Description
Marpheen Chann is a Cambodian, Asian-American, gay man living in Portland, Maine. He was born in California to an immigrant mother and later moved to Maine, then adopted by a white, Evangelical family. He spent his childhood in the church and would later attend Valley Forge Christian College. Then later transferring to USM to earn a Bachelor’s in Political Science and later attended Maine Law. Chann participates in advocacy work with organizations, such as the Equality Community Center and is the president of Khmer Maine. He currently works for the Good Shepard Food Bank as their Community Impact Manager.
Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.
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Publication Date
11-21-2022
Publisher
University of Southern Maine Special Collections
City
Portland
Keywords
Adoption, religion, sexuality, advocacy, race/ethnicity, Valley Forge Christian College, University of Southern Maine, California. Naples, Maine. SoulForce
Disciplines
History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Garland, Kendall and Horner, Meghan, "Chann, Marpheen" (2022). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 83.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/83
Creative Commons License
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