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He started going to gay bars in Boston after graduating high school and would later attend Mr. Dominic’s, Joseph’s, and Fran’s Place in Lynn. He lived in San Francisco from 1978 to 1986, spending much of his time in the Castro District. He currently resides in Lynn and spends some time on the West Coast. David wants to see more outreach/support to LBGTQ+ elders. His November 2023 interview discusses French-Canadian identity, Catholicism, family life, changes in the LGBTQ+ community, the changing nature of Salem and Lynn, gay and lesbian bars, coming out, racial discrimination, and his recent wedding.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eDavid Levasseur, born in 1958, grew up in the French-Canadian neighborhood of Castle Hills in Salem. He attended Salem High School and worked as an Administrative Assistant at Salem State University, where she earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees. His tight-knit, Catholic, working-class family encouraged him to be an altar boy and even had him prescribed Valium because they suspected he was gay. He discusses being closeted and the enormous violence and fear surrounding young gay men. He started going to gay bars in Boston after graduating high school and would later attend Mr. Dominic\u0026rsquo;s, Joseph\u0026rsquo;s, and Fran\u0026rsquo;s Place in Lynn. He lived in San Francisco from 1978 to 1986, spending much of his time in the Castro District. He currently resides in Lynn and spends some time on the West Coast. David wants to see more outreach/support to LBGTQ+ elders. His November 2023 interview discusses French-Canadian identity, Catholicism, family life, changes in the LGBTQ+ community, the changing nature of Salem and Lynn, gay and lesbian bars, coming out, racial discrimination, and his recent wedding.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"provider":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Through A Rainbow Lens"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Through A Rainbow Lens"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/255/original/Aviary_TRL_Header.png?1704389184","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/216/933/small/open-uri20231118-486-v6rapp_1700312602.jpg?1700294607","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - open-uri20231118-486-v6rapp.mp4"]},"duration":3794.45333,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/216/933/small/open-uri20231118-486-v6rapp_1700312602.jpg?1700294607","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-unitedlynnpride.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/216/933/original/open-uri20231118-486-v6rapp.mp4?1700294519","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":3794.45333,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["David Levasseur transcript 4-24-24 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nToday's date is November 2nd, 2023. My name is Andrew Darien. I'm a professor of history at Salem State University and I'm conducting this interview as part of the Mass Humanities funded project, Through a Rainbow Lens, a Reflection on Lynn's LGBTQ+ History. I have the honor of being joined today by Dave Levasseur. Dave grew up in Salem. He recently retired from Salem State University and he currently resides in Lynn while spending some of his time on the West Coast. Welcome back and thanks for being here today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=0.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThank you for having me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=38.0,39.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nCan I confirm that I have your permission to record this conversation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=39.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nAbsolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=44.0,45.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nThank you. So you were born in Salem, graduated from Salem High School in 1976. What part of Salem did you grow up in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=45.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI grew up in the neighborhood that's referred to as Castle Hill. At the time it was a very French neighborhood. Most of the people who lived there had immigrated and as usual had started in South Salem and then moved to Castle Hill where my grandfather then proceeded to have 17 children and I became one of 54 first cousins.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=57.0,83.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWas your grandfather a French Canadian immigrant?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=83.0,88.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nHe was a French Canadian immigrant as was my grandmother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=88.0,92.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo your family goes back at least three generations in Salem.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=92.0,97.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOh at least, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=97.0,99.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd what did your parents do for a living?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=99.0,103.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nMy father actually was a leather worker in a factory. The company was A.C. Lawrence and Peabody. And my mother was a homemaker housewife.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=103.0,115.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd how would you have described your childhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=115.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nComplicated. Because of the number of cousins and aunts and everybody who lived in the neighborhood, you couldn't really get away with anything. Plus, I was also the middle of five children. So there were two older sisters and a younger brother and a younger sister. So I had definite middle child syndrome where I would disappear because we were referred to as the girls, my two older sisters, or the kids, my younger brother and sister. So I was kind of like invisible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=121.0,153.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd is that something that reflected your personality in general or is it just a function of where you were in the age lineup?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=153.0,161.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOh, it definitely reflected on my personality as an individual because I, of course, didn't think I was getting as much attention as everybody else or any attention at all and I was kind of relegated to the background.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=161.0,181.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat was your relationship like with your siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=181.0,188.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nWell my older sisters, of course, when I was born I was the first son and so they had a new toy and so they used to like to play dress up with their little brother Davey, which wasn't a lot of fun for me. My younger brother, he's only three years different, so when I was a senior in high school he was a freshman, but having had so many cousins his own age, he hung around with them mostly. So we didn't grow up having a very strong or close bond, but we are very, very supportive of each other and always have been through the years. I had an uncle who once said, \"You kids always look after each other, so I don't have to worry about you.\" And my youngest sister is seven years younger, and she also is a lesbian, and she's had her ups and downs with dealing that, and she has some medical issues that are challenging.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=188.0,248.