Josie Carter and Jaime Gays are drag performers and long-time friends. They discuss the "gay scene" in Milwaukee in the 1950s and 1960s, mentioning specific bars such as Castaways, the White Horse, the Mint, and others; drag pageants...
Loree Cook-Daniels has been an active member in the Milwaukee LGBT community, affiliated with FORGE, Diverse and Resilient, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, SAGE Milwaukee, and the Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee. Cook-Daniels discusses her...
Jay Botsford (b. 1982) identifies as genderqueer and trans. Botsford describes zir experiences coming out and transitioning, and zir role as coordinator of Project Q, the youth development program of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. Zie...
Oral history; Transgender people; Social work with transgender youth; Transgender youth
Jolie McKenna (b. 1961), who identifies as inter-sex and transsexual, is the executive director at the LGBT Center of Southeast Wisconsin in Racine and a part-time teacher for Women and Children’s Horizons, a domestic violence shelter, in...
