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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
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with William Waybourn, September 27, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 29th, 2022 in Washington D.C. Phelps interviews William Waybourn over his experiences as a gay activist in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s. Waybourn discusses the roll the Dallas Gay Political Caucus played in delivering services to the Dallas LGBT population. Waybourn also speaks on major events in Dallas LGBT history such as the case of Baker v. Wade, Mica England's battle against discrimination in the Dalla… more
Date: September 27, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 37 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 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
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 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 Dick Peeples, September 8, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 8th, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Dick Peeples on his involvement with gay activism in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s. Peeples speaks his involvement with the Dallas Gay Political Caucus alongside Steve Wilkins, Louise Young, and Don Baker. He then covers the trial of Baker v. Wade, explaining his efforts to challenge penal code 21.06, a discriminatory code which criminalized homosexual acts, alongsi… more
Date: September 8, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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