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWas your family very religious?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=248.0,251.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOh, indeed. As a matter of fact, after my grandfather passed, we moved in next door to the rectory, St. Anne's Parish, and I was forced to go to a Catholic grammar school, where I was indoctrinated into being an altar boy, which I find hysterical now being a complete atheist. So it's like, all right, it was what it was. And I understood their reasoning behind it, but we definitely saw it completely differently when it came to religion. So just really, once I moved out of my parents' house, it was just a non-issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=251.0,298.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHad you bought into the teachings of the church or were you just becoming an altar boy to please your family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=298.0,306.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThat was to please my family. After I got through doing that, since I still lived in my parents house for a time, we were kind of required to go to church. So I joined the choir where there were only three of us, the organist, and when the sermon was going on we'd run to Dunkin Donuts and get coffee and just, you know, chillax until it was time to do the next hymn and then I'd go home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=306.0,329.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd was your family very political?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=329.0,332.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nNot at all. Politics was never discussed in my household. A few things would be mentioned on occasion because it really in the [19]60s all that was on the television was the Vietnam War, so there were always comments about things like that. But nothing, never a conversation with any depth or meaning or any resolve. So nothing was ever debated or discussed, it just was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=332.0,364.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo am I correct that you were born in 1958? Okay. So you were around 11 years old during the time of the Stonewall Riots.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=364.0,377.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nYes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=377.0,377.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nYou mentioned the Vietnam War. Obviously, the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing at that juncture. How much of all of this was on your radar and in your consciousness? And did that develop later in high school or was it something that you were aware of at an earlier age?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=377.0,399.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThe war and politics and stuff that was always in the background it was never on my radar because I was dealing with a lot of my own personal issues, my own feelings and puberty and not knowing what was going on because there was nobody back then to explain what you were going through and there was no support for it either, as well. As a matter of fact, my parents kind of had an inkling during puberty that I might be a homosexual. They actually had me put on Valium to have me, my, any urges or whatever suppressed and that lasted for a number of years. And I developed a reaction to my own central nervous system where every time I got upset I would break out in hives and have to be rushed to the hospital for Benadryl injections. And the first time I took the Valium it actually took three people to wake me up where they pulled me from a bed onto a cold linoleum floor and threw water on me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=399.0,467.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid they, did you understand why you were taking the Valium?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=467.0,470.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nNo, not at all, because it wasn't discussed, you know. It wasn't until...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=470.0,477.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWas there some other explanation for why you were...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=477.0,481.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOh, I had anxiety or nerves or something. That was always what I was told, that I was just too, they probably would call it ADD now, because I was all over the place as a child. I was kind of, I don't know what the word for it is, just I could get overly enthusiastic about things and then they just wanted to, they just said, oh that's just to calm you down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=481.0,515.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd what age were you when they put you on Valium?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=515.0,518.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI was 11 or 12.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=518.0,522.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd previous to that, how much of your own awareness did you have of your sexuality?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=522.0,530.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nZero. Absolutely none, except that in my brain, there was an attraction to men. And I thought nothing of it, except for the fact that society at that point in time that was really derisive. They put that down. That was not what was supposed to happen. So I didn't discuss it. I didn't know who to discuss it. I didn't have role models like we do today. There was nothing in media. There was nothing supportive. Everything was just was there to beat you down. And in Salem at that time, you could literally be beaten or shot at just from walking down the street if people had that presumption of you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=530.0,574.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIs that something you had witnessed or read about or otherwise learned about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=574.0,579.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nIt's something I personally experienced.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=579.0,582.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIs that something you're comfortable talking about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=582.0,585.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nSure. It's just, it comes down to other people's perceptions because at that time I didn't have a word for it and I couldn't identify it because there was nothing out there, like I said, in media or in books. As a matter of fact, the only book my parents had given me during puberty was a book from a Christian publishing company that had a plaid dust jacket on it, so you couldn't see what the topic was or what the book was about. It was very discreet. My mother also was one of those people of a mindset who, she was always thinking, \"Well, what are other people thinking?\" And she was more worried about people's impressions of her than what was actually happening with the lives of her children. She was also an alcoholic, as was my father. So I grew up with, in an alcoholic household. But it was, it's not like Salem is today, and hopefully as an older person I'll get to address that with the difference of the perception of my growing up with absolutely no support and not being able to be out or not having anyone to relate to or talk to, to today's society in Salem where it is like P-Town North. It's a big difference.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=585.0,674.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow would you have described Salem in the [19]60s to people who had not been around at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=674.0,683.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nTo me it was a very cold place and it was not very welcoming and I learned at an early age that in order to find support, you had to move into the city. And it would be papers like the Boston Phoenix, where I first started to see things about homosexuality and gay clubs and couples and that there was there was life out there and that I wasn't alone there were more people like me. And so shortly after high school I moved out and then got my first apartment in Allston in 1977 and worked as a shoe salesman at the Harvard Coop. And then I started going out to the clubs and just kind of started feeling like myself and realizing there were other people out there like me and found where I was gonna fit in and things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=683.0,746.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd were those initial clubs in Boston and Cambridge?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=746.0,751.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nWell first, we have to backtrack a little bit. When I was growing up, drinking age in Massachusetts was 18. So while I was still living in Salem, we would come to Lynn and go to [Mr.] Dominic's, Fran's [Place]. Joseph's wasn't open at that point yet. And then since, well even before that, the Lyceum in Salem used to be gay friendly. And so we go to the Lyceum, and then, or sometimes we go to Lynn, and then if we had access to a car, Lynn bars closed earlier, so half an hour before last call we would get into a car to race it to Boston, because traffic back then wasn't like it is now, and we'd have last call in Boston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=751.0,802.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nYou said that we would go to Lynn bars. Who was the we?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=802.0,808.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nAh, interesting. Catholic school. You find out a lot of your close friends are also actually gay. So my best friend to this day, Jim, he and I were very good friends. We've been roommates on both coasts, off and on, over the years. And then we had one particular person in our neighborhood who was extremely flamboyant. His name was Philip. And Philip was really wise. He's kind of the one that told me that I was gay. Back then, he had long hair, wore platform sneakers, and he didn't give a hoot about anybody. But then he also turned out to be a drug dealer and was a hooker in Boston. So he was into prostitution. I got a pretty broad education very early on in life, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=808.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd so something happened between the age of 11 and 12 where your parents identified you as gay and put you on Valium but you didn't necessarily know that about yourself to the point at which you graduated from high school and you were pretty sure of your identity. Do you have a particular memory of how that consciousness developed?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=870.0,897.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThe consciousness developed when I was still living with my parents and I was going to the Lyceum in Salem and realized that there were more people out there like me. And they were just average, everyday people. They were from all the different towns in the area, different socioeconomic classes. And I decided that it was okay to be me. And I remember one time in particular, I had gone to the 1270 in Boston, and I was still living at home. And I got home and it was about three in the morning, because we had gone to breakfast afterwards, friends, and. My mother was sitting up at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of her. I realized years later it wasn't coffee in the coffee cup, but she looked at me when I walked in the door and she said, \"Are you becoming one of them?\" And I looked at her and I said, \"Becoming?\" and I went to my room. The next day she had my father take my key away from me. And so I stayed out [un]til whatever time I wanted to and I got home and I banged on the door until they let me in. They gave my key back and I spoke with another friend of mine who lived in downtown Salem and she had an extra room and I walked, went back home and said to my parents, \"Yeah I'm moving out.\" And then I knew that they raised me and so I asked them for everything I took out of that house, even the clothes in my closet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=897.0,994.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat do you mean by that? You knew that they raised you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=994.0,997.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nWell, you know, they brought me up. They bought the clothes in my closet and stuff like that. I had some small jobs, but I was determined not to remove anything out of that house unless I asked for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=997.0,1007.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI see. And at what point were you comfortable coming out to your peers? You mentioned that there were other gay students in your Catholic school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1007.0,1022.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nYeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1022.0,1022.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIt must have been a conscious decision at some point where you felt safe to do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1022.0,1027.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nIt became more conscious in high school when I got involved with things like the theater department, concert choir, and there were more open people. That's when I started to get a vibe that things were ok, that I was ok. And so I started talking to some of my friends. And we realized that we all kind of were close because we felt the same way. And so I just decided in high school to come out to all my friends and those who really were my friends were still afterwards and those who weren't are no longer in my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1027.0,1063.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow did that feel to come out to your friends?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1063.0,1065.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nIt felt pretty empowering. It also felt pretty empowering to be able to just be honest with my parents. I didn't have to tell them directly that I was gay or anything. It was just that I'm moving out and I'm not going to raise a big fuss about it and I was going to be diplomatic and that's what I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1065.0,1088.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid you and your parents always speak in code, for example, \"those people\" as opposed to being explicit about the subtext?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1088.0,1096.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nYeah, no one was ever direct. As a matter of fact, I didn't really speak with my father at all. He usually spoke at you. Or if he was talking to you, he would go down a list of siblings' names before he got the right one, things like that. It wasn't [un]til years later when, we'll get past, we'll get to the San Francisco thing in a moment, but years later I did write a coming-out letter. And that was not received very well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1096.0,1132.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nBy either of your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1132.0,1135.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nBy my mother in particular. Through the years I found out that my father had, one of my uncles, his brother Ed, was gay, lived out of state so that like no one knew about it, nobody talked about it. And he lived with my \"Aunt Shirley,\" who was very nice. They never got married. We always referred to her as my aunt, but we knew better. And when he was around, he would always defend me. But there were just things that happened in conversations through the years where I finally came to a determination that my father was actually a closeted bisexual.