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  Lesbian Style Project: Anonymous Interviewee

  The interviewee recounts her experiences growing up lesbian and intersex in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She discusses the lesbian community, the ballroom scene, workplace and school bullying, and her experiences working at an urban clothing company.
  
  The interviewee's name has been withheld at her request.

  Tags Autobiography, Coming Out, Discrimination, Fashion, Femininity & Masculinity, Intersex, Interviews, Lesbian Community, Support Groups, Voguing
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  Mabel's Parties / Mabel Hampton, 1981 (Tape 1)

  Oral History interview dated . Side A: Mabel talks about the parties she attended, the atmosphere, the people she met and the music she listened to. She also speaks in detail about romantic relationships with specific women and her first love from Coney Island. Her love of classical music is also discussed, which began when she started her first job.

  Tags Autobiography, Joan Nestle, Mabel Hampton, Music, New York, Oral History, Parties
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  Joan Nestle / Mabel Hampton [undated]

  Oral history recording of Joan Nestle. Side A: Joan Nestle speaks about lesbian self-expression and the importance of language to identity. She goes on to talk about her early life and how she was motivated to take a stand against the oppression she saw around her in society, specifically oppression against women and lesbians. Side B: Mabel Hampton takes over as the main speaker and recounts her life story, beginning when she was only one month old. Mabel discusses her early years, including the crucial transition from living with her grandmother to living with her aunt, and how she eventually decided to run away to Jersey City.

  Tags Autobiography, Discrimination, Identity, Joan Nestle, Language, Mabel Hampton, Oral History, Social Life, Youth
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  Mabel Hampton, Lillian Foster, 1976 (Tape 1)

  Audio cassette. Oral History Interview of Mabel Hampton. Mabel discusses her first girlfriend, a white woman she met while working at a girl's school. She also discusses her three year relationship with a married woman she worked for as a domestic worker, whom she considers her first love. In addition, she discusses her life as a dancer and her trips to a private lesbian club, frequented by notable women. She then relates how she was briefly abducted, attacked and robbed, and how she escaped and how her friends sought revenge on her attackers.

  Tags Autobiography, Interracial Couples, Joan Nestle, Lesbians of Color, Mabel Hampton, New York, Oral History, Rape, Relationships, Sexual Assault, Violence