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It is Indigenous Peoples' Day when we honor the perseverance of indigenous peoples and show our gratitude for the myriad of contributions they've made to our world. My name is Drew Darien. I'm a professor of history at Salem State University and I am honored to be joined today by Ana Tinajero, who is a world-renowned salsa dancer, instructor, artist, and activist from Boston. She is the founder of an Afro-Latin dance company called Dance to Power and has also been involved in many other projects in the dance world. But we are here today to talk more specifically about her project Queer Lynn Scene and how that ultimately developed into United Lynn Pride. Welcome, Anna.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=0.0,55.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nHi, welcome. Thank you so much for having me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=55.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd once again, I just want to conform while we're recording that I have your permission to do so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=60.0,67.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nAbsolutely, not a problem. Thank you for all listening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=67.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nGreat. I believe you grew up in Texas and came to the Boston area when you went to college at MIT, is that correct?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=71.0,82.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nThat's correct. I came out to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, had a change of heart, ended up doing business and starting up my entertainment company in my sophomore year of college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=82.0,95.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, it's always a pleasure to meet someone who uses multiple parts of their brains, particularly the ones that I don't especially have. You're really a Renaissance woman. Can I ask where in Texas you grew up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=95.0,113.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nI grew up in Dallas. So I'm Chicana. I'm a daughter of immigrants from Mexico.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=113.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd do you want to maybe just say a few quick words about your family and upbringing?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=121.0,128.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nYeah. Well, I guess I'm happy to share that I grew up in Dallas. My family did immigrate from Guadalajara, Mexico, both of my parents and I have two siblings. And we grew up with this understanding that education was our ticket forward and that we needed to focus ourselves in our work. And that sort of led me towards MIT in Boston. I knew that I wanted to be there since I was a freshman in college, in high school, excuse me. And I ended up there. And yeah, I think for me, dance has always been a part of my life since I was young. As a Latina in the arts, just Latina culture, we always get connected with music and dance. And I did folklorico when I was a youth in my elementary school years. But as a, also a Latina, you're always taught to pursue stable careers and arts isn't necessarily something that we focus on as a \"career.\" And so that definitely led me on a different track and it wasn't until I was in college and really pursuing my love for dance in the community that I really decided that I wanted to pursue it wholeheartedly and that led me into dance and later on in my later years into community organizing and using the art as a platform for changing perceptions and community and really trying to tell untold stories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=128.0,221.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo it sounds like you grew up with a lot of art, music, dance, and culture. What role, if any, did activism and politics come into your life or was that only later?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=221.0,235.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nI would say that, and this is something that I think we, the politicians and people who are very focused on the political side or the written side of it, maybe sometimes don't often consider. For us, activism is a lived experience. We don't think of ourselves as, \"Oh, I'm an activist because I'm going to pursue this law or this bill.\" We don't think that way. It's just more of how everyday life and bills and advocacy affect you in that process. My family became, my mother and my father became resident aliens through the Amnesty Act when I was in my youth and that allowed them a lot more, afforded them a lot more opportunities to be able to build a home and a career in the [United] States, in Texas. And so that also, therefore, also afforded us, my siblings and I, a lot of opportunities on our end where we didn't always feel like our families looking over their shoulder as immigrants. And so I think for us, our form of activism was living out the American dream and really pursuing it. Now, as I, in my later years, I grew into more activism. It was really trying to tell these stories and lift up these platforms and realizing that not everybody had these opportunities afforded to them along the way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=235.0,326.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, I think that phenomenon that you're describing of people who are often first or second generation in their family to go to college, there's often this very utilitarian and vocational approach to higher education, rather than thinking about, more broadly, being an educated person and what that can do in the world. So I am very interested in hearing about that transition, especially your change of major at MIT. But I thought maybe it'd be also interesting to hear a little bit about what it was like to come to Boston from Texas, I imagine, are somewhat different cultures.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=326.0,370.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nWell, let me first also say, I don't think we necessarily think of ourselves as uneducated. We're all educated, we all live the world differently and we're educated through the way that we live our world, the way that our customs are portrayed to us and the way that we live out our customs. And so our mindset when we were, as we were growing up, was to always give back, to pay forward. And so we, as people took care of us, we took care of others. And in that way, philanthropy is a big part of Latino culture. It's just, it's enmeshed in it without calling it philanthropy. We don't call it by that word, but that's what we're doing. And so we're always sort of giving back and paying it forward. And that is a part of our process of growing in this world, being able to take care of one another. My time period when I moved to Boston, was that the question? How was that change up? I will say, for me, what I felt was that I didn't have as much of a support as I did at home because you have to learn to find your community again. And so I very much did not like Boston my first four years. I was very much ready to finish school and leave and sort of like move on. And that ended up being something that changed in my fifth year. Basically, once I started the company and as it started to grow, I started to build a community of people that became my family in the Boston area, in the greater Boston area. And so that is what actually made me want to stay. And it also felt again like if we were looking out for one another the way that I grew up, we were looking out for one another. I was very enmeshed in community arts and dance and music. And so that started to feel a lot like home in Texas again as well. And so the more that I connected to the root of my Latino culture in the greater Boston area that made me want to stay longer. And so that was sort of my initial experience in Boston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=370.0,506.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd, you know, Boston is a culture somewhat unique on it to itself, although it has similarities with lots of other places. And then I imagine MIT is also fairly unique in its own regard. When you say that you didn't particularly like Boston, how much of that was the absence of the community support that you no longer had at home, and how much of it was sort of an active sense of alienation from the residents themselves?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=506.0,543.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nI'm so sorry, say that one more time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=543.0,546.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow much of your not really liking Boston during your first four years was the absence of community and family and support back home and how much of it was feeling a sense of either alienation or antagonism from the residents of Boston or the culture of MIT in particular?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=546.0,573.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nThat's a good question. I think that how I would look at it is that I was catapulted into, my high school was very rigorous. I went to a science and engineering magnet program. So I went from one rigorous program to another with MIT. But the difference was that in my high school, I had already built a community around me. So when I got home, I had that support at home. When I was in Boston, you're very much kind of having to build your family and your community. And we need that support base in some way around us. And so I will say that in the community, I had to, in the Boston community, I had to sort of make ties with people and connections, but my connections became more outside the school than inside the school. And so some of the school connections ended up leading to more community. And so I felt much more support and connection to the people within the community than I did within my school. And so I think that because of that, with my academic coursework being so rigorous, it was also very hard to stay focused in the world that I needed to work in. And so I became much more connected outside of the realm of the world that I needed to be academically in. And so my family supported me at home for sure through the phone, through calls. I would go visit home when I could. And at one point I did a minority recruitment program with MIT, which allowed me also to visit home as well during that time. And that was very helpful. And slowly but surely over time, it allowed me to just, as I became more connected to the Boston area, to let go of the need to feel that support outside. And then eventually you start to find the support within yourself. So yeah, I think it's also a little bit of leaving the nest and learning how to fly on your own.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=573.0,705.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd when you did connect with that larger community, were there specific neighborhoods within Boston? Was it with Lynn or did that come later? Where exactly were you making these connections?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=705.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nLynn definitely came later. I started my company in Boston, well actually technically Masakote, the company that I started at the time was a music and dance company. We started it internationally first and then in the Boston area transitioned. So the way that the Salsa community works, which is where my specialty and focus is in, is that it's all around the world. It's global. And so the community itself really attracts people from all walks of life, all backgrounds and that's really why I was more connected there because I felt like there were more BIPOC community members in the Boston area whereas sometimes if you walk into Cambridge or into downtown Boston you kind of sit there going where's the black and brown people. So that's how the community helped me stay connected with more of my BIPOC community. And in my later years as I started to get to know more Mexicans in the area as well, my Mexican community. And so the people that were attracted to stuff that came from everywhere, not just in greater Boston, but not just Boston, people would come from Providence and Rhode Island and from Connecticut and Maine, Portland, Maine a lot. And so you would get a New Hampshire as well. So you attracted people from everywhere. And so my community was very wide ranging and open. I didn't, I did most of my work in the Greater Boston and Cambridge area, my connection to Lynn really initiated when I moved in 2000, I think it was [20]17 and [20]18, when I moved into the Lynn area and I started to do more work there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=720.0,825.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd what brought you to Lynn?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=825.0,829.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nI was transitioning and I was wanting to buy a home, very honestly, and I saved up for years, a good decade. And when I wanted to buy towards the end of 2017 into 2018, I was kind of priced out of the market in Boston and was looking to see what I could buy. And I was able to find a condo in Lynn. And that's really what led me out. It was the search for home ownership and that led me there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=829.0,863.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWas there, other than the more reasonable cost of living, because I'm not sure I'd call it reasonable, was there anything about the culture, the community of Lynn that you connected with initially?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=863.0,877.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nSo there were a few things that I really wanted to be living by the water and I wanted a place that felt peaceful to me. And so the home that I found gave me those opportunities to do that. Once I moved to Boston, I mean to Lynn, once I moved to Lynn, what really attracted to me, me to the area more were the people in the community. It was, what I realized is that Lynn was, is a smaller community. And as I started, like I could see some of the art that was happening in the city. And as I started to work on, which I think we'll talk about in a moment, and I started to work on Queer Lynn Scene, which is just sort of a forum to get to know my community better. I started to meet more of the community members that were actively doing work, particularly around art in the community. And so that made me even more connected to what Lynn was about. And so, yeah, I think that when I first moved there, it felt like I could find a peaceful place near the water where I could still feel that I wasn't too far from Boston and I could still work there. And over time, I actually wanted to do less in Boston and more in Lynn because Lynn grew on me more and more over time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=877.0,959.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd how did you come up with the idea of creating stories of coming out through Queer Lynn Scene?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=959.0,967.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nWell, what happened is when I started this project and I pitched doing the project, Boston Pride was working on a 50th year anniversary and they were working on putting up art of their work through the History Project, I believe it was. And they were putting up art on walls around the city of Boston. And so I pitched, can we try to do something similar in Lynn? Because Lynn is also a part of the Boston story. There's always a communication between. And so we talked about doing something in and working in a couple of the spots in Lynn. And so I talked to the cafe and in that process I was introduced to the part, one of the grants that was being started up by the downtown cultural district, the Lynn cultural district. And I asked them if we might be able to make this a project specifically for Lynn. I looked at it as a way to get to know my city and selfishly also to get to know the queer community in Lynn because I felt that that was one of the things I really needed in order to feel connected to place. And so I had developed such a connection to the queer community and BIPOC community in Boston and felt very much like I needed that connection in Lynn. And so this was my way of finding out how the city was and what it was and learning more about the history. And so we started that project, we got approved for it, and then COVID hit. And two things happened. One, with COVID, a lot of the projects that wanted to happen during that time had to be switched into virtual projects. And two, we also had the Black Lives Matter protest that really hit hard during that time. And Boston Pride got caught up in that, where they ended up unfortunately showing the racism within their board. And so I decided to pull away from Boston Pride community within that. I felt like it wasn't the direction that we, that I wanted to take within this project. And so I decided to sort of re-envision it. So Queer Lynn Scene is what developed. I needed to create a virtual component of the project. And I decided if I couldn't tell the history through art on the walls, then I'd like to tell the history through stories that we could release virtually. And I needed to give it a name and so I gave the project Queer Lynn Scene at that point. And I worked on setting up a Facebook page and in that process met one of the members, Coco Alinsug, who is now one of the city councillors of Lynn, who helped me really get connected with more of the queer community and helped build up the Facebook group. And so what started as this is just a project where I'm going to put out a few community stories so that people can start learning about the history and how they're connected to Lynn. It ended up developing bigger into a longer project, even greater than I could have envisioned.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=967.0,1172.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, it's a beautiful project. And one of the more amazing dimensions of it is that you have this incredible mix of people from whose families are from Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Panama, the Philippines. How did you identify that particular pool of people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1172.0,1193.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nOh, that's a great question. Well, I think I started very much doing that similar to what you're doing is, I would ask people, \"Are there, where's the queer community in Lynn and how can I talk to them?\" And I would start talking to a few people and then I would ask for recommendations on if there was anybody else that I might want to talk to. And so some of the interviews came as, I'm just going to interview people about the history of, the queer history of Lynn, and then some of those became actual coming out stories. So I wanted to make sure that as I was developing the pool of people that I was talking to for the coming out story is that it was diverse in background. So age diverse, ethnicity diverse, gender diversity. So I was really working on developing that. And I knew I needed to, I was going to cover 10 stories. And so not everybody, I actually interviewed a lot of people outside of the stories and some of those were just to get background research and start developing an understanding of what was happening with the community and the history of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1193.0,1261.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd are the interviews that we see online, are they excerpts from the interviews or the totality of the interviews themselves?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1261.0,1271.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nThey're excerpts from the interviews. So they ended up being three to five minutes each. And so I believe I would talk to people between half an hour to an hour and I would condense that down so that it was a story that I could release online. And what I would do is I would juxtapose that with photos so that it was an audio visual project so that people could understand what the stories were telling with the photos.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1271.0,1300.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI actually wonder-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1300.0,1303.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nIt was a lot of work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1303.0,1303.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI know full well how much work it can take to organize these kinds of interviews. I actually wonder if as horrible as COVID was it might have been fortuitous and easier to conduct these interviews remotely rather than having to get the equipment and everybody physically be in the same place or the same time. Are there common themes that you think emerge from all these interviews?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1303.0,1336.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nI would say belonging was very, very important. Some people who were interviewed were lifelong Lynners and some people who were interviewed worked in Lynn or had moved there more recently and or both. And so I think that ultimately the conversations lended themselves to the way people felt connected to Lynn had a large part to do with how, not just how, I think we think of it as how inclusive a community is, but more so than that, how much they felt they belonged in the community. So, how they felt supported as opposed to just included. And I think that was a really, really important theme and something that when we think about diversity and inclusion, like we don't think about enough. So belonging was a really big theme that stood up. I think a lot of people felt that they had a say in how their community was building and so that was also a really important thing. So a lot of people that I did talk to who felt connected with the community were involved in some way in some of the activist work that was happening or some of the organizations that were happening in the city. And so had I done another round of that particular series, I would have really wanted to focus on people who maybe didn't feel as included in the Lynn community but were a part of it. And so it would have been a very different place of how can we create more belonging for people in that process.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1336.0,1441.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd how did United Lynn Scene evolve into United Lynn Pride? I mean Queer Lynn Scene evolve into United Lynn Pride?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1441.0,1451.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nWell, a Queer Lynn Scene, one of the people who I interviewed for the Coming Out Stories was the director now of United Lynn Pride, Cristian. And so they were just phenomenal. And I asked, \"Hey, is it possible, would you like to come on board?\" And first of all, I asked, they were offering a lot of the, what do you say? They were offering a lot of feedback on how we could build this project out and make it better. And one of the things that I, one of the final things that I needed to do with the project was to create a final report on some of my findings. And so within that, I actually kind of started thinking, if we do this, I'd like to start thinking of this as how do I involve community where it's not just me doing the work, but how do I involve community into this process so that it becomes more of a community work that's by us instead of by somebody that's just randomly coming to get to know it. And so Cristian, who's been a lifelong learner, basically also volunteered to do some of the, help me work on the reporting. And so the report that they put together was amazing. It finalized the project. And then afterward, we kind of sat there going, we had put together a survey for that with the community. And once you have the survey, we had these ideas of like, this is what the community wants, this is what we can do moving forward. And so I said, well, if this becomes an actual project moving forward, then we may want to really sit back and think through what are the options that we have to actually make it work. And so Cristian came on board and I said, \"Hey Cristian, if you're interested in being a part of this project to make it more lifelong, then I would be willing to work on this.\" And so, and this is by the way, Cristian Recinos, which I'm sure you're going to be interviewing here. But then we also, so we ended up working on this project and the following year when Pride, Lynn Pride came around, Coco, we talked to Coco about putting together a community panel. And in the panel we brought on board a few people from the community to talk about how Lynn was doing. And we always had, Lynn had always had their City Hall event that was their front-facing Pride community. And so that always turned up a lot of people to that event. And we also had this time the panel, but the panel only had, I want to say about 20 people, which is actually maybe 15, but that's a lot for a first time. And so it's just juxtaposed between the two events, you could see the difference. And, you know, we, Cristian and I had conversations with Coco afterward, and we said, Coco mentioned, \"You know, we really need to bring more people into the panel next year.\" And Cristian and I said, \"Yes, how do we do that?\" And so Coco kind of offered, \"Why don't we try next year to have like this week long of events?\" and cause we'd already started to have it between that and one of the other organizations. I think it was something happening in the library that same year. And so we ended up having the following year sitting down and saying, \"Okay, if we really wanna do this as a week-long event, how do we work on doing this?\" And so we brought on one third member, Marianci Posadas, actually also came on board as a member that year. And just for record's sake too, Jessica also had come on board to be a part of United Lynn Pride at the beginning and then got a little too busy and they had to step out. Marianci came on board closer to the United Lynn Pride side. So when we started thinking out what we wanted to do with the event. Our thought was, let's just hold the panel for Queer Lynn Scene again, in addition to City Hall. But in the conversation with the museum, and when Donika Thurston came on board in the conversation with the museum and with Coco, we ended up realizing maybe we can do this as a real community effort and bring on board other organizations and see if they want to combine efforts together. So we held a community meeting. We tried to sit down and think of who are all the organizations that already do work for the queer community. And we invited everybody to the table. And we also mentioned, if there's somebody that we're missing, please let us know because it's impossible for us to know everybody. And so we had this really big remote Zoom community meeting with everybody together and we talked about the possibilities and this possibility of this week-long event came up. And that, to make a long story short, basically through conversations back and forth, we ended up calling it United Lynn Pride, and we had a week-long event of United Lynn Pride. So that it was just a segment, and I think at that point Cristian and I didn't quite know what we wanted to, if we wanted to make Queer Lynn Scene an organization of its own, or and then United Lynn Pride a project. But later on in conversations with Coco, who has really mentored us a lot in this process, I mean, he's been such an advocate for the queer community in Lynn. But, you know, Coco suggested that we make United Lynn Pride the organization and let go of Queer Lynn Scene. And for all purposes sake, I think it's important to mention that in some ways we were more willing to do that because we also knew that the name Queer Lynn Scene also had some hesitation pulled from the community because queer in the past was seen as a derogatory term. And so that would come up sometimes in our conversations with people. People would ask, \"Why are we calling it Queer Lynn Scene?\" And nowadays, using the word queer and people denoting themselves as queer, me included, we use it more as an empowering term. It's sort of like taking back our power. But we also understood that not everybody sees it that way. And so calling it Unite-, just switching to an organization that was under the roof and under the title of United Lynn Pride and making that a nonprofit organization where we really could do a lot more for the community, made a lot more sense. And so that's sort of like the thought process and the transition of the name from one to the next.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1451.0,1855.