Ty Ginter is a 23-year-old graduate student studying historic preservation at University of Maryland, College Park and they identify as a non-binary butch lesbian. In this interview, Ty talks about their dissertation project in Washington, D.C. called D.C. Dykaries, navigating the D.C. older lesbian community, their definition and relationship to the butch identity, their 5-year relationship, the need for (sober) lesbian spaces, and family life.