was not in vain because we’ll come back again and again.” Anyways, it was about preserving history, Yellow Submarine. We used a lot of songs. And they were all water songs. It was amazing and then we also had like a dance routine that we did. So after we did our whole thing and we tried talking to these women on the board and they were just, get out of our faces. They were just so nasty and there was a gay man who was on the board, one gay man who was on the board actually supported us. The other gay man who was on the board was the director and he was totally closeted and he was furious. So these two young women who were not lesbians, they were just women who were there with their families. They were maybe fourteen or fifteen, those girls, they came over and they said, “We understand why you’re saying this but maybe if you were nicer about it, maybe if you sent letters.” So we said, “We sent letters and they just don’t pay any attention to us. So we need to do something for them to get their attention.” �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 53 So we didn’t know this but she had gone over and spoken to this guy on the board, the director of the board. Anyway, we did this whole thing and then we marched through the whole thing. Then we went into the bookstore and stuffed every book with the brochures that we made. Maguire: And we left a life preserver on— Wolfe: On the front fence. Maguire: On the picket fence before we left. Wolfe: Then we walked out and these two young women came up to us and they said that they had gone up to the guy who was the director of the board and told him, that he should listen to us because we had something important to say. He gave them his card and said that they should bring it to us and tell us to call him and come and meet with him. So that was just nice that they actually were moved to do something because that’s why we do stuff, right? It’s not just to do it; it’s to have an impact. So we did that and then we went home on the Alice Austen ferry. It was there again. So actually Alice Austen was with us all the way. Then we tried to get in touch with them. Maguire: We did write a letter. We had a follow-up letter— Wolfe: A lot of people, yes. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 54 Maguire: And other people wrote letters and the offer of the meeting disappeared immediately. I mean those two girls said he’s going to meet you. It didn’t happen. We were stalled. We were told it wasn’t going to happen. And my recollection is we got really busy doing other stuff— Wolfe: Other things, yes. And we dropped it. Maguire: Yes. We didn’t keep— Wolfe: We were going to go and do a protest at the board meeting— Maguire: A follow-up thing. Wolfe: But at that point, we were doing this work in Idaho and something about the radio station, MEGA KQ which had a very homophobic guy who did the morning program and we did stuff there. So it just never happened. But there were articles in the paper. So it became known that Alice Austen—who Alice Austen was. It was in Staten Island papers. So everybody there knew. And eventually what happened was they kept—the board composition changed and people wanted to make it known. So now it was made a national historic landmark and so the people there decided that they had to take her out of the closet and make it—so now all the information is there about her and Gertrude Tate and the fact that they lived together, et cetera. And so twenty-five years later but this is �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 55 the way activism works. You don’t always know what impact you’re going to have and when. You just do it. Q1: What happened with the woman doing her Ph.D.? Did you ever hear her story? Wolfe: She did her Ph.D. She got her Ph.D. Q1: Did she ever get access to the archives again? Wolfe: I don’t know if she ever did. She did her thesis so she obviously had enough information. So I don’t think they let her back in. But she had enough information at that point to write the paper because there had been one other paper that was written in the ‘70s that I have a copy of. And she obviously by that time had enough to write about. Q1: So tell me about your own rediscovery of this history. Had you been aware of the Alice Austen House and that story before this woman approached you and if not, after she approached you, how did you go about rediscovering the history and doing the research yourself? Wolfe: Well, I am a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives which is the oldest and largest lesbian archives in the world and I’ve been there since 1984. And we have a file called—well, first of all, we have people there who are photographers but we have a file called biographical files. So actually when she came, she came to the archives to do �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 56 research. So when someone does that, you can’t possibly know everything that’s in the archives. And I’m not an art historian. Now we have a coordinator who is an art historian. I’m sure she knew who Alice Austen was before then. I had seen this photograph, which is very famous and a lot of lesbians know it because there used to be historical postcards made that you could buy and this was one of the things that was always—you could always get a postcard of it. So I’m sure that somewhere in my head I had her name but not really knowing what all that she did. But when this woman came, I went upstairs to the biographic files as I would do with anybody, and I said, “Well, let me see what we have.” And sure enough, we had two folders on Alice Austen. So from that point on, I started finding out about Alice Austen. So I think that that’s the other thing about when I said you do research. We couldn’t have written this brochure. There’s much more inside about who Alice Austen was and what she did and that came from research that we did in order to do the brochure. Maguire: I didn’t know her at all. The same thing, I recognized this photograph. I had no idea who Alice Austen was. No idea she was so close by, like Staten Island. So it was only from that woman coming to the meeting, that I discovered who she was really. And also realized after doing some research, I actually recognized a lot of her photographs, including the photos of newsboys on the Lower East Side, like lots of her photography was very familiar. And I had no idea it had been a woman in the first place, never mind Alice Austen. So that was kind of fantastic. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 57 Wolfe: Yes. Q1: So rediscovering her story, somebody who was openly long-term coupled in that particular period in history, what did rediscovering that kind of history mean to you? Maguire: Well, I think at this time, I was just completely appalled that they were covering it up. I can’t believe they’re doing this. That was really appalling because it was so obvious. Once we started doing the research, I think they had been together for forty years. It was more like forty years and Gertrude Tate broke an engagement to a man to be with Alice Austen. And Alice Austen was clearly—they were devoted to each other. Their friends and their family knew that they were in a relationship, that they were lesbians. I think part of what was going on at this time in the ‘90s too, horrifying statistics coming out about gay teens killing themselves. So one of the things was if you’re a kid, your family in Staten Island is going to the Alice Austen House on a Sunday afternoon to have a look at her photos, her house is beautiful and the situation is gorgeous. That was also a really nice surprise. It’s right on the water. So it’s probably the kind of place families would go and you go into the museum and there’s a little videotape. It would be really nice for your children and yourself and especially your gay children that nobody knows they’re gay yet, to be told that Alice and Gertrude were together for forty years and here are her gay friends and some of her �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 58 photographs. Here are some of her photographs on the Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. But she also documented her life as a lesbian. That kind of thing would have made a huge difference to me as a kid, going oh, okay, that’s interesting, good. I mean I was appalled by that, that they had totally, totally closeted her. It was really shocking. Wolfe: I think I was more aware because of working at the archives, I know what people have done. I have so many stories of older, especially about older lesbians whose families have thrown out their stuff or don’t like their—there was a labor organizer whose name was Eleanor [G.] Coit. Her papers are at Harvard [University] and Radcliffe [Institute for Advanced Study] in the Schlesinger Library and they never mention that she was a lesbian. But there’s a guy who was an archivist, his name is Bert Hansen and he was walking down the street one day and he saw this paper on the ground. When you’re an archivist, you pick up paper on the ground. You pick up paper everywhere. So he picked up this thing and it was a love letter. And so he picked them all up and they were a whole bunch of love letters that she and her partner had written to one another over the years. And she had just died and her family was throwing it out. That happens all the time and it still happens. It’s one of the things, like at the archives when I take people on tours of the archives and especially when I get to the individual �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 59 files because we have organization files. We have a lot of things at the archives. When I get to the individual files, one of the things that I say to women, young women, old women, it doesn’t matter who, “Your life is important. People are going to want to know about it. They’re going to want to know that you were here.” So if you have things, start a file. We are not an archive about famous women. We are an archive about any lesbian. So we have lesbian secretaries, we have lesbian strippers. We have lesbian writers, we have everything. So send us ten pieces of paper about your life. We’ll give you a special collection. Then from then on, you can keep adding to it all the time and someone can come because we tell them stories, which we have several of, of people whose families threw all this stuff away. You don’t want that to happen. You want somebody to know you existed and this is a place, which will honor the fact that you existed. So a story like Alice Austen and this thing about the Alice Austen House and how they had to be pushed into acknowledging who she was, is a way of saying to people, see, this is what could happen. So you need to be somebody who puts your life somewhere that somebody can find out about it because everyone who comes into the archives should see an image of themselves. That means a whole range of people. In this case, it’s a famous photographer but it can also be a secretary that nobody knows was ever around. So that’s one of our principles at the archives. I’ve been living with that kind of concept for a long time because I’ve been a volunteer and a coordinator at the archives. But it is, �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 60 it’s always shocking. It’s still as shocking to me that people throw away somebody’s life like that, not because they’re just getting rid of things but because they don’t want somebody to know. During the AIDS crisis, if I tell you how many families destroyed any evidence of their sons, didn’t want anybody to know they existed, didn’t want them to know they were sick, horrible stories. So it’s across the board in the gay community for different reasons. It’s always shocking when you find out about it. Then when you can do something about it, it’s great. When you can be one of the people who makes sure that somebody remembers them, it’s really— Maguire: I’m so glad they didn’t destroy her photography. Wolfe: Her photography, yes. Maguire: I mean these were not even family. These were friends of Alice Austen who had decided—they had decided they were going to tell a version, which was not the real version. And they could have decided they were going to destroy the photographs. Wolfe: Well they didn’t have a lot of the—she sold a lot of the plates that she had in order to have money. So actually, the Staten Island Historical Society had more of her stuff than the Alice Austen House did. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 61 Maguire: Good. Wolfe: I think that was one of the reasons that—well, I think it was one of the reasons that some things got preserved. Q1: In this context of preserving history, I wanted to ask you about your thoughts on the relationship between survival and visibility. Wolfe: I have a pin that says lesbian visibility means lesbian survival. Okay, that was from a group that I belonged to a long time ago but I think it is a big thing. People—one of the other things that I often say to people on tours is that everybody thinks that we’re so far advanced and we have gone so far that life is wonderful. And I say to them, “You know, there are kids in Brooklyn that are still killing themselves.” In Brooklyn. We’re not talking about some rural place somewhere that you think from your own—I don’t know—superior attitude are backwards. We’re talking about the City of New York, okay, that people think of as being sophisticated and advanced and everything. Yes, we have definitely made strides and definitely many more of us are out and many more of us lead lives that are good and supportive and we have friends and our families haven’t thrown us out, et cetera. But there are still kids being thrown out of their homes. There are still kids being abused because they’re gay. There are still people being killed �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 62 because they’re gay or lesbian or trans. The world hasn’t gotten that good yet. And there’s still a huge amount to do. So definitely visibility. Visibility exposes you to violence but visibility eventually means survival because if you’re not going to be visible, if you’re not going to say to people that your life matters—I always say to people, “This is not a lifestyle. This is a life.” It’s not a style. It means that you have to be out there in order for people to see as I said, an image of themselves, so that they know that who they are is a good thing, not a bad thing. And there are still plenty of young people and older people, there’s still plenty of closeted older people who still are afraid to come out. Now there have been a lot of discussions about older people in nursing homes—gay people who are separated from their partners, who can’t admit that they’re gay and the need to do trainings in those places. So across the life span, there are still so much for us to do and it’s not about marriage. It’s about life, it’s about being able to live your life as anyone else would live their life and not have to hide and not be afraid. So I think that that’s— Maguire: Yes, I think it’s still really important. Wolfe: That’s a very important part about life, survival and visibility go together. As long as we’re hiding, people can do things to us that are worse than what they would do if we’re out because hiding says that we know that there’s something wrong. That’s what hiding says. I know why people do it. That’s not a judgment to these people but definitely �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 63 that’s the message that comes to the rest of the world, that if you have to hide something, it must be a bad thing, a secret. Q1: I’d love to hear your thoughts on this too. Maguire: You’ve kind of said it all. I mean I don’t feel like much has changed for me around visibility since I was quite young. I mean I had this thing growing up where I thought, I’m completely comfortable with who I am. It’s everybody else who has the issue. It’s not me, it’s everyone else. But that for me, I now know in hindsight was a way for me to stay closeted. I didn’t come out to most—like my friends and my family, until I was about twenty-one. I had told my sisters like much earlier, when I was in my—fifteen maybe, and a couple of close friends. But I moved out of my family home and that was it. I mean I came out everywhere. Once I did it, I did it. I came out at work and I got transferred out of the office because people were so uncomfortable. People thought I was joking at first because it was such a funny thing to say. Yes, it was like I was hilarious. That was a really good joke I just made and I’d say, “I’m not joking. I’m serious about this.” And three weeks later, I was transferred. So I kind of felt once I had done it once, internally I had figured out, no, what you’re telling yourself there is a way for you to maintain keeping it to yourself. Because you’re totally fine with it. It’s just like once you put it out there; all the people who are not are �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 64 going to be trouble. So when I figured out I was protecting myself because I didn’t want to come out. I think that’s all a visibility thing. Then when I came out, I wanted to—basically I had a really good role model. An English woman who was in the Labour Party who came to conferences every once in awhile in Dublin that I would show up to, and she basically said that every sentence that came out of her mouth was, “As a lesbian.” Then she would give her political opinion on anything and everything. So I thought, okay, this is the way it has to be now. I wasn’t as in your face as Sarah [Roelofs] but I really loved that. I loved that she was political. She was working on all kinds of campaigns on women’s reproductive rights, lesbian rights, disability issues and anti-racist stuff, Irish politics, everything, but everything was, “As a lesbian, here’s my position on this.” So she was fantastic. So the visibility thing, now also I think it’s really important to be visible as lesbians. Lesbians we’re in the moment of disappearing again. One of the things I really can’t stand is the LGBTQ everything because nobody has to say the words. I much prefer when I hear anything on radio and I hear people standing up at meetings. But when I see it written down, I want to hear you say every single word because you are talking about us. We are not initials or letters. You are talking about real people here. So I want to hear everything. I want to hear lesbian. I want to hear trans. But mostly at the moment, I want to hear lesbian again because we are in a mode of being disappeared. So I think visibility is always essential, always essential for our survival, totally. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 65 Q1: It occurred to me that the first inclusion in the St. Patrick’s Day parade was just this past one and the first announcement and embracing of the Alice Austen House as a national LGBTQ [Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Queer] landmark was just this year. Why twenty-five years? Why is that a magic number? What are your thoughts on that—being involved as you have been the whole time? Maguire: I think it’s a coincidence in these things. I think the St. Patrick’s Day parade was the first time an Irish—they messed it up the previous year and they invited a group of gay corporate—NBC, like we are all friends, straight and gay together at NBC basically. It’s a corporate group. There were eruptions. It’s like oh please, it’s been twenty-five years. Just let Irish gay people march if they want at this point. But the parade thing, my analysis of it was NBC were going to pull the broadcast. Guinness was pulling out. The sponsors were pulling out. And then it’s like okay, we better let the gays in now. So that’s what I think it was with them. Otherwise, they were determined. They did not want gay people in the parade—Irish gay people. Wolfe: And I think we need to say that Irish gay people— Maguire: It was Irish gay people. Wolfe: Because we’d get crazed. They would say, “Gay people want to march in the parade.” No Irish people want to march in the parade who are gay. They would just �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 66 eliminate the Irish part and they would make it seem like just some random group of gay people want to march in the Irish—who wanted to march in the Irish, the St. Patrick’s Day parade? Why would you want to march in it, because you’re gay? That wasn’t the point. The point was you were Irish. And they just kept eliminating it. Yes, I agree with Anne though, this year it was all about losing sponsorship and a lot of corporate entities have realized that it’s in their better interest to support gay and lesbian people because first of all, we are purchasers and there’s a certain segment of the gay community that does marketing, that has pushed out this thing that we have— Maguire: Tons of money. Wolfe: Tons of disposable income. Who are those people? I don’t know. They’re not the people I know. But still that’s what the marketing shows because they go after all these high-income, mostly gay men. So I think the parade stuff—but even there, they didn’t ask the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization. They didn’t ask the Fed Up Queers. Who did they ask? The Lavender and Green [Alliance]. Maguire: Closet-y name, very closet-y. When that group started, people thought it was an environmental group. This was the argument we had at the first meeting and the guy who started the Lavender and the Green was at the first meeting and he wanted the boys to be upfront and he wanted a closet-y name. It could be very safe. The message was it’s safe to be in the closet and basically the other crowd was, no, the message is here. We all left �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 67 Ireland and now we are coming out and we are not going back into the closet. It was just so interesting and the contingent was mostly straight people. Irish writers and politicians and people who think they should have gotten a clap on the back for marching with Irish gay people, twenty-five years after the fact. To me it was like twenty-five years too late. You can stuff it. Wolfe: Yes, yes. Maguire: Really. It’s like everyone else has moved on and you think you’re being magnanimous now. I don’t think so. Stuff your parade. Wolfe: Yes, right. The Alice Austen House—I think what might have spurred that is that this year, there was a whole move to create national lesbian and gay monuments, historic sites. Maguire: Landmarks, yes. Wolfe: It didn’t start with the Alice Austen House. It started with a group of gay people who decided to make a list of spaces across the country that were known to be lesbian or gay or trans spaces. The Archives is one of them but there were others. They picked the Alice Austen House. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 68 So basically it was defensive for the Alice Austen House to name themselves, rather than to have somebody else name them that because they were going to be on a list anyway. So if I had to pick why it was now—and I think also to their credit, I think that there are people now who are involved at the Alice Austen House who actually want this to happen from their own point of view, not just because of that. I think they can get support for it because it was going to be out there anyway. It’s kind of like if you know your enemies are going to come after you, you might as well put yourself out there first. But I definitely think on the positive side, that there were people in the Alice Austen House who decided that it was time and that they knew all this stuff and this was a good time to do it. Q1: Did you have anyone from the original protest who wanted to go down and see the proclamation or be involved in any way? Wolfe: You know, they did it so fast. Maguire: It was very fast. Wolfe: I couldn’t even go. I couldn’t even go. First of all, they did it during Gay Pride. Q1: That’s right. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 69 Wolfe: They did it the week right before the march, a few days. I think it was the Thursday of the week that the Gay Pride march was on Sunday. I didn’t get a notice of it until a day beforehand. Maguire: Yes, I think the day before it, I think we heard. Wolfe: I couldn’t go. Maguire: No, me neither. Wolfe: There was no way. Nobody from the archives could go because the month of June, we have a zillion events, not just things that we go to but things we do ourselves. And nobody could go. I would have loved to have gone. Maguire: I got to put up a Facebook post. That was it. Going back to the action that we did and some photographs, because when we heard there was a copy of the proclamation. So to be able to say it’s now a landmark, look, this is so many years later. But no, we couldn’t go to that. Wolfe: They really did it like in an instant. Maguire: Yes. