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LGBTQ+: Interview with Meredith Bacon

UNO Libraries - Oral History Projects
Jay Irwin, Interviewer
LGBTQ+ Oral History Collection (Finding aide available at http://unomaha-public.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/4/resources/604)

 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

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00:00:22 - Growing up in New York (Yorkville, Manhattan)

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Segment Synopsis: 2:55: Parent’s professions; 4:43: Early schooling; 5:09: Sent to private school; 5:40: Dyslexia; 7:58: Sexual assault by older boy

00:08:52 - Pomfret School (Pomfret, Connecticut)

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00:14:13 - Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon

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00:15:34 - Growing up around powerful people

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00:21:33 - Waking up to racial injustice

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00:23:13 - LGBTQ+ culture in New York

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00:25:00 - Love of theater

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00:27:13 - Meeting wife Lynne

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00:30:34 - Intolerance of anti-Semitism

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00:33:26 - Graduate school (University of Denver)

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Segment Synopsis: 37:32: Going to Romania

00:39:31 - Coming out to Lynne

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00:43:58 - Seeing a psychotherapist

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00:45:30 - Dissertation

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00:50:56 - Trans research

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00:56:22 - Post-doc and coming to UNO

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01:02:45 - Family and trans identity

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Segment Synopsis: 1:04:33: Sister

01:08:47 - Trans literature, resources

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01:11:52 - Dr. Shelton Hendricks, UNO Dean and Professor

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01:12:52 - Coming out at UNO

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Segment Synopsis: 1:15:27: Omaha Pride Committee; 1:16:07: “Rescue” of gay student

01:19:00 - Early LGBTQ+ involvement

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Segment Synopsis: 1:20:18: Trans research and conferences; 1:33:08: Turning point; 1:37:36: First time as Meredith; 1:41:46: River City Gender Alliance

01:43:33 - All Saints Episcopal Church

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01:44:51 - Early trans resources in Council Bluffs

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01:47:53 - Christine Jorgensen

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Segment Synopsis: 1:48:44: Autogynephilia

01:51:26 - Medical transition

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Segment Synopsis: 1:55:10: Response from UNO community

02:08:05 - Taking in trans kids

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02:10:57 - Hair

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02:13:54 - Omaha World-Herald coverage

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02:23:01 - Favorite UNO memories

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02:24:45 - Trans activism

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Segment Synopsis: 2:24:45: National Center for Transgender Equality; 2:30:54: Making trans surgeries medically deductible; 2:31:59: Post-transition marriage legality