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  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.

  Tags California, Daughters of Bilitis, Jean Ko Stewart, Manuela Soares, Race Relations, Spirituality
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  DJ, January 6, 1980 (Tape 3)

  Side A: DJ continues her interview from tape SPW513. She finishes discussing her romantic relationships then moves on to discuss gay literature, specifically The Well of Loneliness. The topic of workplace discrimination is mentioned. DJ discusses relationships in the community through the venue of gay and straight bars. Relationships between straight men, lesbians, and bisexual women are discussed as well as race relations. Side B: DJ covers the topic of prostitution in the lesbian community. She speaks about the choice some lesbians make to marry men and have kids.

  Tags Bars, Bisexuality, Buffalo Women, Discrimination, Interracial Couples, Madeline Davis, Oral History, Race Relations, Relationships, Sex Work, Well of Loneliness
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  Andy, March 30, 1982 (Tape 1)

  Andy discusses the history of gay rights in Buffalo, New York, and describes how it feels like to be open about her sexual identity. She shares some of her childhood and early adulthood experiences in the 1950s and 60s –her first relationships and confronting the risk of losing her job. Other topics discussed include the gay and lesbian bar scene, raids, prostitution, butch and femme roles, and Andy’s experience within the African American gay community.

  Tags Bars, Buffalo Women, Butch and Femme, Childhood, Coming Out, Oral History, Race Relations, Relationships, Sex Work, Work
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  Anita, undated (Tape 2)

  Anita talks about being in an interracial relationship with a white woman, and the roles of butch and femme.

  Tags Buffalo Women, Butch and Femme, Friendship, Interracial Couples, Madeline Davis, Oral History, Race Relations, Relationships
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  Buff, October, 1978

  Talks about community tattoos, race, being butch, the challanges of identity and expectations. Touches on past sexual abuse by her father, gender roles, identity, learning about gay life and her discovery process, friendship, clothing and identity, her marriage to a gay man, her suicide attempt.

  Tags Alcoholism, Buffalo Women, Butch and Femme, Fashion, Gender Roles, Identity, Lesbians of Color, Marriage, Oral History, Race Relations, Sexual Assault, Suicide, Tattoos