Ohio LGBT Oral/Video History Collections

Below you’ll find a non-exhaustive list of LGBT Ohio Oral/Video History interviews and/or collections:

• Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection
  

  Includes sound recordings of the oral history interview of Anthony Mahone

  The Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection is a project of the Cleveland State University’s Center for Public History and Digital Humanities through the Department of History at Rhodes Tower,
  1860 East 22nd Street, Cleveland, OH 44115-2214. Telephone: 216.687.3920

  http://csudigitalhumanities.org/category/oral-history/cleveland-oral-history/

• The Oral History collection of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Religious Archives Network
  

  Includes the sound recordings and transcripts of the oral history interviews of Falcon River and Jade River

  The Oral History collection of the LGBT Religious Archives Network is sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709. Telephone: 773.728.8274

  http://www.lgbtran.org/OralHistory.aspx

• Oberlin College LGBT Community History Project
  

  Includes the sound recordings and transcripts of the oral history interviews of
  Holly Boswell;  Misha Cohen; Robert Durand;  Roger Goodman;  Paul Hickman; Bobbi Keppel;  Ann Matter;  Leslie Myers; Larry Palmer;  Christa Rakich; Allan Spear;  Diepiriye Sungumote Kuku-Siemons; Thomas Tibbetts; and Robert Wood.

  The Personal Histories collection of the Oberlin College LGBT Community History Project spearheaded by Joey Plaster with the cooperation of Oberlin Lambda Alumni and is hosted through San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, 657 Mission Street #300, San Francisco, CA 94105 . Telephone: 415.777.5455

  http://www.oberlinlgbt.org/content/Personal-Histories/Main/personal-histories.html

• Our Stories Collection
  

  Includes the following video essays: Ohio State’s Story  My Story about Our Stories;  Letters;  4;   and Family Album; and OSU GLBT Awareness.

  Hosted through GLBT Student Services at The Ohio State University, Our Stories is a developing record of gender identity, sexual orientation, and alliance.
  Contact Heather Mitchell at mitchell.277@osu.edu

  http://ucat.osu.edu/OurStories.html

  Special note: To access this site, copy and paste this web address. The system will likely take you to http://ucat.osu.edu.
  Add /OurStories.html and press Enter. It should take you to the site.

• Voices of Feminism Oral History Project
  

  Includes transcripts of oral history interview of Marjory Nelson and Patricia Reeve

  The Voices of Feminism Oral History Project is part of the Sophia Smith Collection at the Women’s History Archives at Smith College, 7 Neilson Drive, Northampton, MA 01063. Telephone: 413.585.2970

  http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/vof-intro.html

• Smithsonian Archives of American Art
  

  Includes transcript of oral history interview of Jerome Caja

  The Oral History collection of the Archives of American Art is part of the Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 17174, Baltimore, MD 21203-7174. Telephone: 202.633.7989

  http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/

• LGBT Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society
  

  The collection is processed, open to researchers (unless restricted by the donor), but not available or searchable on-line. The collection contains the oral histories and transcripts of the following individuals: John Baldwin, Cono Cangemi (no transcript), Howard Erlichman, Tom Flynn, Richard Garner, David Hardie, George Kerns, Edward Kolk, Stanley Mason, Joe McClelland, Delores Noll, John Nosek, William E. Osborne, S. Jordan Perlman, John Wallace Skinner, Robert L. Snook, Dennis Stramel, Sally Tatnall, Cornelius Utz, Emmett C. Vicars.

  Northeast Ohio LGBT Oral History Project Recordings and Transcripts are part of the LGBT Collection at Western Reserve Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Telephone: (216) 721-5722.

  http://www.wrhs.org/index.php/library/Archive/LGBTArchives/LGBTCollections

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know of related collections that we don’t currently have indexed,
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