This is
THE AMONG DREAMS LGBTQI MILITARY ARCHIVE

Join us in etching a history from the source, from those who have lived and endured, a history with which we can truly acknowledge and attribute those who have served our nation in the progress of greater LGBTQI acceptance, understanding and freedoms.

You have had a hand in the progress we see today.  Help us to understand how we’ve come so far.  Share your brave story with the archive.  Let our younger generations gather their history from the voices of the people who lived them.

Mapping the Invisible &

Owning our History

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

Ways to join the archive

Write Your Story

Narrative

Download the questionnaire below and have  a look.  We encourage you to write deeply into questions that you are moved to think about and ignore those questions that seem dull or do not apply.  Or just free-write on your own.  Please write as frankly as possible – go in any direction that makes most sense to you and allows you to be most candid- the questions aren’t meant to restrict or complicate your thought process, rather to guide and enrich your reflections. Have your way with this assignment- let these questions be a simple guide to telling your story- it needn’t be treated as a firm directive. There are no wrong answers. Please be a colorful as possible in your descriptions.  Detail, detail, detail.

Record Your Story

Voice/ Oral Histories

Your recording decive can be as simple as a cell phone, a tape recorder, a video camera, or a computer. We encourage recorded submissions if you have the means to visually or voice record your story.  Describe situations using emotions when possible.  How did that make you feel?  Try to record in a quiet place, if possible.

Additional online resources

*cited from www.nationaldayoflistening.org

Transom: an online public radio community, has extensive product equipment reviews and instructional recording guides at www.transom.org.

Audacity: features instructions and tips for downloading, installing, and using their audio editing software package at www.audacity.sourceforge.net.

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: StoryCorps’ archive partner, provides basic notes on folklife fieldwork at www.loc.gov/folklife/fieldwork/index.html

Interview

In-person Interview

Producer Chelsea Rae Klein is traveling the U.S. to interview participants and record stories.

If you are in or near the following locations on the following dates, please email to schedule an interview at amongdreamsproject@gmail.com

CURRENT SCHEDULE

Manhattan, NY January 17-February 16th

Denver, Colorado February 17th-20th

Bozeman, Montana February 20th-23rd

Manhattan, NY February 24th-March 20th

If you are not located in these areas, but are still interested in an interview, please email us at amongdreamsproject@gmail.com to see what we can do get your story in the archive.

Email your written or recorded story and images back to us at Amongdreamsproject@gmail.com

or submit your story and images through our ONLINE FORM    HERE

••3-12 IMAGES THAT REPRESENT YOUR STORY MUST ACCOMPANY ALL SUBMISSIONS FOR INCLUSION IN THE ARCHIVE••

Images must be sized  @ the smallest:  5×7 in &  300DPI