Title

Sparks, Ellie

Interviewer

Madeleine Winter

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Description

At the time of this interview, Ellie Sparks was a social worker based in central Maine, working with people with HIV/AIDS. She came out as gay during the mid-1970s at Roland’s Bar in Portland, ME (at the time, the only gay bar in the city). She was part of a group of women that formed the Maine Lesbian Feminists (MLF). She also became involved with the Maine Women for a Nuclear Free Future, a group that supported a referendum to close the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant. In the early 1980s Sparks became involved in the Portland Women’s Community (PWC), where she helped to create the PWC newsletter.

Publication Date

7-6-1999

Publisher

University of Southern Maine

City

Portland, ME

Keywords

Ellie Sparks, HIV, AIDS, Roland’s, Maine Lesbian Feminists, Jean Stickney, Maine Women for a Nuclear Free Future, Maine Yankee, Portland Women’s Community, Fruits of Our Labor, Maine Gay Task Force, Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson

Recommended Citation

Winter, Madeleine, "Sparks, Ellie" (1999). USM Lesbian and Gay Oral History Project. 5.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/usmlgoh/5