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  1. Santos Arce Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Arce, Santos, Van Ness, Lorenzo
    Date: Jul. 14, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Child abuse, Childhood, Class struggle, Clothing, Coming out, Families, Friendships, FtMs, Gender identity, Hormones, Labour, Latinos, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Music, Music groups, Musicians, Night life, Sex education, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: Santos, a bassist and sex educator, shares the story of his life in New York City, from his strict upbringing in East New York in the 80's, to his introduction to the punk and hardcore scene in the...
  2. Sawyer DeVuyst Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: DeVuyst, Sawyer
    Date: Jan. 28, 2023
    Topics: Agender identity, Faith, Hormone therapy (Gender), Transgender community, Transgender people
    Description: An interview with Sawyer DeVuyst, a trans identifying person from New Jersey.
  3. Sean Ebony Coleman Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Coleman, Sean Ebony
    Date: Jul. 25, 2023
    Topics: Ball culture, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ health care centers, Transgender community, Transmasculinity
    Subject: Destination Tomorrow
    Description: An interview with Sean Ebony Coleman, the founder of Destination Tomorrow, a LGBTQ+ center in the Bronx that provides services like job readiness, HIV testing, and emergency housing. In this interv...
  4. Sebastián Castro Niculescu Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Niculescu, Sebastián Castro, O'Brien, Michelle
    Date: Jun. 7, 2018
    Topics: Childhood, Colleges, Cosmetics, Drag, Femininities, Gender identity, Online dating, Sexual assault, Sexuality, Transgender people
    Description: Sebastián discusses growing up between Long Island and Queens. She recounts stories of sneaking into the NYC drag club scene through the early 2010s, bridging her love of extreme drag into critical...
  5. Shannon Harrington Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lewis, AJ, Harrington, Shannon
    Date: Jul. 26, 2017
    Topics: AIDS organizations, Bars, Childhood, Discos, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Entertainers, Events, Friendships, Fundraising, Gay community, HIV/AIDS, Labelling, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ people who use substances recreationally, LGBTQ+ relationships, Mafia, MtFs, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Night life, Performing arts, Transgender community, Travel, Wigs
    Subject: Bailey House, Boy Bar, Dorian Corey, God's Love We Deliver, International Chrysis, Lee Brewster, Shannon Harrington, Wigstock
    Description: Shannon Harrington is a wig master, hair chaser, and make-up artist who has been living in New York City for over 30 years. In this interview Miss Shannon provides meaningful and nuanced insight in...
  6. Shannon Minter Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Minter, Shannon
    Date: Aug. 7, 2017
    Topics: Christian communities, Coming out, Family members, Homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, Marriage, Parental acceptance, Small cities, Trans men, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: Faith in America, Larry Jackson, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Romeo and Juliet, Shannon Minter
    Description: OUTWORDS interview with Shannon Minter conducted by Mason Funk on August 7, 2016 during the Lavender Law conference in Washington, DC. As a lawyer, many of his cases have set precedents that safegu...
  7. Shelby Chestnut Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Awad, Nadia, Chestnut, Shelby
    Date: May 14, 2017
    Topics: Addictions, Arts, Butches, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Ethnic groups, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Identity, Indian reservations--Montana, Learning difficulties, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Native americans, Representation, Schools, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Transgender rights, Violence, Youth
    Subject: Janet Mock
    Description: Shelby Chestnut describes their childhood and adolescence between Montana and Minnesota, discussing friendships and family, bullying and acceptance, mixed-race (Native American and white) identity,...
  8. Simo Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Simo
    Date: Aug. 1, 2023
    Topics: Farms, Feminism, Figure skating, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Queer people, Transgender people
    Description: An interview with Simo about their life and experiences.
  9. Simon Chartrand Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Chartrand, Simon
    Date: Jul. 27, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Autism spectrum disorders, Childhood, Clothing, Colleges, Coming out, Community centres, Dating, Families, Gender identity, Gender minorities, Health care, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Misogyny, Physicians, Racism, Schools, Social media, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender children, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Janet Mock, Simon Chartrand
    Description: Simon Chartrand describes his experience growing up in upstate New York, being outed to family, living with chronic pain and navigating healthcare as a trans person. Simon discusses the long proces...
  10. Simone Kolysh Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Kolysh, Simone
    Date: Feb. 14, 2018
    Topics: Adolescence, Bisexuality, Brothers, Bullying, Childhood, Families, Motherhood, Sexual assault, Travel
    Description: Simone Kolysh describes their non-binary gender identity, growing up in a Russian immigrant family, becoming a parent, and their academic work on trans studies.
  11. Sindell Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Niculescu, Sebastián Castro, Sindell
    Date: Jul. 24, 2018
    Topics: Childhood, Choir boys, Divorce, Gender dysphoria, Hormone therapy, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masturbation, MtFs, Musicians, Passing (Gender), Pornography, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel
    Description: Sebastián Castro Niculescu interviews Sindell, an entertainer who sings, dances, and performs. She talks about being married to a man whose family did not know she was trans, as well as her dreams ...
  12. Siobhan Meow Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Meow, Siobhan
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Squatter settlements, Suicidal behavior, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: An interview with Siobhan Meow discussing it's life and experiences.
  13. Slim Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Shalabi, Miles, Calou, Yana, Slim
    Date: May 5, 2017
    Topics: Change of name, Coming out, Communities, FtMs, Health care, Islam, Judges, LGBTI community, Transgender community, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: CUNY LGBT Leadership, Miles Shalabi, Slim
    Description: Slim discusses his experience of coming out to his family and navigating his parents' feelings about his identity while finding acceptance and support from his siblings, girlfriend and friends. Hav...
  14. Son Kit Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Kit, Son, Niculescu, Sebastián Castro
    Date: Jul. 23, 2018
    Topics: Academics, Anime, Artists, Asian cultures, Colleges, Friendships, Gender identity, Korean American families, Transgender people, Zines
    Description: In an interview with Sebástian Casto Niculescu, artist/curator Son Kit explains their complex childhood, in which the pressures of their Korean family and their confusion with their queer identity ...
  15. Sonia Martinez Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Martinez, Sonia, Keyes, Anna
    Date: Apr. 11, 2018
    Topics: Adolescence, Breast, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag queens, Family members, Femininities, Hormones, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Night life, Prisons, Transgender people
    Subject: Stonewall
    Description: Anna Keyes interviews Sonia Martinez, who opens up about her growth into her female identity throughout her adolescence and beyond. Martinez found a community of LGBTQIA+ individuals as a youth, wh...