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| Titles |
Not Waiting for a Cure Oral History Project: Interview with Roy Schmidt |
|---|---|
| Description |
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Roy Schmidt has a long history of activism with labor unions and Minnesota's Democratic Farmer-Labor Party. He was an original employee of the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP) and serves as the state's unofficial AIDS historian. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: He discusses the death of his housemate Brian Coyle, a Minneapolis City Council member who died of AIDS and whose papers are held by the Minnesota Historical Society. Schmidt also discusses the MAP's development from a volunteer effort to a statewide agency with a multi-million-dollar budget. A gay activist for many years, he discusses the effect the epidemic has had on the political and social life of the Minnesota gay community. |
| Quantity |
2 hours sound cassette 23 pages transcript |
| Format |
Content Category: sound recordings Content Category: text |
| Measurements |
01:25:48 running time |
| Creation |
Interviewee: Schmidt, Roy Interviewer: Fraser, Nelson Made in: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States |
| Dates |
Creation: 04/20/1995 |
| Holding Type | Oral History - Interview |
| Identifiers |
OH 50 (Library Call Number) AV1996.17.11 (Accession Number) |
| More Info |
MNHS Library Catalog |
| Related Collections |
Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Not Waiting for a Cure Oral History Project' |
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