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Shahida Keen is a 63 year old lesbian real estate agent originally from California but she grew up mainly in New Hampshire and Maine. She currently resides in South Portland, Maine and attended the University of New Hampshire. She worked as a massage therapist before getting into real estate and finding her love for helping women, families and members of the LGBTQ+ community find their home. Throughout her life she has been involved in many organizations in various capacities such as AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Dyke Marches, Pride Marches, Sexual Minorities Action Committee and Seacoast Response to AIDS.
Shahida Keen speaks about ways she used to organize with groups like the Lesbian Avengers and with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and how she participated in Dyke Marches, Pride Portland and many other activist organizations.
Publication Date
11-21-2024
Publisher
University of Southern Maine
City
Portalnd, Maine
Keywords
Querying the Past, LGBTQ+ friendships, lesbian activism, “Quealtor” (queer-realtors), gender diversity, sexual diversity, homophobia, lesbian political activists, LGBTQ March on Washington, HIV/AIDS, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, March for Women, Lesbian Avengers, Seacoast Response to AIDS, Red Cross, Pride Portland, Equality Community Center, Vigorous Tenderness, LGBTQ+ art, Rainbow Railroad, Portsmouth NH, Berkshire County MA, South Portland ME, feminism, radical feminism, intersectional feminism, Boston MA, women’s bookstores, Sexual Minorities Action Committee, Pulse Massacre, New York, sexism, Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Dyke Marches, safer sex parties, National Organization for Women, Blackstones, Charlie Howard, Matthew Shepard.
Disciplines
History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Davis, Olivia, "Keen, Shahida" (2024). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 129.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/129
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