"This will give you an idea of how the men dress over here. Notice his short pants? They're made of leather." ~Lorraine Hurdle, Photo with an elderly man in Germany, ca. 1950s Lorraine Hurdle was a Black lesbian woman who served as a…

"Oh, I had to go. I thought, it'll be a change. I'll get to travel. I was so happy that I did join, that I got a good job."~Carmen Contreras Bozak, VOCES Oral History Project, 2002 Born on New Years Eve 1919, in Cayey, Puerto Rico, near San Juan,…