Box 3
Container
Contains 13 Results:
David Andreason, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
David Andreason (b. 1963) was born and raised in Utah. He grew up in Farmington, in a LDS community. After high school, he went on a mission to Japan. Andreason returned from his mission and became more active in Salt Lake City’s gay community. He talks about hisexperiences coming out and describes what it was like to live through the height of the AIDS epidemic. Andreason also talks about HIV/AIDS now and the...
Dates:
undated
Don Austin, 2017
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Don Austin (b. 1953) grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Austin talks about his early life in Utah and his experiences with the LDS Church. He eventually starts a career in the medical field, working in dialysis. Austin decided to become a social worker. He eventually worked as a social worker for the Utah AIDS Foundation. Austin describes what it was like to work with clients at the Utah AIDS Foundation, how they...
Dates:
2017
Bruce Barton, 2017
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Bruce Barton (b. 1946) was born and raised in Oroville, California. He was adopted into a Methodist family but eventually converted to the LDS Church. Barton describes his mission for the LDS Church. During his time on his mission in France, one of his companions came onto him, which was his first real experience of homosexuality as a young adult. Though Barton turned that companion down, he started to really think...
Dates:
2017
Nikki Boyer, 2016
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Nikki Boyer was born in Soda Springs, Idaho, and lived all over the world because her stepfather was in the military. In high school, Boyer started feeling as if she was different from other girls and realized it was because she was attracted to girls. She talks about being gay in Texas, where she spent here early adult life. In addition to participating in the gay culture of Texas, she also participated in...
Dates:
2016
Lane Cheney, 2016
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Lane Cheney was born in Cody, Wyoming, and grew up in Bountiful, Utah. Cheney describes his early life growing up as a member of the LDS Church in Bountiful. He talks about feeling different as a boy and how that difference was received in a conservative LDS community. After high school, Cheney went to Westminster Choir College in New Jersey, where he continued to have feelings for other men. He tried to “cure”...
Dates:
2016
Jeanie Forrest, 2017
File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Jeanie Forrest mostly grew up in the West. She went to high school in Laramie, Wyoming. During college, Forrest married a cattle rancher and moved to Montana. She describes her life living on a cattle ranch and talks about her first experience of HIV/AIDS there. Two men that her husband knew moved home to Montana after they were diagnosed. The community’s treatment of these two men was one of the reasons Forrest...
Dates:
2017
Charles Lynn Frost, 2016
File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Charles Lynn Frost was born and raised in Spanish Fork, Utah. Frost describes his family life and talks about knowing he was different from an early age. He talks about being gay in a small, mostly LDS city. Frost’s first relationship ended because he wanted to get away from Utah and the LDS Church and move to San Francisco and his partner did not. Frost eventually married a woman and started a family. He had a...
Dates:
2016
Sarah McClellan, 2016
File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Sarah McClellan was born in Alabama. She grew up in Alabama and Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. McClellan describes growing up in segregated areas, her experiences of racism, and her memories of and involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. For example, in Jacksonville, Florida, she took part in a sit-in at a Woolworth’s counter. After school, McClellan began a career as a teacher. Her sister and brother-in-law...
Dates:
2016
Becky Moss, 2016
File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Becky Moss was born and raised in Utah. Moss describes what it was like to grow up in Utah and her family life. She talks about knowing that she was different in some way. At the library she found books that explained her difference and she realized she was a lesbian. After finishing school, Moss was active in the Salt Lake City gay community. A friend eventually invited her to co-host a radio program called...
Dates:
2016
Connell O'Donovan, 2016
File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Connell O’Donovan was born in Syracuse, Utah, but spent most of his early years in Alaska. O’Donovan describes his first understanding of homosexuality and what it was like to grow up as a homosexual in Alabama, Texas, and Alaska. He also talks about his experiences in the LDS Church. He went on a LDS Church mission to Brazil and when he returned he joined the Army. O’Donovan continued to have homosexual feelings...
Dates:
2016