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 70 Q1: Do you think—? Q2: Liz, just to let you know, it’s four o’clock. Q1: Oh, it’s four o’clock. I’ll just ask you a few more questions then. But do you think your action and actions like it started to push people to think about making lists like this? What is the line between what you did back in ’94 and what’s happened just this past year? Wolfe: I think there are a couple of reasons. There is an association of lesbian and gay archives. There have been several theses that have been written in the past couple of years. Like for instance, I know two that are about lesbian spaces in New York and I’m sure there are more. Those are women I know that came to the archives to do their research. Maguire: And then there’s stuff like Barbara Hammer’s movie. She has a retrospective. Someone has a retrospective— Wolfe: She’s having one now. Maguire: Yes, exactly. It comes up again and people would be like, oh, my god, this place in Staten Island. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 71 Wolfe: And I also think that there’s a feeling in the lesbian and gay community that it’s time to mark these spaces because people are dying, older lesbians and gay men who managed to survive the crisis, that their people are dying of natural causes. And their memories are going to be gone. I know for instance that there’s a group of women who have done—it’s called the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project. So I think people are starting to realize—I mean we’ve done oral history—we have three thousand oral histories at the archives. People are starting—it actually started with ACT UP, this whole focus on history, on documenting your history. It was the first organization that I was in where people actively made videos about the actions and who was involved and what was happening, there’s the ACT UP Oral History Project. There’s a Lesbian Avenger project. There’s just a lot of these that are happening now because people realize unless we do it, it’s not going to be out there. So I think that there’s a whole move to document the history of the community because we’ve been out. We weren’t out for a really long time. It’s been only since the ‘60s, the end of the ‘60s that there’s been a visible community. And people are starting to have anniversaries that are meaningful in the whole world. Like for instance, the Pride march. It’s coming up on its fiftieth year. The archives, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, we’re going to be our forty-fifth year. So the things that have survived, people want to make sure that they’re documented and that we document the history of the things that didn’t. People coming to the archives this �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 72 year, there’s been a lot of theses on the Lesbian Avengers. ACT UP again has sort of reemerged. My friend, Avram [Finkelstein], just published his book about the oral history of the images in ACT UP. People are doing histories of the movement in various ways, videos about it, the one about Sylvia [R.] Rivera, the one that’s out there, that was done a few years ago about Blue London [phonetic], about individuals. I just think it’s a moment where people have been out long enough, that they feel that it’s time to say we’re here and we’ve been here. I always think that takes time because people always feel, well, how can I write a history one year afterwards? But now it’s thirty years after the beginning of the AIDS crisis. It’s twenty-five years after certain other things. So people feel it’s enough time to look back and be able to document it before the people who are involved disappear. Q1: I also want to point out just as we’re wrapping up that the Alice Austen House site is the first queer national historic landmark in New York State to be given to a woman. Maguire: That’s right. Wolfe: Yes. Maguire: That’s one of the things I put in my post when we heard that was happening. Yes, it’s just interesting. Is it the only one that’s been dedicated to a woman anywhere though? Not just in New York? �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 73 Q1: I’ll have to check. Maguire: I think it was the first one— Wolfe: Anywhere. Maguire: Across the board, yes. I think it was. Yes, that’s good we did that action twentyfive years ago. We can say we did that action. We knew about her then. Wolfe: [Laughs] Yes. Q1: But I think it just speaks to this idea that you were saying, that lesbian needs to be underscored— Wolfe: Yes. Maguire: Absolutely. Wolfe: It’s always true. When we get asked about things—I’ll just give you an example. When the New York Public Library did their first exhibit, it was called Becoming Visible: [An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth Century America], which is really funny because it was becoming visible to them. But anyway, most of the �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 74 information they had in the library at that time, were what we call our enemies. In order to do that exhibit, they had to borrow things from everybody because they didn’t have any of that information. One of the things that happened was this person came to the—had a meeting at the community center. Like three hundred people showed up. And they had five people from the New York Public Library and one guy stood up and he said, “It’s really important. We definitely need material but we specifically—” and this is what everyone says “—we specifically need lesbian material because we don’t have lesbian material. It’s very difficult to get lesbian material.” And a woman stood up in the room and said, “Come to my basement.” The truth is that most of the archives, even the gay archives that exist, they say that they are LGBTQ but they are really G and T. And the L and the B are gone and that is true. So there are only two—well two big women’s archives, lesbian archives. There’s the June Mazer [Lesbian Archives] collection in California and the Lesbian Herstory Archives. There’s the Cincinnati Ohio Lesbian Archives which is a small one but it’s there. And there’s a couple in Europe. There’s Spinnboden which is in Germany but that’s it. All of the other archives, most of their material is from gay men. That’s number one. Secondly, most of their material is about famous people, which is not true of either lesbian archive or any of the ones that I know. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 75 So definitely that’s part of the issue is that is missing and people say that they don’t know where it is. I say, “Come to the archives. We have twelve thousand books.” Twelve thousand books that are by or about lesbians. I bet you had no idea there were twelve thousand books by or about lesbians and that’s what women say when they come in, visitors. They go, “Oh, my God, these are all about lesbians?” Because who knows? It’s not stuff that’s around, where there’s so much more about gay men out there then there is about anybody else really. It’s just a statement of the way the world works, which is the patriarchy. That’s what we’re dealing with here. It doesn’t matter whether it’s straight or gay. It’s not any different. It’s who has the power in the world and the people with the power define what is history. Q1: On that thought, I’d love to get both of your thoughts on the meaning of a physical space, not just an archive, not just a history but a space that is rooted to a person and to a place in time, you can visit with your kids. Talk to me about the meaning of that site being recognized as openly lesbian. Wolfe: That’s incredible. That makes it so—obviously it’s material. It’s real. It’s something that somebody can touch. It’s not just an idea. That’s why I think it’s so important that they have information of the relationship between those two women, because it’s something that you see where they lived and then you read about them, it �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 76 makes it real, whereas just reading about them, you have to kind of imagine what was their life like and stuff. That way they’re in a place. So anything like that—that’s why people wanted to make Stonewall Inn like a national spot and the Lesbian Herstory Archives and other spaces that the community has used in the same way that you make that about straight people. If you know where Audre Lorde lived, why shouldn’t there be a plaque on her building? She was the Poet Laureate of New York State besides being an amazing lesbian poet. Or Adrienne Rich or any of those people. They lived places. And I think that’s— Maguire: It’s really important. One of the first things I thought when I heard it got the landmark—I have a niece and nephew here and I thought fantastic, now I have a place to bring them. I don’t need to give them the streets. It’s going to be there. But it’s like she walked around and she saw the river from this angle at some point. That’s so important and I was thinking that when I told you about one of the first things I did when Bobby Sands died, and my brother and myself, we knew to go to the general post office in Dublin. We knew that this was a place because it had history. It had meaning. It was where the rising, the people who revolted in 1916 took over this building. So it has meaning. You know that these people were in this building trying to rise up against British rule. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 77 I kind of feel the same about Alice Austen House. This is where she lived and we are marking it. We are saying this is really important. It’s important to us. It’s important to everyone to know this and here it is. It’s like, you can touch it. Wolfe: Well, what you’re saying about the post office, in New York, whenever anything goes down, any kind of Supreme Court ruling, where do people go? Stonewall. You don’t even have to ask. Show up at Stonewall after work and there are going to be people there. Maguire: I don’t think Alice Austen House is going to become a place like that but it might be like you want to go do something. You think you might have a gay nephew or a little— Wolfe: Or just to tell—[crosstalk]. Maguire: Let’s go out in the ferry and go visit Alice Austen House. Wolfe: It’s a beautiful place besides— Maguire: It’s gorgeous. Yes, it’s really gorgeous. Wolfe: It’s a really nice place to visit. Maguire: And great photographs and great history. So yes, it’s really important. �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 78 Q1: I’m just going to say thank you very much. Is there anything I should have asked you during this time that we spent together? Wolfe: [Laughs] Maguire: I haven’t talked so much in a long time. Wolfe: Me neither [laughs]. Q1: I really appreciate all the memories you guys shared today, absolutely beautiful. Thank you again for the work that you did twenty-five years ago, making many things to be accomplished. Maguire: Thinking up funny songs. That’s what we love doing. Wolfe: We had such a great time. Maguire: Yes, I really like fun actions. Wolfe: We had such fun doing this. It was really—that’s what I mean, doing serious things but in a way— �Maguire, Wolfe – 1 – 79 Maguire: You need to have fun every once in awhile. Wolfe: And it gets to people when you do something like that. They get it in a way they don’t otherwise. Q1: Well, a revolution without dancing. Wolfe: Thank you for asking us to do this. Maguire: Exactly, yes, not interested. Q2: I’m going to stop blinding you now. Q1: Thank you very much. Wolfe: Thank you for doing this. Maguire: Thank you. [END OF INTERVIEW] � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource NYPAP Oral History Interview: Maxine Wolfe and Anne Maguire Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource New York Preservation Archive Project Date Created Date of creation of the resource. November 5, 2017 Description An account of the resource Oral History conducted by New York Preservation Archive Project in which Maxine Wolfe and Anne Maguire are interviewed. They discuss their early lives, background on their family histories, and the work as activists. The talk about the environments they grew up in, Maxine in Brooklyn and Anne in Dublin, and their early interest in, and awareness of, politics. Anne talks about the political climate of Ireland that made her want to leave, eventually winning a green card in a lottery, and moving to New York City. Anne describes meeting Maxine at a Thanksgiving Dinner through a friend, Marie, who would eventually become her partner. Maxine discusses her involvement in various LGBTQ and Radical organizations in NYC that lead her to ACT UP. Anne discusses being part of the founding group of ILGO, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, which started in 1990, and which she was part of for 10 years. She talks about ILGO's rejection from the St. Patrick's Day Parade and the publicity the group got from that. They talk about the erasure of lesbian organizers and leadership within LGBTQ history which tends to focus on gay men, and how Lesbians had to advocate for themselves and form their own movements to be heard and to focus on Lesbian issues. They talk about Lesbian and women erasure during the AIDS crisis and how that lead them to for the Lesbian Avengers along with Ana Maria Simo, Anne-Christine D'askey, Marie Honan, and Sarah Schulman. They decided they wanted to focus on serious politics rather than cultural issues, and to not be a top-down organization. Anne and Maxine discuss the first meetings and actions of the Lesbian Avengers and talk about offering organizing help and support to other Lesbian groups around the country. Maxine and Anne talk about the real depth of activism, and the dangerous legal and personal implications of direct actions. They discuss the importance of being part of a group and having a support structure when taking part in a direct action. Maxine talks about the learning and training and teaching that happens behind the scenes before any direct actions. They go into more detail about work they did as the Lesbian Avengers around the country, and the effect that their bottom-up structure had on small community movements. They talk about the Alice Austen House and the fact that the Board was homophobic and hiding the queer part of that story, and work they did around protesting how the history was being handled. They discuss the importance of recovering queer histories from the 19th Century, and making gay history available to the public. Maxine talks about the role of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in preserving the history and lives of all lesbians for this reason. They talks about how visibility and survival are related for Lesbians, and the need for people to see themselves represented. Maxine and Anne talk about seeing the fruits of their activist labor come to fruition after 25 years, and their thoughts about current acceptance of LGBTQ people as being partially related to capitalism and revenue. They discuss more recent LGBTQ history and archive projects and the celebrating of gay institutions that have survived over the past 50 years. However, through some of these projects, they are still experiencing Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender erasure and erasure of the history of every day people. 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Title A name given to the resource Ruth Scovill Lesbian Music Interviews, 1970-1974 Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with lesbian musicians Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ruth+Scovill">Ruth Scovill</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Margie+Adam">Margie Adam</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Susan+Abod">Susan Abod</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sally+Piano">Sally Piano</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Holly+Near">Holly Near</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jennifer+Woodul">Jennifer Woodul</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ginny+Berson">Ginny Berson</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Extent The size or duration of the resource. 12 tapes comprising 8:58:02 of audio Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Interviews Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews with musicians and record label owners conducted by Ruth Scovill. Scovill is a notable figure of the Women’s Music movement. The Women’s Music movement sought to highlight music about women, by women, and for women, challenging popular notions about and conventional approaches to music. In her piece for “Women’s Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies”, Scovill reflects, “Women’s Music reflects a consciousness of women-identification. In contrast to popular music’s prevalent degradation of women, Women’s Music holds the feminist and humanist ideals of self-affirmation and mutual support” (17). Scovill has served as a Senior Advisor of Library Services at the Library of Congress, president at Cinesite, and the Head of Technology at DreamWorks Animation. She is also a director, writer, and host. She holds a particular interest in and focus on feminine and sapphic culture, particularly its positioning in and relation to music culture. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-1974 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Olivia Records Interview (Part 1) Description An account of the resource Jennifer Woodul and Ginny Berson, founders of Olivia Records, are interviewed by Ruth Scovill. Jennifer Woodul and Ginny Berson talk about their band and production studio, Olivia. The recording starts mid-sentence. They discuss recording music and starting a music studio. They talk about how they met at The Furies Newspaper, and the need they seen for women-owned businesses, and issues with capitalism. Part 1 of 2. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/6/76 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Scovill <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RS011 Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Access is reserved by the donor requiring written consent prior to each publication until donor death. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Jennifer Woodul Ginny Berson Interviewer The person(s) conducting the interview. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Ruth Scovill Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:48:28 Ginny Berson Jennifer Woodul Music Olivia Records Ruth Scovill https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/5cf2c26da54cc113f6298811ebcdd721.jpeg d69f2b4f9427db8f44ac5c5e565f3fa7 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/7d05d2248cdf8dd4e5b2d9ec05b2862e.mp3 cfa6a05155694d703bed3bd2e42f4c33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Scovill Lesbian Music Interviews, 1970-1974 Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with lesbian musicians Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ruth+Scovill">Ruth Scovill</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Margie+Adam">Margie Adam</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Susan+Abod">Susan Abod</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sally+Piano">Sally Piano</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Holly+Near">Holly Near</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jennifer+Woodul">Jennifer Woodul</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ginny+Berson">Ginny Berson</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Extent The size or duration of the resource. 12 tapes comprising 8:58:02 of audio Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Interviews Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews with musicians and record label owners conducted by Ruth Scovill. Scovill is a notable figure of the Women’s Music movement. The Women’s Music movement sought to highlight music about women, by women, and for women, challenging popular notions about and conventional approaches to music. In her piece for “Women’s Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies”, Scovill reflects, “Women’s Music reflects a consciousness of women-identification. In contrast to popular music’s prevalent degradation of women, Women’s Music holds the feminist and humanist ideals of self-affirmation and mutual support” (17). Scovill has served as a Senior Advisor of Library Services at the Library of Congress, president at Cinesite, and the Head of Technology at DreamWorks Animation. She is also a director, writer, and host. She holds a particular interest in and focus on feminine and sapphic culture, particularly its positioning in and relation to music culture. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-1974 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Olivia Records Interview (Part 2) Description An account of the resource Jennifer Woodul and Ginny Berson, founders of Olivia Records, are interviewed by Ruth Scovill. Jennifer and Ginny continue to talk about women’s autonomy in the lyricism of women’s music. They talk about their views on music production and concerts as places of political organization. They attempt to self-define what “women’s music” means to them, while acknowledging the classism in the music industry. Part 2 of 2. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/6/76 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Scovill <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RS012 Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Access is reserved by the donor requiring written consent prior to each publication until donor death. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Jennifer Woodul Ginny Berson Interviewer The person(s) conducting the interview. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Ruth Scovill Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:35:26 Ginny Berson Jennifer Woodul Music Olivia Records Ruth Scovill https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/299ebf5e9ddf842f8fa06894645bdf12.jpg deca4bbfd5e1f5c1ba9a2a55d19c189f https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/292baa7a98bac19e80f7bb1fbab4b242.wav 4f369733429ac21d7ede0ddbf261faa0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Assorted Audio Materials, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource Included in this collection are clips from radio shows including South Carolina Educational Radio Network, Radio Free People, KCRW-FM, and RCC. There are also clips of live music and poetry performances, as well as political discussions. These materials were likely donated by <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/105">Liza Cowan</a>. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Olivia Records interview with Marcia Danab Description An account of the resource In this interview, Marcia Danab, the host, talks to two members of Olivia Records: Ginny Berson, and Meg Christian. Berson and Christian talk about how they created their record label, as well as the challenges that they faced as a company made by women for women. They both talk about the struggles that they have faced in the music industry as women in regard to gaining ownership, being paid, being taken seriously as artists, and making music that is specific to the female experience and understanding. Olivia Records was founded in 1973 and played an important role within the gay rights and counterculture movements of the time. Notable artists they represented were Tret Fure, Kay Gardner, Leslie Ann Jones, BeBe K'Roche, Pat Parker, and Cris Williamson. Due to declining sales, Olivia Records became Olivia Cruises and Resorts, a lesbian vacation company, in 1990. Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be used for publication without the express written consent of Liza Cowan. Contact the Lesbian Herstory Archive for Liza Cowan's contact information. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Identifier Best practice is to identify the media item (whether analog or digital) by means of an unambiguous string or number corresponding to an established or formal identification system if one exists. We recommend using the item's Omeka URL. (e.g., http://myomeka.com/items/show/1) If you are using the Internet Archive Plugin, this field will be autofilled. LC020 Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Physical Location An address for a physical media item. For an organization or producer acting as caretaker of a media resource, this field may contain information about a specific shelf location for an item, including an organization's name, departmental name, shelf ID and contact information. Lesbian Hestory Archives Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:36:11 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Berson, Ginny; Christian, Meg Interviewer The person(s) conducting the interview. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Danab, Marcia Marcia Danub Music https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/f61c49f6e75cd7e357d83cd2d0c347f4.jpg 889cf672471bf8be500fbc5e23e93e62 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/8dd12464aa12e30b8ebed101d255c3ba.mp3 3f1a264ca254cb46dd806e1cfe758fd1 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/588190fbe42c4e86cce495b8ce1d7f6c.mp3 d563b778beb03c45e250d825132f3a09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource These radio programs were recorded onto compact audio cassettes by an unknown individual (or individuals) who documented over a hundred different broadcasts from WBAI public radio. The tapes may have been dubbed from the open reel tape masters before the masters were moved to the Pacifica Radio Archives. The audio cassettes were eventually donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cassettes were digitized by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program in 2024-2025. The tapes contain programs that are specific to feminism and lesbian communities, including panels, workshops and interviews featuring feminist writers, artists, poets and other cultural producers that were broadcasted via the radio. Radio programs include Amazon Country, Everywomanspace, The Lesbian Show, and Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, among others. Find out more about the context of the collection here: <a href="https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/feminist-programming/wbai-about">WBAI Women's Department and Feminist Programming</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:58:36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1982 Title A name given to the resource Our Cities, Our Lives - Wife Battery Subject The topic of the resource Domestic Violence Description An account of the resource Episode of Our Cities, Our Lives. Side A is an interview with members of the Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family (Yolonda Baker and Diane Jackson) and a former resident of the center (Laura), mostly about the center and the work they are doing. The Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family opened on March 4, 1977 (according to Yolonda, it is the first domestic violence shelter in NYC). The Center offers shelter/residence, counseling, referrals to education programs, job-training, work opportunities at the shelter, and accompaniment to welfare, family court, and police appointments. Side B is for taking calls. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived WBAI Radio Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available WBAI Radio Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a> PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Host If applicable, the person hosting the broadcast piece. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Rosemary Reed Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Rosemary Reed Yolonda Baker Diane Jackson Laura Diane Jackson Domestic Violence Yolonda Baker https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/90/755/SPW1223_Side1.jpg 4f173e8c2d6e58c9a8de80b7a8a2e590 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/90/755/SPW1223_Outlooks-NYCs-Response-to-AIDs_SideA.wav.mp3 14e216a096c7085ba3c5753d9d6810c7 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/90/755/SPW1223_Outlooks-NYCs-Response-to-AIDs_SideB.wav.mp3 987060cfb58b0d0883b03a056835aeb0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women, AIDS, and ACT UP, 1988-1994 Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:46:15 Bit Rate/Frequency Rate at which bits are transferred (i.e. 96 kbit/s would be FM quality audio) 24-Bit PCM, 96,000 Khz Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Outlooks, March 26, 1989 [New York City's response to AIDS] Subject The topic of the resource AIDS (Disease) AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States; ACT UP (Organization); AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects; United States; AIDS (Disease)--History; AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States Description An account of the resource GLIB (Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters): Radio program "Outlooks" hosts a roundtable discussion with ACT UP members to discuss NYC's Response to AIDS, from policies to public opinion. GLIB (Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters): Radio program "Outlooks" focuses on NYC's Response to AIDS, from policies to public opinion. Roundtable discussion between hosts Sherwin Thomas, and Elain Meredith and ACT UP Guests: Jim Aygo of the Treatment Issues Committee, Richard Jackman of the Housing Issues Committee, Alexis Danzig - Spokeswoman ACT UP's Women's Caucus. plus Executive Director of Minority Task Force on AIDS, Ronald Johnson. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Donated by Maxine Wolfe on 1993-07-26 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989-03-26 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Processed by Pratt School of Information LIS-668 students, Fall 2015 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1223 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. N/A Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Digitized on 2015-10-29 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Digital Format Preservation Copy: WAV Access Copy: MP3 Digital Location An address for a digital media item. Employs an unambiguous reference or identifier for a digital rendition/instantiation of a media item and may include domain, path, filename or html page. This includes URIs for each digital file format created by the Internet Archive (will have multiple values). SPW1223_Outlooks-NYCs-Response-to-AIDS Notes Any other notes or information about the media item, including bibliography/research information, contact information, and legacy metadata. N/A Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:11:35 Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. Audio cassette AIDS Alexis Danzig Communities Education Illness Political Movements Women's Health https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/82/414/mgPDGriffin_copy.jpg 13749356cd04593c28dcdd739b6d9f05 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/82/414/Griffin_P.D_1987May13_COMPRESSED.m4v 0a8cd57dd38f97b7dfb97f13cb8dbca9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, 1987-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection includes videos created as part of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project collection. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and activist group founded in 1955. The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Data Rate 16 bit/32 kHz Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29:97 Resolution .AVI: 720 x 480, .MP4: 320 x 240 Date Digitized 2014-11-05 Duration* 01:53:23 File Size 431 MB Digital Format* Preservation: .AVI with DV Codec, Access: .MP4 Physical Format VHS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource P.D. Griffin Interview, May 13, 1987 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Photo by Morgan Gwenwald Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Recording, Oral History Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Subject The topic of the resource adoption, social life, women, books, sports Description An account of the resource P.D. Griffin discusses her role in the Daughters of Bilitis and her relationship to the lesbian community. She also discusses her interests, which include softball and ukulele. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1987-05-13 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Lauren Allshouse, Kim Loconto, Rachel Smiley, and Sara White. Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Griffin_P.D_1987May13 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. San Francisco PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. VHS Digital Format Preservation Copy: AVI with DV codec Access Copy: M4V Adoption Books Interviews Music P.D. Griffin Social Life Sports Women https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/68/383/pamela_oline.jpg a5867d3ff0c9c9eb7a07e09810998d66 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 307 Height 236 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/68/383/oline_tape1of1.mp4 c9f92046a3ac7b829c45e18e57475e91 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/68/718/Oline_pulledquotes_nd.mp4 3f1c091ea26b3b7ed65fe62ad0ceccf7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, 1987-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection includes videos created as part of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project collection. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and activist group founded in 1955. The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Date Digitized 2014-04-14 Duration* 01:53:54 00:32:15 File Size .AVI: 25.45 GB, .MP4: 267 MB 6.71 GB Data Rate 16 bit/32 kHz Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29.97 Resolution .AVI: 720 x 480, .MP4: 320 x 240 Digital Format* Preservation: .AVI with DV Codec, Access: .MP4 Physical Format VHS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pamela Oline Interview, [date unknown] Description An account of the resource Pamela Oline is interviewed. She is heterosexual and talks about her path to and experience of being a member of DOB and campaigning for gay and lesbian rights. She describes her childhood growing up in England, moving to America when she was 14 and changing career from a mathematician and to a psychotherapist. Recognizing the psychological issues of the time, she decided to understand the lesbian community from the inside. She talks about DOB meetings, lesbian and feminism issues, radical and conventional activism, marriage, and GAU (Gay Academic Union) meetings, panel discussions, etc. Accompanied by an edited collection of clips, featuring Oline talking about being a Lesbian, the DOB and its eventual fractioning, and the debate of whether the lesbian's movement should be separate from the women's movement. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manuela Soares [interviewer]; Pamela Oline [interviewee] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Unknown Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. 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Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side A: 31:53 Side B: 31:56 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW457_PAT+DJ_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side A</a></h4> <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW457_PAT+DJ_B.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side B</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat and DJ, November 11, 1986 (Tape 1) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian and Gay Experience Lesbian Community--New York (State)--New York Lesbians--Discrimination Lesbian bars Lesbians--Identity Prostitution Description An account of the resource Side A: Liz and Madeline ask Pat and DJ for feedback on a draft of "Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold." Pat claims the book paints too rosy a picture of lesbian life, underplaying the prejudice most lesbians encountered in the 1940s and '50s. Both talk about the Buffalo bar scene in the 1940s and '50s: mentioned are Carousel, Bingo's, the Chesterfield, Ralph Martin's, the Mardi Gras, and the Midtown. The discussion shifts to relationships, faithfulness, and prostitutes. Recording has loud feedback sounds and squeaks at the beginning. Side B: Pat and DJ discuss bar denizens vs. lesbians who did not frequent bars and the "class" distinction there, and also the way non-butch lesbians looked down on butches. DJ describes how her long-term relationships were analogous to marriage, where she was the breadwinner and her partners were housewives who perhaps worked but did not "provide." Both discuss the fact that in the 1940s and '50s butches had the freedom to have affairs whereas femmes were expected to be faithful. This created an atmosphere of mistrust in which monogamous long-term relationships became very difficult. Recording has loud squeaks at the beginning, hisses throughout, and cuts off abruptly at the end. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liz Lapovsky Madeline Davis Pat DJ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1986-11-11 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2011-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, 665 Projects in Digital Archives Students Relation A related resource This recording is 1 of 3 tapes recordings with Pat and DJ on 1986-11-11. Is Format Of A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. tape cassette "SPW457 Pat and DJ" Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. 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This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side A: 31:53 Side B: 31:56 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW458_PAT+DJ_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side A</a></h4> <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW458_PAT+DJ_B.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side B</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat and DJ, November 11, 1986 (Tape 2) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbians--Sexual Behavior Lesbians--Conduct of life Lesbian Couples--United States Butch and Femme Sexual Relationships Domestic Violence Description An account of the resource Side A: Pat and DJ continue the discussion of relationships during the 1950s from tape cassette SPW457. The two women discuss aspects of how to make relationships long-lasting and the importance or lack thereof of sexual intimacy in relationships. Both Pat and DJ discuss personal opinions related to intimacy in relationships, particularly in long-term relationships. The discussion then turns to types of attraction and intimacy. Side B: Pat and DJ continue to discuss relationships during the 1950s and talk about reasons for breaking up. The discussion revolves around the importance of taking care of a woman and being able to satisfy her needs. The two women discuss the negative stigma of cheating. The discussion turns to take pride in a partner and the importance of her appearance and physical presence. Pat and DJ also talk about the presence of violence during relationships in the 1950s, listing insecurity between partners as the main reason. The two women speak specifically of violence in bars as a result of talking to another womanâ€™s lady or challenging femmes in relationships to talk to other women. They discuss how much of this behavior was learned from lesbian role models of the 1940s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liz Lapovsky Madeline Davis Pat DJ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1986-11-11 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2011-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, 665 Projects in Digital Archives Students Relation A related resource This recording is 2 of 3 tapes recorded with Pat and DJ on 1986-11-11. Is Format Of A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. tape cassette â€œSPW458 Pat and DJÊº Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. 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In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side A: 14:55 Side B: 32:04 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW459_PAT+DJ_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Listen to Side A</a></h4> <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW459_PAT+DJ_B.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Listen to Side B</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat and DJ, November 11, 1986 (Tape 3) Subject The topic of the resource Butch and femme identity Lesbian couples Lesbians--Conduct of life Lesbian and gay experience Lesbians--Abuse of Lesbians-- Violence agaist-- United States Description An account of the resource Side A: Pat and DJ discuss the characteristics of femme identity. The interviewers say they are looking to interview more femmes, which leads to a discussion of the names and locations of lesbians who were a part of the community in the 1940s. The interviewers also mention the difficulties of interviewing lesbians who have not come out. The group discusses why butches are more willing to talk. Pat talks about her time at the Good Shepherd home. There is a brief discussion about the role of lesbians in World War II. Cut off at 0:14:55 Side B: The group continues their discussion of the interview process, including who is willing to talk and who is not, as well as who will use their names and who will not. There is more discussion about beatings. Pat tells of coming out to her mother. Her mother only worries about the violence Pat is subjected to, on account of being butch. There is a long discussion about the nature of breakups and their aftermath. The group discusses the role of third parties in most breakups and the way a butch or femme reacts to a breakup. The issue of "passing" comes up, and Pat talks about working as a cab driver and passing as a man. Often, the children of femmes did not know that their mothers' partners were actually women. The interview concludes with a description of the rules for asking other butches' girlfriends to dance, and the fights that sometimes ensued. This point in the discussion highlights the difference between the generation of the interviewees and the generation of the interviewers. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liz Lapovsky Madeline Davis Pat DJ Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1986-11-11 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2011-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, 665 Projects in Digital Archives Students Relation A related resource This recordings is 3 of 3 tapes recorded with Pat and DJ on 1986-11-11. 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In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side A: 0:31:07 Side B: 0:31:05 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW467_PAT_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side A</a></h4> <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW467_PAT_B.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side B</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat G., May 21, [year unknown] (Tape 1) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian and gay experience Description An account of the resource Side A: Pat discusses her experiences as an African American lesbian. She developed friendships and relationships with both white and black gay women in the 1950s. She denies there were any racial tension in the Buffalo lesbian community; Pat says her experience was very inclusive. She also discusses experiencing police harassment, but says that she longer experiences discrimination from law enforcement. Pat discusses her wardrobe in the 1950s, which was composed of mens' clothing, and where she used to shop. Side B: Pat discusses her friendship and romantic relationship with Jerry Jones, a male impersonator, who was well known in the 1950s Buffalo lesbian community. Pat discusses her move to Albany, N.Y., in the late 1950s and the birth of her daughter in 1957. She also mentions her experiences at after-hour bars which were only open to African Americans. While she used to frequent them in her early years, she no longer goes. Pat identifies as a butch lesbian and discusses the differences between butches and femmes. When she was younger she did not allow her partner to touch her during sex, but is much more open to the idea now. According to Pat, many butch lesbians did not receive sexual contact from their partners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liz Lapovsky Pat G. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 19??-05-12 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2011-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, 665 Projects in Digital Archives Students Relation A related resource This recording is 1 of 2 tapes recorded with Pat G. on 19??-05-21. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 22:10 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW468_PAT_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download the Interview</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat G., May 21, [year unknown] (Tape 2) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian bars Lesbian and gay experience Lesbian Community--New York (State) Description An account of the resource Pat shows family photos. She says several of her family members were gay, including her mother and brother. She talks about bars, the 557 and 217, with racially mixed clientele. She describes violence when straight men tried to dance with gay women. She mentions other favorite bars from the 1950s: the Chesterfield, the KittyCat, Club Coco, the 469. Pat describes her relationships, many of which involved "messing around on and off" for many years. She describes coming out to her mother at age 13, and talks about the "white girls from Canada" (lesbians) who were her mother's friends. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liz Lapovsky Pat G. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 19??-05-21 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2011-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, 665 Projects in Digital Archives Students Relation A related resource This recording is 2 of 2 tapes recorded with Pat G. on 19??-05-21. Is Format Of A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. tape cassette "SPW468 Pat" Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. 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Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Clubs Communities Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy Families Relationships Violence https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/50/238/HelinDemingFinal.jpg 79e93d713efee333be42a0fcf5a6ca75 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. 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The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Manuela Soares Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. 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Title A name given to the resource Pat Helin and Barbara Deming Interview, May 10, 1987 Subject The topic of the resource AIDS, Bars, Coming out, Consciousness Raising, Consciousness Raising Groups, Homophile Movement, Gay Men, Rural Lesbians, Small Towns, Unions, Politics: Republican, Marriage, Feminism, Mothers Description An account of the resource Pat Helin and Barbara Deming discuss their childhood in Iowa, relationships with their familes, their involvement with the Daughters of Bilitis in San Francisco and their friendship with Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. On tape 2, they elaborate on their early days in San Francisco, Pat’s previous marriage, political affiliations, jobs, dancing in gay bars, and why they ultimately left the DOB. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manuela Soares Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://devherstories.prattsils.org/omeka/archive/files/7501dc11b0f4a2ca49b7b8900fdd9250.mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1987-05-10 [Digitized] November 6, 2013 Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. May 10, 1987 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource edited by Morgan Gwenwald, Manuela Soares, Sara Yaeger Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Lauren Allshouse, Kim Loconto, Rachel Smiley, and Sara White. 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The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. 