Christine Jorgensen (Transgender Icon)
Christine Jorgensen was an American transgender woman (at the time, referred to as transsexual) who became famous in the 1950s for her medical transition from male-to-female. She used her fame to advocate for trans people and became a nightclub entertainer.
All interviews were collected in 2016-2020 for the Queer Omaha Archives in UNO Libraries' Archives and Special Collections. The first interviews were collected by Dr. Jay Irwin in 2016 and his students in the Intro to LGBTQ Studies Sociology course in fall 2016. Since 2017, Luke Wegener has collected interviews for LGBTQ+ Voices: The Queer Omaha Archives Oral History Project.
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