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nThat makes a lot of sense. And thanks for fleshing that out. If you look at the mission statement for United Lynn Pride, it features this idea of unite, engage, and empower. And I was wondering if you could maybe just talk a little more briefly about that unite portion, because I imagine it's a somewhat delicate balancing act between wanting to respect the individuality of all these groups and their experiences while at the same time bringing them together and making sure that one doesn't sacrifice the other?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1855.0,1895.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nOh, Drew, that's such a great question. I will say that starting United Lynn Pride, switching into that advocacy within the Lynn community, coming on board there, I mean, there were a lot of politics and bureaucracy behind the scenes and definitely some organizations that didn't get along. And I think it's important to note that because I also think that it speaks to the power that it didn't matter what our differences were. We were able to find a way and a common ground for us to come together and say, this is the bigger vision. This is the important part that at the end of the day, we're all serving the same mission. We may just not all agree on where we're at. And so I think we can all agree that we want to come together to do this thing. And so it was when we brought everybody on board, I think one thing that did help us was that because I was maybe just a little newer to the area, I was able to play kind of like play a little bit more of like the, I don't want to, I don't know what the word would be, but like a more diplomatic relation. So like I wasn't necessarily involved with a specific organization. My goal was not to, my goal was to actually just be able to hear all sides of what everybody wanted to do and put this event together in a way that highlighted everybody's work as best we could together. And so in that process, I ended up taking on the \"title,\" and I say \"title\" because we all did this together, but the title of the sort of the \"director\" of United Lynn Pride of the first year and \"co-director\" and Cristian Recinos took on \"co-director\" with me and we just sort of divided the responsibilities. And Cristian has been a part of the community again, lifelong winner. And so the great thing with Cristian being on board with me also was that because he had that whole, he knew about all the history of how Lynn was, they could actually bring on a lot more into play where if I was thinking maybe we can try this, Cristian might give me a little bit of background so that we could do it in a way that made sense for balancing energies for everybody. And so I think in many ways in building out the organization and bringing everybody together, we played a little bit of like peacekeeping in that process and not peacekeeping in a way because people were upset at each other in the meetings, but peacekeeping in a way to make sure that nobody got upset in the meeting. So we made sure that we all stayed focused on the goal, we all stayed focused on the project. And I think overall, I hope, I don't know what other interviews are coming, but I really hope that everybody had a great experience. But I know that when we ended that year, organizations that normally wouldn't come to the table really did come to the table and worked out together and supported one another. And it was a beautiful week of shared energy all around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=1895.0,2091.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, that's certainly a wonderful testament to your and Cristian's work and I'm sure the work of many others.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2091.0,2101.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nYes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2101.0,2101.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI know that we're just about ready to wrap up, but I'm wondering if you can say a little bit as someone who's traveled more extensively nationally and internationally and lived in other places, if you can say a bit about how unique Lynn is relative to the rest of the United States, particularly with regards to the LGBTQ+ community. Are we in Lynn and maybe even in Massachusetts in general, living in a bit of a bubble? Do you see commonalities between the struggle here and those struggles nationally or internationally?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2101.0,2150.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nWell, it's a very overreaching question, for sure. But what I will say is that there's some things in all communities that are important to understand. I mean, definitely belonging. If we're not connected to the community and working in the community that we live in, then it's hard for us to feel that we belong in there. It's hard for us to feel heard. And it doesn't matter how much the politicians are trying to do. If you're not hearing the people, your constituents in your area, then how do you know what they need? So that is a common theme everywhere, basically. What I would say is that Lynn is a small community and it's growing, it's growing. And sometimes the smaller the communities are, the greater ability you have to make change because there's less people or the people that are there are able to make things happen. However, sometimes that can also lead to a lot of division because if you have too small of a community, sometimes everybody feels like you have to hold on to your piece of pie. And so I think you have to be really careful with how you grow things where you're really including all voices and conversations. And sometimes, a lot of times, the people who you want to involve in this work and delve into that, and you need to, are sometimes so caught up just trying to put food on the table that they can't do this. So we definitely noticed in our group where we wanted to have more BIPOC voices in the community groups really working together, a lot of times a lot of BIPOC community couldn't be there because they couldn't