Siri Colom interview

Interview with Siri Colom by Claire Caldwell. Siri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Worcester State University. She identifies as a gay woman. She is white and Puerto Rican. Topics in order of discussion include: growing up in a Seventh Day Adventist community; sexism and homophobia in the Church; attending Tufts University and the impact of studying abroad in Spain; attending Berkeley for her PhD; interest and career in sociology; self-awareness of being gay and coming out; wedding in San Francisco; California prior to gay marriage being legal; working with fertility clinics to become pregnant and parenting an infant. This interview was created as part of the Queer Stories Project - an oral history project developed by Dr. Virginia Thomas to train LGBTQIA young adults to conduct oral history interviews with LGBTQIA adults in Rhode Island. Queer Stories Project was funded by Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.