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Text Any textual data included in the document Oklahoma marriage equality 12th anniversary By Mary Bishop-Baldwin Oklahomans for Equality History Project I’ve been researching and writing articles on OkEq’s and Oklahoma’s LGBTQ history since this spring, and with my journalism background, I’ve written them from a third-person perspective. But today’s issue is profoundly personal for me, so, in the interest of transparency, I’m writing this in first person, and I’m drawing on my own memories as well as on historical documents. I hope you’ll indulge me. Today, Oct. 6, 2026, is the 12th anniversary of marriage equality in Oklahoma. It’s also my 12th wedding anniversary. Twenty-two years ago next month, Sharon Baldwin, Sue Barton, Gay Phillips and I filed a federal lawsuit against Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and U.S. President George W. Bush seeking the right to marry (Sharon and me) or to have our existing relationship recognized. (Sue and Gay already had a domestic partnership in Vermont.) We filed the case the morning after 76 percent of Oklahomans who bothered to go to the polls voted to put the state’s existing statutory ban against same-sex marriage into the state constitution. Our case took lots of twists and turns over the next decade, including a complete change of lawyers and defendants (Drew Edmondson later told us he’d always been on our side), but we eventually prevailed in the courts, and marriage equality became the law in Oklahoma on Oct. 6, 2014 – a year before Jim Obergefell’s case won marriage equality nationwide. We weren’t affiliated with Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights – Oklahomans for Equality’s previous name – in the early years of our legal action, but the organization threw its weight behind our cause starting in 2008, and we will forever remain indebted to OkEq for the support it gave us and the home it provided us at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center. It is my honor and privilege to be working for the Oklahomans for Equality History Project now to bring attention not just to this but to all the milestones along the road to LGBTQ equality so far. As Sharon discusses in her book about our case, “Becoming Brave: Winning Marriage Equality in Oklahoma and Finding Our Voice” (available for check-out in OkEq’s Nancy and Joe McDonald Rainbow Library), Oklahomans for Equality hosted many events and was the primary fund-raiser for costs associated with our lawsuit. (Thank you, OkEq and all of you who donated!) OkEq declared “Marriage Equality Week” and organized several events during the week of March 25-30, 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in New York resident Edie Windsor’s case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act and in the challenge to California’s anti-equality Proposition 8. On that Monday, the University of Tulsa law school’s gay student group presented a “Preview to the Supreme Court Hearings on Marriage Equality” at the Equality Center, and faith leaders from local inclusive congregations spoke in support of marriage equality. That Tuesday, OkEq board member and attorney Mike Redman discussed that day’s U.S. Supreme Court hearings. On Wednesday, Oklahoma’s marriage-equality plaintiffs and local couples who had been legally married in other jurisdictions held a panel discussion on why marriage matters. That Thursday, attorney and OkEq board member Conor Cleary recapped discussions in the DOMA and Prop 8 hearings, and on Friday, a marriage equality documentary was screened and wedding cake was served. A flier from Oklahomans for Equality to its Equality Business Alliance members invited them to participate in an OkEq Wedding Fair by showing off their business services to prospective brides & brides and grooms & grooms during that week’s events. Then, more than nine years after our lawsuit was filed, U.S. Senior District Judge Terence Kern ruled on Jan. 14, 2014, that Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection provision. He stayed his ruling, however, until the case could play out in appeals. We had known from the beginning that if we lost at any point, we would appeal, and we knew that if we won, the state would appeal. So we were OK with the stay at that point. We were elated that we had won, and we continued to have faith that we would win on appeal. Anticipating new costs as the case would go to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Oklahomans for Equality encouraged supporters in its Jan. 17, 2014 eNews to contribute to the legal fund. The Feb. 5, 2014, OkEq eNews promoted a pre-Valentine’s Day marriage-equality engagement party to be held at All Souls Unitarian Church, one of our supporting congregations, on Feb. 12. “Announce your desire to marry as soon as it is legal in Oklahoma,” the article said. “Certificates provided to couples announcing. There will be food, drink and music.” The first and only time oral arguments were heard in our case