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Oral History: Polly Thistlethwaite
Organization: Lesbian Herstory Archives, P.O. Box 1258, Brooklyn,
NY 10116
Date of Interview:1996
Polly Thistlethwaite is a long time volunteer
at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Polly observes that there was not an
awareness about lesbian lives when she was growing up in Decatur, Illinois
in the 1970's. She heard about the Archives--the extraordinary college
of books, magazines, newspapers and other artifacts of lesbian lives-when
she was in library school and joined Deb Edel and Joan Nestle's project.
Her continuing work as one of the coordinators of the Archive is informed,
she says, by her "history as a lesbian or deviant or unrepresented voice
in the world."
Interviewer: Bryna Diamond, a doctoral candidate in the MALS
Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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