[Wesley Phelps interview with Lauren Gutterman, September 15, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Lauren Gutterman, September 15, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 15th, 2022 in Austin, TX. Phelps interviews Lauren Gutterman, discussing her research on queer women in the post World War II period. Gutterman discusses the ways in which women during the post-war period, despite being married to men, engaged within the lesbian community, often forming romantic and sexual relationships out of intimate friendships. She discusses major differences in the social experiences of queer men and women, as well as experiences of coming out in the 1950s and 1960s. Gutterman continues to discuss changes in divorce and child custody laws which occurred in the 1970s and their effects on the lives of women. The custody trial Risher v. Risher is heavily discussed, as well as the supreme court case Roe v. Wade.
Date: September 15, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Maggie Watt, October 27, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Maggie Watt, October 27, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 27th, 2022 in Denton, Texas. Phelps interviews Maggie Watt over her childhood and adulthood experiences growing up with her brother Don Baker, plaintiff in the federal suit Baker v. Wade. Watts discusses Baker's life with the Christian church, the Navy, and the Dallas gay community. Watts and Phelps cover the impact Baker v. Wade would have on Don Baker's life as well as it's impact on Texas sodomy laws.
Date: October 27, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Marc Stein, November 16, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Marc Stein, November 16, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on November 16th, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Phelps interviews Marc Stein over the Supreme Court case Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service. A case through which Canadian immigrant Clive Michael Boutilier fought back against the INS after being deported for his sexuality. Boutilier, due to his sexuality, was considered to be afflicted with a psychopathic personality disorder, and was therefor denied U.S. citizenship. Stein and Phelps discuss the influence this case would have on LGBT rights in the United States. The influences of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and the overturning of Roe v. Wade on the integrity of LGBT court cases are additionally discussed.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Paul Smith, October 5, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Paul Smith, October 5, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded during on October 5th, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Phelps interviews attorney Paul Smith on his experiences clerking for Justice Lewis Powell during the trial Lawrence v. Texas. Smith discusses the roll he played in the supreme court trial which would eventually rule sodomy laws which policed "homosexual conduct" to be unconstitutional.
Date: October 5, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Lori Montgomery, October 14, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Lori Montgomery, October 14, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 14th, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Phelps interviews Lori Montgomery over her involvement with the murder case of Tommy Lee Tremble and John Griffin as a police reporter in 1988. She speaks on an interview conducted with Judge Jack Hampton, the Dallas criminal district court judge criticized for his lenient sentencing of Richard Bednarski, murderer of Tremble and Griffin. Montgomery discusses homophobic comments made by Judge Hampton which would lead her to write a newspaper article covering discrimination in the case of Tremble and Griffin.
Date: October 14, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Marjoe Davidson, August 23, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Marjoe Davidson, August 23, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 23rd, 2022 at Lopez Island, Washington. Phelps interviews Marjoe Davidson, formerly Mary Jo Risher, plaintiff in the custody trial Risher v. Risher. In this trial, Davidson sued her ex-husband for custody of their child following the couples divorce. Custody was denied to Davidson due to her identity as a lesbian. She speaks on her life during her custody trial as well as her life in Washington following the discrimination she faced in court.
Date: August 23, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Dick Peeples, September 8, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Dick Peeples, September 8, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 8th, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Dick Peeples on his involvement with gay activism in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s. Peeples speaks his involvement with the Dallas Gay Political Caucus alongside Steve Wilkins, Louise Young, and Don Baker. He then covers the trial of Baker v. Wade, explaining his efforts to challenge penal code 21.06, a discriminatory code which criminalized homosexual acts, alongside Don Baker and attorney Jim Barber.
Date: September 8, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library