{"id":1840,"date":"2017-05-24T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:29:30","slug":"new-item-oral-memoirs-of-patty-sheehan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"New Item: Oral Memoirs of Patty Sheehan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oral history interview of <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCityBeautiful4\/?fref=mentions\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=193909167418562&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\" data-hovercard-obj-id=\"193909167418562\">Commissioner Patty Sheehan<\/a>, Orlando\u2019s first openly gay city commissioner. The interview was conducted by Kalynn Smith at Sheehan\u2019s offices at Orlando City Hall in Orlando, Florida, on April 11th, 2017. Some of the topics covered include an introduction, how the challenges of growing up gay shaped her activism, how coming out affected her familial relationships and career, identifying items in her collection, Michael\u2019s March and bringing together the gay and lesbian communities over HIV\/AIDS, the stigma of HIV\/AIDS and how shame kills, facing discrimination while running for office, civil rights activism as city commissioner, becoming an advocate for marriage equality, and her favorite accomplishments as City Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>To view this item visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/richesmi.cah.ucf.edu\/omeka\/items\/show\/9723\">https:\/\/richesmi.cah.ucf.edu\/omeka\/items\/show\/9723<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oral history interview of Commissioner Patty Sheehan, Orlando\u2019s first openly gay city commissioner. The interview was conducted by Kalynn Smith at Sheehan\u2019s offices at Orlando City Hall in Orlando, Florida, on April 11th, 2017. Some of the topics covered include an introduction, how the challenges of growing up gay shaped her activism, how coming&hellip;","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[326,327,291,305,317,325],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-city-commissioner","tag-gay-rights","tag-glbt","tag-glbtq","tag-homosexuality","tag-patty-sheehan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}