Our Voices - LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin

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University of Wisconsin--Green Bay. Archives

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Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin is an ongoing community archiving effort to document and preserve the voices of LGBTQ+ individuals in Northeastern Wisconsin. The oral history i...

Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin is an ongoing community archiving effort to document and preserve the voices of LGBTQ+ individuals in Northeastern Wisconsin. The oral history interviews in this collection cover a wide range of topics, from growing up years and schooling to work life and relationships, coming out, advocacy work, experiences in the LGBTQ+ community, and more. The narratives in Our Voices are diverse and distinctive, and the collection strives to be inclusive regardless of age, race, religion, education, gender, or sexual orientation. The interviews are primarily conducted by undergraduate students enrolled in LGBTQ+ oral history courses and independent studies at UW-Green Bay. Some are also conducted by volunteers and UW-Green Bay Archives staff. Each interview includes an audio file and an abstract. Some interviews contain full, searchable transcripts. In the abstracts and metadata, the UW-Green Bay Archives used the gender, sexual, and/or racial identification that was stated at the time of the interview. The contents of these interviews contain the personal accounts of individual experiences within the LGBTQ+ community. These interviews may contain discussions of topics that listeners may find distressing, including dialogue on trauma, violence, abuse, oppression, homophobia, and transphobia. Some materials in Our Voices may contain offensive language. In the interests of historical integrity and the continually evolving nature of terminology in the LGBTQ+ community, we are not removing the words from the oral history interviews or transcripts. In order to preserve the lived experiences of individuals, we have not censored or suppressed these stories in any way. In the abstract for each individual interview, we have done our best to identify content that may be distressing in these interviews. There may be instances we have missed. If you encounter distressing material in this collection that may need further identification, please email us at archives@uwgb.edu.

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