T. Mike Altamar Oral History

Mike Altamar is a community health educator, referral specialist and parent engagement specialist who's work has drawn on his own experience accessing resources and navigating hirs coming out and family relationships. Mike's life growing up in New York City colors the background of hirs story as ze develops a role mentoring and supporting other trans folks. Ze talks about homelessness, distance from hirs brother and finding community through feminist bookstores, college groups and community spaces. (Summary by Kirsten Adorian.)

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Item Information:

Identifier: z316q1814
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
Creator(s): Van Ness, Lorenzo
Altamar, T. Mike
Publisher: New York Public Library
Date Created: Mar. 23, 2017
Dates Covered: 1991 to 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
Places: New York > Queens
Topic(s): Bigender people
Childhood
Clothing
Coming out
Counseling
Ethnic groups
Families
FtMs
Harassment
Hormones
Passing (Gender)
Therapists
Transgender community
Transgender people
Youth organisations
Resource Type: Audio
Digital Format: duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 53 seconds
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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