Oral History Interview with Loree Cook-Daniels, January 30, 2011

Loree Cook-Daniels has been an active member in the Milwaukee LGBT community, affiliated with FORGE, Diverse and Resilient, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, SAGE Milwaukee, and the Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee. Cook-Daniels discusses her marriage to her partner, Marcelle, in the mid-1980s; Marcelle's transition to a man while Loree remained a lesbian; and the lesbian community's rejection of them as a couple. She also recounts her frustration with the transgender community as it existed in the mid-1990s, and her role in advocating for the importance of Significant Others, Friends, Families, and Allies (SOFFAs) to transgender people. Cook-Daniels describes her involvement with FORGE, a Milwaukee-based organization formed to provide to provide peer support primarily to those on the female-to-male (FTM) gender spectrum and SOFFAs. She identifies two important moments in the recent history of Milwaukee's transgender community: the 2007 FORGE Forward conference, which was the first national FTM/SOFFA conference to be held in the Midwest, and the 2010 murder of Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin, which focused local attention on violence against transgender people.

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Identifier: ht24wj48w
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Creator(s): Smith, Brice
Cook-Daniels, Loree
Contributor(s): Smith, Brice
Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Date Created: Jan. 30, 2011
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin
FORGE
Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee
Milwaukee LGBT Community Center
Significant Others, Friends, Families, and Allies (SOFFAs)
Places: Wisconsin > Milwaukee County > City of Milwaukee > Milwaukee
Topic(s): Anti-transgender violence
FtMs
LGBTI community
Oral history
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Resource Type: Audio
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Language: English
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