Description
Liam Bechen-Munoz is a 38-year-old trans man living in Portland, Maine. He grew up in a conservative Catholic town in Massachusetts before attending the University of Maine in Farmington, where he performed and did activism as a member of the Queer Student Alliance. After coming out, Bechen-Munoz faced discrimination and experienced getting fetishized online. He is a queer musician who has dealt with substance abuse but became sober in November of 2023. In this interview, Bechen-Munoz discusses some of the challenges he has faced, especially around coming out.
Publication Date
12-7-2024
City
Portland, Maine
Keywords
Querying the Past, Oral History, Bisexual, Transgender man, Non-binary, Queer, Massachusetts, Maine, Coming out, Sexuality, USM, Portland, Gender, Chosen family, Identity, Queer movement, Queer space, Catholic, Hope Gateway, Polyamory, University of Maine Farmington, Sobriety, Queer Student Alliance, Queer Poetry, Gender presentation, Queer activism
Disciplines
History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Rosano, Devon, "Bechen-Rivera, Liam" (2024). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 126.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/126
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Included in
History of Gender Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Oral History Commons, Women's Studies Commons