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1135.0,1177.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow did you determine that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1177.0,1181.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nJust from some of the things he did as an adult and looking through some old army buddy photos of his that I found in a box one day, and I was like, \"Oh, this is interesting.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1181.0,1196.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd that was after you wrote your coming out letter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1196.0,1199.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOh yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1199.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you remember what you said in that letter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1200.0,1205.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nWell, it was an exercise at a seminar that I was at. The seminar was basically to get in touch with yourself and be more honest and open with yourself. And we had an opportunity to write a coming out letter to anyone we wanted. And the basis of the letter was basically, \"I'm gay and I love you.\" And not too long after that was my parents' 25th wedding anniversary, or whatever, there was a party and I went. And my father walked up to me and the only thing he said to me all day long was, \"You made your mother cry.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1205.0,1242.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow did you feel when he said that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1242.0,1245.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI was fairly indifferent. It was like, I'm being honest, you want to take it that way then that's how you do. I later found out that she was almost bedridden for a month. She was so depressed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1245.0,1261.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid she ever come around?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1261.0,1263.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nHell no.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1263.0,1266.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nHow about your older sisters?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1266.0,1269.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOh, let's see. My older sisters came around. They were always easy to talk to. My brother had some trouble with it because going to school, being in high school at the same time, me as a senior, he as a freshman, he was the brother of a fag, so he had to defend himself a lot. And then my younger sister, she didn't come out until she was in college when she kind of got bounced from the ROTC program. So then the doors for her just flung open.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1269.0,1307.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid you feel any responsibility as a mentor to Victoria?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1307.0,1316.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI did for a bit. Because when I, in [19]86, when I moved from San Francisco back to Salem to go to college, I moved in with my father. My mother had since passed away, and my sister Vicki was living with him. She was really happy I moved in because his alcoholism had gone off the chart and she was locking herself in her room all the time. So she was happy I kind of came in there and I was like the intermediary I was the same person the older brother who'd been away for you know eight years and so I was more stabilizing force. And we've been on good terms ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1316.0,1367.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nThere are a number of really interesting strands of your story that I want to pick up on, but I'm going to ask that we maybe go back to your senior year in high school where you finally turn 18","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1367.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nYes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1380.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nand you can go to bars for the first time. Do you remember what the first bar in Lynn was that you went to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1380.0,1387.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThat would have been [Mr.] Dominic's and [Mr.] Dominic's was kind of like, it had a home kind of feel. It was very small, it was a very small town. Everybody kind of knew each other after a while. It had a plain black and white linoleum floor, some square tables with chairs, and people would be talking to each other and moving amongst the chairs. There was a small dance floor and a jukebox that somebody would play the same song over and over and over again. And a big oval bar and I ended up running into a few people in my life that I hadn't expected to see there because it was like one of the few local places. At that time there was just that and Fran's [Place]. Fran's [Place] I went to a couple of times. It wasn't so much my scene at that point in my life. It mostly was lesbians and drag queens and I didn't know from them. I was still trying to figure out myself. So I was like, okay, that's the space they enjoy going to. This is the space I enjoy going to. And at [Mr.] Dominic's, also back in, okay, so this is gonna be 1977, I met my first transgender person who was transitioning, and that was a long time ago. And not, it wasn't the political hotbed that it is today, but I had just never met somebody who was transitioning. And I thought absolutely nothing of it. It was like I was introduced to this person as Renee, and I thought, \"Well, you're Renee, hi. Wanna dance?\" I did date a couple people that I met at [Mr.] Dominic's. One turned out, was very, very handsome, young man. He was, well, he was maybe three years older than me, but married and definitely bisexual. And then I did end up dating someone fairly long term. And his name was Richard. And Richard took me kind of under his wing. He was older. So let's see, I was, so I was 18, he was 49. And he would take me into the clubs in Boston and the leather scenes and just be the safe person to show me around and kind of give me an education. And we dated for quite some time and then one year about three days before Christmas he had a heart attack in his sleep at 49. And so that was, we couldn't get, married or anything back in the day, so I'd say that's the first time I became a widow. So just after Christmas, I was basically at, I think it was Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge was where he was buried.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1387.0,1576.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid you go to the funeral?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1576.0,1578.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOh, I did. I did. I was actually a pallbearer. The family knew me very well and they knew him and it was very open. Then we had the blizzard in 1978, which my now husband says, \"Will you ever stop talking about the damn blizzard? It's like, we don't always talk about the earthquake from San Francisco, why do you keep talking about the damn blizzard?\" This is because I lived through it. And when the snow melted, I just was told I should go to San Francisco. I had a pen pal there who invited me and my other friend Philip always said I should be there, that I would feel more myself there. So I got rid of everything I owned, I put my clothes in a duffel bag and I got on a bus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1578.0,1634.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd this is in [19]78?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1634.0,1636.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThis would be in [19]78. And I spent five days on a bus going across [the] country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1636.0,1646.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI want to hear more about that period in your life. I'm wondering if you can tell me a little bit about this period between graduating high school and going to, or your senior year in high school and then going to San Francisco in [19]78. Did it feel liberating to go to the bars in Lynn and Boston?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1646.0,1668.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nLike I said, when I was going to [Mr.] Dominic's, it was kind of like a family atmosphere. I made a lot of friends during that period of time that I had remained friends with for years. And it was just like, okay, it's Saturday night, Friday night, we're all going to [Mr.] Dominic's. And a couple of times it would be an off night during the week that I didn't even really have much to do and I was bored, so I just went by myself. And midweek there was usually fairly quiet. There might be like a dozen people in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1668.0,1700.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid those feel like safe places?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1700.0,1703.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nVery much so. Because you could be yourself, there was no judgment there. Then I think after [Mr.] Dominic's closed, Joseph's [Restaurant] opened up on Oxford Street. We went there a few times, but the owner, it was interesting. The place was very interesting. He had kind of a round dining table in the bar. And when my friend Jim and I would go in he'd always be playing cards so when you wanted something at the bar it was like you were bothering him for him to get up and make you a drink. I was like, oh okay, this is interesting. And it never seemed very crowded or populated because the owner or host just wasn't very accommodating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1703.0,1751.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWere either [Mr] Dominic's or Joseph's [Restaurant] very diverse in terms of the clientele?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1751.0,1758.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nNo. Joseph's [Restaurant] specifically was always male. So was [Mr.] Dominic's with the exception of the transgender person that I had met there and enjoyed her company. We became friends for a bit until I moved out of Boston. And then going to Fran's [Place], I always felt like I wasn't welcome there. And that, you know, wouldn't be the first time I'd gone someplace, but back then everything was very separatist. The men had their place and they felt safe there, and the lesbians and drag queens had their place and they felt safe there. Another place when I moved into Boston that I noticed that happening was there used to be a bar called the Sugar Shack in Boston, which is mostly African American. However, they were very welcoming to the drag queen circuit. So I found that interesting that these populations were getting along really well. But in those days, everybody had their safe space, it seemed like. And if you were the guy in a lesbian bar also happened at, there was another place, what the heck was the name of it, in Boston, that was a dance club that became primarily a women's bar. And I went with my friend Roberta once. And Roberta, she was going through her, I'll call it her lesbian phase, because she now has an ex-husband and two children. But I went there dancing with her and I went up to get a drink at the bar and they wouldn't serve me. So she had to go to the bar and get the drinks and then she came back telling me that I think the phrase was \"They're not comfortable with you here.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1758.0,1878.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo definitely sounds like there's sex segregation, but I'm also hearing that there was racial segregation as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1878.0,1889.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI tend to think so too. And I found a lot of that when I was doing some graduate work here at Salem State. I was trying to work or develop a diversity office back in 2009 and I was doing it with another grad[uate] student. And she was white and blonde, and I was old and gay. And there were different ethnic groups in the hallway around us. And I was trying to find out what was going on, and she also had to ask some questions, went to the other groups to meet with them. We found out that a lot of minority students will relate to groups and clubs according to their ethnicity, not their sexuality, regardless of whether they're gay or not. And that's what we found to be the case. And what I was seeing now in Lynn Pride is that the groups there are of all ethnicities and diversities. When I see the advertisements for them, I'm like, \"Oh this is great. Everybody's finally coming together.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1889.0,1972.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIt's a significant generational change.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1972.0,1973.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nIt is a generational change and since you use the word generational, the one thing that I did not see in any of the advertisements are people like myself, who are the older generation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1973.0,1987.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhen you're saying the advertisements for?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1987.0,1991.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nEvents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1991.0,1992.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1992.0,1993.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nWould generally feature younger people and I've always thought that especially with the gay male culture that youth is the thing. There is ageism. There was ageism back in the [19]70s and there's ageism now. Everything is based on, what your age is, what your social status is, how you look, and, you know, aging is not thought of to be, you know, that exciting. And I'm sorry, I'm 65. You know, it's like, I still got it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=1993.0,2029.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, I want to hear a bit more about the contemporary landscape and get some of your thoughts about some of this generational change, but I guess the last question that I would ask you about bars like Joseph's [Restaurant] and [Mr.] Dominic's is whether or not there was class diversity in those bars. Did you see people from different walks of life there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2029.0,2056.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI would say you did then. You saw just everybody. Everybody was just getting along because it was the only place to go. You know, nowadays it's very different. I had dated someone back in 2009, [20]10 and he hung out with a group which I will refer to as the A-gays. They were a little bit more, usually a little bit more educated, a little bit more affluent, a little bit more classist and separatist. I never related to this group of people so I was kind of always looked down on as \"other\". So I definitely say that there is now a class system within, the whole being, gay or sexuality or. And even, I think it even relates to where people go to hang out now. Because I have another friend who's older than I, and he's like, where are all the gays? There's no gay bars. When I go to a bar, I don't know who's gay or who's not. And when you went to a gay bar like [Mr.] Dominic's or Fran's [Place] or Joseph's [Restaurant], you expected the other people in there, for the most part, to be gay. So if you were attracted to them and you wanted to go talk to them, you didn't feel threatened. Nowadays, everybody gets along, but you don't know who's who and you don't know who you can approach from that perspective because it's not a segregated safe space. Everybody is more diverse, and I think that that's great, but...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2056.0,2172.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIt almost sounds like the gay ghettos in bars were a kind of double-edged sword. On the one hand, they're a function of segregation, but at the same time, they also provided community and connection and safe space and identity that facilitated contact that's maybe a little bit harder now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2172.0,2195.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nAbsolutely. I'm not sure of all the social groups that are starting up in Lynn now. It just seems to be blossoming. But I was involved with one in Salem, which is called the Over the Rainbow Supper Club, which is kind of like a senior dinner once a month. And I believe the name's now changed to the Over the Rainbow Social Club, I'm not sure. But that was a mixed group of men and women. There were seniors because it was a senior group. But when you go to a group like that, you know you're expecting that everybody who's there is going to be gay. So if you find somebody that you're attracted to and you want to talk to them, you don't feel, \"Well, can I?\" or \"Should I?\" There's no hesitation, no trepidation, no fear. Whereas now, it's like you can go out, it's great, you're accepted everywhere, it's like fabulous. But if I'm interested in somebody and they're not, you know, part of it is like, \"Do I want to deal with the rejection? Am I making a fool out of myself if this person isn't gay? What?\" And I can understand where those questions come from. I personally don't have to worry about it anymore being a married man.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2195.0,2269.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you have any ideas about the reasons for the disappearance of so many gay and lesbian bars?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2269.0,2278.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI do not. It's funny, my husband asked me this question the other day when we were in Boston. He's like, \"Is there a gay bar we can go to for a drink?\" I says, \"Well, there's two left in the city and they probably both don't open until four o'clock.\" So it's like, \"No.\" So midday you can't just stop into a place like San Francisco's Castro District where it's just, it's all there. I have no idea why that's not occurring in this area. And still, even when you go to Provincetown, some places are advertised as being gay-owned restaurants or gay-run or whatever. And I don't get that here. I think you can tell sometimes by reading in magazines and newspapers, you get a feel for a proprietor, what their business is like. But still it's just an amalgamation and a diversity of people who go there. You go to the Sandalman and the Rooftop Deck. A lot of gay people go there, but a lot of other people go there too. But it's a comfortable space, you know, it's pretty well known.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2278.0,2357.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo a lot of people would describe the general acceptance of LGBTQ+ people in all spaces as signs of progress and I think you're both acknowledging that, but at the same time kind of saying that something has also been lost?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2357.0,2379.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI think something's been lost. I think it's gone to Grindr and whatever those other apps are now that people use for dating because it just seems to be more an exception of people wherever you're at. I got married in Gloucester last weekend and we did it on the beach in front of this big fancy hotel and restaurant. We didn't really want a big audience. The person who was officiating wanted it to be in one of the restaurants at the hotel and we said \"No, no there's too many people here.\" We didn't want this, which is why there's only her and the witness. So we went out on the beach, and after the ceremony was over, everybody who was sitting in the upper restaurant on the balcony overlooking the beach applauded us. And it was like, we didn't expect that. It was like, \"Oh, that's a nice reaction.\" But we just didn't really want a lot of attention. Also, it was my second marriage, and so it was like, we didn't even have any family members there. We took the immediate family out to lunch the next day. But it was just a situation where we didn't expect it to be that accepting. Even the people who were, I mean it was 86 degrees on Saturday in October. People were sitting in their beach chairs out on the sand and they saw us coming down in our suits and one of my husband's friends was from Hawaii so they sent us wedding leis and we had those on. So they were all sitting there like, \"Oh, something's about to happen.\" This woman in a white dress was officiating and it's like, \"Oh, what's happening here?\" So it was a completely different experience than I would have had in the [19]70s. Completely different. And...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2379.0,2497.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIf 14 or 15 year old Dave could be shown video footage of his future self getting married on this beach and an audience of onlookers applauding, what would you have made of that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2497.0,2516.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI would say \"This is something to look forward to. I hope we get there.\" because you know when I first moved to, out of the Lynn/Boston/Salem area to San Francisco in 1978, I was thrown into a very open gay culture in the city. So I got used to that for eight years of just everything being out and open.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2516.0,2541.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd that was [19]78 to [19]86?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2541.0,2543.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\n[19]86. And then when I moved back here...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2543.0,2545.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWas Harvey Milk assassinated before you got there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2545.0,2548.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nNo, that was three months after I moved there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2548.0,2552.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI imagine you probably remember where you were and what you were doing at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2552.0,2557.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI do. I was in our house up on Twin Peaks. I was living with two roommates and two of them had been there for a number of years, And one of them looked at me and said, \"The city is not always like this.\" And then after Dan White's trial and the rioting that happened at City Hall Plaza and them lighting the police cars on fire, he's like, \"It's still not always like this. This is really, really extreme.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2557.0,2594.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd when he said \"Not like this,\" what specifically did he mean?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2594.0,2600.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThe violence and the uprising in the city and basically the attacks that were going on for the gay community in San Francisco. And he's right, it wasn't always like that, but these were circumstances which were incredibly extreme and political and outrageous. One good thing that they've done is, I don't know if you've been to San Francisco, but they now have a Harvey Milk terminal in the airport, which is a big tribute to the band, which is just absolutely stunning to go through. And it's something we can't forget. And even in today's culture, they're trying to erase him from history books in some places. So when I see that happening, I'm like, \"We can't go back there.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2600.0,2657.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you remember when he was first elected to office in [19]76?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2657.0,2663.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI do not. Because at that time, [19]76, I was just graduating high school and I was dealing with my own issues. I wasn't aware of politics or anything at that point in time for the most part.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2663.0,2676.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDid you find that your political consciousness was raised in the eight years you were in San Francisco?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2676.0,2683.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nVery much so. Very much so. Because also, you know, Dianne Feinstein became mayor and everybody was very conscious about who was running the city, who the city supervisors were. And I'd never been that politically conscious when I lived here on the East Coast. I was like, \"Oh those people, they're gonna do their thing, vote for whoever the family knows. Oh, we know that person.\" Smaller towns, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2683.0,2713.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo did you get involved politically or it was more like a general consciousness raising for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2713.0,2720.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nIt was more of a consciousness raising and an awareness of politics and how things work. And I've even gotten more so now that I can watch the Sunday morning press shows and things like that and understand what they're talking about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2720.0,2740.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nSo it sounds like San Francisco would be a pretty wonderful place for a gay young man in the late [19]70s and [19]80s. Why did you come back here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2740.0,2756.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nOkay, this is, well, it was, this might be a little political. I came back here because at that time, let's see, my mother had passed away, my sister, my youngest sister was going to Salem State. I had turned 26 and I found out it was the last year I could be considered a dependent if I moved back here. And I was working temp jobs a lot in San Francisco and all the people I was working with [were] saying, \"You've got to go back to school.\" So I researched it and I found out, oh, I would be considered dependent and my tuition and et cetera would be based on my father's income. And he, I think at that point, he was retired. So he was his, so my income was whatever his Social Security was. So I ended up going through four years of college with an entire student loan of $2,000.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2756.0,2809.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nPretty good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2809.0,2809.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nSo that's why I moved back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2809.0,2812.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd did you know what you wanted to study?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2812.0,2815.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI thought I did. When I was in San Francisco, I was getting more into holistic things. And at that point in time, the Sport, Fitness and Leisure Department, as it was called then, had a health studies program. And so I was going there, but little did I know, they were starting to phase it out. And then the past few years, they've turned that around. It's now a very large program again. So I ended up going into leisure studies but also having a conversation with my counselor who said, \"It doesn't matter what you graduate in, 90% of people who graduate don't go into the field that they studied.\" And I'm like, she said, \"Just get through and get your degree.\" And so that's what I did. And then I was working in, I was working at Salem Hospital, the billing office. So my resume got me jobs, not my academics, once I left.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2815.0,2878.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWhat was the campus climate like in the late [19]80s?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2878.0,2888.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI was in the bunker, the O'Keefe Center, so the campus climate there was a little different than most everywhere else because that's where all the athletic people, the jocks were, and there was a lot of closed-mindedness. Although, it did...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2888.0,2902.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd you were commuting?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2902.0,2903.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI was commuting, yep. I had a small one-room apartment on Essex Street over by the library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2903.0,2912.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI see. And did you reconnect with some of the bars you had been to previously?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2912.0,2923.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nNo, let's see. I don't th- because [Mr.] Dominic's had closed. Lyceum had changed ownership. I don't think Joseph's [Restaurant] was still open in the mid-[19]80s. It might have been. And I didn't go to Fran's [Place] because I never had a connection with that place. I think I went into Boston a couple of times but I was going to school time and I was working full-time. So I basically just got involved with Pat Gazemba's group, the North Shore Alliance, which was a social group for the North Shore. And there was a lot of, there were like day trips and potlucks and things like that. So my involvement with Salem and Lynn and all was more focused on doing things with that group.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2923.0,2974.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nAnd how much was the gay men's health crisis and AID[S] activism on everybody's radar?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2974.0,2982.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nWell, it was definitely on mine because one of the things that I did in my undergrad was, I was going to Boston weekly and trying to get like a games night going at the AIDS Action Center. So I was involved with that. I was working with one of the counselors, who, she's now retired, to do safe sex lectures on campus. So I was pretty involved with that and you know I had lost a lot of friends so I had a lot of ghosts from San Francisco when I came back to school. And so I wasn't, I don't think I was really doing activism, I was just trying to do education.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=2982.0,3040.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nDo you have any memory of when you first learned about the virus?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3040.0,3045.