HIV oral history project
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2958
Scope and Contents
Forming part of the Kristen Ries and Maggie Snyder HIV/AIDS Archive, the HIV oral history project is an ongoing initative to document the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Utah. The interviews were conducted with those who interacted with the epidemic including medical professionals, social workers, therapists, nuns from Holy Cross hospital, drag queens engaged in safer sex education and fundraising, community members who founded or volunteered for first AIDS Project Utah and the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation, and later, the Utah AIDS Foundation, as well as people with AIDS, their lovers, friends, and family. (Abstract adpated from the American West Center website.)
Dates
- 2015-2020
Creator
- University of Utah. American West Center (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Historical Note
During the HIV epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Kristen Ries was the only doctor in Utah who would treat people with AIDS. The Ries/Snyder Archive was created to honor Dr. Ries and her partner and medical assistant, Maggie Synder. The HIV oral history project is an initative to document the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Utah. Biographies of individual interview subjects may be found below.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Forming part of the Kristen Ries and Maggie Snyder HIV/AIDS Archive, the HIV oral history project (2015-2017) is an initative to document the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Utah through oral histories.
Arrangement
Interviews arranged alphabetically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from the American West Center in 2017 and 2019.
Processing Information
Processed by Julia Huddleston in 2018.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2022 and 2023.
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Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2022 and 2023.
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- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Interviews
- AIDS (Disease) -- Utah
- AIDS activists -- Utah -- Interviews
- Anderson, Seth (Interviewer)
- Clement, Elizabeth Alice (Interviewer)
- Drag queens -- Utah -- Interviews
- Dunsmore, Chris (Christopher M.) (Interviewer)
- Ex-church members -- Utah -- Latter Day Saint churches -- Interviews
- Gay people -- Identity
- Gay people -- Utah -- Interviews
- Gay rights -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches
- Gays and Lesbians
- HIV (Viruses) -- Utah
- HIV infections -- Religious aspects
- HIV infections -- Treatment
- HIV-positive gay men -- Utah -- Interviews
- HIV-positive persons -- Family relations -- Utah
- HIV-positive persons -- Utah -- Interviews
- Homophobia -- Religious aspects
- Interviews
- Latter Day Saint gay people -- Utah -- Interviews
- Medical personnel -- Utah -- Interviews
- Medical personnel and patient -- Utah
- Nuns -- Utah -- Interviews
- Nuns as nurses -- Utah -- Interviews
- Oral histories
- Ries, Kristen
- Sexual minorities -- Utah -- Interviews
- Snyder, Maggie (Carol)
- Social workers -- Utah -- Interviews
- Transcriptions (documents)
- UAF Legacy Health -- Interviews
- Women physicians -- Utah
Creator
- University of Utah. American West Center (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the HIV oral history project
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Julia Huddleston and Betsey Welland.
- Date
- 2017 (last modified: 2019, 2022 and 2023)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2023-01-23: Box 5 processed by Betsey Welland and added to the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu