Queer Newark Oral History Project

Kristyn Scorsone

Through a mix of interviews with LGBTQ community members, academics, and students, find out why Newark's LGBTQ history matters and how public history projects can combat queer erasure. This podcast is an offshoot of the Queer Newark Oral History Project, a community-driven endeavor supported by Rutgers University-Newark that collects and preserves the life stories of LGBTQ and gender nonconforming individuals in the city of Newark, New Jersey.

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Queer Newark Oral History Project

Episodes (9)

Jun 1, 2023 Remembering James Credle
Apr 24, 2023 Saundra Toby-Heath
Jun 25, 2019 Newark Pride with Sharronda "Love" Wheeler

Queer Newark Oral History Project

Jun 1, 2023
1¼ hours
79 MB

On April 15th of 2023, we lost one of Newark's dearest LGBTQ+ leaders, James Credle. In this episode, you will get to hear James talk about growing up in the Jim Crow South and what it was like to move North to Newark, his time serving as a medic in Vietnam, living through the AIDS epidemic, and becoming a dean at Rutgers-Newark, where he provided support to all marginalized students, especially those who were LGBTQ+. James was also a founding member of National Association of Black and White Men Together, the New York Men of All Colors Together, the Newark...

Queer Newark Oral History Project

Remembering James Credle

Kristyn Scorsone

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