make time every week. They had to be at work. You know, you have to make ends meet. And so we, what we would try to do is really focus on at least connecting with community outside if they couldn't make it. So, even if they weren't in person there with us at the meetings, we would hear what was needed outside. So, we did our best, and I'm not saying that we're perfect. I'm saying that it was an awareness and that we were trying to work on being better at. I will say the community in Lynn is also, like if you compare, I don't want to say compare, but if you look at the difference between Greater Boston and Lynn, I think that some of the similarities that we have to think about is also some stuff that's been happening on a technological side. So for example, I think that you're exploring the bars and stuff, the queer bars that were a part of Lynn's history as well. At one point, Lynn had a lot more queer bars that people from Boston would actually travel to and go to. But with the advent, and a lot of this came up from interviews with people, with the advent of online apps like Tinder, Grindr, and such, the Her App, the places where people needed to go to to meet people in bars and that community that you created within them, sometimes wasn't as needed when you had apps to go to to meet people. And so that is something that's been happening from what I've seen around the country where a lot of the queer bars are starting to sort of like dissipate a little bit more with some of the advent of that technology. But at the same time, we still need those safe spaces because that's what they are, they're our safe spaces. And so I think that they're starting to sort of like crop up again in different ways. And you're starting to see that happening in some places, like I know a bar, a queer bar that opened up in Worcester. I know that there's some queer bars that they're trying to do in Lynn, but it's just something that they're working on and something that needs time to develop. And so I think that those similarities, I do see that happening around in different communities with the advent of technology, sort of replacing the need for some of these places like bars and safe spaces. Safe spaces are still needed. And so I just think that people are finding safe spaces in different ways. So you're finding them through community groups and then you're, yeah, I think people are still trying to find that avenue. I don't know if that's helpful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2150.0,2422.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nOh, it is. And I'm especially appreciative that you remind me that I often ask overly complicated and layered and multi-part questions. So I'm gonna try to embed that for my future interviews. Thank you for spending time with me today. And I guess I'll just end by giving you the final word to mention anything that you weren't able to cover either about Queer Lynn Scene, United Lynn Pride, or maybe even or wish for a hope for what you'd like to see in that organization in the future?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2422.0,2464.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nWell, I guess for me, I just wanna say that it's been such an honor. I think my computer might die soon, so hopefully we'll catch this. But it's been such an honor to be a part of the community in Lynn. I wish that I could have been there longer and ultimately my travels led me elsewhere. But I was so thankful that Cristian Recinos, and the community, like the board that came on together, Jim and Bill Moser, and Coco Alinsug, and Danica Thurston, and oh my God, there's just so many people that have been able to keep it going. And I think to me, that's important, because if we're not, if an organization exists only because one person is there, then you have a problem. So all our work is deeply embedded in the need for it in community. And so I'm so happy that that's been able to keep going. I wanted to say thank you for everybody that's been a part of that and supporting it and continuing to keep it going. And I will say that ultimately one of my biggest lessons is that sometimes our story, like we need a place for our stories, But sometimes those stories are really just between us and they don't need to all be online. Not everybody that's interviewed is going to get placed online and sometimes it's also done because that's actually hurtful towards the person teaching. Not everybody, or talking, not everybody can be as open about being out. And that story is just so important to be able to be told. One of the people in my coming out stories did have a lot of backlash and I took that interview down. And so I just wanna highlight that, just the stories that you see online are not the only ones that you should be listening to. Talk to your neighbors, talk to your people, know how you can support one another, and know that it can't always be done so openly and virtually, and that that coming out is just as important. And if we can lay a safe space for that in our communities, that's so necessary. So thank you to all who support that work and make that happen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2464.0,2592.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nTerrific. Thank you very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2592.0,2595.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/transcript/66625/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana Tinajero\n\nThank you Drew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315#t=2595.0,2597.789"}]},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/index/81911","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Ana Tinajero Index [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/119456/file/224315/index/81911/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I grew up in Dallas. 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