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[Wesley Phelps interview with Craig Washington, August 26, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 26th, 2022 in Houston, TX. Phelps interviews former United States Representative Craig Washington on his experiences with the Texas State Legislature. Washington begins by discussing a penal code which came to the legislature in 1973, exploring his involvement in rewriting and codifying said penal code. Specifically, Washington speaks on his attempts to repeal sodomy laws found under code 21.06 from state legis… more
Date: August 26, 2022
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Karen Wisley, August 12, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 12th, 2022 in Denton, Texas. Phelps interviews Associate Professor Karen Wisley, a historian researching the LGBT rights movement in Denton, Dallas, and Fort Worth. Wisley covers major figures in Texas LGBT history such as Henry McCluskey, Alvin Leon Buchanan, Mica England, and Richard Longstaff, discussing the rolls they played in arguing against Texas sodomy laws. The court cases of Buchanan v. Bachelor, Bake… more
Date: August 12, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Paul Smith, October 5, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded during on October 5th, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Phelps interviews attorney Paul Smith on his experiences clerking for Justice Lewis Powell during the trial Lawrence v. Texas. Smith discusses the roll he played in the supreme court trial which would eventually rule sodomy laws which policed "homosexual conduct" to be unconstitutional.
Date: October 5, 2022
Duration: 50 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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