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1. Jaxin Bohn Interview (26:16)

Date:
2024
Main contributors:
Jaxin Bohn, Jesse Whitton
Summary:
Interview with Jaxin Bohn, recipient of a 2023 Summer Research Scholarship, talks about his research project “Please Say Gay and Why it’s Important.” The goal of Bohn’s community project is advocacy for LGBTQ+ youths’ rights to be heard and supported in schools. Bhon plans to survey the LGBTQ+ youth and their teachers in Wayne County high schools; he seeks to examine the correlations between how the students feel and how much support they are given by faculty and the school system. Bohn, a member of the LGBTQ+ club at IU East, explained the significance of on-campus support for LGBTQ+ students. “The frustration I have felt in these last six months from the anti-LGBTQ+ laws, bills and general discrimination against us, is indescribable,” Bohn wrote in his proposal. “Campus might be the only place where some students feel safe in the midst of all the hate being thrown our way; I want to be part of making that happen by spending more time on campus.”

2. Array Performance for Solo Soprano Saxophone (17:37)

Date:
2022
Main contributors:
Nathan Froebe, Nick May, Bryan Boyd
Summary:
Array is a series of miniatures based on the Progress Pride Flag. Created in 1978 by artist Gilbert Baker at the behest of Harvey Milk, the Pride Flag has been an enduring and evolving symbol for the LGBTQ+ community. Baker created various meanings for each color of the flag as well, explaining that “I like to think of those elements as in every person, everyone shares that.” The flag originally had the colors of hot pink and turquoise, but due to manufacturing issues they were quickly dropped. In 2017, the city of Philadelphia added the brown and black stripes to stand in solidarity with members of the BIPOC community. Then, in 2018, non-binary artist Daniel Quasar redesigned it again to the current (2022) iteration, with a chevron on the left side of the flag pointing forward, representing the progress that has been made. The chevron consists of the white/light blue/ light pink of the trans/non-binary flag, as well as the black and brown stripes. Conflicting accounts arise of their descriptions of the black and white colors, and which one represented the lives lost to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, thus the executive decision was made during the composing process to have white represent it. Each miniature is not meant to be an interpretation of the literal color, but instead a personal and artistic rendering of the concept as experienced by the composer. Composer - Nathan Froebe Soprano Saxophone - Nick May Director - Bryan Boyd

3. Day of Silence 2021 (07:31)

Date:
2021
Main contributors:
LGBTQ+ Connections at IU East, Title IX Coordinator
Summary:
A video in support of the Day of Silence tradition and Sexual Assault Awareness month (April 23, 2021). Day of Silence is GLSEN's annual day of action to spread awareness about the effects of the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning students. The people featured in this video our members of the LGBTQ+ Connections at IU East group, Cole Lane (Office of Student Success), Beth South, KT Lowe, Jesse Whitton (Library staff), in partnership with the Director of Affirmative Action, EEOC Officer & Deputy Title IX Coordinator Tracy Amyx. This video originally aired on the Indiana University East Facebook page.

4. In Paths Untrodden [performance] (55:17)

Date:
2021
Main contributors:
Nathan Froebe
Summary:
On the weekend of May 1st and 2nd, IUE faculty and guest artists gathered in Vivian Auditorium to rehearse and record Nathan Froebe’s new song cycle, “In Paths Untrodden,” set for two un-gendered voices and Pierrot ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano). This cycle consists of ten poems by Walt Whitman, set to music by Dr. Froebe (composer, conductor), and depicts the navigation of an LGBTQ+ relationship in the messy aftermath of romantic separation. The work itself constituted the entirety of the music performance, as the cycle is approximately thirty-five minutes in length. Due to the pandemic, there was no audience. The performance premiered on Facebook Live.

5. Nathan Froebe Interview (57:34)

Date:
2021
Main contributors:
Nathan Froebe, Beth South
Summary:
Interview of Nathan Froebe, visiting professor of music, about his song cycle "In Paths Untrodden," queer-reading of select Walt Whitman’s poems. He also talks about his experience as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Professor Froebe has also donated the musical documents, program, and recording of the performance of this work.

6. Interview of Danielle Cozart-Steele (43:42)

Date:
2020-10-23
Main contributors:
Danielle Cozart-Steele, Beth South
Summary:
Interview of Cozart-Steele on the Transgender Singing Voice Conference which started at Earlham College in Richmond, IN in 2017 and the success with helping a transgender student in the process. It is now a biannual conference.

7. Local LGBTQ Community Members Panel (1:13:00)

Date:
2020-09-25
Main contributors:
Travis Rountree
Summary:
Panel Participants are Lisa Marling (Ally, Nurse), JR Ridgeway (Army, Law Enforcement), Scott Tucker (Business Owner), Benjamin Guard (Student, Co-founder of SAGA at IVY Tech), Sue King (Navy Vet, Archivist), and Brent Walsh (Administrator, Earlham School of Religion). All participants identify as LGBTQ+ and currently live or is originally from Wayne County, Indiana and surrounding areas.

8. Stephen S. Mills Talk with Eng-W270 (56:22)

Date:
2020-09-25
Main contributors:
Stephen S. Mills
Summary:
Stephen S. Mills is an award-winning LGBTQ poet who is a native of Richmond, Indiana. Travis Rountree, assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Program invited Stephen to IU East to read some of his poetry that often refers back to the region. Stephen also visited Dr. Rountree’s Eng-W270 class to talk to the students about growing up in Richmond, how he came out to his family and found his identity, and what inspires him as a writer.

9. How We Became Sluts (05:50)

Date:
2020-09-19
Main contributors:
Stephen S. Mills
Summary:
Poetry reading of Stephen S. Mills. Video recording of Mills reading "How We Became Sluts" from his published work "Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution."

10. Interview of Alex Hakes (05:30)

Date:
2020-09-19
Main contributors:
Alex Hakes, Ethan Scott
Summary:
Interview of IU East student Alex Hakes by Ethan Scott for assignment for Professor Travis Rountree's ENG-W270 Argumentative Writing class in the spring of 2019.