History 21 The Podcast - 1.01 Daryl Lawrence

Self-appointed family historian, Daryl Lawrence, shares the saga of discovering his great-grandmother’s hidden first marriage and divorce as well as finding a member of his family tree who was gay like him.

Daryl Lawrence, ACHS Board Member

Daryl Lawrence

History 21: The Vault Extras

Listen to Daryl Lawrence’s full interview

Jack, serving in WWII

Jack, graduation image, 1939.

Anoka County Library Minute

Further Reading:

1. A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski - 306.766 BRO

   A Queer History of the United States is a concise history of LGBT people in US society. It describes ways in which queer people have influenced the evolution of the United States, and how the culture of the United States has affected them. A Queer History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in 2011.

2. Queer Twin Cities: Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project - 306.766 QUE

   Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project—a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists devoted to documenting and interpreting the lives of GLBT people in Minneapolis and St. Paul—Queer Twin Cities is a uniquely critical collection of essays on Minnesota’s vibrant queer communities, past and present.

3. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman - 306.755 FAD

   The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle is a 2015 book by Lillian Faderman chronicling the struggle for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights in the United States from the 1950s to the early 21st century.

4. The Stonewall Reader Edited by New York Public Library - 306.766 STO

   For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.