Alma Routsong Interview, January 20, 1990
Item
Title
Alma Routsong Interview, January 20, 1990
            Description
Alma Routsong is interviewed in New York in 1990. She discusses her early experiences of being a lesbian and coming out. She explains how lesbian literature of the time informed her about DOB and influenced her to leave her husband and move to New York with her lover. Alma also discusses her writing career and use of a pseudonym. In tape 2 she discusses DOB groups and events, as well as the demise of DOB.
            Creator
Interviewer: N/A, Interviewee: Alma Routsong
            Publisher
Lesbian Herstory Archives
            Date Created
1990-01-20
            Contributor
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
 See the LHA Copyright Statement 
            Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
Language
en
            Type
Video Recording, Oral History
            Rights Holder
Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953
            Physical Format
VHS
            Citation
Interviewer: N/A, Interviewee: Alma Routsong, “Alma Routsong Interview, January 20, 1990,” Lesbian Herstory Archives AudioVisual Collections, accessed November 4, 2025, https://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/items/show/362.
        
