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After graduating from Queens College, Kelly earned her Master's degree at St. John's University.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Kelly discusses popular events on campus including the Day of Silence and Safe Sex Pajama Party, as well as the day-to-day life of GLASA club members and other LGBTQ students. She describes her own path to becoming more connected to a larger network of LGBTQ community through GLASA, and the impact her time at Queens College has had on her development as an educator and individual in the world. 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Could you start by sharing your name, pronouns, title, the day and time, and where we're recording?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=0.0,12.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Sure. My name is Kelly Chan. My pronouns are she/her. I am a QC [Queens College] alumni. And today is April 22nd, 9:37 PM, and we are recording on Microsoft Teams.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=12.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Awesome. So Kelly, could you paint us a picture of your first time hearing about GLASA [Gender, Love, and Sexuality Alliance] at Queens College? Do you remember where it was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=26.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: So my first time hearing about GLASA I think was a little bit less, was pretty unremarkable, pretty not-so-memorable. I came into Queens College and I was like, oh, cool. There's a GLASA and I'm queer, and that's great. And when I first came into Queens College as a student, it was the spring semester of 2010, and I was not excited to be there. I was going through a tough time in my life. I had just left SUNY [State University of New York] New Paltz and I just kind of didn't really know where I was going. So it was kind of just like, okay, I'm here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=36.0,80.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: And I was very, very lost. And I guess, let's fast forward a few years? So I entered Queens College as a student in 2010, and I was kind of going through the motions. I was going through my classes, doing what I needed to do to get good grades and to continue my job. And I was in a relationship. And in 2012 everything had changed. And that was my first real memory of GLASA. That's when I fully, I stopped from going to meetings every now and then to really, I went to every single club meeting. I went to all the events, and I remember walking into the club room that we had in the Student Union basement and just seeing everyone sitting around and having a good time and looking like they were truly hanging out in a friend's basement rather than in a school on a campus. And everyone invited me to sit down. And it felt really good to be in a space where I felt like I could have friends and I could feel like a normal college student after going through a breakup and after going through not having the most traditional high school and college experiences previously.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=80.0,162.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Sure. So you mentioned that you were at New Paltz. What then brought you to Queens College? How did you find yourself there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=162.0,175.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: So when I graduated high school, I didn't really have a profession in mind. I just kind of started applying to colleges and I wound up at SUNY New Paltz because it was kind of close to home. I grew up in Queens and it was far enough away where I [could] get out of my house. So I went for it. And after I left, I didn't really know, I realized that wasn't maybe the best choice at the time. I was in a relationship that I was just tunnel-visioned by. I was trying to be an MMA [mixed martial arts] fighter. I was trying to rebel, trying to find myself as a queer person. So I kind of just dropped out of New Paltz and I applied to Queens because it was a CUNY [City University of New York] and it was close to home. And I knew that, well, I suspected, that I could get in and start my life there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=175.0,232.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Sure. The MMA fighting sounds so cool. You were training at the time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=232.0,238.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: I was, yeah. I was training under an organization that was very, very demanding. It was like they wanted me to teach the kids classes. They wanted me to go up to their headquarters in New Jersey multiple times a week. They wanted me to train, they wanted me to clean. And so that was my life prior to 2010 and between 2010 and 2012. And that was kind of the breaking point where I was like, \"I need to focus on school. I'm not doing very well in school. I don't really know how much longer I can dedicate my life to MMA either.\" So I kind of took some steps back. It was kind of gradual from 2011 to 2012, and I took some steps back from MMA and I kind of faded myself out. I faded myself out of this relationship I was in. And coincidentally, 2012 was also the year I turned 21. So of course things changed in that perspective.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=238.0,302.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: And you were saying that was also when you started to get more involved with GLASA, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=302.0,308.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Right. And it kind of came together. It really does, it sounds like a cliche, but it really felt like the stars really aligned. I finally took the time to just be what was considered \"normal.\" I spent so much of my high school trying to be an MMA fighter working and doing all these things that I felt like typical high school kids weren't doing. And then in college it was the same. And then when I transitioned out of MMA and when I got out of this relationship, I was like, \"I want to be a college kid. I want to sit in this room and hang out with college kids and I want to make queer friends.\" And it wasn't that in high school or previously in college, I was not accepted as queer. It wasn't that I was ashamed, it was just that I had queer friends, but it wasn't a community. And so when I came into GLASA, I saw that community and I felt like this is a place where I could belong.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=308.0,370.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Did anything, as you started to get more into that regular routine of being part of GLASA in 2012, did anything surprise you about meeting others, getting to be in space with other queer and allied students?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=370.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Yeah, so my high school, I guess we had a lot of people who identified as gay and lesbian and bi. I didn't really know too many trans or non-binary folks. So that was, I guess an eye-opener, how there are so many non-binary folks and that was the time where I was introduced to folks having preferred pronouns. And that was a large topic of conversation in a lot of our meetings. I was kind of introduced to more sex positivity, which no one really talked about in my other friend circles. I know in April of 2013, I attended the GLASA Day of Silence, and that was the first time I was hearing of an event of that sorts. So it definitely taught me a lot. It definitely was an eye-opener to the larger world, I guess, of queer and LGBT folks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=392.0,464.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: While you were at Queens College during this time, getting exposed to new and different people, were there other clubs that you sought out or other spaces that you spent time in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=464.0,477.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Oh, yes, of course. So this is one of the other things that kind of consumed my college career. I was heavily involved in a service leadership organization called Circle K. I held many leadership roles there, and in this time in 2012 when I was kind of jumping into GLASA, I made best efforts to merge Circle K and GLASA. JC, who is the advisor of GLASA at Queens College, is also the advisor of Circle K. So that was a huge support system. Circle K had GLASA co-sponsor a bunch of events that Circle K was doing, which increased the attendance at those events. And it also increased just the development of our events. We had a lot of charity events. We had an event called the Eliminate Show, which was a talent show to raise money for the Eliminate Project, which is a project under UNICEF [United Nations Children's Fund], and some of the GLASA members ended up performing in that talent show. So it was really cool to see all my friends merge, all for the greater good of the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=477.0,548.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Awesome. And what was it that drew you to Circle K in the first place?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=548.0,554.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Circle K is a collegiate branch of Kiwanis, and the high school branch was called Key Club. And I was in Key Club in high school, so I figured it was just something I would continue in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=554.0,566.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Awesome. So you mentioned doing those events together, that you started to merge those worlds. Did you find that that happened a lot at Queens College, that folks would be involved in a couple different organizations and they worked together, that there was a lot of collaboration? Or was that something unique to Circle K?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=566.0,597.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: I did feel like a lot of organizations did merge, and I really liked that. It's funny because when I was hanging out in the GLASA club room, I saw a lot of those organizations merged, so we had a lot of the Filipino Club come in and we had a lot of, I don't know, I think it was the Radio Club or some media club? They were always coming in to hang out and advertise their events. And so I saw a lot of great ideas being bounced off in that room. And again, it was just something that I didn't really see before I joined GLASA. So even though I was in Circle K, I didn't realize all these other organizations [were] collaborating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=597.0,643.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Cool. Can you remind me, Kelly, were you ever part of the e-board for GLASA?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=643.0,650.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=650.0,651.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Okay. While you were a member of GLASA, were there specific events that you remember getting very excited about getting involved in the planning [of] at all? Or was it more of an opportunity for you to show up, be in space with people, come to events and things like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=651.0,680.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: I do remember a lot of great events that I attended. I remember the Safe Sex Pajama Party, which is where I was kind of open to the openness of sex positivity because there was a speaker who went over different sex toys and to [use them] in a safe space and where people could ask questions and have discussion. So I felt that [was] very informing. It was also a lot of fun. We had a lot of silly games putting condoms on, and it was just really silly. It was really free-spirited. I remember afterwards one of the members had a little after-party at their apartment, which goes back to me feeling like, \"Oh, I'm a normal college kid now.\" And that really made an impact on me. I ended up in a few relationships through GLASA. I ended up making friends that last, that I still have today. I ended up celebrating my 21st birthday with the folks that I met in GLASA, and they took me out to queer spaces in the city, which kind of opened me up to more queer spaces. And I think it was exactly what I needed at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=680.0,766.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Do you remember some of the places that you all went to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=766.0,771.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Outside of QC?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=771.0,772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=772.0,773.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Oh, I can tell you. I believe at my birthday, I think on my birthday weekend we went to Stonewall. This girl in GLASA was like, \"Oh my God, it's my birthday too! We have to go to Stonewall.\" And I'd kind of heard of Stonewall and I was like, \"Yeah, sure. I guess I'm down.\" So we went to Stonewall and I remember we went to this, I don't even know if these places are open, but we went to this gay dive-y bar called Pieces that was down the block. I remember every Friday night there was this promoter called Hot Rabbit, and they used to operate under the Monster Bar right across the street from Stonewall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=773.0,815.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Oh, I remember. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=815.0,818.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Yeah, they're still operating as Hot Rabbit, but now I don't think they have a permanent space. I think they kind of float around. I barely go out anymore. But yeah, it was a really good time. And I think if I didn't have my GLASA friends, I wouldn't have been exposed to that, maybe. And it's funny because I was a little hesitant because prior to turning 21, I went to little house parties and I went to illegal clubs and I didn't have a good time at them. I didn't like them at all, but I was like, you know what? I'm going to try anything. And then I realized that it wasn't that I didn't like going out or I didn't like dancing and I didn't like partying. It was that I only felt comfortable doing this in queer spaces.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=818.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Do you remember, so you've touched on the fact that it sounds like the relationships that you built with other queer folks or allied folks being a huge game changer, it sounds like, for your time at QC. As much as you want to go into detail or feel comfortable, do you want to shout out who some of those people were that you felt especially close to, or friendships that you really remember as being very strong?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=870.0,909.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: As strong, I remember there was this girl, Ashley was her name, and she was the one that took me to Stonewall. She was the one that took me to Hot Rabbit. We went to all these parties together. There was this guy, his name was Willvin, and he was hilarious. He was down for everything. We went out every Pride, we went out every Halloween, we went out, we went out every night for a very long time. But after we went out every night for a very long time, we faded out. He was always down to go out. There was this one day he came to my house with a boombox, just like wow! [laughs] You know, I opened the door and he was there and he just had that boombox on all night. And then he left and he left his boombox in my apartment. And then at 3:00 AM he's banging on my door because he left his boombox.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=909.0,962.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: What was his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=962.0,965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: His name was Willvin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=965.0,966.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Okay, can you spell that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=966.0,967.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Unfortunately, I lost touch. W-I-L-L-V-I-N.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=967.0,974.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=974.0,975.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Unfortunately, I've kind of lost touch with him. He was so free-spirited that he didn't believe in cell phones. So I don't know how we hung out all these times. [laughs] But yeah, eventually the random number I had just stopped working and I think I ran into him once and then it was just so hard to track him down. So I hope I find him in the world soon. I really miss him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=975.0,999.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: And of course, my two best friends to this day, Jenn [Sanchez] and Devin [Singh], I met in GLASA, and they're my best friends to this day. They currently live in California, and I do my best to visit them as much as possible. I just saw them last, I just saw them this January. And they were not only—GLASA has opened so many doors. So it's opened this door of that queer space. It's opened this door to collaboration with Circle K. It also opened the door to nerdy board games because when we would hang out in the basement, Devin brought this game called Betrayal at the House of the Haunted Hill. And we all just spent hours playing this game. Over and over. Are you familiar with this game?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=999.0,1051.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: I am, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1051.0,1053.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Yeah. So we would just play that game. And so the way the game works is that there's different plots. So there's different scenarios that can be played. So you can play this game 50 times and it'll be played very differently 50 times. And we played it hundreds of times. Every day we would just play this game. And then eventually we started playing other games. And now Jenn and Devin are my GLASA friends, they're my board gaming friends, and hopefully we stay friends for awhile.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1053.0,1088.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Very cool. So I'm going to transition us into time since graduating from Queens College. What have you been up to? And I guess more specifically, how has GLASA and the impact of having been a part of GLASA continued to inform your life since graduating?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1088.0,1113.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: So currently I am a[n] early intervention speech-language pathologist for work. In terms of how GLASA has impacted and informed my life today, I do try my best to create a diverse space for my clients and to try to educate the communities that I'm in on pronouns and the fact that people have different types of families. Actually, when I was at grad school at St. John's, I think that was, when was that? I think that was sometime in 2014, 2015. I was in a class and the professor was talking about, I think they were called garden statements. And the purpose of a garden statement was that there's a loophole and you don't know what the sentence is saying. And I don't remember the exact sentence, but it was kind of like, \"She taught the students and then went home—\" No, I'm butchering this. You know what, I really, I can't remember the exact sentence. You can try and find it another time. But anyway, the point was the professor was trying to tell us that the—it wasn't a she, sorry, I think it was a gender neutral type name. And I think the professor was trying to tell us that the gender had to be a she, because they were assigned to—oh God, I can't remember this. This is relevant. I just can't remember the statement, the sentence.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1113.0,1234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: But it was something about how you would assume that the she is with a man and the teacher had to be a she, because teachers are generally female. And I just remember for the first time sticking up for myself and for the queer community, I emailed the professor. And I was terrified to do so because I've never done that, especially because St. John's was known to be a Catholic school. And I told the professor, \"Listen, I don't feel that this is a safe space. I am a queer person, so I don't understand why we're assuming that this female is automatically partnered with a man.