Description
Dan Gifford is a gay white man who grew up in Arkansas, and eventually moved to Maine with his partner. Dan is now an employee at the Portland Museum of Art, where he enjoys his job and being close to art. Dan has always known he was gay, yet to some in Arkansas this was viewed in a negative light or simply swept under the rug. Dan explains that the first time he visited Maine he felt “home”, and enjoys that he can be his true authentic self here, without the scrutiny that he experienced in the South. Dan also enjoys throwing house parties for his many, many friends and acquaintances, which go beyond the queer community in Portland.
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
AIDS/HIV, coming out, Portland Museum of Art, Portland Pride.
Disciplines
History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Schott, Erin and Kamenides, Hailey, "Gifford, Dan" (2022). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 89.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/89
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
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