Description
Lex Lyon is a 48 year old queer transgender man living in Portland, Maine. He is a multilingual language learner teacher and was a leader of the Welcoming and Safe Schools Youth Conference. Lyon speaks about the course of his life, identifying different ways and finding joy in different queer scenes. He transitioned during his teaching career, teaching middle schoolers. He has a strong passion for music and has good memories of the Michigan Women’s Music Festival. One of his role models is Nicole Maines, a transgender activist who stood up for herself at a very young age. Lyon recalls memories at Phish shows, North Star Café, and Sisters. In more recent years he enjoys ariel silks and still seeing live music.
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Publication Date
11-22-2024
Publisher
University of Southern Maine
City
Portalnd, Maine
Keywords
Lex Lyon, Bullying, Beverly Massachusetts, Phish, The Grateful Dead, Boarding school, Sisters, The Snug, The Underground, Bowdoin College, University of Southern Maine, Education, Teaching, Youth Activism, Maine College of Art & Design, multilingual learner, Nicole Maines, Prince, subculture, punk, folk music, Brandie Carlile, Cindy Lauper, Boy George, Indigo Girls, Michigan Women’s Music Festival, music, craft vending, fabric marbling, transgender, trans man, genderqueer, gender non conforming, dyke, bisexual, medical transition, queer art, Gay Straight Alliance, Butch, Butch/Femme relationship, Gay, male privilege, travel, airport security, paganism, spirituality, Feminist Spiritual Community, Welcoming and Safe Schools conference, found family, cross country traveling, sex positivity, kink, burlesque educational workshops, North Star Cafe, Dr.Sketchy's night, Portland Maine, Portland State theater, Bikini Kill, Washington Ave Portland Maine, Congress Street Portland Maine, Friends, surfing, aerial silks, lyra, figure skating, affinity groups, queer yoga, Portland Yoga Project, EVO rock climbing
Disciplines
History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Eaton, Oliver, "Lyon, Lex" (2024). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 134.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/134
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
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Comments
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.