Interview with Torrie Osborn

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Contributor

Osborn, Torie ; McKiernan, Stephen

Description

Torie Osborn is a community organizer, activist, and author. She got her Bachelor's in English from Middlebury College and her Master of Business Administration from UCLA. Osborn was the first woman Executive Director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. She was also an executive board member for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Liberty Hill Foundation.

Date

Rights

In copyright

Date Modified

2018-03-29

Is Part Of

McKiernan Interviews

Extent

96:12

Date of Interview

Interviewer

Stephen McKiernan

Interviewee

Torie Osborn

Biographical Text

Torie Osborn is a community organizer, activist, and author. She received her Bachelor's in English from Middlebury College and her Master's degree in Business Administration from UCLA. Osborn was the first woman Executive Director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. She was also an executive board member for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Liberty Hill Foundation.

Duration

96:12

Language

English

Digital Publisher

Binghamton University Libraries

Digital Format

audio/mp4

Original Format

2 Microcassettes

Material Type

Sound

Interview Format

Audio

Subject LCSH

Authors; Civil rights workers; Osborn, Torie--Interviews

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Keywords

Counterculture; Watergate; Black Panthers; Anti-war movement; Baby boom generation; Civil rights movement; Women's movement; Vietnam memorial; Tom Hayden; Lyndon B. Johnson; Eugene McCarthy; Angela Davis; George McGovern; Daniel Ellsberg; Spiro Agnew; Richard Nixon; LGBT; Gay and Lesbian Movement.

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Collection Description

Stephen McKiernan's collection of interviews includes more than two hundred interviews with prominent figures of the 1960s, which were collected between the mid-1990s to 2023 The collection provides narratives of people who were actively involved in or witnessed events in the 1960s, an era which spurred profound cultural and… More

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“Interview with Torrie Osborn,” Digital Collections, accessed May 11, 2025, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1158.