Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Gloria Allen
Gloria Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria", is a biracial woman from Bowling Green Kentucky and Chicago. in this interview she speaks at length about founding the Charm School at the Center on Halstead in Chicago. Allen, also known as "Mama Gloria". In this interview, she speaks transitioning in the 1970s, dating, her work as a licensed practical nurse, performing, and her relationship with the Church. She also speaks about the play Charm. She discusses her role in beginning a "charm school" for trans people in Chicago, her understanding of gender and sexuality today and current LGBT politics.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- 3j333251b
- 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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Allen, Gloria
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Apr. 26, 2016
- Dates Covered
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circa 1980
circa 1970
circa 1990
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Center on Halstead
Charm (play)
Charm school
Gloria Allen
Mixed Blood Theater
Precious Davis
Trans 100 Legacy Award
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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Illinois
>
Cook County
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City of Chicago
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Chicago
Kentucky > Warren County > Bowling Green
South
- Topic(s)
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Actors
Art
Biracial transgender people
Black people
Church
Community life
Discrimination
Education
Entertainers
Family relationships
Friendship
Gender realignment surgery
Gender-affirming care
Love
Marriage
Mentoring
Middle West
Nurses
Older people
Racially mixed people
Religion
Sex
Singers
Spiritual life
Spirituality
Transitioning (Gender)
Women
Work
- 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/
- Rights
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In copyright
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