Neighborhood Voices: Sonny Wainwright Interview (Tape 2)

Wainwright remembers her youth and feeling on the “fringes” of society. Growing up and attending an all girls highschool, she was aware of her feelings about women and only later realized what it meant after graduating high school and meeting her first lover. Despite understanding her identity and sexuality, she made the choice to “live straight” in the 1960s due to the lack of acceptance by society and the threat of losing her job as principal of a junior high school while raising her daughter alone.

Neighborhood Voices

English

Sonny Wainwright

Neighborhood Voices

Sonny Wainwright

U-matic

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