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nYes, I do. Probably two or three o'clock in the morning in a dark alley in San Francisco. I was going to a bathhouse, which is basically a sex club, and when I came out, I think I had actually gone there with a friend. So there were two of us, so I didn't feel afraid, but there were a couple of men lurking in the alley, but they didn't look dangerous and they had a bunch of pamphlets. And they were from [the] U[niversity of]C[alifornia]S[an]F[ranciso] Medical Center, and they were trying to hand out information to people. And so I took it and I read it and I said, \"Oh, there's something going on here.\" And then I would read through the San Francisco Chronicle and I would see these like two or three little paragraph columns and mentions about something in the bottom buried in the paper. And I thought to myself, \"This is really serious and it's not getting the press or the acknowledgement that it needs.\" So I immediately changed my behaviors for me. And I didn't judge anybody for their own, but I just decided to change my behaviors for me because I knew that something was happening. Didn't know what or what extent it was going to get to. And then it just completely blew up. And a lot of the reason it blew up was because of politics. People just, it started out being called a gay plague when it was a blood-borne illness. And so when they started to label it, that made people defensive about doing anything about it. Oh, it's only killing this population. It's only affecting that population. We don't care. And so I dealt with a lot of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3045.0,3152.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWere you scared?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3152.0,3157.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI would say I was more concerned because I educated myself and I read things, I'd listened to people and I took care of myself and I acted appropriately. I wasn't so scared for myself as I was for other people. And I've lost many friends from it. They just, some of them may have changed their behavior but it was too late. And some of them chose not to change their behavior.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3157.0,3192.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nIt was a pretty amazing time where this crisis is unfolding and yet at the same time in 1987, for the first time, the American Psychological Association says that homosexuality is not a disorder. The World Health Organization in 1990 finally says that it's not a disease. Do you remember hearing about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3192.0,3220.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nThat was a big deal. That was a big deal to me because I was conscious about health and health studies and I was interested in all of that. So I was like, well, it's about time. Because I grew up, because of those things, I grew up thinking there's something wrong with me. And my parents of course grew up, they were told \"There is something wrong with you.\" When in actuality there isn't, it's like, try to explain to somebody that it's like nature's form of birth control, or try to explain to somebody that it's almost every species. It's like they don't want to hear that. They can't comprehend it. I don't understand why. It's like, it's just nature.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3220.0,3269.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nI mean I imagine even for somebody like you who had kind of come to terms with your own sexuality, was comfortable with it, and was proud of it, there's still something about these major influential bodies of experts, whether it's the W[orld]H[ealth]O[rganization] or the A[merican]P[sychological]A[ssociation], finally saying out loud to the whole world what you internally always knew to be true as being very validating and I imagine, empowering.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3269.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nVery much so, and it's like, but there's still a lot of politics against it. It's, you know, especially this past week or so with the Speaker of the House. It's like, it just scares me that there's still so much ignorance out there. And I have my own personal political views about that, but I won't go there at this point. But...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3300.0,3329.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nYou're certainly welcome to if you want to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3329.0,3334.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nWell, no, I think I'd be generalizing too much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3334.0,3337.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nOkay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3337.0,3337.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI think I'd be generalizing too much for something that's probably just going on in my poor mad brain.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3337.0,3343.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Andrew Darien\n\nWell, maybe I can direct you this way. It seems like from the [19]80s until maybe about a decade ago, and you can correct me if you see it differently, that there was this real upward trajectory of general acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, and in the last 10 years or so, there's been a bit of a backlash. And that progress has been somewhat halted, and I'm wondering what you make of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933#t=3343.0,3381.0"},{"id":"https://througharainbowlens.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2385/collection_resources/114162/file/216933/transcript/66629/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Levasseur\n\nI think that backlash is very loud voices from very few people and media. I mean, you can thank Fox News, you can thank 90% of the G[rand]O[ld]P[arty], that's probably a closet case. That's just my personal opinion. You can blame it on the fact that the Republican Party is mostly fascist now, it's like, we are in again some challenging and scary times. And part of it harkens back to, back in the [19]70s when we were, we would go out to these small clubs and we had our safe spaces, but we still didn't feel safe. I don't know. Even Lynn today, the downtown is very, very dark. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking through Central Square or downtown by myself at night. It's always looked dark and foreboding. Maybe someday something will be done about that. I know they've tried to do things by putting the rainbow lights under the train tracks and things and nice big murals. We can't really enjoy the murals at night. And there's a lot of incredible businesses that are open down there at night. 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And Salem had been getting a lot of the acknowledgment for it happening there. And so it was nice to see it happening in what is now my hometown. And I hope it continues to grow. I'd like to see the arts grow in Lynn. I've been to some of the small retro theater companies in Lynn who do really good work, but they don't get acknowledged very much. And again, some of those spaces, the parking lots, I just don't feel safe. I don't feel comfortable. I want to go to a show at one of those small theaters in downtown Lynn at night by myself. It's like, if I can't find someone to go with I'm not going. 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They did a lot of work to get you, the privileges and things that you have today, don't take them for granted. And look into starting a chapter of SAGE, Seniors in a Gay Environment, supporting that. Look into, what is going to be my new home now has a group called San Francisco Village and that is a group by zip code that supports elder LGBT residents in the city. Things like, just finding out if somebody needs something, take them grocery shopping, play checkers or chess with them. Some people, a lot of LGBT elders are single or they've lost their spouses or partners and just need someone to spend time with them. 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