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• Interview with Charles Versaggi
  Charlie Versaggi talks about the early days if the HIV/ADIS epidemic, the loss of his partner to AIDS, his work with the Lambda (LEHIHO) Community Center, the AIDS Services Center, and FACT.
• Interview with Maria Rodale
  Maria Rodale talks about the death of her brother David Rodale, which happened during the early part of the epidemic. She also speaks about her mother’s activism. Her family owned Rodale Press publishing and currently continues to be closely involved with Rodale Institute and organic farm.
• Interview with David Moyer
  David Moyer talks about the AIDS epidemic in the Lehigh Valley of PA. He focuses on his work as a nurse in the Allentown Health Department, local education, testing, and notification of positive tests that he was in charge of, the formation of FACT, and how the AIDS epidemic compares to COVID-19 pandemic.
• Interview with Nan Kozul
  Nan Kozul talks about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the Lehigh Valley of PA. She focuses on working in several local LGBT bars, her work as a healthcare worker, AIDS discrimination, the formation of FACT, and friends who were sick.
• Interview with Larry Kleppinger
  Larry Kleppinger talks about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the Lehigh Valley of PA. He focuses on working at the Allentown Stonewall Bar, the formation of FACT and his participation as the president of FACT, the FACT Summer Games, and people working together to create support and funding during the 7 years when the government responded to the disease.
• Interview with Mitch Hemphill
  Mitch Hemphill talks about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the Lehigh Valley of PA. He focuses on working in the local bar, the rise of the FACT organization, creating, and running his newspaper Above Ground that covered AIDS information.
• Interview with Rose Craig
  Rose Craig talks about her work as the last President of the Gay Community Center in Allentown in the 1980s and how that Center because the AIDS Services Center to address the illness and deaths of people dying of AIDS in last few years of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. She talks about what services the AIDS Services Center provided and her role in securing funding and support.
• Interview with T. Scott Allen
  T. Scott Allen talks about the AIDS epidemic in the Lehigh Valley of PA. He talks about his years as an Episcopal minister and his work with AIDS Services Center, people who had HIV/AIDS, and how churches supported people who were sick.
• Interview with Steven Ziminsky
  Steven Ziminsky talks about how the current COVID19 is affecting him as a retired teacher, a musician missing gigs, a church music director who is featured on zoom church services, exercise, and civil rights and political activism.
• Interview with Ian Wagner
  Ian Wagner talks about the current COVID19 is affecting him, his friends and family, and the people he lives with, his work as a therapist and not being able to see clients face to face and his new job, how it is affecting LGBTQ people, Black Lives Matter issues, community leadership, learning to bake bread, and what gives him hope.
• Interview with Sarah Trimmer
  Sarah Trimmer talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting her. She talks about her essential worker job managing a bed and breakfast in South City Bethlehem, her concern about the virus because she is at high risk as a breast cancer survivor. And how she and her wife have replaced new entertainment interests for things they regularly did before the virus.
• Interview with Ariel Torres
  Ariel talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting him, his friends and his family, his work on the Pride Festival and other projects at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center. He also talks about traveling, not being able to do his second job as a nationally known drag performer and his daily routine, and Black Lives Matter issues.
• Interview with Christina Peyroux
  Christina Peyroux discusses her experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic including how it has effected her job in nursing and living with her grandmother, a retired nurse.
• Interview with Miles Molerio
  Miles Molerio talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting him. He talks about leaving college early, having to stay with a friend’s family for 5 months, how the virus is affecting him and other members of the Transgender community, and what is bothering him the most.
• Interview with Roberta Meek
  Roberta Meek talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting her. She talks about working at home, college teaching remotely, her feelings about what she sees as the possible collapse of government systems, Black Lives Matter. And how three generations of her family are supporting each other.
• Interview with Stephen Libby and Gary Gaugler, Jr.
  Steve and Gary talk about how the COVID19 virus is affecting them. They talk about each working from home and how it affects themselves and each other. They talk about what it’s like at their jobs, and how possible exposure to infection has caused them to reconsider their employment and why. They describe the care they are taking to stay safe and consider why they are not speaking time with people who are not caring the kind of care they are.
• Interview with Lizabeth Kleintop
  Lizabeth Kleintop talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting her as a professor at a local college, how teaching online is progressing and what Moravian college may do in the next few semesters. She also talks about her experience as a Transgender woman and how she is communicating with other Trans people and the concerns she has regarding the institutional transphobia that is being put forth by the current
• Interview with Brian Jones
  Brian Jones talks about the current COVID19 is affecting him and his family, his work at Metropolitan Community Church of the Lehigh Valley, how it is affecting LGBTQ people, Black Lives Matter issues, and what gives him hope
• Interview with Alessandra Fanelli
  Alessandra Fanelli discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of her life including living situation, her profession, and social life.
• Interview with Marianne Cutler
  Marianne Cutler talks about how the COVID19 virus is affecting her. Marianne talks about the concerns she has for her 14 year old daughter and her not being able to attend school related sports practice, and if she will be able to return to school. Marianne talks about teaching at ESU and how it will be remote in the next semester, the trip she and her daughter took to Provincetown MA, what she did alone when both her partner and daughter were away earlier in the summer, and her concerns regarding civil rights, LGBT students, and Black Lives Matter.
• Interview with Chloe Cole-Wilson
  Chloe Cole-Wilson talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting her, her work with Project Silk - the youth program at Bradbury-Sullivan Center with homeless youth, the rise of racism during this politcal time in relation to the pandemic, and Black Lives Matter issues.
• Interview with Robin Casey
  Robin Casey talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting her as a faculty member at a local college. She talks about her concerns regarding the opening of the college during the pandemic, the LGBT students who need support, and the relationship of the college and students to the Black Lives Matter movement in relation to recent problems in Allentown.
• Interview with Alanna Berger and Blaise Liffick
  Blaise Liffick and Alanna Berger talk about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting them. They talk about their recent move to be nearer to their adult children, Blaise’s retirement from teaching college and how the end of the semester was remote learning. They discussed their many years of commitment to civil rights and the support of the LGBT community through the Silent Witness programs. They talked about the LGBT people in their family and how COVID19 has affected their work and health from having the virus.
• Interview with Judith Arendt
  Judith Arendt talks about how the current COVID19 pandemic is affecting her. She talks about quarantine with a friend, renewing relationships with friends she hadn’t seen or spoken with for 50 years, her fear about getting sick, and not feeling motivated to do projects.
• Interview with Ricardo Almodovar
  Ricardo Almodovar talks about how the current COVID19 is affecting him and his family and partner. He talks at length about his volunteer efforts with the homeless, his policy-making job, and his commitment to activism regarding conservation, civil rights, and equity.