was April 17, 2014, in the Byron White U.S. Courthouse in Denver, the home of the 10th Circuit. Three months and a day later, on July 18, the appeals court issued a ruling upholding Judge Kern’s U.S. District Court ruling declaring Oklahoma’s ban unconstitutional. We had won again, but the court left the stay in place pending appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Indeed, the defendant (by this point, the defendant was the Tulsa County court clerk) did appeal. We also urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our case, even though we had won. We wanted the high court to make a ruling that would apply to the entire nation and end the patchwork quilt of marriage-equality states that had emerged during the past decade. One of the original printings of the Brief for Respondents – or “orange book” – with our attorneys’ pleading to the high court to take up our case, signed by all four plaintiffs and three exceptional lawyers – Don Holladay, James Warner III and Joe Thai – is on file in the OkEq History Project collection, and a digital reproduction is available in our online archives. But on Oct. 6, 2014, nearly 10 years after we filed our lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a statement saying it would not take up the appeal of our lower court ruling, thus letting it stand. The stay was lifted, and same-sex couples were able to marry starting that day. The staff and board of Oklahomans for Equality jumped into action, and by 5 o’clock that evening, Sharon and I were holding wedding bouquets and standing in front of Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals Judge Jane Wiseman on the front steps of the Tulsa County Courthouse, where we had obtained a marriage license just hours before, and were saying our vows in front of a crowd of hundreds of friends, family, co-workers, supporters and onlookers. Then what seemed like even more people attended a reception at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, complete with a hastily obtained wedding cake and plenty of champagne for toasting the historic occasion. We were elated, and while we were ecstatic to finally be married, we were even more thrilled for our community. Now same-sex couples in our state and region (10th Circuit states) could publicly acknowledge their relationships and have them recognized by our government! We all could lift our heads higher and walk more proudly, knowing that we were no longer second-class citizens under the law. On the marriage front, at least, we were equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of the law. And we were far from the only same-sex couple married in Oklahoma that day. When Sharon and I arrived at the courthouse, several other couples were already there to get their marriage licenses. Very kindly, though, they were waiting for us to get there and then let us go to the head of the line so we could have the honor of obtaining the first marriage license issued to a same-sex couple in Tulsa County. Some of them went ahead with their ceremonies as soon as possible, but we scheduled ours for that evening to allow for arrangements to be made and for friends and family to get to Tulsa from out of town. Oklahomans for Equality determined that during the next three months, more than 3,200 Oklahoma marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in 23 of the state’s 77 counties, then-OkEq Executive Director Toby Jenkins told the Tulsa World in January 2015. County court clerks’ offices weren’t keeping a count, but OkEq staff members went through online records and tallied the numbers of marriage license applications issued to couples with apparently same-gender names. The tally sheets are on file in the Oklahomans for Equality History Project archives. Immediately after marriage equality became the law in Oklahoma, Oklahomans for Equality made a list of gay-friendly officiants for wedding ceremonies available for pickup at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center or by email. Also in its Oct. 8, 2014, eNews, it encouraged couples to look through the Equality Business Alliance directory for LGBTQ-friendly businesses to help create the perfect wedding, and it promoted spaces within the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center as places to hold a ceremony. For those with questions about how the legality of same-sex marriage would affect them, Conor Cleary led an Oct. 9, 2014, session of OkEq’s OUTlaw Legal Series focused on the state of same-sex marriage in Oklahoma. Also as early as Oct. 8, 2014, OkEq put out a call for wedding photos from the same-sex couples who had gotten legally married since Oct. 6. “If you have a photo of you and your partner getting your marriage license or photos of your wedding, we'd like to see them, the organization wrote in the Jan. 22, 2015, OkEq eNews. The organization continued collecting photographs, and then, near the one-year anniversary of marriage equality in Oklahoma, Oklahomans for Equality released a video compilation of