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LGBTQ+ Washtenaw Oral History Project - Maggie Hostetler

Thu, 08/01/2024 - 10:00am

photo of older white woman with glasses and short gray hair Maggie Hostetler was born in 1944 in Bay City, Michigan, where she grew up with four siblings. As a young adult, she worked for her parents’ newspaper, the Fremont Times-Indicator. She moved to Ann Arbor in the late 1960s to complete her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Michigan, and she went on to become a social worker and a technical writer. She recalls that being an activist for LGBTQ+ rights in the 1970s was primarily about coming out to friends and family and creating community. She was a founding member of A Woman's Bookstore and a contributor to The Leaping Lesbian magazine. She and her partner Lorri Sipes have been together for 43 years, and married for 10 years. They enjoy many shared activities including gardening, golfing, and hosting dinner parties.

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LGBTQ+ Washtenaw Oral History Project - Lynden Kelly

Sun, 06/30/2024 - 3:25pm

70-year-old white woman with short hair wearing black t-shirt that reads A2QUA Lynden Kelly, who goes by Kelly (she/her), was born in 1954 in suburban Detroit. In 1972, she moved to Ann Arbor to attend the University of Michigan. She became involved in countercultural organizations and collectives such as the Ann Arbor Tenants Union and the People’s Wherehouse, a wholesale warehouse for the Michigan Federation of Food Co-ops. She recalls visiting LGBTQ+ spaces in Ann Arbor and beyond, including the U-M Gay Advocates’ Office (now called the Spectrum Center), Canterbury House, the Rubaiyat, and the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. From 1990 to 2003, she and business partner Kate Burkhardt ran Common Language Bookstore, which catered to feminist and LGBTQ+ readers, on Fourth Avenue. Kelly also discusses gender roles, coming out to her parents, marriage equality, and co-founding Ann Arbor Queer Aquatics (A2QUA), a queer swimming group.

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Psychiatrist Advises Ignoring Prognosis Given Black Family

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Ann Arbor News, February 8, 1987

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February

Year

1987

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Employees Of Shaman Drum Bookshop Cross-Dress For A Day, September 1995 Photographer: Lon Horwedel

Employees Of Shaman Drum Bookshop Cross-Dress For A Day, September 1995 image

Year:
1995

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 13, 1995
Caption:
Cross-dressing was the order of the day at the Shaman Drum Bookshop on South State Street. The reason: to poke fun at the flap over the dress code at Espresso Royale across the street and to honor former Shaman Drum employee Earl Gebott, who died last year of AIDS.