[Wesley Phelps interview with Chris Haight, October 21, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Chris Haight, October 21, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 21st, 2022 in Houston, Texas. In this interview, Chris Haight discusses the lives and deaths of John Griffin and Tommy Lee Tremble, two gay men who were close friends and roommates in Dallas in the 1980s. Haight discusses their negative treatment through newspaper coverage following their murders and the significance of applying humanity to their cases. Haight continues on to describe the trial and arrest of Richard Bednarski for the murders of the two men, critiquing his sentence and the roll Judge Jack Hampton played in his case.
Date: October 21, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Craig Washington, August 26, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Craig Washington, August 26, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 26th, 2022 in Houston, TX. Phelps interviews former United States Representative Craig Washington on his experiences with the Texas State Legislature. Washington begins by discussing a penal code which came to the legislature in 1973, exploring his involvement in rewriting and codifying said penal code. Specifically, Washington speaks on his attempts to repeal sodomy laws found under code 21.06 from state legislation.
Date: August 26, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Linda Morales, September 30, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Linda Morales, September 30, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 30th, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Phelps interviews Linda Morales on her life as a dedicated activist and plaintiff in Morales v. Texas. She speaks on her experiences with racism and discrimination in the LGBT community in Houston, and her creation of the Latina lesbian AMIGA organization. Morales also speaks on discrimination faced by the LGBT community due to penal code 21.06, a discriminatory sodomy law which made "homosexual conduct" illegal in the state of Texas.
Date: September 30, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Marco Roberts, September 22, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Marco Roberts, September 22, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 22nd, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Phelps interviews Marco Roberts on his involvement with the Gay Student Services organization at Texas A&M University. Roberts speaks on the lawsuit Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, through which his group fought to be recognized as an official Texas A&M student organization. Roberts, as former president of the Gay Student Services, speaks on his experiences with political tensions in the group during the 1980s.
Date: September 22, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library