Elze, Diane

Interviewer

Wendy Chapkis

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Description

Diane Elze is and has been an active member of the LGBTQ community in Portland, Maine for many years. Diane has spent most of her adulthood and professional life participating in activism and advocacy for LGBTQ adolescents. She was involved with the Wilde Stein club at the University of Maine at Orono, where she also founded the Greater Bangor Rape Crisis Center. After being unable to find a job in the Bangor area, Diane moved to Portland where she began working with the MLGPA, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and taking a leadership role with Outright, among many other organizations that she was a part of. Diane narrates many memories throughout her oral history, beginning from her childhood all the way until the present. She had been involved with most activist groups in the Portland area up until she moved back to New York.

Citation

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.

Publication Date

7-19-2019

Publisher

University of Southern Maine

City

Portland, ME

Keywords

Catholic school Springfield College/University of Maine at Orono Greater Bangor Rape Crisis Center Wilde Stein Club Gay and Lesbian Task Force Maine Gay and Lesbian Symposium Gayside Story, Oklahomo, Star Gays YWCA Maine Lesbian Gay Political Alliance (MLGPA) Our Paper Outright AIDS Project Maine Christian Civil League Maranacook High School Harbormaters Bars: One-way, Cycles, Phoenix, Underground, Sisters HAGS

Disciplines

History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies

Recommended Citation

Chapkis, Wendy, "Elze, Diane" (2019). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 51.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/51

Creative Commons License

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