Judy, February 5, [year unknown]
Lesbians--United States--Interviews
Lesbians--United States--History
Lesbian Bars
Anniversaries
Birthdays
Same-sex marriage
Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States
Drugs
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Mental health
Psychotherapy patients
Religion
Work
Friendship
Families
Lesbians--Single
Entertainers
Judy describes her experiences over the past thirty years up to the point of the interview. Topics discussed include cheating (“playing around”), polygamous lesbian relationships, fights in bars, holiday celebrations, friendship, same-sex marriage, religion, drinking, drugs, crime, mental health and treatment of lesbian women, the commonality of lesbian women seeking psychiatric treatment, the working environment for lesbian women, living alone, families of lesbian women, and one case of a lesbian woman raising a son. Judy believes that lesbian women should not raise children and has an extensive discussion about her reasoning. She ends the interview by discussing movie stars and entertainers that were popular among the lesbian community in the 1930s and 1940s.
Judy
Elizabeth Kennedy
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives students
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eng
Sound
PhysicalObject
Oral History Interview
SPW 503
Neighborhood Voices: Sonny Wainwright Interview (Tape 5)
Sonny Wainwright provides discourse about the privilege of marriage as it pertains to illness and becoming a parent. She explains her choice to "live straight" for several years so that she could have a child. It was not until she met Audre Lorde that she realized she had "choices", whom she called her teacher. Wainwright also discusses the need for lesbian illness support groups due to unjust experiences brought on by the illegality of same-sex marriage.
Neighborhood Voices
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English
VID018