LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Cyrana Brooks Wyker
Publication Date
1-30-2015
Date
2013-10-06
Abstract
An oral history interview with Robert W. Pope and Lawrence John Konrad, a gay retired couple. They spoke of their childhoods in Tallahassee (Pope) and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Konrad), and how they met. They also spoke about the Johns Committee headed by Charley Johns. They talked about the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and how people reacted to both those with HIV/AIDS and gay men in general. They talk of forming a ministry for those dying of AIDS called SIDA and work with the Metropolitan Community Church. Konrad spoke about his time in the Navy and the difficulties of being a gay man in the service. They also talked about their various business enterprises over the years.
Keywords
Gay men, LGBTQ+ retirement homes, Retirement communities, Charley E. Johns (1905-1990), Florida. Legislature. Legislative Investigation Committee, HIV/AIDS, AIDS phobia, AIDS death and dying, LGBTQ+ religious people, LGBTQ+-affirming religious groups, Metropolitan Community Church, Queer people in the military, Gay men in the military
Extent
02:13:33; 70 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Leon County (Fla.); Tallahassee (Fla.); Bethlehem (Pa.); Pinellas County (Fla.)
Language
English
Digital Date
2013
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
L34-00013
Recommended Citation
Pope, Robert W. and Konrad, Lawrence John, "Robert W. Pope and Lawrence John Konrad Oral History Interview" (2015). LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. 21.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/lgbtq_oh/21
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