Interview with Diana LaMonte

Diana talks about her transition in the early days of trans community, about her life story, about setting up the first trans organization in Canada, and about her recent activism in her women's community. Narrator Name: Diana LaMonte. Interviewer Name: Evan Taylor. Pronouns: She. Other Names or Pronouns: Diana Elizabeth LaMonte.

In Collection:

• Trans Activism Oral History Project

Contributor

• Devor, Aaron
• LaMonte, Diana
• Taylor, Evan
• Brown, Elspeth

Subject

• LaMonte, Diana

Publisher

• Transgender Archives
• TheArquives

Language

• eng

Keyword

• AIDS
• Sex work
• Substance abuse
• Surgery
• Resilience
• Suicide
• Child abuse
• Celibacy
• Sex
• Activism
• Association of Canadian Transsexuals
• Trans woman
• Community
• Violence
• ACT
• CHAT

Date created

• February 14, 2020

Resource type

• Moving Image
• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 03:19:58

Geographic coverage

• Ontario--Toronto
• British Columbia--Vancouver Island
• British Columbia--Vancouver

Coordinates

• 49.24966, -123.11934
• 43.70011, -79.4163
• 49.65064, -125.44939

Chronological coverage

• 1979 to 2020

Collection

• Trans Activism Oral History Project

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Chair in Transgender Studies
• Devor, Aaron
• Taylor, Evan
• LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
• Brown, Elspeth

Genre

• transcripts
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• oral histories (literary genre)

Date digitized

• February 14, 2020

Technical note

• PDF; mp4; vtt. Original recording using Zoom platform.

Rights

• Unless otherwise specified, this material is made available on this site for non-commercial purposes only. All other uses require permission of the copyright holder.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/v9hq-7h59