DJ, January 6, 1980 (Tape 1)
Lesbians--United States--Identity
Lesbians--United States--Psychology
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Lesbian and gay experience
Lesbianism
DJ discusses the time she went to the hospital and was diagnosed as a homosexual. She remembers that the doctor suggested she try going out with a man to determine the extent of her feelings toward women. She also recalls that the doctor told her she must learn to live with society and to control her emotions in public.
DJ (Interviewee)
Madeline Davis (Interviewer)
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives students
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Followed by SPW513
Original= Cassette Tape
English
Sound
Physical Object
Oral History Interview
SPW512
Barbara Sang, Tape 1 of 1, April 22, 1989
Barbara Sang is interveiwed in 1989. She talks about how she went through psychotherapy and attempted to live as a heterosexual woman. She discusses her role in the New York chapter of DOB as the Education Chair and the programs and events she organized as well as finding as much information as she could about gays and lesbians. She also talks about DOB in the 1960s and the privacy it afforded its members, not insisting that they come out, which was criticized by more radical movements.
Interviewer: N/A, Interviewee: Barbara Sang
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Morgan Gwenwald, Manuela Soares, Sara Yaeger.
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en
Video Recording, Oral History
Physical: MV-63, Digital: sang_tape1of1_19890422
LHA Daughters of Bilitis Video Project: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, Tape 2 of 4, May 9, 1987
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon discuss changing attitudes of mental health care professionals towards lesbianism, contemporary support networks for lesbians. They are interviewed by Manuela Soares.
Manuela Soares
http://devherstories.prattsils.org/omeka/archive/files/047ff02de8730e141bb7b9055959f4f0.mp4
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Edited by Morgan Gwenwald, Manuela Soares, Sara Yaeger
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English
Video; Oral history
MV-5
San Francisco, California
Billye Talmadge, Tape 2 of 2
Activism, Counseling, Discrimination, The Ladder, Police Harassment, Political Movements and Community Struggles, Psychology, Religion, Conferences and Events, Voting, Well of Loneliness
Billye Talmadge discusses her early experiences as she came to understand her own preferences and sexuality, and the support she received from her college dean, classmate, and mother. She describes her role in the Daughters of Bilitis and the responsibilities and liabilities of being an officer in the group. She elaborates on the social and political climate of the times, and how she endeavored to help people overcome their fear of harassment and discrimination through providing education and supportive counseling and resources.
Lesbian Herstory Archive
1987
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Lauren Allshouse, Kim Loconto, Rachel Smiley, and Sara White.
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English
Video Recording, Oral History
Talmadge_Billye_Tape2of2
Billye Talmadge, Tape 1 of 2
Activism, Counseling, Discrimination, The Ladder, Police Harassment, Political Movements and Community Struggles, Psychology, Religion, Conferences and Events, Voting, Well of Loneliness
Billye Talmadge discusses her early experiences as she came to understand her own preferences and sexuality, and the support she received from her college dean, classmate, and mother. She describes her role in the Daughters of Bilitis and the responsibilities and liabilities of being an officer in the group. She elaborates on the social and political climate of the times, and how she endeavored to help people overcome their fear of harassment and discrimination through providing education and supportive counseling and resources.
Lesbian Herstory Archive
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students. Edited by Lauren Allshouse, Kim Loconto, Rachel Smiley, and Sara White.
<a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement <br /></a> Photograph by: Morgan Gwenwald
English
Video Recording, Oral History
Talmadge_Billye_tape1of2
Constructing a History of Power & Sexuality, New York University, undated (Part 2)
This recording is the second part of a keynote address by Catherine Simpson & Jonathan Katz titled “Constructing a History of Power & Sexuality”. The recording of the first part is unavailable; upon digitization it was found that the tape itself was blank, possibly due to user error at the time of recording or from being erased. It consists of a question & answer session with discussion of power from an interpersonal perspective up to a governmental, political level. Psychology and energy, both labor and libido are elaborated on, as well as the impact and ramifications of the Women's Liberation Movement & Gay Liberation Movement on society.
03/31/1978
English
T81_1_26
Lesbian Nation, October 6, 1972
Psychology, Mental Health, Health Advocacy, Women's Health, Poetry
This episode of Lesbian Nation opens with a Mary Flowerpot humor segment then dives into an interview between Martha Shelley and Phyllis Chesler, renowned psychologist and author. In this interview, Chesler discusses women’s health, delving into her observations on how women are treated in mental health institutions. The episode ends with a poetry reading.
10/6/1972
English
T81_1_50
Lesbian Nation, October 12, 1972 [Kate Millett, "Since Sexual Politics"]
Sexuality, Revolutionary Movements, Vietnam War
Martha Shelley speaks with Kate Millett, author of <em>Sexual Politics</em>, about a wide range of subjects that includes the Angela Davis trial of 1971, bisexual identity, radical counterculture in American universities, sadomasochism, and the Vietnam War.
10/21/1973
English
T81_1_32