| Alfred F. 'Alfred Frank' Carlozzi 06/06/2019 |
Al Carlozzi, retired Oklahoma State University (OSU) professor, shares the story of his career path, beginning in the military and almost immediately pivoting to LGBT rights as he continued his education.… |
| Allen Scott 02/14/2019 |
Allen Scott, OSU professor of music history, talks about his life, from growing up in the deep south in a conservative Evangelical house to finding his sexuality in college. Scott also discusses the various… |
| Allie Shinn 06/14/2019 |
Allie Shinn, executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, discusses her time at Oklahoma State University (OSU) as a student as well as her personal struggles with her sexuality. She explains how her career… |
| Allison Ikley-Freeman 03/21/2019 |
Allison Ikley-Freeman, a former state senator and 2013 graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about growing up in Sperry, Oklahoma and her experience coming out in a small rural town. She recalls… |
| Andre Durham 06/24/2019 |
Andre Durham, founder of the Payne County Pride celebration in Oklahoma, discusses his career and education experience and organizing the gay pride celebration. He talks about his upbringing in Maryland… |
| Angela Piehl 04/17/2019 |
Angela Piehl, former art professor at Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about growing up in the small town of Tomball, Texas and attending the University of Texas at Austin. She discusses what it… |
| Angus Henderson 07/09/2019 |
Angus Henderson discusses his life as a transgender man and an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. He talks about his childhood and family dynamic, attending Oklahoma State University, and moving to San… |
| Carrie Kim 05/15/2019 |
Carrie Kim, former curator of education and public programming of the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art (OSUMA), shares her experiences growing up in Fredonia, Wisconsin where she describes her childhood… |
| Chris Riojas 01/31/2019 |
Chris Riojas talks about his youth with a strong Catholic father and a politically active lesbian mother. He recalls attending Pride parades and gay events as well as Catholic church services. He discusses… |
| Cindy Washington 10/11/2018 |
Cindy Washington received her education in psychology and community counseling at Oklahoma State University (OSU), starting in 1986. She served as the faculty advisor for SODA, the Sexual Orientation Diversity… |
| Connor Terry 09/21/2018 |
Connor Terry attended Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 2011 to 2019 and was active within the student LGBT club throughout that time. Here, he discusses the drag shows and events he attended as a student,… |
| Cooper Green 11/20/2018 |
Cooper Green grew up in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, a small town in eastern Oklahoma with an active LGBTQ community. Green participated in multiple Pride parades and attended a few drag shows, and after enrolling… |
| Daniel Cowns 07/03/2019 |
Daniel Cowns, a 2012 graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), discusses his life as a member of the LGBTQA+ community. He talks about his experience coming out, a close encounter with the AIDS crisis,… |
| Dennis R. Neill 03/15/2019 |
Dennis Neill attended Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 1970 to 1974 and was active in the Residence Halls Association. He discusses his childhood growing up in Ponca City and his experience coming… |
| Dennis Rudasill 10/20/2018 |
Dennis Rudasill attended Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 2006 to 2012, and was active in the student LGBT organization, Sexual Orientation Diversity Association (SODA), as well as the Student Union… |
| Dwight Kealiher 02/13/2019 |
Dwight Kealiher, a 1959 graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), recalls his college days, being in a fraternity, and working in the Student Union. He talks about serving in the National Guard and… |
| F. Holland Gray 04/08/2019 |
Holland Gray, a 2019 graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about growing up in Drumright, Oklahoma and struggling with being different in a small town. He describes the religious environment… |
| Galen Bunting 07/02/2019 |
Galen Bunting, a graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma at an early age and describes his experience with gender dysphoria in his teenage years. He discusses… |
| Hildreth Overcash 06/04/2019 |
Hildreth Overcash, a graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about growing up in southeastern Oklahoma to open-minded and politically active parents. She recalls attending NAACP marches with… |
| James Cooper 07/12/2019 |
James Cooper, a graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Oklahoma City's first openly gay city councilman, talks about his childhood growing up near a military base, his love of horror films, and… |
| Jesse Anderson 10/14/2018 |
Jesse Anderson attended Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 2011 to 2015 and was active in the student LGBT organization as well as the Student Union Activities Board. He helped put on Dragonfly events… |
| Joe Rackley 02/09/2019 |
Former Oklahoma State University (OSU) student and faculty, Joe Rackley, discusses his experiences as a gay man in Stillwater, Oklahoma, then his community activism at OSU as an out faculty member. He… |
| Judith Kaufman 06/11/2019 |
Judith Kaufman, former member of the faculty at Oklahoma State University (OSU), discusses her life as an activist, professor, and member of the LGBTQ+ community. She talks about her upbringing in Massachusetts… |
| Kathleen Kennedy 11/16/2018 |
Kathleen (Kat) Kennedy grew up in Oklahoma City with an awareness and appreciation for the gay community. She enrolled in Oklahoma State University (OSU) as an undergraduate in 1993, and she returned to… |
| Kristi Self 05/29/2019 |
Kristi Self, a 2001 graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about growing up in Stillwater, Oklahoma and struggling with being gay. She discusses her experience attending OSU, her involvement… |
| Laura Belmonte 03/28/2019 |
Dr. Laura Belmonte, former associate dean for instruction and personnel at the College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about growing up in a conservative household and her… |
| Lys Buck 07/15/2019 |
Lys Buck discusses her time at Oklahoma State University (OSU) in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Community Association and meeting her wife. She talks about her upbringing in Alaska, moving to Oregon for an… |
| Marie Basler 10/18/2018 |
Marie Basler has been an advisor and coordinator for multiple Oklahoma State University (OSU) student organizations since 1982. She has predominantly worked with the Off-Campus Student Association, and… |
| Matthew Mungle 05/16/2019 |
Matthew Mungle talks about growing up in Durant, Oklahoma and briefly attending Oklahoma State University (OSU) as a theater major before moving to Hollywood, California to train and work as a makeup artist… |
| Mike Millard 02/22/2019 |
Mike Millard attended Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 1993 to 1999 and was active in the student LGBT association and Gay Speakers Bureau. He recalls his time as a resident assistant in the Kerr Drummond… |
| Natasha Rice 06/25/2019 |
Natasha Rice discusses her time at Oklahoma State University during the 1980s and 1990s and the LGBTQ+ community on campus. She talks about living in the dorms, majoring in horticulture, and the various… |
| Paul Stafford 11/16/2018 |
Paul Stafford has worked as a professional drag queen (Carmen Devereaux) since 2005 and became involved in the Oklahoma State University (OSU) campus drag show, Dragonfly, in 2008. Stafford discusses the… |
| Russ Overton 07/08/2019 |
Russ Overton, a graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about his life as a gay man. He discusses his upbringing in Oklahoma and his path to attending college as a non-traditional student. He… |
| Sally Schuh 07/17/2019 |
Sally Schuh, Director of the Visual Resource Center in the Department of Art at Oklahoma State University, talks about growing up doubly-othered, as someone who knew she was uninterested in boys and as… |
| Shelby Garvey 05/10/2019 |
Shelby Garvey, a 2020 graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about her life and college experience as a transgender woman. She discusses her upbringing in a family that loves cars, coming to… |
| Tommy Chesbro 04/24/2019 |
Tommy Chesbro, a 1982 graduate from Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about growing up in Stillwater to a well-known wrestling and farming family. He describes his experience attending OSU and talks… |
