For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "h | dG1fdU9Id015eFlSS0E
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00:00 2, 4, 6, 8, how do you know your grandma straight?
00:06 There was no collection of work about lesbians,
00:10 and old lesbians in particular.
00:12 What have they done with their lives?
00:14 So what I would like to hear from you first
00:17 is about your beginnings.
00:20 I just had a huge crush on the Statue of Liberty.
00:24 OK, now comes the lesbian part of it.
00:28 OK.
00:29 Some of the things that I was diagnosed with
00:32 was sexual deviance, not grasping and fulfilling
00:38 the female role, and for being angry.
00:44 It's like feeling you're in the dark.
00:47 And the first most terrifying point
00:48 was communicating this with her.
00:52 Our lives were like activism, just by being out and being
00:56 who we are.
00:58 I was one of the first lesbians to have donor insemination.
01:02 I sat down, I thought, I have got to write,
01:05 and I launched blindly into a novel.
01:08 We can't afford to lose our history, all of it,
01:13 all of it, without bias.
01:17 The truth has to be told, and the truth has to go forward.
01:22 So carry on, y'all.
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