Lois Bartholomew, 2016

File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

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Scope and Contents

Lois Bartholomew was born in Springville, Utah. Her family moved back and forth between Utah and California throughout her life. Bartholomew describes growing up poor and living outside the LDS Church community while in Utah. She talks about her difficult upbringing. Bartholomew details her 61-year relationship with her husband and the romance and the hardships of their marriage. She and her husband were nurses in Utah Valley. Bartholomew describes what it was like to care for a patient who was dying of AIDS at her hospital. She also talks about stigma associated with homosexuality, stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, and the pressures on gay men in Utah’s LDS Church culture.
Interviewed by Seth Anderson.

Dates

2016

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