Pride History
February of 2025 - February of 2027
Project Coordinator: Jamie Pelusi
Project coordinator and Pride Center Director, Jamie Pelusi, along with trained student interns, conductss a series of oral history interviews chronicling the organizing work around LGBTQ+ issues at the College. In addition, the Pride Center Director begins digital storytelling circles to capture students’ diverse experiences. The discourse around gender and sexual orientation expansiveness is ongoing and rapidly evolving. And our students, who are the creators of this knowledge, are empowered through the opportunity to add to the historical record through telling and sharing their stories.
Oral History Interview - Chesa Caparas
Interview Date: April 29, 2024
Narrator: Chesa Caparas
Interviewer: CHC student intern Matt Piasecki
Oral History Interview - Scott Lankford
Interview Date: July 2024
Narrator: Scott Lankford
Interviewer: Pride Center coordinator Jamie Pelusi and student intern Somi Robinson
Oral History Interview - Shaila Ramos Garcia
Interview Date: June 24, 2024
Narrator: Shaila Ramos Garcia
Interviewers: CHC student intern Matt Piasecki
This project has been funded through a National Endowment of the Humanities grant, "Voices of Silicon Valley", to California History Center at De Anza College. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this {article, book, exhibition, film, program, database, report, Web resource}, do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.