those that had been submitted. A link to the YouTube video is included in the Oct. 7, 2015, OkEq eNews. Within one year of same-sex marriage becoming legal in Oklahoma, marriage equality became the law of the land nationwide when the Supreme Court ruled in the Obergefell case on June 26, 2015. The patchwork quilt of marriage-equality states was no more! Finally we could fly through Dallas and not have our marriages nullified by the state of Texas as soon as the plane’s wheels hit the tarmac at DFW! (Yes, Oklahoma beat Texas!) Same-sex couples could drive across the country without having to plan their routes to avoid non-marriage-equality states. Besides the psychological reasons for wanting our marriages intact, we had practical reasons. If one spouse had a medical emergency and ended up in a hospital – or dead – the laws of the state would determine whether the other could make medical decisions and body-disposition arrangements or whether the two were “strangers under the law.” These things were among the reasons we wanted and needed marriage equality in the first place, and they were important whether we were at home or traveling. Committed, loving same-sex couples had long yearned for the ability to take care of each other and to protect their financial and property rights in the event of a death. Before marriage was possible, some gay couples became legally next-of-kin through adult adoption, in which one partner would legally adopt the other to establish familial rights. Such was the case with Bruce Schultz and Jared Bruce, who obtained an adult adoption when they were both 50 years old in 2005. Thus related under the law, they were not eligible to marry when same-sex marriage was legalized in Oklahoma in 2014 and across the United States in 2015. But longing to have a legal relationship that truly fit their status as life partners, they sought to have their adult adoption vacated. Represented by attorney Mike Redman, who was then the Oklahoma ACLU president and a longtime OkEq board member, the couple obtained the first reversal of an adult adoption from the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Feb. 1, 2017, and were legally married at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center on that same day. They had been together 35 years. “I was orphaned at 10 o’clock in the morning and married at 5,” Jared Bruce said Friday. Their case set a precedent for other adult adoptions to be vacated when deemed by a court to be in the best interest of the parties. For their dedication and determination in this cause, “the Bruces,” as they are known, were honored with the Bishop-Baldwin, Barton & Phillips Civil Rights Advocacy Award in 2018. Redman received the award the next year. The adoption of children is another legal issue that was affected by marriage equality. On Nov. 20, 2015, Julie and Crystal Loveland-Davis, represented by attorneys (and husbands) Chris Brecht-Smith and Michael Brecht-Smith, both past OkEq board presidents, obtained the first same-sex second-parent adoption in the state of Oklahoma for their 3-year-old daughter. Kyler Loveland-Davis was born June 1, 2013, and the couple were legally married nine days after marriage became possible for them in Oklahoma in October 2014. As Oklahomans for Equality noted in its Feb. 10, 2016, eNews, “LGBT families have existed for years, but only recently has Oklahoma law begun recognizing us.” To help our families navigate the legal waters of protecting their family members, OkEq held an informational seminar on a variety of family law topics, including marriage, adoption, divorce, child custody and military service as it relates to family law. The event was facilitated by Chris Brecht-Smith, who talked about adoption and child custody issues and answered questions from the audience. As we approach Oklahomans for Equality’s Tulsa Pride parade and festival on Oct. 17 – just a week and a half away – we recognize that while we still have a long way to go in gaining equal rights for all LGBTQ people, we can look back with pride on how far we’ve come. We have achieved marriage equality and the benefits that come with it. Happy anniversary, everyone. This is a day of celebration for all of us. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document By Mary Bishop-Baldwin Oklahomans for Equality History Project It’s Oct. 19, National LGBTQ Center Awareness Day, and today we at the History Project celebrate the very existence of Oklahomans for Equality’s Dennis R. Neill Equality Center. Since the Equality Center opened nearly two decades ago, thousands of people have come through its doors, joining with like-minded folks and advocating for LGBTQ people, accessing services, using a free library with thousands of LGBTQ-themed books, and rallying for justice and equality for all. The Equality Center is a gift for us all – and for future generations – from many dedicated volunteers who gave of their time, labor and money to establish this home for the LGBTQ community in Tulsa. Before the Equality Center opened in 2007, Oklahomans for Equality and its predecessor organizations had no permanent home. When the group was founded in 1980, its members met in places such as the Central Library and All Souls Unitarian Church. Within a few years of its founding, the group had rented small spaces for storing the organization’s records and for such things as board meetings, but any community meetings and gatherings were held elsewhere. Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights opened Tulsa’s first “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Community Center” in a rented space at 1338 E. 38th St. on Peoria Avenue in Brookside in October 1996, according to a “History of TOHR 1980 to 2003” document in the OkEq archives. “The center quickly became a popular meeting spot for community groups, support groups, and those who wished to network with other members of the GLBT community. The center began to operate a book and video library, referral service, and pride retail store,” the document says. The center, which also was known as the Pride Center, was named the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center in 1998, Greg Gatewood, a former TOHR executive director, recalled in an oral history interview that is part of the History Project’s archives. Keeping the center’s doors open was always a concern, particularly from the standpoint of money. “As the end of 1998 approached, and despite very careful budgeting with strict adherence to that budget, the serious question of ‘how we will pay rent’ and ‘will we have to close the doors’ was a real threat,” Gatewood said in an addendum to that interview. “An anonymous gift, an amount to cover rent though the end of year plus a bit more, was then delivered to the TOHR office in the newly renamed ‘Tulsa Gay Community Services Center.’ That anonymous gift kept the doors open in 1998 and helped set the course for success in 1999.” The property owner wanted no exterior signage indicating that this was a gay center, but Gatewood said that in 1998 he and two other members raised a Pride flag and hung banners that said “Gay Community Center and Pride Store” from the roof down two sides of the center’s building to enhance its visibility in Brookside. “We got kicked out. We lost our lease because we hung up the signs,” he said in the interview. A legal fight ensued, and TOHR lost that battle. Part of the reason landlords insisted on no obvious signage is that they feared potential vandalism to their buildings from anti-gay extremists. A Sept. 15, 2014, Oklahomans for Equality Facebook post says that “we had to move the existing gay community center every few years because landlords overreacted to vandalism and felt our visibility hurt other tenants’ business.” Indeed, “the Community Center has been vandalized numerous times in the many locations in which it has operated,” TOHR noted in its Pyramid Project Capital Campaign Executive Summary in explaining part of the rationale for buying its own property. In former TOHR President Tom Neal’s oral history interview, he and Dennis Neill discussed the vandalism at the Brookside center, recalling that the front glass was broken twice. The organization moved to a rented space on Memorial Drive at 21st Street in October 2000. The Nov. 10, 1999, TOHR membership meeting minutes, housed in the History Project archives, state that the organization “can put up permanent signs once outside renovations are substantially complete.” Before that lease expired in September 2003, TOHR began looking for a new space to lease – explicitly stating in an Aug. 1, 2003, “Request for Space” document that it needed the “right to place visible exterior signage with text similar to the following: ‘Tulsa GLBT Community Center,’ including graphics for the TOHR logo and the rainbow colors associated with the GLBT worldwide community.” The Tulsa GLBT Community Center moved in 2003 to the Highland Plaza shopping center, 5545 E. 41st St., east of Yale Avenue. TOHR had launched its first capital fundraising campaign, the Pyramid Project, in 2000. The “History of TOHR 1980 to 2003” document says the goal was to raise $1 million to buy “a permanent and visible home for the Tulsa GLBT Community Center.” “Those brave and self-sacrificing folk believed if they would ‘build it, they would come’ to a center that provided direct services, advocated daily for a more inclusive Oklahoma, and connected individuals and created paths to friendships,” OkEq’s Sept. 15, 2014, Facebook post says. Not long after OkEq bought the building that would become the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center – and long before the building was remodeled and opened to the community – Gatewood went onto the roof and raised a Pride flag above the building for the first time. “One of the most memorable days of my decade-plus of involvement with TOHR /OkEq was the day (in November 2005) I raised the Pride flag on the roof of the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center,” Gatewood said in his