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Tom and Don, a couple who have been together for eighteen years, talk about their moves, multiple houses, and real estate ventures, including their departure of the city for a farm in rural Ontario and then their move to rural Nova Scotia. They also discuss their journeys of self-discovery, their families, their relationship, and differences of community acceptance and support in urban and rural settings.

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Collection:

Out Our Way

Date of interview:

ca. 1990

Interviewee:

Tom

Don

Interviewer:

Michael Riordon

Format:

Audio

Language:

English

Place of interview:

Dates mentioned:

Topics:

Coming Out

Topic: Coming Out

Content includes significant discussion of, or matters related to, coming out.

Family

Topic: Family

Content includes significant discussion of matters related to family, including: one’s relationships with their family members; having and raising children; the experience of having a non-heteronormative/non-traditional family.

Identity

Topic: Identity

Content includes significant discussion of identity/ies (including gender, sexual, racial, religious, and class) and how one self-identifies, and/or significant discussion of the process of finding or determining one’s identity/ies.

Sex and Relationships

Topic: Sex and Relationships

Content includes significant discussion of all matters related to sex, sexuality, and relationships (other than familial relationships with parents or children), including: friendships; marriage; divorce; relationship models, etc.

Spaces

Topic: Spaces

Content includes significant discussion of physical (and sometimes conceptual) spaces and locales including: urban spaces and life; rural spaces and life; private/domestic spaces; the home; neighbourhoods and ghettos; and semi-private or semi-public spaces such as women’s bookshops, community spaces, and land/living collectives.

Locations mentioned:

Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador

Interview transcript: