Carolyn Connolly Oral History

Carolyn Connolly begins with her difficult childhood in a blue-collar Irish-Italian family in Flatlands, Brooklyn, her entry into metal scenes of NYC, and her radicalization into the Love and Rage Anarchist Federation. Later Carolyn is hired as the first trans woman employee at Babeland, a NYC feminist sex toy show featured in other interviews about their later unionization, and becomes active in a national scene of radical trans writers. Carolyn also considers her sobriety, and leaving NYC through moving to New Paltz in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

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Identifier: bv73c052v
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
Creator(s): Connolly, Carolyn
O'Brien, Michelle Esther
Publisher: New York Public Library
Date Created: Dec. 25, 2018
Dates Covered: 1968 to 2018
Genre: Oral Histories
Places: New York > Kings County > Brooklyn
Florida > Miami-Dade County > Hialeah
Topic(s): Alcoholism
Coming out
Crossdressing
Drug abuse
Homophobia
Punk
Transgender people
Transsexualism
Resource Type: Audio
Digital Format: Duration: 2 hours 48 minutes 43 seconds
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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