Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Crispin Torres
Crispin Torres is a Latino trans masculine person. At the time of this oral history, Torres was working for Lambda Legal. In this oral history, Torres speaks at length about his childhood, coming out, being a musician, family relationships, chosen family, religion, racism, encounters with healthcare, and the shifts he's seen in transgender politics over the past 25 years. Torres finishes with a future agenda for trans communities moving forward.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- 1c18dg00z
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Torres, Crispin
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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May 27, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Lambda Legal
- Places
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Illinois
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Cook County
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City of Chicago
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Chicago
Mexico City > Cuauhtémoc Borough
- Topic(s)
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Coming out
Education
Educators
Gay community
Gay culture
Gay families
Gender realignment surgery
Hormones
Latinos
LGBTQ+ relationships
Masculinities
Mexican Americans
Misogyny
Musicians
Political movements
Roman catholicism
Surgery
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Transphobia
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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