\" And shockingly, she apologized. So I try to find myself, when I find myself in those positions, I do try to correct people. [Editor's note: Kelly Chan followed up after this oral history to share the following context for the above anecdote. \"The topic of the lecture was on 'Garden Path Sentences' - a type of sentence where the syntactic structure leads you to expect a different conclusion than it has. The example given was, 'Girlfriend of teacher slain by son also killed.' The professor told the class that if you read the sentence at first you think that the teacher is a female because teachers are more likely to be female but then said but after reading the 'girlfriend' part we know that the teacher is male.\" Kelly reached out to the professor over email to explain that the teacher in the example sentence could just as easily be a woman or gender non-conforming person dating the girlfriend. As Kelly notes above, the professor apologized for the assumption that the teacher in question had to be straight. Kelly recalled in her followup email that \"It was a very proud moment that I still (mostly) remember 10 years later!\"]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1234.0,1295.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: So I work with three and under that are non-verbal. But once in awhile, I do get a verbal child, and we do look at photos. And oftentimes in the photos there'll be some pink picture and there's a person in a dress and the flashcard wants you to say it's a female. And I try and give the benefit of the doubt to my clients that if they're calling this a he, then it must be a he. And I'll ask them why. And then they'll say, \"I don't know.\" And I was like, \"Okay, that's good enough.\" So I try and implement preferred pronouns at that early age because I do think it's important. I'm not explaining this very well. But—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1295.0,1348.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: No, I mean, I feel like that is the exact sort of age that it's necessary to start building that recognition, that awareness that there's multiple ways of living in this world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1348.0,1367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Right. Or like photos. What comes up more often, the photos of people with long hair. They don't always have to be a female because they have long hair. I'm a female with short hair. And actually, it's funny. So many times little kids will come up to me and they'll be like, \"Are you a boy or a girl?\" And I'm like, \"I dunno, what do you think?\" And they're like, \"I think you look like a boy.\" I'm like, \"Okay, that's great.\" So I kind of just let them think what they want to think, because otherwise I feel like if I start correcting them, they'll start correcting other people or they might stop asking. I love that they ask as a 2-year-old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1367.0,1407.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Do you feel like—since the time that you first started at Queens College, a lot has happened, of course, in the intervening years [with] the increased visibility of LGBTQ people in general, do you feel like your own work with families, with kids that age range, do you feel like that's shifted somewhat the conversation of how much people are aware?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1407.0,1444.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: Sorry, can you repeat that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1444.0,1450.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: In the years since you first started at Queens College, do you feel like the conversation has shifted in terms of how visible LGBTQ people are when you're working with families? Do you notice that things have changed, that there's more awareness, or does it not come up very much?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1450.0,1480.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: I think that there is a lot more visibility in 2024 overall in the world. I think people have been more accepting. The doors are a lot more open. Actually, I just thought of a great topic that's come up in the early intervention community. So there's this woman, she's a YouTuber, her name is Ms. Rachel. I'm sure you know her if you've ever met a toddler. She does videos on YouTube and she entertains kids and she teaches kids and the parents how to increase language skills. And she's fantastic. Everyone loves her. Until she has one of her partners, I guess, or her cohosts, I don't know who she is exactly. I don't watch the show religiously, but I guess one of the people, the guest on her show does identify as non-binary. She presents as very androgynous. Her name is Jules on the show.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1480.0,1539.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: And I have seen a lot of posts that were like, \"Cancel Ms. Rachel, because she's like, it's propaganda. Exposing our very young children to trans people and to this person. I don't know about this influence.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1539.0,1555.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: And it's funny because I tried to tread kind of lightly, but I've kind of asked the families that I've worked with how they feel about Ms. Rachel and Jules and all my families have been like, \"You know what? This is absolutely ridiculous that people are trying to cancel Ms. Rachel because we love Ms. Rachel. And if you don't like Ms. Rachel, then you don't have to watch Ms. Rachel, but we need Ms. Rachel, we need Jules. We need this whole YouTube channel because it saves our lives. And we don't really care what these people identify as because they're fantastic educators and entertainers and we love them.\" And so I always love hearing parents defend the situation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1555.0,1594.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: That's very cool. So I want to thank you for the time that you've already given in this interview. And I want to wrap us up with a question that I've been asking everyone, which is, imagine that there is a new student who identifies as queer starting at Queens College now in 2024. What advice would you give that student?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1594.0,1627.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly Chan: I would tell the student to join GLASA. And if they said, \"Oh, but I don't think I need that. I have a lot of support,\" I would tell them to join anyway, because that's how I felt. I felt like I had support until I joined GLASA, and that's when I really felt supported. That's when I had so many doors open for me. I met friends that I hopefully will have for my whole lifetime. I learned so much. The definition of community really defined itself by joining GLASA. So I would say join and see what GLASA has to bring to you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1627.0,1668.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894/transcript/67835/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dani Stompor: Awesome. Cool. Thank you, Kelly. And thank you to everyone who's listening. We'll catch you on the next one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/104/collection_resources/129725/file/242894#t=1668.0,1675.992"}]}]}]}