- Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books
- Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
- Katie Gilmartin
Katie Gilmartin
subfonds1991 - 1993MsC-156-9
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- Held by
- Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books via Simon Fraser University Archives & Special Collections
- Creator
- Gilmartin, Katie
- Dates
- 1991 - 1993 (indexed as 1991–1993)
- Level
- subfonds
- Extent
- 1 external hard drive (121 GB of sound recordings and textual records) 115 audio cassettes 11 computer disks : 3.5” 17 computer disks : 5.25” 0.5 cm of textual records
- Scope & content
- Fonds consists of records relating to interviews conducted for Katie Gilmartin’s PhD dissertation from Yale University, “The very house of difference”: Intersection of identities in the life histories of Colorado lesbians, 1940-1965. Records include 115 audio cassettes consisting of sound recordings of oral history interviews completed for the dissertation, 11 floppy disks that contain some transcriptions of these interviews, and the interview participants’ consent forms. The oral history interviews in this collection were donated to ALOT by Katie Gilmartin, a printmaker, author, and academic, who currently resides in California. These interviews were conducted between 1991 and 1993 as research for Gilmartin’s doctoral dissertation: “The very house of difference”: Intersections of Identities in the Life Histories of Colorado Lesbians, 1940-1965. Gilmartin completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at the Yale University Graduate School in 1995. The interviews consist of the life histories of “women who loved women and were living in Colorado or neighboring states during the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s.” Gilmartin’s dissertation is particularly interested in the ways these women’s various identities intersect, and these questions are reflected in the oral histories in this collection. As Gilmartin writes in the Introduction of her dissertation: “What did it mean in the 1940s to be middle class, European American, female, lesbian, and butch-identified, living in a small town in rural Wyoming? What did it mean in the 1950s to be working class, Mexican American, female, lesbian, and uneasy with butch and fem identities, living in Denver? These various identities cannot be reckoned individually and then added together; they are lived simultaneously." Gilmartin later published a novel, Blackmail, My Love (Cleis Press, 2014), inspired by the interviews in this collection These interviews were undertaken during the time of Colorado’s Amendment 2 legal battles. The majority of the interviews in this collection are protected and/or use pseudonyms. Available transcripts have been edited according to interviewees' requests and for privacy. Some interviews only have partial transcripts.
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- Subjects
- Gilmartin, Katie
- Language
- English
- Access & use
- Copyright for these recordings is held by the donor. Full consent has been obtained from interview participants, but the majority of interviews are restricted from being made available publicly online.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-15T14:11:58Z · source datestamp n/a · ead