tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58695408867295899672024-03-05T10:54:49.651-08:00Queer Voices: The CC LGBT History ProjectCC LGBTQ History Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02067319443664261419noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869540886729589967.post-40528202284371300272013-11-09T09:47:00.003-08:002013-11-09T09:47:55.854-08:00Questioning QueerA recent complaint filed with the Colorado State Attorney General takes issues with Colorado College's use of the term 'queer' as a gender identity option on the college's job application. The story has attracted some <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24478848/colorado-college-defends-use-queer-application" target="_blank">media attention</a> and the LGBT Oral History Project was asked to comment. This story should remind us of the importance of dialogue and the continued need to share perspectives.<br />
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Take a look at our comments in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/colorado-college-queer_n_4241115.html" target="_blank">HuffPost</a>.<br />
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<br />CC LGBTQ History Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02067319443664261419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869540886729589967.post-37705532486917838522012-06-06T14:40:00.001-07:002012-06-06T14:40:09.374-07:00Ginger Morgan: "It's Just Who You Are"I am happy to share this clip of a recent interview conducted with a long-time member of the Colorado College community, Ginger Morgan.<br />
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Ginger - who will soon leave her post as the Associate Dean of Students - reflected on her own spiritual and intellectual growth and shared stories from her time at Colorado College. The full interview audio and transcription will be available in <a href="http://dacc.coalliance.org/" target="_blank">Tutt Library's digital repository</a> in the coming months.<br />
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We wish Ginger and her family the best of luck on their new adventure!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Interview: Ginger Morgan </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Interview Date: May 17, 2012</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">After attending high school in India, Ginger graduated from Colorado College in 1986 with a degree in Political Science. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Prior to her latest role as the Associate Dean of Students (2005-2012), Ginger<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"> held numerous other positions at CC, including in Summer Programs, in Admissions as an Assistant Director, and as Chaplain. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px;">Ginger and her partner are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 16px;">the parents of energetic twins.</span><br />
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Dear Readers,<br />
I am thrilled to finally share with you some of the work we have been doing these past months. For too long I have felt like we were sitting on stories that needed to be shared. The voices of Colorado College alumni, faculty, and staff who have contributed their memories to the project thus far are inspiring and moving testaments that shed light on times gone by. They are quant, personal, deep, and loving. They are real, hard, unpolished, sincere, and surprising. I hope you find them as engaging as I have. What follows is an edited and condensed version of one of our first interviews. We hope to communicate the experiences of our narrators in an interesting, engaging, and most importantly, accurate way.<br />
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As this project continues to grow I look forward to seeing - and hearing - much more from this community's amazing past. I send sincere thanks to all those who have participated in this work so far and hope that you will continue to follow our progress. Without further ado, please take a listen to our first project interview.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Interview: Karl Jeffries </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Interview Date: October 15, 2011</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Karl Jeffries came to Colorado College on a scholarship from the small mining town of <a href="http://www.uravan.com/">Urivan</a> in southern Colorado in 1987. If you try to google this place you will find that it doesn't exist anymore. It was designated a EPA Superfund Cleanup site when Karl was sixteen. He moved and graduated from Cortez High school.</span><br />
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<i>contact us for audio.</i>a_wallacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18362897856277818332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869540886729589967.post-72220966836945113602012-01-15T13:07:00.000-08:002012-01-15T13:07:21.646-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have not seen it yet, check out <a href="http://catalystnewspaper.com/node/666" target="_blank">this story</a> that appeared in the October 14th issue of the Catalyst, CC's own student newspaper. Lizzie Schoder speaks to Andrew Wallace about how the project got started and where it hopes to go. Find the article <a href="http://catalystnewspaper.com/node/666" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<i>[NOTE: The article mistakenly states that Amendment 2 was voted into law in 1972 and overturned by the Supreme Court in 1986. Amendment 2 was actually voted into the Colorado constitution in <b>1992</b>, to be overturned by the Supreme Court in <b>1996 </b>in the case of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer_v._Evans" target="_blank">Romer v. Evans</a>.]</i>CC LGBTQ History Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02067319443664261419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869540886729589967.post-29304124981837768902012-01-15T12:17:00.000-08:002012-01-15T12:17:22.466-08:00Introducing "Remember When..."I am excited to announce a new element of this blog, the <i>'Remember When'</i> series. Don't dwell to much on the title (I didn't) but do ask yourself the question. Do you remember <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/204/81-words" target="_blank">when</a> in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association decided that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness? Do you remember when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattachine_Society" target="_blank">Matachine Society</a> became one of the first organizations fighting for the betterment of the lives of homosexuals? You probably don't. I certainly did not come across this stuff in my high school history classes.<br />
