Interview with Bruce Monroe from San Antonio, Texas. Monroe discusses attending Texas A&M, coming out, the gay scene in Houston and Florida, the start of the AIDS epidemic, living in Dallas and work with the Dallas Gay Alliance, becoming president of the DGA, changing its name, the Dallas Buyers Club, work in Washington DC, living with HIV, Dallas Way, and art.

Interview with Robert Moore, a LGBT-focus journalist from Hurst, Texas. Moore discusses attending Texas Tech University, his career, working for Dallas Gay News and starting Dallas Voice, changes in attitudes toward LGBT people in Texas, HIV-AIDS, LGBT guilds and associations, and keeping up with changing media.

Transcript of an interview with Fernando "Fernie" Sanchez, Dallas Latino community AIDS activist and services coordinator. Sanchez shares concerning his childhood in El Paso, Texas; move to Dallas, Texas after graduating from UT-El Paso; various Dallas County jobs; AIDS activism; development of AIDS services in the Latino community; AIDS Arms and other organizations; HIV/AIDS stigma within the community; needs among and difficulties encountered by minority HIV/AIDS patients.

Transcript of an interview with Dr. Valerie Martínez-Ebers, professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and former UNT student. Dr. Martínez-Ebers discusses her childhood as an Army brat; education; family background; discrimination against Mexican Americans; attending UNT with a Mexican American ancestry; growing awareness of ethnicity and ethnic identity; student activism; differences in treatment and attitudes towards Latinos/Latinas in various parts of the United States; teaching politics of race and ethnicity at UNT; continued activism; UNT organizations for Latinos/Latinas.

Interview with Howard Okon, a businessman and LGBT community activist from Dallas, Texas. Okon discusses founding the Dallas Tavern Guild, running gay bars in the 1970s, coming out, drug use, political allies, vandalism and raids, changes in patronage, the current state of Texas gay bars, the AIDS epidemic, the impact of social media on the scene, the Dallas dance hall ordinance, activism, and generational differences.

Interview with Mary Franklin, an activist in the Dallas LGBT community from Riverhead, New York. Franklin discusses her family background, the neighborhood she grew up in in, dyslexia and struggles in school, her sexuality and coming out, the LGBT scene on Long Island, "gay" as a term, her first girlfriend, Anita Bryant, applying for a marriage license on National Coming Out Day, feminism and activism, moving to Dallas, the decriminalization of homosexuality in Texas, the HIV-AIDS epidemic, threats, involvement with the Unitarian Church, working at the Food Pantry, and changes in societal attitudes towards LGBT.

Interview with Steven Atikinson, a LGBT rights activist from Keller, Texas. Atkinson discusses his childhood in Keller, growing up in a small conservative town, coming to terms with his sexuality, education at Baylor, his brief marriage, coming out, the HIV-AIDS epidemic, the Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance, the queer social scene in Dallas in the 1990s, discrimination, grassroots activism, direct action, lobbying, the growth of the Dallas LGBT community and resources, gay rights legislation, and thoughts on his life overall.

Interview with David Taffet, a Dallas-area LGBT activist from Yonkers, New York. Taffet discusses his education, coming out, anti-war activism at State University of New York at Albany, the SUNY Gay Alliance, moving to Dallas, the AIDS epidemic, police harassment and entrapment, working for the Custom Shop and the Dallas Voice, the "AIDS cocktail" and advancements in treatment of the illness, and grassroots politics.

Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, a software engineer and immigrant to Texas from Sivas, Turkey. Ozer discusses his family background, his education, his marriage, Turkish culture and community in the US, the effect of the 2008 financial crisis, immigration, graduate school, work, and citizenship.

Interview with William Waybourn, an LGBT activist from Matador, Texas. Waybourn discusses his early life and education, his work in journalism, his partner, the Dallas Times Herald, his family, working for Market Center, the relationship between the gay community and Dallas community figureheads, the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Dallas "gayborhood," Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the "homosexual conduct" law), police harassment, the Fifth Circuit Court, the AIDS epidemic, fighting medical discrimination, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and reflections on his career.

Audio log for a recording of an interview with flight attendant, Claudia Bevill. In the interview she discusses her career as a flight attendant of Braniff International Airways and the bankruptcy of Braniff on May 12, 1982. Appendix includes photos and a document titled "Braniff - My Coming of Age" written by Bevill.

Interview with Dana Lodge, an employee of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Dallas, Texas. Lodge discusses growing up, her education, her work in the restaurant industry, entering the hospitality industry and her work with the Bureau, festivals and events in Denton, local history, and plans for the future of Denton. In appendix are pictures of the Denton County Courthouse and the Confederate Soldiers memorial. Includes an appendix.

Interview with Michael Hurd, a journalist and member of the Texas Black History Preservation Project from Houston, Texas. Hurd discusses growing up in Texarkana and Houston, his education and service in the Air Force, work with the Houston Post and USA Today, Juneteenth, researching black history, the Texas Black History Preservation Project and related efforts, being an historian, the history of Juneteenth and emancipation in Texas, and civil rights. In appendix are photographs of Hurd, clippings of his reporting, and URLs to videos he was involved in.

Transcript of an interview with Harryette Ehrhardt, an educator, politician, and LGBT rights advocate. Ehrhardt shares concerning her graduate school experience; gay community; memories of Donald Baker; discrimination against gay men in the public school system; struggle for LGBT civil rights; childhood and young adult years; family history; work within the gay community; Dallas Women's Political Caucus; activism and advancement of the Dallas LGBT community.

Transcript of an interview with Marion Hayes, author and LGBT activist, conducted for the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Hayes discusses her family history; childhood in Corsicana, Texas; gay high school culture in the 1960s; horsemanship; Dallas Gay Rodeo; lesbian culture in the 1950s and 1960s; Dallas LGBT community; Circle of Friends; AIDS epidemic; LGBT night life; writing career. Appendix includes various photos and documents.

Interview with Richard Longstaff, a gay rights activist from Cambridge, England. Longstaff discusses his childhood, gay men in the British military in the 1960s, moving to Dallas, becoming involved in gay rights, attempting to become a US citizen, his trial for being a gay immigrant and deportation, immigration reform, and gay marriage.

Interview with Campbell Read, a professor at Southern Methodist University and Dallas-area LGBT activist from Edinburgh, Scotland. Read discusses fighting police harassment, organizing a televised rebuttal to televangelist James Robison's condemnation of the gay community, important members of the community in Dallas and Denton, attending college in Lebanon and the United States, becoming involved with gay rights' activities at SMU, his family, and bird-watching. In appendix are pictures of demonstration signs Read carried and relevant newspaper clippings.

Interview with Kelly Sanders, owner of Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair, Denton’s first LGBT-friendly bar. She recalls her childhood in East Texas and in Gainesville, Texas; brief marriage to a man; coming out narrative; experiences managing bars in Dallas; experiences during the AIDS crisis; relationships with LGBT community; decision to open Mable Peabody’s, and experiences there.