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Title A name given to the resource Pat Turner Interview, December 31, 1987 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Photograph by Morgan Gwenwald Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Recording, Oral History Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Description An account of the resource Pat Turner describes early experiences as a lesbian growing up in the south, conflicts with her enthusiasm for religion as a young person, and her family’s reaction to her sexual orientation. 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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and activist group founded in 1955. The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. 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Title A name given to the resource Pat Walker Interview, October 18, 1988 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DV46_Pat Walker_tape1of1_1988oct18 DV-46 MV-46 Subject The topic of the resource Autobiography, Homosexuality, Coming Out, Relationships, Women's Political Organizations, Parents of Lesbians and Gays, Disabled Women, Class, Racism Description An account of the resource Pat Walker talks about her mother's reaction to her sexuality, her first girlfriend, living with blindness, and her experiences with the DOB and its members. 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Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat, June 6, 1978 (Tape 1) Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. 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In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side A: 46:30 Side B: 43:18 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW455_PAT_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side A</a></h4> <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW455_PAT_B.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side B</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat, June 6, 1978 (Tape 2) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbianism Coming of age Lesbian nuns Lesbian couples Niagara Falls, N.Y. lesbian scene Buffalo, N.Y. Lesbian bars Butch Identity Femme Identity Sexual Relationship Lesbian Sexual behavior Prejudices Lesbian culture Role playing Victimization Description An account of the resource Side A: Pat talks about her childhood in North Port, N.Y., her relationship with her parents and siblings. She goes into detail about her estranged relationship with her older sister. She describes when she first knew that she was a lesbian and tells the history of her relationships with women. She starts with her first affair at age 13, with a nun from her Catholic school - Sister Eugenie - to a relationship she had with Maryann (Marty). She describes her time at nursing school in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and the gay bars she frequented until she moved to Florida with her then girlfriend. She says she moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in the late 1950s, and describes the Buffalo bar scene, mentioning Dingles, Mardi Gras, the Chesterfield, the Carousel and the Carol Hotel. Pat mentions that the Carousel was very elite, something she did not like. This leads her into a discussion on â€œrole playâ€ and how important it was to distinguish oneself as either a butch or a femme. She classified herself as butch, but stated that she was very uncomfortable with the label and now prefers to be less overt. Side B: In this interview Pat talks about how she does not like or feel comfortable in the gay community. She has never identified with it, or been made to feel welcome. This is one of the reasons that she does not maintain friendships with other lesbians, unless she is having a sexual relationship with them. She mentions being victimized and physically assaulted because she was a butch lesbian. Interviewer Madeline enters the discussion, speaking about her own sexual experiences with women. Madeline classifies Pat as â€œuntouchable,â€ something that Pat denies, stating that she is simply very private. She feels that sex is a necessary but not important part of a relationship; it is something that is never sought or welcomed. She is suspicious of those who claim to experience sexual pleasure, including Madeline. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madeleine Davis Pat Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978-06-06 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2011-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, 665 Projects in Digital Archives Students Relation A related resource This recording is 2 of 2 tapes recorded with Pat on 1978-06-06. Is Format Of A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. tape cassette â€œSPW455 Pat" Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge Extent The size or duration of the resource. Side A: 46:30 Side B: 43:18 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. mpeg wav Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Oral History Interview Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW# 455 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. North Port, N.Y. Niagara Falls, N.Y. Buffalo, N.Y. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1938 - 1978 Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. 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Description An account of the resource Paula Kane and Judy Pasternak in the recording studio (New York: WBAI Folio September 1976) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paula Kane and Judy Pasternak (1976) https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/12/462.jpg 17479a8908cb3250862d0179b8093eaf Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 1948 Width 2922 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/12/SPW462_PAULA_A.wav.mp3 2a70545affa67ffd94c24b03e0016ebc https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/12/SPW462_PAULA_B.wav.mp3 3eaa233cd35d48c4e47fe5c8cdc33112 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side A: 46:32 Side B: 23:30 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW462_PAULA_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side A</a></h4> <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW462_PAULA_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side B</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paula, January 18, 1990 (Tape 1) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian and gay experience Lesbian community--New York Gay bars Lesbian culture Lesbians--Relations with heterosexuals Lesbians--United States--Social conditions Description An account of the resource Side A: Paula describes various locations where gay men and women would meet each other, like Kleinman's Corner and bars such as Ralph Martin's. Often these locations also served as hubs for sex workers. She speaks about the rigidly defined roles of "butch" and "femme" provided for lesbians during the 1940s. Paula talks about her life as femme and being married to a man who introduced her to gay/lesbian life. She discusses her sexual life and the type of sex that women had with each other in the 1940s, specifically within the strict binary of butch and femme. Paula recalls the social life at bars, such as Ralph Martin's, which included dancing, drag shows, prostitution, and drugs. Side B: Paula speaks about her family life in relation to her sexual identity. She talks about her husband's fast lifestyle and her changing preferences eventually causing the dissolution of their marriage. Paula mentions the types of employment she has had, including working in department stores, as a waitress, as a desk clerk at the Genesee Hotel, and on the assembly line at Bell Aircraft. She speaks more about various bars that she went to: Pat's, Dugan's, the Carousel, and the Carlton Hotel. She talks about a long-term relationship that she had, after her divorce, that lasted ten years, as well as traveling out of the Buffalo area to places like Florida, California, and Utica, N.Y. The recording cuts off abruptly after 23 minutes. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Madeline Davis Paula Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1990-01-18 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2011-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, 665 Projects in Digital Archives Students Relation A related resource This recording is 1 of 2 tapes recorded with Paula on 1990-01-18. Is Format Of A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. tape cassette "SPW462 Paula" Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge Extent The size or duration of the resource. 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In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data tape cassette Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side A: 46:51 Side B: 46:30 MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a href="/mp3_files/SPW463_PAULA_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download the Interview</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paula, January 18, 1990 (Tape 2) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbians--United States--Identity Lesbian and gay experience Lesbians--United States--History Lesbians--Sexual behavior Description An account of the resource Paula describes the absence of love and romance in her relationships with women, but later in the interviews describes a relationship after her divorce. She mentions one-night stands and sexual experiences she had with friends, and the importance of these friendships to her. Paula mentions that she was married and had children, and would go out to bars at night with her friends or alone. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Video Library, 1973-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection holds videos that do not fall under specific collections in the digital archive, and are more apart of a LHA video library than part of a larger collection. These include performance, documentaries, and interviews. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Performance Theatre Troupe (Tape 1) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian Theater Description An account of the resource A video of a one-woman play by the Performance Theatre Troupe from Iowa City. The place centers around Effy, a 17-year-old lesbian and musician who must make a decision about her life. The three-act play takes place over a single day. Act 1 follows Effy in the afternoon, in her bedroom, before going to a piano recital she is involved in. Act 2 takes after the piano recital. Act 3 takes place later that night after Effy has been thinking about her life. Tape 1 includes Acts 1 & 2. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kathleen [Hardy], writer and performer [Bonnie Marslack], director Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 (date filmed) 11/2023 (date digitized) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The_Performance_Tape_1 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. 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Title A name given to the resource Video Library, 1973-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection holds videos that do not fall under specific collections in the digital archive, and are more apart of a LHA video library than part of a larger collection. These include performance, documentaries, and interviews. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Performance Theatre Troupe / Gathering (Tape 2) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian Theater, Lesbian Community, LGBTQ+ home movies, Women's Friendship, White Lesbians Description An account of the resource The tape is divided into two sections. The first section of the tape contains Act 3 of "The Performance" (6 min), a one-woman play by the Performance Theatre Troupe from Iowa City. The play centers around Effy, a 17-year-old lesbian and musician who must make a decision about her life. Following "The Performance," the tape cuts to a gathering of lesbians sitting outside, playing guitar, singing, and reading. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Performance: Kathleen [Hardy], writer and performer [Bonnie Marslack], director  Gathering: Creator Unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 (date filmed) 11/2023 (date digitized) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The_Performance_Tape_2 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. 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Format: HH:MM:SS 00:32:39 Performing Arts Theater https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/33/466.jpg 4768284679fd1d5548e7b5b5c88d50ab Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 2144 Width 3216 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/33/SPW466_Phil_A.wav.mp3 16569617415085eb916bddb5a54532a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a title="Download Phil" href="mp3_files/summer2012/SPW466_Phil_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side A</a></h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Phil, January 18, 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian and gay experience Gay culture in literature Gay-Lesbian Relationship Gay Bars Discrimination Lesbian Community-Buffalo, NY (State) Lesbian- United States- Identity Description An account of the resource Phil talks about being in a relationship with another woman and how she provided for her. She also goes on to talk about how other butch femmes provided for their partners and what would happen when they would break up. Phil further goes on to talk about gay literature and her problems with it. 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In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. MP3 Files Links to Oral History mp3 files <h4><a title="Download Side 3" href="/mp3_files/summer2012/SPW465_Phil_A.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side 3</a></h4> <h4><a title="Download Side 4" href="/mp3_files/summer2012/SPW465_Phil_B.wav.mp3" target="_blank">Download Side 4</a></h4> Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data cassette tape Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Side 3: 30:10 Side 4: 30:11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Phil, January 9, 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Buffalo, N.Y. Lesbian bars Butch Identity Etiquette for lesbians Lesbian Community--New York (State) Lesbian couples Lesbians--Sexual behavior Lesbian--relationships Lesbians--family--relationships Lesbians--Identity Roles--Butch and Femme Bowling Description An account of the resource Side 3: Phil begins the interview by discussing the dynamics of living with her lover and husband under the same roof, as well her lack of shame or guilt in being gay. She then talks about guilt among other lesbians she knew. Related to this, she discusses reasons people were not public about their lesbian identity, including work and family commitments. She spends the majority of this side of the tape talking about her long-term, intimate relationship with her best friend. She discusses the difference between butch and femme friends, as well as the distinct features of a close friend versus a lover. Side 4: Phil continues to discuss the distinctions between friends and lovers. She talks about the various social groups she belonged to over the years, including a group that mostly had husbands and one that was more independent. Phil talks about lesbians having multiple partners, and how the community viewed butches and femmes who did so. Phil talks about lesbians in the Bowling Association, and the social events they put on. She then tells the story of a break-up and meeting a new lover, and the mythology surrounding butches making the first move. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Interviewee: Phil Interviewer: Madeline D. Davis Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1980-1-9 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2012-5-23 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives students Relation A related resource Tape two of a three tape series recorded 1979-11-16 and 1980-1-9. Prior tape is SPW464 and following is SPW466. Is Format Of A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. tape cassette “SPW465 Phil, Sides 3&4” Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge Extent The size or duration of the resource. 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Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Butch and Femme Families Identity Madeline Davis Relationships https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/bc9fcd60f999d5a24ef890b5356b8a8f.jpg cf76770b0f2852c7477274146bf87c44 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/3f62bc9fda9840c0aa14813b23e3d177.mp3 13a2e175c785a13269217cc2d3b0e493 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource These radio programs were recorded onto compact audio cassettes by an unknown individual (or individuals) who documented over a hundred different broadcasts from WBAI public radio. The tapes may have been dubbed from the open reel tape masters before the masters were moved to the Pacifica Radio Archives. The audio cassettes were eventually donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cassettes were digitized by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program in 2024-2025. The tapes contain programs that are specific to feminism and lesbian communities, including panels, workshops and interviews featuring feminist writers, artists, poets and other cultural producers that were broadcasted via the radio. Radio programs include Amazon Country, Everywomanspace, The Lesbian Show, and Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, among others. Find out more about the context of the collection here: <a href="https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/feminist-programming/wbai-about">WBAI Women's Department and Feminist Programming</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1881A Title A name given to the resource Pleasure by Barbara Barracks Description An account of the resource Author Barbara Barracks is interviewed on the show Prose, produced by Sharon Martin. Barbara reads Chapter 10 of her novel Pleasure. Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian radio Lesbian erotic literature Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available KPFK radio Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource See the LHA Copyright Statement Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Pacifica Radio Archives Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Recording; Radio talk shows PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Prose Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). 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May include title, artist, album, timestamp, producer and record label information. "Time and Love" by Laura Nyo Feminist Theater Literature Sexuality Theater Writing https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/652a7550ca542d7c3e19cd1b514fe79a.jpg 67d2935477bf13249fc0a6e2f02e233b https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/8e9d8811839d70fdcab2c1e37bf7e51f.mp3 63bb649d2831264fff644484b9e34b67 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/8fc30d1aac8c931d43980d8c4344ec31.mp3 ba26c483ff8a725c97a923608da63f73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource These radio programs were recorded onto compact audio cassettes by an unknown individual (or individuals) who documented over a hundred different broadcasts from WBAI public radio. The tapes may have been dubbed from the open reel tape masters before the masters were moved to the Pacifica Radio Archives. The audio cassettes were eventually donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cassettes were digitized by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program in 2024-2025. The tapes contain programs that are specific to feminism and lesbian communities, including panels, workshops and interviews featuring feminist writers, artists, poets and other cultural producers that were broadcasted via the radio. Radio programs include Amazon Country, Everywomanspace, The Lesbian Show, and Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, among others. Find out more about the context of the collection here: <a href="https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/feminist-programming/wbai-about">WBAI Women's Department and Feminist Programming</a> Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW1936 Title A name given to the resource Poetry Series: Rosemary Cappello + Barbara Ruth Read Their Poetry Description An account of the resource In this episode of Women's Consciousness Raising Hour, the first poet Rosemary Cappello reads a mixture of original poems and poems from friends and other notable poets, surrounding the theme of correspondence. Rosemary views correspondence as the most faithful way to show affection and grow closer with other poets. She also reads a poem that she wrote, in place of an angry letter, to respond to an anti-feminist book review. The second poet, Barbara Ruth, opens with a poems about her awe for life: her experience knowing and being close to other women, seeing a solar eclipse. Her poems discuss women's issues, specifically, the tension between being a woman and having intense or maddening emotions, and the tensions women have with men. Her poems frequently invoke the power of women and call for a revolution. Furthermore, Barbara grapples with issues of valuing some lives over others, witnessing suffering, narcissism, and simple wanting. She also reads poems about her mother. Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian radio Lesbian poetry Correspondence Feminism Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available WBAI radio Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource See the LHA Copyright Statement Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Pacifica Radio Archives Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Recording; Radio talk shows PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Women's Consciousness Raising Hour Host If applicable, the person hosting the broadcast piece. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Diane Trombley Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portia, September 24, 1978 (Tape 1) Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian Bars, Lesbian and Gay Experience, Lesbian Community--New York (State)--New York, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Lesbianism, Lesbians Abuse of, Lesbians--United States--History, Lesbians--United States--Identity, Lesbians--United States--Interviews, Oral history interview, Lesbian couples, Lesbian physical education teachers, Lesbian teenagers Description An account of the resource The gay movement has taken the lesbian community out of the bars or the "gay underworld," as compared to when she came out in the late 1960s, about 10 years prior to the interview. Portia, age 26, is not out at her job, but is known as a feminist and civil rights activist; her sister is openly homosexual. She talks about her early sexual experiences with girls and how she never felt guilty or different, but felt guilty with boys because of her Catholic upbringing. Her father beat Portia after she went out with her lover, and then she moved out of home at 18. She attended university and discusses her relationships and friendships in college, as well as her relationship with her first lover, who is still her partner, and their infidelities. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Portia (Interviewee) Madeline Davis (Interviewer) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived SPW494_PORTIA_A SPW494_PORTIA_B Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. Digitized 2012, September Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. 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Title A name given to the resource Audre Lorde audio recordings, 1977-1986 Description An account of the resource Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a celebrated and influential Caribbean-American poet, novelist, autobiographer, and publisher whose art and life explored issues of race, class, sexuality, gender, and illness. The cassettes in this collection were deposited at the LHA by various donors. They document various public events including the 1979 National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights, a 1982 poetry reading, and writing conferences in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Power, Oppression and the Politics of Culture: A Lesbian/Feminist Perspective; Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, August 25, 1978, (Tape 1 of 3) Subject The topic of the resource African American feminists, African American lesbians, Feminism, Lesbian feminism, Lesbianism, Lesbians, Sexism Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a panel presentation at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Includes Audre Lorde. