LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Cyrana Brooks Wyker
Publication Date
5-18-2015
Date
2014-01-27
Abstract
An oral history with Lashunda Flowers, a lesbian musician originally from Plant City, Florida. Flowers speaks about their closeted childhood living with their grandparents, their job as a stripper and drug dealer, and later as a musician in the band Yo' Majesty. They also speak about their dislike of capitalism and their coming out to their family. After their coming out, Flowers had a short-lived "marriage" with a married man. Flowers spoke of their unhappiness with the popularity of the LGBTQ+ scene in Tampa and the lack of support for Black LGBTQ+ people.
Keywords
Lesbians, Strippers, Street drugs, LGBTQ+ musicians, Black lesbians, Daughters of lesbians, Daughters of LGBTQ+ people
Extent
01:32:56; 34 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Hillsborough County (Fla.); Plant City (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)
Language
English
Digital Date
2014
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
L34-00022
Recommended Citation
Flowers, Lashunda Nicole, "Lashunda Nicole Flowers Oral History Interview" (2015). LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. 14.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/lgbtq_oh/14
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