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We will be periodically posting vignettes of interesting and important moments in queer history, providing links, videos, and other cool online resources to (hopefully) inspire a curiosity in the past and provide context for our own project interviews when they are published here. Stay tuned for our first posting next week!<br />
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And if you know of a historical moment that you think we should feature, by all means send it our way! You could even write the post yourself!<br />
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<br />CC LGBTQ History Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02067319443664261419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869540886729589967.post-8542503904889119812012-01-11T21:31:00.000-08:002012-01-11T21:33:15.558-08:00"It's Time" : A Second Try for Civil Unions in ColoradoThinking historically, as we have been doing here at the history project, can have the effect of distracting us from important contemporary issues facing the LGBTQ community. It is easy to relegate injustice to memory and take comfort in the belief that things are surely better than than were. No doubt things have changed and yes, the progress we have seen in this country has largely been away from injustice and towards more just and equal treatment of non heterosexual Americans. After all, we can watch <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/03/16/glee_kurt_kiss/" target="_blank">boys kissing</a> on prime time television and gay men and women can serve openly in the military. Something is changing...<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Despite this progress - and I certainly do not mean to belittle the important victories achieved - there is much to be done, much to fight for still. I was reminded of one of these persistent impediments to equality this evening at a rally for civil unions hosted by One Colorado and the Strong Families Coalition right here at CC's Cornerstone Arts Center. The event brought together supporters and activists from around the state to recognize the official start of One Colorado's 2012 Campaign for civil unions. The rally just happened to coincide with the opening of 2012 legislative session. Hours earlier Sen. Pat Steadman (D- Denver) introduced the Colorado Civil Union Act to the General Assembly<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">.</span></span></div><br />
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We heard from community members, activists, mothers, lovers, and allies dedicated to fighting for legislative action that would provide same sex couples those most basic rights currently denied them. As it was iterated and reiterated this evening, it's time for change.<br />
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And the political climate in the state does seem to indicate that passage might finally be possible. A recent <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/12/colorado-favors-gay-marriage-marijuana-use-loves-tebow.html" target="_blank">policy poll</a> showed that 76 percent of Coloradans now support civil unions, including 60 percent of republicans. Though a bill to create civil unions failed in the 2011 session - it passed the senate with bi-partisan support only to be killed by one republican vote in the house - the 2012 legislature now has another opportunity to support same sex couples.<br />
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We will be following the bill closely knowing civil unions will provide same sex couples with long overdue rights and protections. It's not marriage, but alas, that's another post. Passage of the Colorado Civil Unions Act would move us closer to formal equality in this colorful state and beyond.<br />
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-Howard Zinn, <i>A People's History of the United States </i>a_wallacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18362897856277818332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869540886729589967.post-66646636171903415392011-08-08T21:02:00.000-07:002011-08-09T06:54:47.874-07:00QUEER HISTORY POPPING UP ALL OVER<link href="file://localhost/Users/am_wallace/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link> <style>
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With a mission that resonates with our own goals here at the CC History Project, I was interested in the organization’s articulation of the need for such ‘alternative venues’ for the presentation of art and history. I quote from the project’s site at length:</span></div><blockquote><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“In an intellectual climate where even the Smithsonian can be forced to bow to the will of homophobia and remove the work of seminal queer artist David Wojnarowicz, we must create alternative venues for our art and history. By utilizing temporarily empty and/or public spaces, the pop-up format turns economic reality to our favor and expands our reach beyond a single location, while the online presence serves as the connecting thread between physical installations.”