oral history interview. “It was a celebration attended by hundreds of the Tulsa LGBT community on a beautiful November day filled with sunshine. I will never forget that feeling. I will never forget that day.” More than a year later, the Jan. 22, 2007, Oklahomans for Equality eNews reported that “after hundreds of thousands of dollars, over 7,000 hours of volunteer work, … 275+ volunteers, 2 big trucks and countless weekday and weekend workdays – the day is finally here! Oklahomans for Equality will open the new Dennis R. Neill Equality Center today, Tuesday, January 23, 2007.” A five-day grand opening celebration was held from Feb. 14 through Feb. 18, 2007, with various events every day. A Jan. 23, 2007, email from Oklahomans for Equality announced that “defying conventional expectations, Tulsa is now home to one of the largest (18,000-square-foot) lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community centers in the United States.” Celebratory events ranging from an art exhibit to GayBingO to a Wild Hearts Ball were held at the Equality Center. The email contains extensive information about the grand opening events. Our ownership of our own building was a remarkable accomplishment, and while it gave us a permanent home with no chance of being evicted, it didn’t stop the vandalism. Around 12:30 a.m. on March 6, 2017, a white four-door pickup pulled up in front of the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center and fired 13 shots at the windows and front door. The damage was discovered when staff arrived later that morning, and the drive-by shooting was viewed on the center’s security video. Over the years, TOHR/OkEq and other organizations in Tulsa and across the nation have held events to mark National Coming Out Day. But the community was resilient. “The board of directors has chosen to keep the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center open and programming to continue as it does on a regular basis. They have hired an off duty Tulsa police officer to provide extra security during this time of uncertainty,” the March 8, 2017, OkEq eNews reported. After OkEq member Wes Smith challenged members of the community to send in $13 each – one dollar for each of the pellets that had hit the building – to replace the glass, people across the country and world sent in more than $33,000, which allowed OkEq to replace all the downstairs windows and the front door with more bullet-resistant glass, Sue Welch and Marcy Smith recalled in their oral history interview with the History Project. The damaged door is now a part of the History Project’s office. On July 22, 2019, a little more than two years after that drive-by, the mural depicting Lynn Riggs on the exterior of the Equality Center’s Lynn Riggs Black Box Theater was vandalized with spray paint, the July 31, 2019, OkEq eNews reported. A Tulsa World article about the vandalism and OkEq’s resilience is on file in the History Project’s archives. Our home at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center can never be taken for granted. It is meant to be our safe place. While Oklahomans for Equality owns the building, it is the community’s responsibility to foster its continued existence by contributing resources and participating in programming. On this National LGBTQ Center Awareness Day, think of the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center and all those who have made its existence possible for us and for future generations. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text Any textual data included in the document National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11 By Mary Bishop-Baldwin Oklahomans for Equality History Project Today, Oct. 11, is National Coming Out Day, and the Oklahomans for Equality History Project is taking a look back at how this day came to be and how Tulsans have acknowledged it over its nearly four decades of existence. “Coming out” is something that is near and dear to our hearts at the History Project as we consider the risks OkEq’s founders took when putting their names and faces with a gay rights organization in 1980, when the group was founded. Times were very different then, and it took bravery and a bit of self-righteous indignation for those individuals to come together and acknowledge being gay. But that’s the thing: It’s always been easier when you find others who share traits with you – when you know you’re not the only one. So coming out allows others who think they are the only one to see someone like them and find the courage to live their lives openly and authentically. Beyond helping other LGBTQ+ people, though, coming out lets other people know that they know someone who is gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender or two spirit or nonbinary or anything that is not cisgender heterosexual, and this can make all the difference in how the larger society responds to us. When straight cis people know us as people, they’re less likely to demonize us and work against our human rights. Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, OkEq’s forerunner organization, informed its members in the May 1988 edition of the TOHR Reporter that “lesbians and gay men across the country are being called to join in a nationally publicized ‘Coming Out Day’ scheduled for October 11th, 1988. According to a recent report in the Washington Blade, organizers of the event plan to involve hundreds of thousands of people in order to boost the visibility and political clout of gays and lesbians by showing that they exist in all walks of life.” This 1988 event was the first National Coming Out Day. The May 1988 article explained how it was started: The ‘Coming Out Day’ activities were jointly sponsored by the National Gay Rights Advocates, a California based litigation group, and The Experience Weekend, a gay-oriented consciousness-raising program run by Rob Eichberg. Jean O’Leary, NGRA’s executive director, said she and Eichberg volunteered to organize the event after it was proposed at a national gay rights conference held that February. “The National Coming Out Day campaign will encourage every individual to take the ‘next step’ in coming out, by telling a parent, relative, business associate or friend,” the TOHR article said. It added that “coming out” could be done through “a simple action like placing a photograph of your lover on your desk at work, or a bold step like a teenager taking his or her first step in acknowledging their sexual identity.” That national conference mentioned in the article was a February 1988 gathering in Warrenton, Virginia, of “approximately 200 recognized leaders of the national GLBT community” who collaborated on strategies to change public policy toward gays. A formal statement from the group prioritized visibility of the community through coming out. “We are mindful of the invisibility of our community,” it said. “As long as the overwhelming majority of our community remains closeted we will continue to be dismissed. We must do a better job of encouraging people to begin the process of coming out, and to support them when they do. We all know the exhilarating liberation of the process. We must convey that to others. The closet means invisibility, impotence, crippling and even death.” Later in the statement, the organizers said: “Finally, we must have a national coming out day, or week, to be held in the fall. We recognize that coming out is a process, not a single event. On the coming out event we can encourage everyone in our community to take the next step – it may be coming out to a friend, to a sister or brother, to parents, to coworkers, or even in the media. Or it might be to join a gay organization, to become an activist, to engage in civil disobedience. We must move to the next stage, no matter where on the spectrum we presently are.” As that first National Coming Out Day approached, TOHR reported in the October 1988 edition of the TOHR Reporter that: “The goal of National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11,1988, is to increase the visibility and the political clout of the more than 25 million gay men and lesbians in this country. “Coming out is the most self-empowering and political move that any one of us can make. Coming out is a liberating experience that enhances our self-esteem. It enables us to share our true selves and feelings with the people we care about – our families and friends. “Coming out also is a political act that uses gay visibility to influence the attitudes of people who respect us. “We are of all races and religions. We work in every profession in every city. We touch the lives of millions of people whose negative view of homosexuality would change dramatically if they were to know who we are. “By remaining silent, we ensure our continued oppression as we allow an ignorant and intolerant society to make the rules that govern our lives. “On Oct. 11, the first anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, hundreds of thousands of people will be bringing the spirit of the march home to their local communities. Be one of those people. Help to create a world where lesbians and gay men can live and work with their heterosexual counterparts as equal citizens in a society that recognizes their legitimacy and place in America!” The article offered some “ideas for coming out”: • Speak the truth when asked, “So are you engaged yet?” • Stop lying to your fraternity brother about all the women you’ve had • Call him a him and her a her when talking about your love life • Acknowledge that “those roses” are not from your mother • Be affectionate with your lover upon arrival or departure at the airport • Put your lover’s photo on your desk at work • Read a gay paper on the bus or in a restaurant • Take your lover home for the holidays • Come out to your family – parents, brothers and sisters • Come out to your extended family – uncles, aunts and cousins It also offered ways “non-gay friends of gays” could offer support: • Write a letter to your congressperson in support of human rights • Challenge homophobic jokes and comments when you hear them • Attend a lesbian or gay event with your lesbian and gay friends Over the years, TOHR/OkEq and other organizations in Tulsa and across the nation have held events to mark National Coming Out Day. The Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Fall 2002 edition of The Torch newsletter notes that “many communities and college campuses sponsor activities such as dances, film festivals, workshops, literature booths, and rallies on National Coming Out Day. Tulsans can do their part in this year’s National Coming Out Day. Simply stop by the TOHR Pride Store, located in the Tulsa GLBT Community Center, 2114 S. Memorial, and pick up a bumper sticker or T-shirt. Then slap that sticker on your car or wear that T-shirt.’ “Come out! It’s what you should do. Period.” The November 1993 edition of The Parachute includes information about a National Coming Out Day event held by TOHR. It included an auction as well as free food and drinks. The Oct. 15-Nov. 14, 1995, edition of the Tulsa Family News includes information about local NCOD events. The Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church held a commemorative service attended by 35 people, the newspaper said. The University of Tulsa’s Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Alliance presented three days of programming ranging from a panel of PFLAG speakers to a discussion of gays and lesbians in the church. The next year, in 1996, multiple events again were held over a three-day period at TU. According to the September-October 1996 Tulsa Family News, a roundtable discussion of “Sexuality: Nature vs. Nurture” was held one evening, while a panel discussion on same-sex marriage was held the next. On the third day, all campus groups were invited to attend a Unity Party in honor of National Coming Out Day. The August 1999 edition of the Tulsa Family News, as well as the publication’s September 1999 edition, reported that TOHR would present a National Coming Out Day Festival and Fair, which was to include a mini film festival. The October 2001 edition of the Tulsa Family News reported that Tulsa’s PFLAG chapter was having a Come Out and Fly Your Kite event at a local park in honor of National Coming Out Day. The Oct. 10, 2013, edition of the Oklahomans for Equality eNews contains a National Coming Out Day reminder that “OkEq offers a FREE Coming Out Workshop every Monday evening.” In 2017, OkEq held a T-shirt printing and open mic Coming Out Day event at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center. The community was invited to bring their own T-shirts and print their own messages on them for free and to tell their coming-out stories through comedy, poetry, spoken word or performance, the Sept. 27, 2017, OkEq eNews announced. Oklahomans for Equality made a statement in the Oct. 10, 2018, eNews: “Coming out – whether it is as lesbian, gay, bissexual, transgender, queer or allied – STILL MATTERS. When people know someone who is LGBTQ, they are far more likely to support equality under the law. Beyond that, our stories can be powerful to each other. “Every year on National Coming Out Day, we celebrate coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) or as an ally. On Oct. 11, 2018, we will mark the 30th anniversary of National Coming Out Day. “Nearly 30 years ago, on the anniversary of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, we first observed National Coming Out Day as a reminder that one of our most basic tools is the power of coming out. One out of every two Americans has someone close to them who is gay or lesbian. For transgender people, that number is only one in 10.” In 2019, OkEq created an #outinokla Facebook frame, which it promoted on a Facebook post featuring a photo of gay playwright Lynn Riggs. The Oct. 11, 2021, OkEq eNews acknowledged that “in the LGBTQ2S+ community, ‘coming out’ is a process that never truly ends. First, we must come out to ourselves, accepting who we are in the community. Then comes telling others, which never really ends, as we have to keep coming out at work, with friendships, with family, and in other situations. “It takes time. It takes tremendous self care. It takes a whole community of support to feel ready to come out! At Oklahomans for Equality, we are dedicated to helping individuals no matter where you are on your journey. Join us for our Coming Out Workshops, connect with our gender and sexuality support groups, get sliding scale fee counseling, visit our OKEQ Health Clinic for HRT services, and check out our LGBTQ+ Youth Group. Coming out is a journey, and we are here to support you!” (Groups and events at the Equality Center change from time to time. Check out what’s happening on Oklahomans for Equality’s event calendar here.) So make your statement today, National Coming Out Day, but continue to honor yourself and our past during the entire month of October, LGBT History Month. Check out the Oklahomans for Equality History Project’s online archives at history.okeq.org. And you can come out, find your community and celebrate with Oklahomans for Equality at the Tulsa Pride parade and festival on Saturday, Oct. 17. 