Jean Ko Stewart Interview, April 11, 1989

Jean Ko Stewart is interviewed in Boston in 1989. She discusses her early relationships with women and coming out. She speaks about her role as the Vice President of the Boston chapter, which involved organizing dances and concerts and a focus on providing a community space for lesbians. She compares the political and social climate of California and Boston, and considers Boston’s racial climate at the time. Jean explains that she moved to California because she heard that women wore slacks to work, which was considered unacceptable in Boston in the 1960s.

Accompanied by an abridged version where Jean Ko Stewart speaks about meeting with the Daughters of Bilitis community.

Interviewer: Manuela Soares, Interviewee: Jean Ko Stewart

Lesbian Herstory Archives

4/11/1989

1989-04-11

Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students.

Edited by Morgan Gwenwald [still photographer], Manuela Soares, Sara Yaeger [videographer].

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Video Recording, Oral History

Lesbian Herstory Archives, Contact Designation: Maxine Wolfe, Contact Address: 484 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, Phone Number: 718-768-3953

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