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Until her recent retirement, Lisa Vecoli made big changes as curator of the upper midwest’s largest LGBTQ history archive, the 

Now she’s onto a new project, one that was inspired by her work at the archive: Over the next few years, she will capture the stories of lesbians who were activists in Minnesota in the 1970s and ‘80s, a time when a lot of gathering had to be done in secret. The project is called “the 

Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project

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Until her recent retirement, Lisa Vecoli made big changes as curator of the Upper Midwest’s largest LGBTQ archive, the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota. Now she’s onto a new project, one that was inspired by her work at the archive: Over the next few years, she will capture the stories of lesbians who were activists in Minnesota in the 1970s and ‘80s, a time when a lot of gathering had to be done in secret, a project called “the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project.”

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