1. Interview with Diana LaMonte

Description:

Diana talks about her transition in the early days of trans community, about her life story, about setting up the first trans organization in Canada, and about her recent activism in her women's community.Narrator Name: Diana LaMonte. Interviewer Name: Evan Taylor. Pronouns: She. Other Names or Pronouns: Diana Elizabeth LaMonte.

Subjects:

Violence; Activism; Community; Trans woman; Association of Canadian Transsexuals; Resilience; Surgery; CHAT; Sex work; Suicide; Sex; AIDS; Child abuse; Substance abuse; ACT; Celibacy

Subjects Facet:

LaMonte, Diana

Publisher:

Transgender Archives; TheArquives

Contributors:

Devor, Aaron; LaMonte, Diana; Taylor, Evan; Brown, Elspeth

Date:

2020-02-14

Genre:

transcripts; video recordings (physical artifacts); oral histories (literary works)

Language:

eng

Rights:

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0); Unless otherwise specified, this material is made available on this site for non-commercial purposes only. All other uses require permission of the copyright holder.

Provenance:

University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection:

Trans Activism Oral History Project

Location(s):

Ontario--Toronto; British Columbia--Vancouver Island; British Columbia--Vancouver; 49.24966, -123.11934;49.65064, -125.44939;43.70011, -79.4163

Coverage-Temporal:

1979/2020

Date Digitized:

2020-02-14

Commentary:

PDF; mp4; vtt. Original recording using Zoom platform.

Geographic Coordinates:

49.24966, -123.11934;49.65064, -125.44939;43.70011, -79.4163