</span></span></span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The homophobia cited above came from the top, from Republican leaders in congress, to be exact. After CBS News published an inflammatory<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/smithsonian-christmas-season-exhibit-fea"> story</a> about the <a href="http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/exhhide.html">exhibit</a> at the Smithsonian’s <span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">National Portrait Gallery </span>titled <span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">“Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/smithsonian-christmas-season-exhibit-fea">,</a></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">” Representative John Boehner and Majority leader Eric Canter called for the exhibit to be immediately removed and threatened budget cuts for encouraging ‘anti-christian hate speech’ in the institution’s promotion of this ‘questionable kind of art’. No joke.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Despite this absurdity Wajnarowicz’s video was removed from the exhibit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As much as I may like to think that this was an isolated incident of conservative takeover of this nation’s otherwise enlightened institutions, a recent report from<a href="http://outhistory.org/wiki/Main_Page"> Outhistory.org </a>reminds us this is not the case. The report concludes, <o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“[T]he Metropolitan Museum […] discussed LGBT themes in only 1.8% of its exhibitions over the period from 1995-2005. The Museum of Modern Art […] came in at a mere 3.04%. Some museums, like the New York Historical Society have never, in any context and in any way, mentioned any LGBT theme in ten years.”</span></span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">(Weena Perry: NYC Museums’ Representation of LGBT Artists and Art, August 2007, released April 21, 2011.)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.queermuseum.com/home/pop-up-soho/">The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History</a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>understands the need to advocate and actively work to make queer narratives public. This is exciting and inspiring stuff.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If anyone is on the east coast this month, check out their current show, Pop-Up SoHo at <a href="http://www.leslielohman.org/"><i>The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation</i></a>,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.55pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 27.5pt;"><a href="http://www.queermuseum.com/home/pop-up-soho/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pop-Up Soho</span></a></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27.55pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">August 6<sup>th</sup> – 25<sup>th</sup></span></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tues – Sat, noon – 6:00pm</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">At</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26 Wooster Street</span></span></i></div>a_wallacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18362897856277818332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869540886729589967.post-22298853768131147122011-08-08T20:32:00.000-07:002011-08-08T21:45:14.020-07:00AN INTRODUCTION<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dear Readers,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Welcome to our Blog! We (some <a href="http://www.coloradocollege.edu/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Colorado College</a> students united by an interest in queer history) are here to share our stories, ideas, and thoughts as we undertake to collect and preserve the undocumented histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals from our college’s past. This project was set in motion in the spring of 2011 when a CC student -after spending a bit too much time in the Tutt Special Collection archives -recognized a major void in the collected (both published and unpublished) history of Colorado College. Though the contemporary LGBT movement has, and continues to make great progress in the fight for equality, the LGBT community continues to face real challenges. This project believes that public queer historical narratives play an important role in present and future community organization. It is our hope that this work, in addition to creating a historically significant collection, will incite dialogue and provide a solid foundation for ongoing activism and community building on our campus and beyond.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition to documenting the progress of the history project, it is hoped that this blog, inspired by the potential of the blogosphere to unite and engage independent voices, will provide a space for the sharing of ideas and events relevant to our contemporary lives. Like the history project, this blog is for the community, so let’s see what we can do. Your contributions of any kind - opinion, fiction, art -are welcome.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Looking forward to an exciting year!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andrew Wallace and the CC LGBT History Project working group</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH14F2F8PdkzA7h2fHyITCqMxx_o7KQiFcLrn-Pb80tQ4jPVGPzFPjiMr7DT5sZh7EKCF5zqfHGE2LcEmB26vYXg85xAfOAXyMj2MI0kZ9EWCNz_mFAUS1I2Bk1xtbLwBIV3gq0U7YhPeN/s1600/LGBT+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH14F2F8PdkzA7h2fHyITCqMxx_o7KQiFcLrn-Pb80tQ4jPVGPzFPjiMr7DT5sZh7EKCF5zqfHGE2LcEmB26vYXg85xAfOAXyMj2MI0kZ9EWCNz_mFAUS1I2Bk1xtbLwBIV3gq0U7YhPeN/s400/LGBT+Logo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 32px;">Questions, concerns, ideas, contributions? Contact us @ <a href="mailto:cclgbthistory@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cc.lgbthistory@gmail.com</a></span></div>a_wallacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18362897856277818332noreply@blogger.com0