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Joan with Donna and Doris, April, 1978
Joan talks about how she went to jail and her experiences while she was held there.Tags Bars, Buffalo Women, History, Lesbian and gay experience, Lesbian Bars, Lesbian Community--New York (State)--New York, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Lesbianism, Lesbianism--History, Lesbians--United States--History, Lesbians--United States--Identity, Lesbians--United States--Interviews, Madeline Davis, Oral History, Prison -
Mary Ann, October 15, 1988 (Tape 2)
Mary Ann talks about posing as a prostitute for men in a straight bar. She would arrange a meet-up location and then she and two girl friends would overpower and rob men. She describes several muggings she and her two friends carried out. One happened in a hotel; another took place in a man's house with his family there. She claims she and her friends never hurt anybody "more than they had to." Mary Ann also talks about the distinction between gay bars and bars where she would go to hustle. Gay bars were places to have fun with friends and not for prostitution. In one aside, the interviewer asks Mary Ann why she calls her girlfriend "my man," to which she replies that's the way her lover wanted to be addressed. -
Joan, September 11, 1978 (Tape 1)
Side A: Joan discusses the distinction between butch and femme lesbians, the differences between the white and black gay communities, the Buffalo lesbian bar scene, and coming out in the 1960s.
Side B: Joan discusses the class divisions in the lesbian community, the university gay scene, and her personal, professional, and romantic history.Tags Bars, Buffalo Women, Butch and Femme, Colleges and Universities, Coming Out, Communities, Identity, Lesbian and gay experience, Lesbian Bars, Lesbian Community--New York (State)--New York, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Lesbianism, Lesbians--United States--History, Lesbians--United States--Identity, Lesbians--United States--Interviews, Madeline Davis, Oral History -
Joe, April 18, 1979 (Tape 1)
Side A: Joe talks about the social atmosphere in the 1920s through the 1940s. He talks about Service Clubs and Music Circles as vehicles for social interaction but claims not to know of any exclusively gay or lesbian social groups. He also talks about the one gay bar in town in the 1930s and '40s and calls it "middle class at best."
Side B: Joe talks about social clubs (all men's clubs) and how gay society functioned within these clubs. He also talked about sports and gay women at the time.