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Text Any textual data included in the document #__-____ City ______________________________________ State, County _______________________________ Date ______________________________________ <h3>Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights</h3> <h3>GLBT History Project Informed Consent</h3> <ol> <li>I hereby agree to participate in an interview in connection with the oral history project known as _____________________________________. I understand that I will be asked about _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________.</li> <li>The interview will be videotaped and/or audio-taped. In the interview I may be identified by name, subject to my consent. I may also be identified by name in any transcript (whether verbatim or edited) of such interview, subject to my consent. If I choose to remain anonymous, I know that the tape(s) of my interview will be closed to use, and my name will not appear in the transcript or reference to any material contained in the interview. I know that in the case of choosing to remain anonymous, my interview will only be identified by an internal GLBT History Project tracking number.</li> <li>I understand that the interview will take approximately _____ hours and that I can withdraw from the project without prejudice prior to the execution and delivery of a deed of gift, a form of which is attached hereto. In the event that I withdraw from the interview, any tape made of the interview will be either given to me or destroyed, and no transcript will be made of the interview. I understand that a photograph of me will be taken or borrowed for duplication, and that if I withdraw from the project, the photograph will be given to me.</li> <li>Subject to the provisions of paragraph five below, I understand that, upon completion of the interview, the tape and content of the interview belong to Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, and that the information in the interview can be used by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights in any manner it will determine, subject only to the limitations listed below.</li> <li>Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights agrees that: (i) it will not use or exercise any of its rights to the information in the interview prior to the signing of the deed of gift; (ii) the deed of gift will be submitted to me for my signature at completion of the interview; and (iii) restrictions on the use of the interview can be placed in the deed of gift and will be accepted as amending Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Right's rights to the content of the interview. I understand that I have the right to review the tape or transcript of the interview before I sign the deed of gift.</li> <li>Any restrictions as to use of portions of the interview indicated by me will be edited out of the final copy of the transcript.</li> <li>I understand that at the conclusion of this project and upon signing the deed of gift, the tape, photograph, and one copy of the transcript will be kept in the possession of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights and its Archive.</li> <li>If I have questions about the research project or procedures, I know I can contact _________________________________ at the GLBT History Project, TOHR, P.O. Box 2687, Tulsa, OK 74101, (918) 743-4297 or via e-mail at history@tohr.org.</li> </ol> If I feel I have not been treated according to the descriptions in this form, or that my rights as a participant in research have been violated during the course of this project, I know I can contact the President of the Board of Directors of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, P.O. Box 2687, Tulsa, OK 74101, (918) 743-4297 or by e-mail at bortolani@tohr.org. ____ I agree to be identified by name in any transcript or reference to any information contained in this interview. ____ I wish to remain anonymous in any transcript or reference to any information contained in this interview. I wish to have the tape(s) containing my interview closed to use. I wish to have my transcript only identified by an internal GLBT History Project tracking number. ____ I wish to have the following limitations placed on the use of my interview: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Interviewer signature_____________________________________ Interviewee signature_____________________________________ Address _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Phone number _____________________________________ Consent Date __/__/__ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [ND] Oral Histories Project Interview Informed Consent Form Description An account of the resource GLBT History Project informed consent form for Oral History Project interviews. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ND