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Audre Lorde Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Side A (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw1152_A.mp3 Side A (wav) http://herstory.prattsils.org/wav_files/spw1152_A.wav Side B (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw1152_B.mp3 Side B (wav) http://herstory.prattsils.org/wav_files/spw1152_B.wav Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978, August 25 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. Digitized: June 2011 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Relation A related resource Tape 1 of 3. 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The cassettes in this collection were deposited at the LHA by various donors. They document various public events including the 1979 National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights, a 1982 poetry reading, and writing conferences in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Power, Oppression and the Politics of Culture: A Lesbian/Feminist Perspective; Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, August 25, 1978, (Tape 2 of 3) Subject The topic of the resource African American feminists, African American lesbians, Feminism, Lesbian feminism, Lesbianism, Lesbians, Sexism Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a panel presentation at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. "Power, Oppression and the Politics of Culture: A Lesbian/Feminist Perspective" included Audre Lorde Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Audre Lorde Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Side A (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw1153_A.mp3 Side A (wav) http://herstory.prattsils.org/wav_files/spw1153_A.wav Side B (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw1153_B.mp3 Side B (wav) http://herstory.prattsils.org/wav_files/spw1153_B.wav Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978, August 25 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 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Title A name given to the resource Audre Lorde audio recordings, 1977-1986 Description An account of the resource Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a celebrated and influential Caribbean-American poet, novelist, autobiographer, and publisher whose art and life explored issues of race, class, sexuality, gender, and illness. The cassettes in this collection were deposited at the LHA by various donors. They document various public events including the 1979 National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights, a 1982 poetry reading, and writing conferences in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reading from 13th Moon Series, 1982 Subject The topic of the resource Lesbians [sh85076160] Feminists [sh85047761] African American feminists [sh2004002861] African American women--Poetry [sh2007100767] Description An account of the resource Side A : A poetry reading from Audre Lorde Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1982 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Audre Lorde Poetry Writing https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/7ad9b83cb0b44fb9ac30aa6887ebf0bb.png 8bcc384de234a8756e718f9312cfcfb3 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rebecca Tron Subject The topic of the resource Rebecca Tron, via WBAI Folio 1977 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/a1220756bc170b93739993059a873a36.jpg 828001cbc3d42e6c131e083ce15cb73e https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/5511af92850add74c2820b141d3020bc.mp4 deae982cbb62ace4573fe648692e2668 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barbara Smith Classroom Tapes & Interviews, 1988 Subject The topic of the resource Activism Barbara Smith Black feminism Education Lesbian fiction Description An account of the resource This collection contains video interviews with students in Barbara Smith’s Mount Holyoke College classes. Topics include Lesbian Feminism, Lesbian fiction, and intersectionality. There are also interviews with Smith herself. Barbara Smith graduated class of 1969 from Mount Holyoke and during her time as a student she was a co-founder of the college’s <a href="https://commons.mtholyoke.edu/blackhistoryatmhc/the-afro-american-society/">Afro-American Society</a>. She returned to the college as a professor in the 1980s and remains an engaged alumna and member of the college community.  Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Digitized October 2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/search?query=barbara+smith&query_type=keyword&submit_search=Submit">Barbara Smith</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/rights-statement">See the LHA Rights Statement</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Probably 1988 (Earliest 1983) Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reeves Interview (Tape 3) Subject The topic of the resource Feminism Feminist literature Intersectionality (Sociology) Description An account of the resource Interview with Mount Holyoke student Reeves on her experiences taking Barbara Smith's class. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barbara Smith Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2023-10-31 (digitized) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Extent The size or duration of the resource. 367.9 MB Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context tape_3_reeves_interview_cross_section Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1988 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. U-matic Digital Format MP4 Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:15:28 Barbara Smith Black Lesbians Education https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/8d970ba748968a085eb33eb783f6e0e6.jpeg 43322c1d29e31a35b25d388ab4f5055e https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/9451f21213ded2a809084385e321fbac.mp4 3ac303d27de5c306f7794accff611921 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barbara Smith Classroom Tapes & Interviews, 1988 Subject The topic of the resource Activism Barbara Smith Black feminism Education Lesbian fiction Description An account of the resource This collection contains video interviews with students in Barbara Smith’s Mount Holyoke College classes. Topics include Lesbian Feminism, Lesbian fiction, and intersectionality. There are also interviews with Smith herself. Barbara Smith graduated class of 1969 from Mount Holyoke and during her time as a student she was a co-founder of the college’s <a href="https://commons.mtholyoke.edu/blackhistoryatmhc/the-afro-american-society/">Afro-American Society</a>. She returned to the college as a professor in the 1980s and remains an engaged alumna and member of the college community.  Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Digitized October 2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/search?query=barbara+smith&query_type=keyword&submit_search=Submit">Barbara Smith</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/rights-statement">See the LHA Rights Statement</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Probably 1988 (Earliest 1983) Moving Image A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reeves Interview (Tape 4) Subject The topic of the resource Feminism Feminist literature Intersectionality (Sociology) Description An account of the resource Interview with Mount Holyoke student Reeves on her experiences taking Barbara Smith's class. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barbara Smith Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2023-10-31 (digitized) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Extent The size or duration of the resource. 524.7 MB Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context tape_4_reeves_interview Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1988 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. U-matic Digital Format MP4 Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:22:09 Barbara Smith Black Lesbians Education https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/108/SPW484_REGGIE.jpg 178f0ea50cf2359764b0fb6b959617c6 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 523 IPTC Array a:1:{s:12:"date_created";s:10:"28.11.2012";} IPTC String date_created:28.11.2012 Width 800 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/108/SPW484_REGGIE_A.wav.mp3 e3f446437f7bddb8696c0c7e3c9443b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reggie, September 21, 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian community--New York (State)--New York, Lesbians--United States--Identity, Lesbians--United States--Interviews, Oral history interview; Families Description An account of the resource Discusses growing up in Buffalo, when she realized she was first gay at a young age, and going to clubs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Reggie (Interviewee) Aubra (Interviewer) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived SPW484_REGGIE_A Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1980, September 21 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. Digitized 2012, September Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Original= Cassette Tape WAV MP3 Extent The size or duration of the resource. Side A = 30:51 minutes Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Digital reproduction of audio cassette. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Oral History Interview Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW484 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Buffalo, NY Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1930's Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Clubs Coming Out Families https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/ab43d5e31026c4d136f112707ca77a79.m4v 5091f171eb6bd5491f353c1808da2df2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club Interviews, 2021-2022 Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews with members of the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club. The Club consists of over one hundred residents of the Rossmoor, a community for people 55 years and older located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Club members themselves organized these interviews in order to preserve their personal histories. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Amy+Klitsner">Amy Klitsner</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Bobbi+Ausubel">Bobbi Ausubel</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=EJ+Koch">EJ Koch</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Carol+Newhouse">Carol Newhouse</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ann+Bidderman">Ann Bidderman</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Marlene+Michelson">Marlene Michelson</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Rhona+Lishinsky">Rhona Lishinsky</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Nicole+Schapiro">Nicole Schapiro</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Renee+Archer">Renee Archer</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Judy+Greyboys">Judy Greyboys</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Janet+Seldon">Janet Seldon</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sharon+Noteboom">Sharon Noteboom</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Lynn+Gold">Lynn Gold</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jade+Martner">Jade Martner</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Deb+Mayer">Deb Mayer</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Cecelia+Wambach">Cecelia Wambach</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Andrea+Gourdine">Andrea Gourdine</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Andrea+Gilbert">Andrea Gilbert</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Stephanie+Singer">Stephanie Singer</a> Shirley Kaiser Celenia Desol <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Victoria+Rue">Victoria Rue</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Kathryn+Poethig">Katheryn Poethig</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jean+Lerner">Jean Lerner</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Liz+Salen">Liz Salen</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Bev+Lyon">Bev Lyon</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Archer Interview Description An account of the resource In this oral history conducted by the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club, Renee Archer discusses her early feelings for other women, moving to California from Detroit, her marriage to a man and eventual coming out process, her involvement in activism, her work as a teacher, the importance of community, and her feelings about gender identity. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Please see the Lesbian Herstory Archive's Rights Statement and the donor agreement form. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. GLBT Historical Society PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Renee Archer Interviewer The person(s) conducting the interview. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Bobbi Ausubel Amy Klitsner Digital Format MOV Catholic Lesbians Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/69/370/renee_shapiro.jpg ef408e2a3682e3cea91de577a9bd5b72 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 310 Height 235 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/69/370/shapiro_tape1of1_19890401.mp4 f016a56d7664a46722f50b90443e528b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, 1987-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection includes videos created as part of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project collection. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and activist group founded in 1955. The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Digital Format* Preservation: .AVI with DV Codec, Access: .MP4 Physical Format VHS Date Digitized 2014-02-24 Duration* 01:45:41 File Size .AVI: 23.62 GB, .MP4: 318 MB Data Rate 16 bit/32 kHz Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29.97 Resolution .AVI: 720 x 480, .MP4: 320 x 240 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Shapiro Interview, April 1, 1989 Description An account of the resource Renee Shapiro is interviewed April 1, 1989. She discusses joining the Daughters of Bilitis and the various group activities they did. Renee talks about her hands on experience with putting together plays and different group events. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Interviewer: N/A, Interviewee: Renee Shapiro Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1989-04-01 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Morgan Gwenwald, Manuela Soares, Sara Yaeger. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Language A language of the resource en Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Recording, Oral History Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Digital: shapiro_tape1of1_19890401 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Boston, MA Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. VHS Digital Format Preservation Copy: AVI with DV codec Access Copy: MP4 Coming Out Communities Theater https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/91/825/028-04_world-aids-day-1996_a_c.mp4 bf995dc519b83eb7577de736bffd3344 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dyke TV television program components, 1993-1998 Description An account of the resource Dyke TV was a groundbreaking public access program founded in 1993 by Mary Patierno, Ana Marie Simo and Linda Chapman. An offshoot of the Lesbian Avengers, the mission of Dyke TV was to incite, provoke, and organize to create tangible change. The program sought to increase lesbian visibility and change people's attitudes towards lesbians, gay rights and women's rights. Dyke TV comprehensively documented a critical time in gay and lesbian history and shared stories important to lesbian communities that were ignored by other media outlets. Dyke TV documented many LGBTQ political actions of the early 1990s including the activities of ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers. The Dyke TV collection at the Lesbian Herstory Archives consists largely of unedited footage that documents marches and demonstrations in New York City. Other tapes include incomplete episodes and compilations of show segments.  The program first aired in June 1993 on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network public access channel. It started off as a weekly 30-minute program created by a core of producers with help from members of the community. Following a magazine format, each program consisted of various segments such as I Was a Lesbian Child, the Arts, From the Archives, News, and Eyewitness. Areas of interest included lesbian history, daily life, activism, and international LGBTQ issues. The producers aimed to create a well-rounded program that could highlight lesbian life from as many angles as possible. According to one of the program’s co-founders and executive producer, Mary Patierno: “if anybody wanted to do a story we let them do it. We were there to let people voice whatever they wanted to, whatever issues or topics that were of interest to them.” At its peak, Dyke TV was distributed to 78 public access channels throughout the United States.  Additionally, Dyke TV had a mission to provide video production training and conducted regular workshops to enable women to tell their stories through their own means. This community oriented attitude fomented widespread contributions about lesbian issues across the United States and abroad.  Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Date Digitized 2016-10-23 Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29.97 FPS Resolution 648x486 Duration* 00:58:47 File Size 1.83 GB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report from World AIDS Day 1995 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 028-04_world-aids-day-1996_a_c.mp4 Subject The topic of the resource AIDS (Disease) Harm reduction AIDS (Disease) in women ACT UP (Organization) Clinical drug trials Public health Demonstrations Description An account of the resource A Dyke TV report on World AIDS Day from New York City Hall. The event is a commemoration and demonstration memorializing New Yorkers who have died of AIDS, and a protest against budget cuts that will impact AIDS education, prevention, and services. It includes footage of people reading the names of the deceased, with City Hall chosen as a location to send a message to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for his lack of response to the AIDS crisis. The report includes footage from a Housing Works Theater Project, "In Limbo", and interviews with participants including health care workers, an AIDS educator, and a harm reduction advocate and recipient of assistance at risk of being cut. Excerpts from the Dyke TV series "Risk, Lesbians, and AIDS" is also shown, including interviews with lesbian women living with AIDS and health care workers, and an excerpt from "Voices From the Front" about the People With AIDS Health Group and Act Up protests against the United States Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Housing Works [Executive Producer] Janet Baus [Dyke TV Producer and Director] Elizabeth Meister [Dyke TV Producer and Director] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dyke TV Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Dyke TV: Linda Chapman, Mary Patierno, Ana Maria Simo. Tapes and digital files held by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Tapes reproduced with permission from the copyright holders. Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Dyke_TV_Iron_Mt_ID_028-04 Item 794 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Video Recording Language A language of the resource en-US Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New York, New York, United States Rockville, Maryland, United States Bethesda, Maryland, United States Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1995 Activism AIDS Anna Maria Simo Demonstrations Elizabeth Meister Health Janet Baus Linda Chapman Mary Patierno https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/dc889953864498d516780d62a4733ddc.jpeg 23590f9e58bf697d9e273e818ce888a1 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rita Mae Brown photo https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/e68c52e9b1619afa6faf273aa5fc9909.png ffb35dc5335f49839e70e009e9235425 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roberta Hacker https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/79f565841e0fc9fff825a8f953c3f533.jpg 0e3cd4e649ba446ef406f6d4fcf7a43d https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/0b78e8bc0d9a697b322e19625892f31e.jpg 9310bcb0972d7c2622304d9a2e128348 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/04916c3a91e931fe3c439fa67b30647b.mp3 e602e70d704cb7a3cfddc33e997b7c96 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Assorted Audio Materials, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource Included in this collection are clips from radio shows including South Carolina Educational Radio Network, Radio Free People, KCRW-FM, and RCC. There are also clips of live music and poetry performances, as well as political discussions. These materials were likely donated by <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/105">Liza Cowan</a>. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Robin Morgan Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context T34 Title A name given to the resource Robin Morgan Description An account of the resource Robin Morgan talks about the creation of the New York Radical Women group in 1967 (20-25 women), the male Left, working on the Atlantic city pageant demonstration 1968, and publishing the "Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement" in 1970. She then reads a poem and uses poetry as a political tool, as well as asserts that the Women's Movement is fostering relations between different strata of US society. Morgan advocates for women to take control legally, health-wise, and become an international force. She states that rape and pornography affect all women and she depicts women as the largest and longest subjugated people. The Women's Movement will continue to prosper. Extent The size or duration of the resource. PT28M25S Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mpeg Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. 1/4" audio tape Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Robin Morgan <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. 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Title A name given to the resource Feminist Radio Network, circa 1974-1978 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sally+Gearheart">Sally Gearhart</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=kayla+taylor">Kayla Taylor</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Susan+Moore">Susan Moore</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Alice+Walker">Alice Walker</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Grace+Paley">Grace Paley</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Rita+Mae+Brown">Rita Mae Brown</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Karen+Kollias">Karen Kollias</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Dolores+Bargowski">Dolores Bargowski</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Beverly+Fisher">Beverly Fisher</a> Description An account of the resource The Feminist Radio Network (FRN) arose out of the WGTB collective <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/112">Radio Free Women</a> in 1974 amidst alienating conditions at the Georgetown University radio station. As an independent radio network, FRN sought a wider audience and distributed feminist audiotapes nationally. This collection contains a compilation of episodes from the Feminist Radio Network digitized by students at Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Source: Alexa Freeman et. al. (1976). <a href="https://jstor.org/stable/community.28042846">Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, 3(2)</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lisa Cowan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974-1978 Relation A related resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/105">Lisa Cowan Audio Collection</a> Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Romaine Brooks with Anne Imelda Radice Description An account of the resource Anne Imelda Radice, an art museum director and arts administrator, discusses the life and art of Romaine Brooks. Romaine Brooks was a lesbian portrait artist born in Rome, Italy in the late 19th century. She was known as the "thief of souls" for her ability to capture emotion in her art. The host and Radice have a conversation on how lesbianism was perceived during Brooks' time period, as well as her relationship with her lifelong partner, Natalie Barney. