Interview with Marvin Henchbarger and Laurie Dean Torrell at GLYS

Title

Interview with Marvin Henchbarger and Laurie Dean Torrell at GLYS

Interviewee

Keith Gemerek

Interviewer

Keith Gemerek

Recording Date

2004

Description

A collection of 34 interviews conducted in 2004 by Keith Gemerek focusing on GLBT elders in the Buffalo, NY and surrounding community. These recordings are housed in the Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York at SUNY Buffalo State, Archives and Special Collections. https://library.buffalostate.edu/archives/LGBTQ

Description:

In this interview, partners Laurie Torrell (executive director of Just Buffalo Literary Center) and Marvin Henchbarger (CEO of Gay and Lesbian Youth Services) discuss their coming-out journey, relationship, and work. While Marvin recounts her experience as a gay woman who identified as a lesbian later in life, Laurie discusses how marriage with her ex-husband pushed her to realize her gay identity. Finding each other through work with GLYS, Laurie and Marvin reveal how they founded the Niagara County Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered Wellness and Health and GLYS’s shifting focus on youth development. Marvin reveals that the experience of today’s teens isn’t all that different, and both spill their take on the political climate surrounding gay rights and the struggle with maintaining visibility.

Collection

The Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York

Audio Length

41:35

Rights

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Department

Archives & Special Collections Department, E. H. Butler Library

Document Type

Audio Clip

Interview with Marvin Henchbarger and Laurie Dean Torrell at GLYS

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