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Daniel describes how he moved from Kansas City to Jacksonville, FL, to work for JASMYN in 1999, a social services organization that provides aid and support to LGBTQ+ youth. He also discusses the evolution of Jacksonville's LGBTQ+...
Demetrius grew up in Florida in an area where he felt very isolated as a Black queer person. He also talked about coming to FSU and finding a diverse community and the Pride Student Union of which he would become Executive Director. He...
Hiram spoke about his life growing up in Miami in the 1950s and the lack of gay representation, until his move to Tallahassee in the late 1960s where he was able to find his community. Inspired by the Gay Liberation Fronts that formed in...
Karrissa T. Wade is a drag entertainer from Jacksonville, Florida. She discusses her early childhood and her first experiences in drag as a child, as well as the pushback from her family's Baptist background. She describes the drag scene...
Shelia is an artist and educator who discusses art as a collaborative, political process that gives people voice, as opposed to a commercial enterprise. Sheila also discusses her time as an activist during the AIDS crisis, during which...
Faith Taylor is a 34 year old transgender women and drag entertainer from Jacksonville Florida. In her interview, Taylor describes her journey into becoming and creating her empire as one the most sought after entertainers in the state...
Marcus is a Black, queer, first-gen student at FSU who is acting Assistant Director of the Pride Student Union. Marcus discusses growing up in a predominantly white school in Pensacola, moving to Miami, and then coming to FSU. Marcus...
Jules discussed being a queer Jewish person who grew up with both a Christian parent and a Jewish parent. She talked about the differences between the places she’s lived (Auburn, Jacksonville, and Palm Beach Gardens) as well as her...
Aaron is an openly gay professor in the Humanities department of Florida State University. He begins with a description of his early life growing up in a Southern Baptist Church, and discusses his experiences with the church and how it...
Evan discussed growing up in an evangelical Protestant Thailand with missionary parents. They talked about their journey with their sexual orientation and gender identity. They also talked about the strictness and manipulation they found...
Tarik has lived in North Florida for most of his life and discusses the difficulties of growing up in a conservative area as he tried to discover himself. Tarik also discusses the intersections queerness, paganism, and neurodivergence, ...
Alanna discussed growing up in Texas, living in Tampa as a bisexual woman, and moving to Tallahassee to attend FSU. She talked about going to a Methodist church in Texas and becoming less religious when she moved to Tampa, eventually...
Sister CoCo (he/him/they/them) discusses his life moving around as a child of a Navy Officer. They talk about their early adult life in New Orleans and Southern Decadence. The majority of the interview details his experience within the...
Roli is a drag performer who, at the time of their interview, identified as non-binary transfemme, and begins by describing gender as a fluid and "hypercentral" experience. They discuss cisgender, heterosexual reactions to gender...
Bob Taylor (he/him) is widely recognized as the head of one of the major drag "families, and shares his personal history of involvement in drag and pageants, both as a performer and sponsor. He also describes the business aspects of his...
Archie Jade (they/them) is a drag performer from Jacksonville, Florida. Archie discusses exploration of gender through art and drag, and the community they found in The Glitterbomb Show. They also describe early images of gender...
Interview with Dr. Jonathan Applebaum, October 15, 2020
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Dr. Jonathan Appelbaum (he/him) is an HIV/AIDS specialist who has worked in HIV care for LGBTQ+ individuals since 1981. In this interview, he talks about what it was like working during the beginning of the epidemic and how it compares...
Adyn Register (they/them) is a sapphic non-binary person and discusses gender and nonconformity, their struggles with self-advocacy, interactions with the queer community, reevaluating queer labels, inclusivity, activism, and nonbinary...
Caysey Williams (they/she) is a student at FSU and begins by sharing early memories of identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community. They discuss the heterosexism she experienced from family, teachers, and schoolmates before moving to...
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