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anne Imelda Radice Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Feminist Radio Network Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be used for publication without the express written consent of Liza Cowan. Contact the Lesbian Herstory Archive for Liza Cowan’s contact information. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LC055 Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Interview with Anne Imelda Radice Subject The topic of the resource LGBTQ arts Abstract A summary of the resource. Anne Imelda Radice discusses the life and art of Romaine Brooks. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Episode Title If applicable, the episode or piece to which a media item contributed. Romaine Brooks with Anne Imelda Radice Series Title If applicable, the larger series to which the episode or piece contributed. Feminist Radio Network Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Radice, Anne Imelda Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Physical Location An address for a physical media item. For an organization or producer acting as caretaker of a media resource, this field may contain information about a specific shelf location for an item, including an organization's name, departmental name, shelf ID and contact information. Lesbian Herstory Archives Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:30:07 Erotica History https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/71/401/rose.png 1b4b7b0e95568b7be06ceb5607520d79 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/71/401/Jordan_Rose_tape1_23May1993_COMPRESSED.mp4 59b2b53826b53eb375d9b7a7dd294393 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/71/392/Jordan_Rose_Quote_COMPRESSED.mp4 c85b6f8b98fcdecb05d766a18bb748dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, 1987-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection includes videos created as part of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project collection. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and activist group founded in 1955. The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Data Rate 16 bit/32 kHz Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29:97 Resolution .AVI: 720 x 480, .MP4: 320 x 240 Date Digitized 2014-10-29 Duration* 01:56:50 00:04:05 File Size 337 MB 11.8 MB Digital Format* Preservation: .AVI with DV Codec, Access: .MP4 Physical Format VHS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rose Jordan Interview, May 23, 1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Recording, Oral History Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Subject The topic of the resource social life, women, demonstrations, women's political organizations Description An account of the resource Rose Jordan discusses her involvement with women’s political organizations, including the New York chapter of of the Daughters of Bilitis, and feminist groups along with the schism that existed between 2 generations of lesbian women. Accompanied by an abridged version highlighting Rose Jordan's discussion of political organizations and feminist groups. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1993-05-23 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Lauren Allshouse, Kim Loconto, Rachel Smiley, and Sara White. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Jordan_Rose_tape1_23May1993 Jordan_Rose_Quote Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. New York City License A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Common License) Relation A related resource LHA Spoken Word Audio Cassette Collection, SPW186 Language A language of the resource English Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Rose Jordan Transcription: May 23rd. 1993 00:00:22 - Title card reads, “LHA, DOB Video Project, Tape # M- 66, Rose Jordan, New York City, May 23, 1993” 00:00:30 - Second title card reads “LHA/DOB Video Project – Morgan Gwenwald, Manuela Soares, Sara Yager” 00:00:33 - Audio begins with RJ speaking, video starts on RJ 00:00:33 - 00:01:01- Pre-interview chatting out of context 00:01:03 - (Interview Begins) RJ: Uh, alright, ask me a question. 00:01:07 - Interviewer: So how did you, how did you, um, come to DOB? How did you discover it? 00:01:11 - RJ: I think it was purely by accident. Uh, around 1968 my lover and I went to Chicago because I quit a job that I couldn’t stand anymore. I was being harassed and-and I just couldn’t take it. So I decided, and we discussed it, and I said, we’re, we’re leaving town. So we packed up in a van and we went to Chicago because I knew someone in, uh, Carbondale and she had said to me, “Oh you come to Carbondale, you’ll be able to get a job!” and none of it was true. Ok (laughs) so we got a little screwed about that. 00:01:40 - RJ (cont.): Anyway, um, we were there about 9 months, or 10 months, so we came back around ‘69…I don’t remember the month, but I know it was the time when…I read in the paper about the Stonewall riots. And I said, “My god look what they’re doing!” I mean I was horrified. “How could they do this?” And then I remembered that the Stonewall bar--I had been in that place in the–’63 or ‘6–I forget the date. And when someone described the place and I passed by, I said. “Oh I was in there, I remember that place. It was very large, had a big bar...” whatever. 00:02:18 - RJ (cont.): So then I heard that there was a group forming, but I had never belonged to a group before in my life. I was very shy, I-I couldn’t even talk. It was really very interesting. And I joined this GLF, Gay Liberation Front, uh, Lois Hart and a few other-- some men were involved with it. And I went to this huge meeting. And I forget where the devil it was. It was in a church on 28th street somewhere? Church of the Holy Apostle, or something? So there we were and-and it was huge. There must’ve been 200 people jammed into that room. So I sat in the back because I wasn’t about to talk. And I listened. And a lot of the people there were, I guess their affiliation was either socialist or communist or I don’t know…something of that sort. Which I didn’t know much about then. A lot of them had gone to Cuba. And they were giving a-a kind of-of symposium on the things they found there. A lot of them were suddenly going against Castro because they saw how they were treating homosexuals. And so that was the discussion. 00:03:15 - RJ (cont.): Then I remember going back a second and third time. And finally, I got up the courage to ask a question. Because I thought that was--and I wrote it down so I wouldn’t forget--and I raised my hand (video skips) but he stopped and they turned and looked at me. I almost fell into a hole in the floor– I was so nervous--my hand was shaking. I asked-asked this question, I don’t remember what I asked! (laughs) And it was answered, and from that point on I was able to speak out at meetings. It was interesting. 00:03:45 - RJ (cont.): Then, um I don’t know if it was my lover or myself, that heard about this, this, this, these initials D.O.B., and we didn’t quite know what it was, and then we found out what it was. And it was either on 38th Street or 27th Street. I, uh, think it was 38th Street. We went to this building, I took an elevator I think. Second floor? Third floor? And I went into this room and it was just a long table and it must have been 10 or 11 women. There weren’t that many. And at the end of this table this woman sat who was, I think, the president. Shirley...Shirley Willar...W-Willar, yeah, that’s it. And so she was like presiding over this meeting, the workshop and I got involved asking a couple of questions and stuff. And that was that. 00:04:31 - RJ (cont.): I don’t think I went back to a second meeting. Then I heard that a loft would have been gotten…a-a big place where lesbians were at, y’know, I was amazed, you know I was really surprised and intrigued. So we went to this place. It was on Prince Street. And when I got there, um, there was no meeting, but there were a few women around fixing things, or painting, or something of that sort. And we looked around and I ran into two people that I knew! Ellen Povell and what was the other woman’s name? I can’t remember...another E...Elaine, something. And I had met those two women a few years before when I was with a different lover. So we renewed old acquaintances–we talked and stuff and I think I met Ruth Simpson at that time. And that was that. 00:05:14 - RJ (cont.): Then I heard there was going to be a big meeting and there was a problem. I don’t know where I heard these things from but you know how you listen...we was going to bars and we heard things. So I went. And um, my lover and I went. And I remember, I can see it in my mind’s eye, the room was dark and there was lights or something in the--it wasn’t like a stage-- but it was a certain area of the room and then there was seats this way and I was in the back. And I heard this argument. (video skips) There were four women up there including Ruth Simpson and Ti-Grace Atkinson and (video skips) boudoirs and these women were fighting and arguing and debating in front of this big crowd about how Ruth should step down because there was gonna be a revolution or there was gonna be some changes made (laughs) of some sort. And since I didn’t know what the devil this was all about, I just listened. 00:06:04 - RJ (cont.): All of a sudden there was a fight broke out and some woman who I met later, Dani Covello (sp?), she picked up a chair and she threw it at someone because they had hit her. There was this melee going on--this fight (laughs) And I said to my lover “let us go home because I don’t wanna get involved in this!” (laughs) So we left. And that was that for a while. 00:06:24- RJ (cont.): And then I heard there was a dance there and stuff so we went. And it was very pleasant, it was nice, it was nice to see a lot of women there, y’know. Let me backtrack a minute because I forgot to tell you something about Alternate U when I mentioned the dance. There was a place called Alternate U that GLF was involved in. That was the first time there was a dance for women. And, uh, my lover and I went and it was just wonderful to see all these women together dancing! I had never seen that before except in bars, and this was so open, that it was kind of frightening in a way. And that night, three or four men came up there claiming they were police and they showed us guns. They were not police. And we stared them down and fought with them. Again, I was in the back of the room, I didn’t do much of anything. And some women jumped out the fire escape and tried to get away. And we discovered later that they were from the bars. They were trying to close us down. They didn’t like the idea that women were not going to frequent the bars, that they were going to this alternate place to be with each other, without giving money to the mafia. Cause all those bars were mafia run, especially Kooky’s. I don’t know if you remember Kooky’s on 14th street, 7th and 8th avenues. 00:07:34- RJ (cont.): Anyway to get back to DOB--when I went back, I started to get involved in it. We went to meetings and we sat and listened. And, um, we were social with some of the women, I got to know who they were, y’know things like that. Just on the fringes. After a while–and I can’t remember the date–I think it was ‘70 or ‘71, I don’t remember. Someone nominated me for co-chair--I almost fell through the floor–I didn’t know anything about chairing an organization! I didn’t know why they did that, y’know! But my lover said “I’m so proud of you! Do it!” or whatever she said. I said “well alright” because I didn’t expect to be elected, but I was! And again I was shocked because I had never been involved in anything like that before and I didn’t know what to do. 00:08:21- RJ (cont.): After about 2 weeks I knew what to do. I learned very fast (laughs). And, so we had this structure and then there was like a school. One of the women was a therapist, um, I forgot her name. I can’t remember her name (laughs). Uh, she started a little school on Sundays, y’know. Uh, about what lesbianism is, and y’know trying to kind of workshop with people, because there was nothing like that around. Certainly NOW didn’t do it because they were really against lesbianism as destroying the movement, so we had it there. 00:08:52- RJ (cont.): And as the months and years went on, I learned more and more and I noticed that there was something strange going on, because there were people coming to the meetings who seemed to disrupt them. To not, to want to have the business go forward…not to want the discussions to happen. Um, we knew that some of them were from the Socialist Worker’s Party, but we didn’t know who the others were. And, um, we all talked with each other about the fact that maybe they were cops or something, y’know. But there was no proof of it. But it got worse and worse and worse. And I think at the time, all of us involved in DOB, at the organizational stage of it, were a little too quick to be judgmental, to be angry, to work against each other when we should’ve been working with each other, to point a finger at each other when it was other outside influences that were doing things. We were kind of, I don’t know what it was b--blind to the fact that it wasn’t coming from our ranks but we were being influenced by it. And a lot of women picked that influence up and used it against each other. Started to accuse–(laughs) they accused me of being for the FBI (laughs). I mean it was very horrible. 00:10:16- RJ (cont.): So when I said early on before we started the talk, you know it was the best of times and it was the worst of times, at the same time. Because the best of times was the outpouring of togetherness that we had. It was like sisterhood, the dances were like circle dances, I mean, Kate Millet was there, Jill Johnston, y’know we danced with our tops off. Y’know it was like, a lot of freedom. But there was also a lot of--a feeling of trying to restrict at the same time. Y’know it was like going out and then pulling back. A, a very strange combination. 00:10:49- RJ (cont.): But I was involved in doing that too, because this is what the climate was of the times themselves. Because it was the women’s movement, there was a lot of upheaval, women wanted their rights, lesbians wanted their rights, y’know it was a whole upheaval. And I think that what was going on behind the scenes was an early backlash…not so much a backlash but a stoppage. The people who were in power–whoever they were–saw us as a threat, which we are, to their position, patriarchal position, and they wanted to make sure that we weren’t about to blow up the White House (laughs), which we weren’t! I mean my phone was tapped--it was obvious,people’s phones were tapped. At marches, I recall there were these undercover cops, we got to know their faces after a while... I started taking photographs of them which they didn’t like. We had a roster of these people. We used to pass it around and say, “Watch out for this fellow…watch out for that guy”, (laughs) things like that…. 00:11:47- RJ (cont.): A lot of it was done, y’know, with humor. A lot of it was done with paranoia. Some of our paranoia was correct. Some of it was not…So there was a mixture of things going on. So it was difficult, even now, to kind of sort out who are the bad guys, who are the good guys, who are the people who were scapegoated. It’s very hard. I was scapegoated but a lot of other women were, too. And uh, it’s-it’s-it’s sad that when–although it’s not always true–when a group of women take over their own movement, only women, people really work against you. The reason why NOW is so successful is they allow men in. And they use certain kinds of agendas that-that will benefit men. We didn’t do that. All our agenda was benefitting women. And there were certain factions in the city, uh, that, uh, that didn’t want us to be separatists. 00:12:47- Interviewer: Like what factions? 00:12:49 - RJ: Well, uh, Gay Activists Alliance, there were other women who wanted to start a different, uh, a different group…and didn’t want to compete with our group. There was many different things underlying the reasons why DOB across the country, I think, was systematically being undermined. I don’t know about the word destroy but I know it was being undermined. Very heavily. I know the Ladder went out of business…there was stuff going on there…it’s almost as if the outside influences sort of programmed the women in the movement to act a certain way. And we did, and it was wrong of us, but we didn’t know any better. 00:13:35 - Interviewer: Act a certain way in what ways (inaudible)…? 00:13:37 - RJ: In undermining ourselves! It’s almost like, uh, internalized homophobia would be. It’s like that type of thing. If the environment says a certain thing, it sets up a-a kind of agenda for us. We swallowed it whole and then attacked each other. All movements do this… splinter movements. 00:13:37 - Interviewer: How would you characterize DOB when you were a member, when you were co-chair...Was it separatist? Was it lesbian? Was it feminist? 00:13:39 - RJ: No it wasn’t quite separatist–it-it was always separatist in the fact that, uh, we wanted that space for women. And the constitution said, no men allowed. And being the co-chair, I was intent upon upholding the constitution. And when I had an argument with, um, Alma and a few other women, and they said “we want our brothers from GAA to come here”, and I said “no you can’t do that--if you wanna do that then we have to call a constitutional convention, have all the members agree, vote on it, and whatever they say, I’ll uphold”. Okay, whatever they say. But in the meantime, men are not permitted in this space. And I was told by someone….I’ll mention her name–Alma Routsong–said to me—we were walking to the subway–she said, “We’re gonna do this over your dead body, whether you like it or not”. I said, “No you're not”. We had a big fight. And they did anyway. 00:14:58- RJ (cont.): So this, this kind of friction, pulling kind of thing, where I was trying to do one thing, which I thought was right…they were trying to do another, which they probably thought was right (laughs)...I don’t know if they thought it was right, but that’s what they wanted. And this whole, this whole thing was happening which split us apart. And I was very distressed about it, but there was, it just seemed like there was nothing I could do. The more I tried to do and the more angry I became, which was the wrong thing to do, the worse it became. And I didn’t know how to handle it. I mean if it happened today, I would know how to handle it, but then, we were so new at all of this that I didn’t know how to handle it. 00:15:35 - Interviewer: So what happened? 00:15:36 - RJ: So I was accused of being from the FBI, the CIA and the mafia, (laughs) and I was, it was, it was, uh, spread around town that I was the reason why DOB was destroyed. I did it. I don’t know how I did that, but I did it, all alone. It was amazing that I could’ve done that. I said to myself, “how much power do I have?” y’know, I didn’t know how exactly I-I did that alone. But that was the rumor. And I remember one evening–after this fight, this thing–I went to Bonnie & Clyde’s, which was a kind of movement hangout, and some of my friends were there and as I walked in the door I said “hi” and four of them looked me up and down, folded their arms like this, and turned their backs on me. I was bad news…it was spread around that I was bad news. I didn’t know why (laughs) I was bad news. Here I thought I was trying to uphold the DOB concepts or whatever and here it was being said that I was bad news. So that-that was very distressing for a long time. 00:16:34- RJ (cont.): Now during the interim that I was in DOB, I also was in New York Radical Feminists. And we were doing some things, y’know, education and uh demonstrations. And um, all kinds of, y’know…we were the first ones to do, uh, rape, uh, kindof…it wasn’t a symposium but it was like a speakout about rape and it was the first people who ever did that. Uh, things like that we were doing. So I belonged to both factions. 00:17:03- Interviewer: What kinds of things was,uh, was DOB doing? Were they less active? How did they differ from… 00:17:07- RJ: Well, they would--I don’t know what they wou...originally, DOB was a social organization. And most of the members–there were a lot of members–most of the members either never came to the dances…they just contributed, they, y’know, got the newsletters, and stuff like that…most of them were in the closet. And at that time we were all screaming about how everyone’s gotta come out. Y’know, I don’t believe that anymore because I think it’s circumstantial. But in those days, everybody was, y’know, revolutionary, everybody has to come out…it would be nice, but it’s not always feasible. 00:17:40 - RJ (cont.): So the thing, the thing was that when the takeover happened from Ruth Simpson, y’know it’s Ruth Simpson over to this group that I joined because that was the only group there at the time…they were speaking of revolutionary things like, uh, consensus instead of votes, uh-uh, y’know, cells o-or groups. It was very patterned, I think, after–-I didn’t know it then–but after the communist kind of thing where they had separate cells. Then we used to have things like critiques, certain evenings in the group, to critique ourselves or criticize each other, which I thought was really tacky (laughs). But doing, doing things like that–putting up, uh, uh sort of schools run by women, uh, how to print, how to, y’know, it was-it was very good, it wasn’t a bad thing. It’s just that, I think, I think their attitudes about other people were very intolerant. I was also intolerant! I’m more tolerant now. It, its, it was so new that we wanted to have our agenda there because we felt that was the way it should go. Ok? 00:18:47 - RJ (cont.): And, um, I think doing that kind of blind-sided thing can destroy something, it can do that, because people are gonna fight you. And so you’re gonna use all your energy being fought against. That all the dynamic and the aura–if you wanna get psychic about it–is, is very negative and what it does is, is boomerangs toward the people doing it. So I think a lot of it was people conspiring, maybe not, in a, in a kinda legal sense, but conspiring, planning to do this this and that…cause we all did it, uh, to put our own agenda forward. Y’know that was what was happening, without cooperating with each other. And, um, I think that was, that’s what destroys people. When you don’t cooperate with each other, you know? Because everybody wants their way, and there’s gotta be, maybe there has to be a middle ground. I don’t, I don’t know exactly. But right now I’m not involved in any group, I just belong to NOW, sort of, on the fringes (laughs), I’m not even in-involved in much of anything. 00:19:51 - Interviewer: What happened at the end of DOB after, um, the um, accusations with Alma back and forth? I mean what happened to the membership? How did that…how did that…how did DOB end? Was it lack of membership? Lack of money? What…tell us a little bit about the, about final.. 