Queer Stories Project oral history collection
Scope and Contents
The collection includes oral history recordings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people in Rhode Island. The interviews document experiences related to identity including sexuality, gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity as well as art & creative expression, dating, marriage and families, activism, religious faith, social life and occupations.
Dates
- 2019 - 2020
Creator
- Thomas, Virginia (Collector, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open for research via www.provlibdigital.org
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has been assigned to Providence Public Library.
Biographical / Historical
Dr. Virginia Thomas is a scholar of American Studies who completed her PhD at Brown University in 2020 with a focus on race, gender and sexuality in U.S. culture and history. She created and managed the Queer Stories Project in 2019 and 2020 to document queer history in Rhode Island. The project served two purposes: first, to train LGBTQIA young adults in oral history practices, and second, to record oral history interviews with LGBTQIA adults in Rhode Island.
Extent
9 items (Digital audio files (335 MB))
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Material was acquired from the collector.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Virginia Thomas, 2020.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Kate Wells in 2021.
- African Americans
- Asexuality (Sexual orientation)
- Bisexuality
- Brown University.
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)
- Drag performance
- Female impersonators
- Feminism
- Gay activists
- Gay parents
- Gay pride celebrations
- Gay prisoners
- Gender expression
- Gender nonconformity
- Hispanic American women political activists
- Homophobia
- Homosexuality
- Imperial Court of Rhode Island (Providence, R.I. )
- Intersectionality (Sociology)
- Police brutality
- Racism
- Same-sex marriage
- Same-sex parents
- Unitarian Universalist sexual minorities
Creator
- Thomas, Virginia (Collector, Person)
- Labossier, Vilet (Interviewee, Person)
- Rivera, Shey (Interviewee, Person)
- Flores-Maldonado, Vanessa (Interviewee, Person)
- Vargas, Julian (Interviewee, Person)
- Lee-Johnson, Jazzmen (Interviewee, Person)
- Robinson, MJ (Interviewee, Person)
- Labeau, Rex (Interviewee, Person)
- Raskin, Roz (Interviewee, Person)
- Colom, Siri (Interviewee, Person)
- Harrington, Adam (Interviewer, Person)
- Pejia, Paola (Interviewer, Person)
- DeJesus, Jose (Interviewer, Person)
- Isley, Morgana (Interviewer, Person)
- Villaneuva, Cindy (Interviewer, Person)
- Griffin, Nicholas (Interviewer, Person)
- Adams, Eli (Interviewer, Person)
- Albanese, Amelia (Interviewer, Person)
- Caldwell, Claire (Interviewer, Person)
- Title
- Queer Stories Project oral history collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kate Wells
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Providence Public Library Repository
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Providence RI 02903 United States of America
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