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Sweet Tea the Drag Queen is a drag performer from Jacksonville, Florida. Sweet Tea performs at Hamburger Mary's and the Metro Entertainment Complex. They discuss how Sweet Tea discovered her name, the various mentors she learned from, ...
Aaron is an openly gay professor in the Humanities department of Florida State University. He begins with a description of his early life growing up in a Southern Baptist Church, and discusses his experiences with the church and how it...
Demetrius grew up in Florida in an area where he felt very isolated as a Black queer person. He also talked about coming to FSU and finding a diverse community and the Pride Student Union of which he would become Executive Director. He...
Interview with Annabelle Chapman, November 9, 2021
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Annabelle is a bisexual queer non binary person attending Florida State University. They discuss the first moments they encountered literature that had queer characters, and how they continue to seek out books featuring and including...
Marcus is a Black, queer, first-gen student at FSU who is acting Assistant Director of the Pride Student Union. Marcus discusses growing up in a predominantly white school in Pensacola, moving to Miami, and then coming to FSU. Marcus...
Hiram spoke about his life growing up in Miami in the 1950s and the lack of gay representation, until his move to Tallahassee in the late 1960s where he was able to find his community. Inspired by the Gay Liberation Fronts that formed in...
Moussa Camara is an African gay man who grew up in Abidjan, on the Ivory Coast of West Africa. Camara loved to dance from childhood and used dance as a form of therapy from an early point in his life.They discuss how Camara taught...
Bob Taylor (he/him) is widely recognized as the head of one of the major drag "families, and shares his personal history of involvement in drag and pageants, both as a performer and sponsor. He also describes the business aspects of his...
Caysey Williams (they/she) is a student at FSU and begins by sharing early memories of identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community. They discuss the heterosexism she experienced from family, teachers, and schoolmates before moving to...
Justin is a bisexual trans man living in Tallahassee to complete degrees in creative writing and anthropology at Florida State University. Justin grew up in Bonita Springs with his family and many pets. Justin discusses his journey to...
Eliana is a nonbinary person who uses she/they pronouns who is interested in music and art. They discuss how heteronormative gender roles were forced on them in their home and while attending a Catholic school. They discuss the...
Interview with Dr. Jonathan Applebaum, October 15, 2020
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Dr. Jonathan Appelbaum (he/him) is an HIV/AIDS specialist who has worked in HIV care for LGBTQ+ individuals since 1981. In this interview, he talks about what it was like working during the beginning of the epidemic and how it compares...
Faith Taylor is a 34 year old transgender women and drag entertainer from Jacksonville Florida. In her interview, Taylor describes her journey into becoming and creating her empire as one the most sought after entertainers in the state...
Roli is a drag performer who, at the time of their interview, identified as non-binary transfemme, and begins by describing gender as a fluid and "hypercentral" experience. They discuss cisgender, heterosexual reactions to gender...
Karrissa T. Wade is a drag entertainer from Jacksonville, Florida. She discusses her early childhood and her first experiences in drag as a child, as well as the pushback from her family's Baptist background. She describes the drag scene...
Tarik has lived in North Florida for most of his life and discusses the difficulties of growing up in a conservative area as he tried to discover himself. Tarik also discusses the intersections queerness, paganism, and neurodivergence, ...
Shelia is an artist and educator who discusses art as a collaborative, political process that gives people voice, as opposed to a commercial enterprise. Sheila also discusses her time as an activist during the AIDS crisis, during which...
Sister CoCo (he/him/they/them) discusses his life moving around as a child of a Navy Officer. They talk about their early adult life in New Orleans and Southern Decadence. The majority of the interview details his experience within the...
Alanna discussed growing up in Texas, living in Tampa as a bisexual woman, and moving to Tallahassee to attend FSU. She talked about going to a Methodist church in Texas and becoming less religious when she moved to Tampa, eventually...
Archie Jade (they/them) is a drag performer from Jacksonville, Florida. Archie discusses exploration of gender through art and drag, and the community they found in The Glitterbomb Show. They also describe early images of gender...
Evan discussed growing up in an evangelical Protestant Thailand with missionary parents. They talked about their journey with their sexual orientation and gender identity. They also talked about the strictness and manipulation they found...
Daniel describes how he moved from Kansas City to Jacksonville, FL, to work for JASMYN in 1999, a social services organization that provides aid and support to LGBTQ+ youth. He also discusses the evolution of Jacksonville's LGBTQ+...
Elena is an artist who grew up in the Orlando area. Her interest in visual art and theatrical and technical theatre has been influenced and inspired by other queer artists in her community. They discuss how Elena's connection to the LGBT...
Sarah discusses being raised in Tallahassee and how staying here through college and into adulthood has shaped her life: specifically focusing on Sarah's formative years and finding confidence in her sexuality and truth in coming out....
Adyn Register (they/them) is a sapphic non-binary person and discusses gender and nonconformity, their struggles with self-advocacy, interactions with the queer community, reevaluating queer labels, inclusivity, activism, and nonbinary...
Jules discussed being a queer Jewish person who grew up with both a Christian parent and a Jewish parent. She talked about the differences between the places she’s lived (Auburn, Jacksonville, and Palm Beach Gardens) as well as her...
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