00:20:04 - RJ: Well, uh, I tried, I tried with Judy and Ingrid and a couple of other people to kind of resurrect it in a way. And we were trying to do it--my, my idea of doing it was in writing, and uh, I put together a, a kind of--I still have them at home--a kind of book, booklet or magazine, a small magazine kind of thing done by women about lesbians with writings in it and stuff, and uh, I thought that if we could have something like that, that we would, um, kind of draw women into the group again. Into a different kind of group, maybe. Something that the women who were drawn into it could sit down and have by consensus say what they wanted the group to be. 00:20:49 - RJ (cont.): The other women didn’t want to do that. They were fighting me all the way, believe me. They, they wanted to do something different, which…a group of us felt that, that wasn’t the way to start. But, you don’t, you don’t, you don’t put an organization together by just putting an organization together. We had no money, we had no place to go, (laughs) we had no place to be, so our contention was that if you start a, a, uh letter, or a newsletter, or a magazine, you don’t need a space. The movement could be done through mailings, and-and kind of a, um, from time to time renting a place for meetings, and things like that where you didn’t have to have a space. Until such time if we could get money to do that. And they didn’t want to do that. So it sort of fizzled out…it just did. 00:21:35 - Interviewer: What happened to the space? Cause from the loft you went...what happened with the spaces? 00:21:40 - RJ: We had to get out of the Prince Street place because we couldn’t afford the rent, there was no, uh–membership was falling off, there was no donations, there was no grants, it was...y’know. Nothing. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club Introduction Video Description An account of the resource In this video, members and past presidents of the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club give an introduction to their group and their oral history project. They discuss the history and growth of the group and their place in the larger Rossmoor community, and detail the events their group puts on. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. June 12, 2021 Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. GLBT Historical Society Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz 1984-2022 [bulk 2000-2002] Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews, panel appearances, and talks given by Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz. Berman (b. 1934) and Kurtz (1936-2018) were LGBT activists best known for bringing a successful suit against the New York City Board of Education to obtain domestic partner benefits. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Berman & Connie Kurtz interview with Rose Jordan, 1984 Description An account of the resource This episode of "The Lesbian Radio Show" on WBAI is an interview of Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz by Rose Jordan. The women discuss the importance of Coming Out, the adverse reactions people might have to that news, and the reaction that one might have to their own Coming Out. They talk about working on themselves and about how doing the inner work of acceptance makes it easier for them to live in a society that might not fully accept them. Ruthie and Connie share about their practice of Co-Counseling, in which people can provide emotional support for each other by deep listing. They discuss self esteem, pride, shame, and the connection between emotion and the health of our physical bodies. They encourage people to seek help should they need it. Ruth and Connie discuss issues with unprocessed trauma and how being triggered can cause a trauma response, unconditional love and the importance of not weaponizing love, and take calls from listeners. They talk about upcoming workshops and counseling that they offer. Songs played during the show include "I Am What I Am" by Gloria Gaynor and "She" by Holly Near Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available WBAI Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ruth Berman Connie Kurtz Rose Jordan Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. 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Side1 Blythe Masters from JP Morgan Chase introduces Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz . Connie recalls feeling different from an early age, issues with shame about being different, and the necessity to challenge the system that makes people feel that way. She talks about her relationship with her family and with Ruthies Family. Ruthie talks about being a mother, coming out as a lesbian as a parent, and her illness that resulted from her internal struggle and shame related to being a Lesbian. Ruthie talks about applying for partner benefits for Connie that lead to the lawsuit against the New York State Board of Eduction and her experience working with Lambda Legal. Ruthie discusses the collective power that queer people and their allies have. Side 2 Ruthie + Connie talk about their film and take questions from the audience. They discuss making politicians accountable during their time in office and demanding full legal acknowledgement and recognition of rights and personhood. They talk about their involvement with their synagogue, and the power of corperate and professional LGBT groups. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pride NY Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Ruth Berman & Connie Kurtz Talk with Pride Connie Kurtz Ruth Berman https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/8c926ec3de50715bb8dd0eb2280c584a.mp3 123d4bdc7dc34be3b0e801bef63dfd1e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz 1984-2022 [bulk 2000-2002] Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews, panel appearances, and talks given by Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz. Berman (b. 1934) and Kurtz (1936-2018) were LGBT activists best known for bringing a successful suit against the New York City Board of Education to obtain domestic partner benefits. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz on the Michelangelo Signorile Show, 2003 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. July 20, 2003 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource David Guggenheim <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW 1873 Description An account of the resource Episode of <a href="http://www.msignorile.com/radio.htm">the Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirius OutQ</a> which aired July 20, 2003 in which have Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz to talk about their life and new film “Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House.” At the beginning of the episode, they also talk about other people they are having on the show. Ruth and Connie's interview starts at 10:55 and ends at 30:30. They discuss their Cotello Towers neighbohood where they met when they were both married and young mothers. There they started the "Mother's Action Committe" within their community. They talk about their own internalized homophobia at the beginning of their relaionship and their fear that they would have been found out, and the transition to feeling comfortable with themselves and their sexuality. They discuss their lawsit with the New York City Board of Education for Domestic Partnership Benifits and their apperance on the Donahue Show in 1988.  They take questions from callers which relate to being lesbian and Jewish, the community they have found there, and the importance for others around the country to find similar communities, or to create them.  After Ruth + Connie's interview the hosts discuss a NYC teen, Natalie Young, who is sueing her teacher for harasmeent over comments made about the teenagers shirt that said "Barbie is a Lesbian"and other LGBT current events. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michelangelo Signorile Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. 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Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Berman and Rosemary Dempsey for the National Organization for Women NYC, 1991 Description An account of the resource Audio starts with Ruth Berman talking to an audience about the importance of voting as a Lesbian and as an ally, an about the importance of being political and coming out as a gay person. She touches on the role of money and legality in domestic partnerships and the need to prove them. Ruth encourages the audience to join the National Organization for Women (NOW) to amplify their voices. 10:00 mins into the tape, Rosemary Dempsey from NOW discusses the importance of legal tools to protect gay people and their families, ad how coming out is an important part of that process. Audio ends at 13:11, the rest of the tape is blank. 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Title A name given to the resource Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz , and Deborah Dickson Interview with Bay Area Reporter, 2001 Description An account of the resource In this interview with an unknown reporter, Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz discuss their lives in context with the recent documentary about their life directed by Deborah Dickson, who is also interviewed. Ruth and Connie discuss how they met, their early activism within their communities, being married to men and having families, and their eventual falling in love with one another and coming out as Lesbians. They discuss their relationships with their families then and now, and the importance of coming out of the closet. Deborah talks about her process when working in this film, and how she tried to make the film for both gay and striaght audiences Date Created Date of creation of the resource. June 29, 2001 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW 1867 Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz , and Deborah Dickson Interview with Bay Area Reporter PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Ruth Berman Connie Kurtz Deborah Dickson Coming Out Connie Kurtz Marriage Parents Ruth Berman https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/0713b937d686cbbe5ae91a8c6ae01c65.mp3 14577e51a7466d6d821e20e6b5c08e3a https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/5f5ff0820c702d85b710c0d8d4da810e.mp3 d38f48b02069d929de9f4902925a5d8a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz 1984-2022 [bulk 2000-2002] Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews, panel appearances, and talks given by Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz. Berman (b. 1934) and Kurtz (1936-2018) were LGBT activists best known for bringing a successful suit against the New York City Board of Education to obtain domestic partner benefits. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz, and Karen Thompson at the National Organization for Women Conference in San Diego, CA Description An account of the resource "Out: One Road to Empowerment" panel moderated by Dixie Johnson from National NOW Power Through Action Conference. Panel includes Karen Thompson, Ruth Berman, and Connie Kurtz. Side 1 Ruth starts off by singing "I Am What I Am" by Gloria Gaynor and then talks about her life and knowing she was a lesbian from a young age and her journey to get rid of the same she originally felt about her sexuality. She talks about being married and having children, being in the closet, and her early relationship with Connie. She expresses the shame she first felt when being with Connie and regretting how much time she lost being in the closet. Ruth talks about going on the Phil Donahue show and the lawsuit after being denied partner benefits for Connie by the NYC Board of Education because they weren't married. She encourages the audience to undo the damage of being brought up as heterosexual women and to come out. At 21:40 Connie speaks and talks about being a mother and grandmother, and her relationship to her family. She talks about how abuse has been perpetuated throughout her life about working through her problems and celebrating changes. Connie shares her experience of being diagnosed with cancer and her experience trying to heal herself and going into remission. At 38:30 Karen Thompson discusses trying to be what other people wanted throughout her early life and meeting a partner who taught her how to live and be herself. She recalls not being able to admit her sexuality to herself or her partner, the car accident that her partner was involved in, and realizing she had to come out to get through this challenging time. Side 2 The second part of this tape is a duplicate of the audio described in "National Organization for Women (NOW) NYC - Ruth Berman and Rosemary Dempsey" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource NOW San Diego Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW 1878 Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz, and Karen Thompson at the National Organization for Women Conference Connie Kurtz National Organization for Women Ruth Berman https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/70/371/ruth_simpson.jpg 8943787df792e704cb21757f4043e7a3 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 310 Height 236 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/70/371/simpson_tape1of2_19891008.mp4 6a153136dbd88baccfe555d5aef54b3d https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/70/384/simpson_povill_tape2of2_19891008.mp4 eb5730bef789a4080fcb6d6d3df79cc0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, 1987-1993 Description An account of the resource This collection includes videos created as part of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project collection. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and activist group founded in 1955. The video project began in 1987 with the purpose of conducting interviews with the DOB founders and former members documenting their critical role in the gay and lesbian liberation and Civil Rights movement. The interviews focus on the formation and impact of the many DOB chapters around the country. Some of the issues discussed are whether the DOB was primarily a social or activist group, attitudes regarding assimilation, and the "theft" of the DOB publication The Ladder. Individual interviewees discuss their childhoods, sexual awakenings, personal relationships as well as their first encounters with the DOB and their perspectives on the organization.  Morgan Gwenwald suggested the project, founding DOB member Sara Yager videotaped all the interviews, and founding DOB member Manuela Soares researched and conducted all of the interviews. The videos gathered here have been digitized from VHS tapes by students at the Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science Program. This is a comprehensive collection of the interviews gathered for the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project. The original materials are held in off-site storage by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Transcriptions of many of the videotaped interviews are available, thanks to Ruth Helmich, Kelly Anderson, Trista Sordillo, Manuela Soares, and others. Links to the the individual interviews are at the bottom of the page. Some longer interviews will be collated in subgroups of the collection tree. For more on the DOB, see: Gallo, M. (2007). Different daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian civil rights movement. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. The Journal of Homosexuality, “The Purloined Ladder,” Volume 34, Numbers 3/4, 1998. Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Digital Format* Preservation: .AVI with DV Codec, Access: .MP4 Physical Format VHS Date Digitized 2014-03-24 Duration* 01:59:35 01:28:33 File Size .AVI: 26.73 GB, .MP4: 496 MB .AVI: 19.79 GB, .MP4: 446 MB Data Rate 16 bit/32 kHz Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29.97 Resolution .AVI: 720 x 480, .MP4: 320 x 240 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Simpson and Ellen Povill Interview, October 8, 1989 Description An account of the resource Ruth Simpson and Ellen Povill are interviewed in Woodstock, New York. Ruth talks about her past experience dating men and falling in love. She discusses coming out and realizing her sexual orientation when she was doing theater in college. On tape 2, she and Ellen Povill talk about various movements, including civil rights, feminism and gay and lesbian rights. They describe the day a group of feminists were arrested at a demonstration and the police brutality they experienced and later on, examples of FBI interception. Ruth discusses DOB and her leadership of the New York chapter and Ellen talks about her activities on the action committee. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Interviewer: N/A, Interviewee: Ruth Simpson, Ellen Povill Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1989-10-08 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Morgan Gwenwald, Manuela Soares, Sara Yaeger. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Language A language of the resource en Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Recording, Oral History Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Physical: MV-67, Digital: simpson_tape1of2_19891008 Physical: MV-68, Digital: simpson_povill_tape2of2_19891008 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Woodstock, N.Y. Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. VHS Digital Format Preservation Copy: AVI with DV codec Access Copy: MP4 Activism Coming Out Discrimination Feminism Police Harassment Relationships Ruth Simpson Theater https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/76333c98c177cc4232639763f0e59eec.mp3 cffbb0f988984ae24be7ba96e3943c33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz 1984-2022 [bulk 2000-2002] Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews, panel appearances, and talks given by Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz. Berman (b. 1934) and Kurtz (1936-2018) were LGBT activists best known for bringing a successful suit against the New York City Board of Education to obtain domestic partner benefits. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 46:26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SAGE's Second National Conference on Aging: the Many Faces of Activism for Middle Aged and Old Lesbians, 2000 Description An account of the resource Audio from SAGE's Second National Conference on Aging, which took place from May 5-6, 2000 in New York, NY. The audio starts with a conversation with a woman discussing activism, being an out lesbian parent, and atheticism and answering questions from the auidence. She talks about "The Gay Games" and the healing effect of sports for women and girls. Questions from the audience include comments on finding community at the intersection of elder lesbians and sports. At 9:41 the audio cuts to a panel discussion with Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz. They play <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1TeFlRPQLc">a clip of Ruthie + Connie's 1988 apperance on the Phil Donahue Show. </a>Ruth and Connie talk about their personal hsitroy and early activism, their lawsuit against the New York City Board of Education for domestic partner benefits, the importance of being political and of coming out. They also talk about oening a counceling cener in their home and issues with the Butch/Femme Bianary.  At 28:41 the audio switches to Joan Nestle speaking about the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the importance of including reords about diverse Lesbian History.  AT 33:11 a woman from the aidence speaks from the perspective of radical lesbians who have never had children or been married and about expanding the lesbian agenda in the future. She reads from a a piece she wrote called “a week in the life of a 60 Year Old Lesbian” about her activism within the lesbian community. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SAGE Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Berman, Connie Kurtz <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Date Created Date of creation of the resource. May 5-6 2000 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource SAGE Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW 1872 Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. SAGE's Second National Conference on Aging Activism Connie Kurtz Joan Nestle Lesbian Herstory Archives Ruth Berman SAGE Sports https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/9e66b056b37dfeb2984a233af91051a8.jpeg 122eb5952f694f1e36b95a10a3a2a7bd https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/b7f6d7ae7801126252a6f661efb8ae10.mp3 02fa5a3bc86cb289cc1e5287af5ed17f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Scovill Lesbian Music Interviews, 1970-1974 Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with lesbian musicians Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ruth+Scovill">Ruth Scovill</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Margie+Adam">Margie Adam</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Susan+Abod">Susan Abod</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sally+Piano">Sally Piano</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Holly+Near">Holly Near</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jennifer+Woodul">Jennifer Woodul</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ginny+Berson">Ginny Berson</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Extent The size or duration of the resource. 12 tapes comprising 8:58:02 of audio Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Interviews Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews with musicians and record label owners conducted by Ruth Scovill. Scovill is a notable figure of the Women’s Music movement. The Women’s Music movement sought to highlight music about women, by women, and for women, challenging popular notions about and conventional approaches to music. In her piece for “Women’s Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies”, Scovill reflects, “Women’s Music reflects a consciousness of women-identification. In contrast to popular music’s prevalent degradation of women, Women’s Music holds the feminist and humanist ideals of self-affirmation and mutual support” (17). Scovill has served as a Senior Advisor of Library Services at the Library of Congress, president at Cinesite, and the Head of Technology at DreamWorks Animation. She is also a director, writer, and host. She holds a particular interest in and focus on feminine and sapphic culture, particularly its positioning in and relation to music culture. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-1974 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sally Piano Interview (Part 1) Description An account of the resource Sally Piano is interviewed by Ruth Scovill. Sally discusses her early life, including her ethnicity, and racial identity. She mentions how learning the piano and music led her to the women’s movement, and feminist music. Part 1 of 3. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/12/76 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Scovill <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RS007 Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Access is reserved by the donor requiring written consent prior to each publication until donor death. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Sally Piano Interviewer The person(s) conducting the interview. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Ruth Scovill Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. 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Title A name given to the resource Ruth Scovill Lesbian Music Interviews, 1970-1974 Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with lesbian musicians Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ruth+Scovill">Ruth Scovill</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Margie+Adam">Margie Adam</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Susan+Abod">Susan Abod</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sally+Piano">Sally Piano</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Holly+Near">Holly Near</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jennifer+Woodul">Jennifer Woodul</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ginny+Berson">Ginny Berson</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Extent The size or duration of the resource. 