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[Wesley Phelps interview with Charolette Taft, August 18, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded during August 18th, 2022 in Glorieta, New Mexico. Phelps interviews Charolette Taft on her experiences as a Dallas spokesperson and activist in the 1970s during the emerging women's rights movement. Taft speaks on her involvement in the custody case of Mary Jo Risher, a lesbian woman who lost custody of her young son to her ex-husband. She continues to discuss her experiences running the Routh Street Women's Clinic in Da… more
Date: August 18, 2022
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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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
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Dale Carpenter, August 11, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 11th, 2022 in Denton, Texas. In this interview, Phelps and Professor of Law Dale Carpenter discuss the history of the supreme court case Lawrence v. Texas. Carpenter discusses the events in the case which led to the end of sodomy laws in Texas. He covers the incidents which occurred prior to the case, leading to the arrests of John Lawrence and his partner Tyron Garner. Carpenter, additionally, discusses the ro… more
Date: August 11, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Marjoe Davidson, August 23, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 23rd, 2022 at Lopez Island, Washington. Phelps interviews Marjoe Davidson, formerly Mary Jo Risher, plaintiff in the custody trial Risher v. Risher. In this trial, Davidson sued her ex-husband for custody of their child following the couples divorce. Custody was denied to Davidson due to her identity as a lesbian. She speaks on her life during her custody trial as well as her life in Washington following the di… more
Date: August 23, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Charles Gills, August 17, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 17th, 2022 in San Antonio, TX. Phelps interviews Charles Gills on his involvement with the Texas gay rights movement. Gills speaks on his experiences in activism alongside Kenneth Adrian Cyr, founder of Fort Worth's first gay organization AURA and host of the first Texas Gay Conference in June, 1974. He continues on to discuss Ken and his experiences being fired from their jobs due to their sexual identities, h… more
Date: August 17, 2022
Duration: 46 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Josh Prager, August 18, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 18th, 2022 in Maplewood, New Jersey. Phelps interviews author Joshua Prager on his research over Roe v. Wade and the involvement of lawyer Henry McCluskey in the life of Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe. Prager discusses Henry McCluskey's identity as a gay man, his roll connecting Norma McCorvey to her lawyer Linda Coffee, his legal career, and his murder in 1973. They continue to discuss newspaper cove… more
Date: August 18, 2022
Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
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
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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