Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Raymond Rea
Raymond Rea is a Italian-English-American-white trans male raised in Massachusetts. At the time of this oral history, Rea was working as a Professor in the School of Media Arts & Design at Minnesota State - Moorhead. In this oral history, Rea speaks at length about the geographies of Minnesota, Massachusetts, and San Francisco; the San Francisco punk scene during the 1970s and 1980s; queer cultural differences between Minnesota and California; and the film industry. Rea also touches on starting the Fargo/Moorhead LGBT Film Fest, various queer films, butchness, and normativity.
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- Identifier
- r494vk51t
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Rea, Raymond
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Oct. 16, 2016
- Dates Covered
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circa 1970
circa 1980
circa 1960
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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California
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San Francisco County
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San Francisco
Massachusetts
Minnesota > Clay > City of Moorhead > Moorhead
Minnesota > Clay > City of Moorhead > Minnesota State University - Moorhead
New York > Upstate New York
- Topic(s)
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Art
Atlantic Coast (North America)
Butches
Community life
Creative activities and seat work
Education
Friendship
Gay and lesbian film festivals
Gender-affirming care
Genderfluid identity
Genderqueer people
Health
Italian American men
LGBTQ+ films
Medical care
Middle West
Older queer people
Older transgender people
Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Trans men
Transitioning (Gender)
White transgender people
Whites--Race identity
Work
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
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