12 tapes comprising 8:58:02 of audio Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Interviews Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews with musicians and record label owners conducted by Ruth Scovill. Scovill is a notable figure of the Women’s Music movement. The Women’s Music movement sought to highlight music about women, by women, and for women, challenging popular notions about and conventional approaches to music. In her piece for “Women’s Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies”, Scovill reflects, “Women’s Music reflects a consciousness of women-identification. In contrast to popular music’s prevalent degradation of women, Women’s Music holds the feminist and humanist ideals of self-affirmation and mutual support” (17). Scovill has served as a Senior Advisor of Library Services at the Library of Congress, president at Cinesite, and the Head of Technology at DreamWorks Animation. She is also a director, writer, and host. She holds a particular interest in and focus on feminine and sapphic culture, particularly its positioning in and relation to music culture. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-1974 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sally Piano Interview (Part 2) Description An account of the resource Sally Piano is interviewed by Ruth Scovill. Sally talks about her relationship with her audience as a performer. She addresses difficulties with men in the women’s music scene, as well as appropriation and criticism. Part 2 of 3. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/12/76 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Scovill <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RS008 Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Access is reserved by the donor requiring written consent prior to each publication until donor death. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Sally Piano Interviewer The person(s) conducting the interview. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Ruth Scovill Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. 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Title A name given to the resource Ruth Scovill Lesbian Music Interviews, 1970-1974 Subject The topic of the resource Interviews with lesbian musicians Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ruth+Scovill">Ruth Scovill</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Margie+Adam">Margie Adam</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Susan+Abod">Susan Abod</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Sally+Piano">Sally Piano</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Holly+Near">Holly Near</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Jennifer+Woodul">Jennifer Woodul</a> <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/browse?tags=Ginny+Berson">Ginny Berson</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Extent The size or duration of the resource. 12 tapes comprising 8:58:02 of audio Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. WAV files converted from 1/4" open reel audio Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Interviews Description An account of the resource This collection includes interviews with musicians and record label owners conducted by Ruth Scovill. Scovill is a notable figure of the Women’s Music movement. The Women’s Music movement sought to highlight music about women, by women, and for women, challenging popular notions about and conventional approaches to music. In her piece for “Women’s Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies”, Scovill reflects, “Women’s Music reflects a consciousness of women-identification. In contrast to popular music’s prevalent degradation of women, Women’s Music holds the feminist and humanist ideals of self-affirmation and mutual support” (17). Scovill has served as a Senior Advisor of Library Services at the Library of Congress, president at Cinesite, and the Head of Technology at DreamWorks Animation. She is also a director, writer, and host. She holds a particular interest in and focus on feminine and sapphic culture, particularly its positioning in and relation to music culture. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-1974 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sally Piano Interview (Part 3) Description An account of the resource Sally Piano is interviewed by Ruth Scovill. Sally talks about her distrust of the government, including phone-tapping, spying, and the CIA. She addresses mainstream musicians of ripping off minority culture, including lesbians by men in power. She shares views on women’s music as alienating male audiences, intended to create space for women-only, as well as differences between straight and gay audiences. She discusses issues of maintaining an ethnic name as a performer, and how she came about using a stage name. Sally touches on themes of separatism in the women’s and lesbian movements. Part 3 of 3. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruth Scovill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/12/76 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ruth Scovill <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RS009 Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Access is reserved by the donor requiring written consent prior to each publication until donor death. PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Sally Piano Interviewer The person(s) conducting the interview. (For personal names use "LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix"). Ruth Scovill Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Duration Provides a timestamp for the overall length or duration of the audio. Represents the playback time. Format: HH:MM:SS 00:41:04 Music Ruth Scovill Sally Piano https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/9cda627ca5c26a724500ab8636ff57f3.jpg 7220dc580016f2df5c41fdce7f29f694 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Salsa Soul Sisters, via Salsa Soul Collection, Lesbian Herstory Archives Description An account of the resource Salsa Soul Sisters, via Salsa Soul Collection, Lesbian Herstory Archives https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/91/881/030-09_sf-pride-1995_a_c.mp4 4cab7199a1c48a7444e116388a878e39 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dyke TV television program components, 1993-1998 Description An account of the resource Dyke TV was a groundbreaking public access program founded in 1993 by Mary Patierno, Ana Marie Simo and Linda Chapman. An offshoot of the Lesbian Avengers, the mission of Dyke TV was to incite, provoke, and organize to create tangible change. The program sought to increase lesbian visibility and change people's attitudes towards lesbians, gay rights and women's rights. Dyke TV comprehensively documented a critical time in gay and lesbian history and shared stories important to lesbian communities that were ignored by other media outlets. Dyke TV documented many LGBTQ political actions of the early 1990s including the activities of ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers. The Dyke TV collection at the Lesbian Herstory Archives consists largely of unedited footage that documents marches and demonstrations in New York City. Other tapes include incomplete episodes and compilations of show segments.  The program first aired in June 1993 on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network public access channel. It started off as a weekly 30-minute program created by a core of producers with help from members of the community. Following a magazine format, each program consisted of various segments such as I Was a Lesbian Child, the Arts, From the Archives, News, and Eyewitness. Areas of interest included lesbian history, daily life, activism, and international LGBTQ issues. The producers aimed to create a well-rounded program that could highlight lesbian life from as many angles as possible. According to one of the program’s co-founders and executive producer, Mary Patierno: “if anybody wanted to do a story we let them do it. We were there to let people voice whatever they wanted to, whatever issues or topics that were of interest to them.” At its peak, Dyke TV was distributed to 78 public access channels throughout the United States.  Additionally, Dyke TV had a mission to provide video production training and conducted regular workshops to enable women to tell their stories through their own means. This community oriented attitude fomented widespread contributions about lesbian issues across the United States and abroad.  Technical Video Recording Metadata elements specific to Video Recordings, taken from PBCore and LC-AV (interoperable with METSRights) to supplement Dublin Core. Date Digitized 2016-10-02 Aspect Ratio 4:3 Frame Rate* 29.97 FPS Resolution 648x486 Duration* 00:45:48 File Size 1.43 GB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource San Francisco Dyke March and Gay Pride Footage, 1995 Subject The topic of the resource Gay pride parades Lesbian activists Lesbians, Black Gay rights Gay politicians Lesbian musicians Description An account of the resource This footage shows events and gatherings from the third annual San Francisco Dyke March on June 18, 1995, themed "A World Without Borders." It includes several women giving brief speeches before the march begins on topics such as domestic violence and gay communities in South Africa. California State Senator Carole Migden and Assistant Secretary of Department of Housing and Urban Development Roberta Achtenberg appear in the march. At the end of the march, Achtenberg gives a speech and the singer Rozalla performs. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Linda Chapman [Executive Producer] Mary Patierno [Executive Producer] Ana Maria Simo [Executive Producer] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dyke TV Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Leslie Bonett [videographer] Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Dyke TV: Linda Chapman, Mary Patierno, Ana Maria Simo. Tapes and digital files held by the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Tapes reproduced with permission from the copyright holders. Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Dyke_TV_Iron_Mt_ID_030-09 Item 798 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Video Recording Language A language of the resource en-US Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 030-09_sf-pride-1995_a_c.mp4 Dyke_TV_Iron_Mt_ID_030-09 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant San Francisco, California, United States Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1995 Activism Anna Maria Simo Dyke Marches Gay Pride Lesbian Pride Rallies Linda Chapman Mary Patierno Parents of Lesbians and Gays Politics https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/54/275/SPW540_LesbianHistProjPic.jpg c81efad3a63b4da9fb8ab02649250188 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 750 Width 1194 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/54/275/SPW540_SF_Lesbian_Project_A.wav.mp3 55fa3e922860b9c3c8e8ff2416a289bd https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/54/275/SPW540_SF_Lesbian_Project_B.wav.mp3 42035b036961aea9c74689ff58f8dd94 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990 Description An account of the resource Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. Ranging from the mid-1930s through the early 1960s, this ethnography of lesbian society is narrated with the backdrop of a mid-sized American city. Davis and Kennedy’s book is the result of 13 years of research, including an extensive oral history project.  These recordings range from conference proceedings to panel discussions to phone messages from book publishers. In each case, these related materials form an important element of the research, enriching and contextualizing the interviews conducted as part of the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. They discuss topics such as the publishing process and initial responses to the draft manuscript, the work of lesbian archives in researching and documenting the emergence of lesbian communities and lesbian consciousness across America, and how the research conducted into a small lesbian community in Buffalo, NY fits into a wider social narrative of establishing gay and lesbian identity and the development of gay and lesbian liberation movements. For oral history recordings made as part of the research for the book, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/22">Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990</a>. These recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy, and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource San Francisco Lesbian History Project discusses Buffalo lesbian bars in the 1950's, 1981 February 24 Subject The topic of the resource Lesbians--United States--History Lesbian and Gay Experience Lesbians--United States--Identity Description An account of the resource Side A: Discussion on the social issues in the Lesbian communinity bar and nightlife scene in Buffalo, NY during the 1950s. Side B: Continuation of side A. Only 2 minutes of side B used in original recording. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1981-02-24 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2013-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives students Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge Extent The size or duration of the resource. Side A = 30:56 minutes Side B = 1:32 minutes Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. mpeg wav Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound PhysicalObject Oral History Interview Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW 540 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Buffalo, NY Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 20th Century Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Butch and Femme https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/56/376/[2014SP]Sanders_Interview.mp3 4855e0c046793145d87ccc970e183825 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio Recordings, 1971-1988 Description An account of the resource This assortment of digitized tapes from the DOB Video Project includes interviews, musical and comedy performances, and reminiscences from a memorial service. The audio collection also includes a set of recordings of feminist activist Ti Grace Atkinson, which are collected under "DOB Atkinson Tapes." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sanders, Side A, October 24, 1976 Subject The topic of the resource Interview lesbian experience Description An account of the resource This tape contains an interview with Helen Sanders in her home. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Interviewee: Helen Sanders Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 10-24-1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Physical: Audio Cassette Digital: .MP3 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 00:30:47 Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Recording Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Daughters of Bilitis Helen Sanders Interviews https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/56/372/[2014SP]Sanders_Interview_Side_B.mp3 0841d056e63d7127404599adb1cdd3a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio Recordings, 1971-1988 Description An account of the resource This assortment of digitized tapes from the DOB Video Project includes interviews, musical and comedy performances, and reminiscences from a memorial service. The audio collection also includes a set of recordings of feminist activist Ti Grace Atkinson, which are collected under "DOB Atkinson Tapes." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sanders, Side B, November 24, 1976 Subject The topic of the resource Interview Lesbian Experience Description An account of the resource An interview with Helen Sanders in her home. It includes audio from side A. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Interviewee: Helen Sanders Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 10-24-1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a> Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Physical: Audio Cassette Digital: .MP3 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 01:01:41 Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Recording Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Daughters of Bilitis Helen Sanders Interviews https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/22/257/SPW520_Sara_Brown_A.wav.mp3 f07adc15b56c4a0e8be41637a5a138f2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990 Description An account of the resource Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. It combines the ethnographic method of a rigorous study of a single community’s culture and identity, along with the historian’s urge to analyze the specific forces that shape these communities over time. In terms of primary sources, this historical analysis relied on the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project. This extensive oral history project began in 1978 and extended through the next 13 years. Interview subjects were working-class lesbian women from Buffalo, New York who described their experiences during the period from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. These recordings of interviews with working-class lesbians are rich with wisdom, insight and emotion. Interviews discuss a wide range of topics including butch/femme roles, gendered sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, the bar scene, religion, realization of homosexuality, coming out, lesbian mothers, oppression, police brutality, race, gay rights movements, women in the military, youth, and identity. They offer dynamic first-person perspectives of the place and time before the emergence of the gay and lesbian liberation movements. From these stories surface the personal struggles and triumphs of the lesbian community during an intensely oppressive time. For recordings related to the publication of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, see <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/54">Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990</a>. The recordings were donated to the archives by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy and were subsequently digitized by students from the Pratt Institute, Projects in Digital Archives class, LIS-665. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sara Brown, 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Lesbian Community--New York (State)--New York Lesbians--United States--Interviews Lesbianism Description An account of the resource Sara Brown discusses her experiences with her previous female partners. She talks about her childhood and the influence that her family and Catholic School had on her life as she was growing up. She also discusses the difficulty she has had in coming out to her parents in later life. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Interviewee: Sara Brown Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lesbian Herstory Archives Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2013-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives students Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact LHA at <a href="mailto:dyv.lha@gmail.com">dyv.lha@gmail.com</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Is Format Of A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format. tape cassette "SPW520 Sara Brown" Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Kennedy, E. L. & Davis, M. D. (1993). Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Routledge Extent The size or duration of the resource. 31.11 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. mpeg wav Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Physical Object Oral History Interview Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SPW 520 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Buffalo, NY Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 20th Century Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953 Buffalo Women Catholic School Coming Out Oral History https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/1c7623c3afba4795b81196cd7a1949d8.wav 1d39aa02713a104a43628e7e440004d0 https://www.herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/files/original/4af0b71f5f8ce2146c3ca3b79267f39f.jpeg 07bfca9691bb4614ff891b9b4a71a75a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Assorted Audio Materials, circa 1970s Description An account of the resource Included in this collection are clips from radio shows including South Carolina Educational Radio Network, Radio Free People, KCRW-FM, and RCC. There are also clips of live music and poetry performances, as well as political discussions. These materials were likely donated by <a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/collections/show/105">Liza Cowan</a>. Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seneca Falls Radiodrama Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LC019 Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource The Seneca Falls radiodrama is a brief overview of what led to the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848. The convention, now called the Seneca Falls Convention, was held in order to converse about the liberties that women do and do not have, be they civil, social, political, or religious. The recording introduces listeners to Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two prominent members of the women’s rights movement at the time. A reading of the Declaration of Sentiments, which outlines the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women, as well as various quotes, are included in this recording. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chris Carol for the Durham Women's Radio Collective Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Written by Barbara Hannah Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be used for publication without the express written consent of Liza Cowan. Contact the Lesbian Herstory Archive for Liza Cowan's contact information. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> PBCore PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. See http://www.pbcore.org/documentation/ Physical Format The format of a particular version or rendition of a media item as it exists in an actual physical form that occupies physical space (e.g., a tape on a shelf), rather than as a digital file residing on a server or hard drive. 1/4 inch audio tape Digital Format WAV Physical Location An address for a physical media item. For an organization or producer acting as caretaker of a media resource, this field may contain information about a specific shelf location for an item, including an organization's name, departmental name, shelf ID and contact information. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice - Tape 3 Subject The topic of the resource Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, Nuclear Disarmament, Civil Disobedience, Interviews Description An account of the resource [00:00-15:26] Video begins with a protest/ceremony outside the Seneca Army Depot, a military-industrial complex in Seneca, New York. [15:39-22:52] Following the demonstration, the video cuts to an interview in which two participants explain the importance and objective of their ceremony and the purpose of their "wailing," which was meant to imagine and express the agony of victims and those threatened by nuclear war. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sorrel Hays Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/10/1985 – 08/11/1985 (date created) 03/2024 (date digitized) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sorrel Hays <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Tape has significant audio distortion on the right channel. Digitized copy only contains the left audio channel. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice - Tape 4 Subject The topic of the resource Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, Civil Disobedience, Interviews Description An account of the resource Three interviews with women who participated in the “Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice“ protest. The interviews touch on the women's experiences of being detained, their mistreatment under the hands of the Seneca Army Postmen, and their reasons for participating in civil disobedience. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sorrel Hays Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/1985 (date created) 03/2024 (date digitized) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sorrel Hays <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Seneca_Womens_Encampment_Tape_4 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Tape has significant audio distortion on the right channel. Digitized copy only contains the left audio channel. 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