Publications

Links to back issues of the Tretter's newsletter, scholarship that draws on the Tretter's archival holdings, and published news items about the Tretter's endeavors.

The Tretter Letter

The Tretter publishes a newsletter, The Tretter Letter. Past issues can be found in the Digital Conservancy.

"Blackout Records," a Tretter zine (2020)

In "Blackout Records: A Taphonomy of Queer Addiction" (view the digital book) artist/researcher Jesse Eisenmann reflects on their experience searching for stories of kin, loss, and queer love across generations within the Tretter's archival holdings, and proposes a paleontology of archival memory.

Work that uses materials from the Tretter Collection (partial list)

Barth, Noah, "FREE You: Minnesota’s Fight for Gay Liberation" (a video about the founders of the Minnesota-based organization Fight Repression of Erotic Expression) (2019)
Bronson, Ken, "Quest for Full Equality"
Brown, Elspeth H. "Trans/Feminist Oral History: Current Projects," Transgender Studies Quarterly 2 (4) (2015), pp. 666–672.
Gilley, Jennifer. "Ghost in the Machine: Kitchen Table Press and the Third Wave Anthology That Vanished," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 38 (3) (2017), pp. 141-163
Johansen, Bruce. "Out of Silence: FREE, Minnesota’s First Gay Rights Organization," Minnesota History Magazine Vol. 66 (5) (Spring 2019)
Hindman, Matthew Dean. Political Advocacy and Its Interested Citizens: Neoliberalism, Postpluralism, and LGBT Organizations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Lessik, Alan. The Troubleseeker (Chelsea Station Editions, 2016)
Lair, Liam Oliver. Documenting Subjugated Knowledges: Two Trans Oral History Archives (on the New York City Trans Oral History Project and The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project), The Oral History Review (July 2019)
McConnell, Michael, with Jack Baker, as told to Gail Langer Karwoski. The Wedding Heard ’Round the World: America’s First Gay Marriage (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Murphy, Kevin P., Jennifer L. Pierce, and Larry Knopp, eds., Queer Twin Cities (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
State of Minnesota, County of Blue Earth, McConnell v. Blue Earth County, Conclusions of Law (2017)
Tchepikova-Treon, Olga. "Making and Breaking a Queer Film in the Twin Cities" The Moving Image Vol. 19 (1) (Spring 2019)
Triechel, Dixie. "Fresh Fruit: 35 Years of Queer Radio," KFAI Radio (2013)
Triechel, Dixie. "The Tretter Collection: Preserving Queer Culture" KFAI Radio (2010)
Van Cleve, Stewart. Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press)
Vecoli, Lisa. "The Tretter Collection: What We Have, What's Missing, and the Challenges of Trans History," Transgender Studies Quarterly Vol. 2 (4) (November 2015)

Did you write or create something using materials from the collection? Let us know at tretter@umn.edu.

Press about the Tretter (partial list)

Allison Campbell-Jensen, "Viewing GAZE-TV," Continuum (May 24, 2021)
Allison Campbell-Jensen, "A place of their own: Tretter Collection donor Bob Jansen wants to preserve gay history," Continuum, (March 11, 2021)
"Presenting: 'Transcripts'" With Good Reason (July 10, 2020)
"The Activist's Plabook: The Transcripts Podcast Team," Slate (Summer 2020)
"New podcast puts transgender movement in context" Continuum (June 17, 2020)
Myra Billund-Phibbs, "Look for the helpers: A new oral history collection shows how important frontline responders have been in the HIV/AIDS crisis," Continuum (May 12, 2020)
Becca Most, "Transcribing queer history: UMN Tretter Collection creates new podcast," Minnesota Daily (February 19, 2020)
5 Questions About: the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, The Oral History Review, (August 2019)
Karen Carmody-McIntosh, "The Tretter Collection’s new curator," (February 15, 2019)
For two years, this VCU professor will travel the U.S. to conduct oral histories of the trans community’s struggle for justice, VCU News (April 10, 2019)
The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Access Minnesota Television (December, 2017)
Narrating a Transition Continuum Magazine (October 3, 2017)
U of MN's Transgender Oral History Project Releases First Round of Interviews The Column, (January 4, 2017)
University Oral History Project Highlights Diversity in Transgender Community St. Paul Pioneer Press (December 16, 2016)
U of M's Transgender Oral History Project Collects One Life Story at a Time MinnPost, December 2, 2016
Andrea Jenkins Archives LGBTQ Stories for the Ages City Pages (June 24, 2015)
Transgender Pride Minnesota Public Radio (June 12, 2015)
Building An Archive of Transgender History Southwest Journal (May 5, 2015)
Former Minneapolis Council Aide Brings Transgender Issues to the Forefront StarTribune (April 27, 2015)
Trans Advocate Aids U Libraries Minnesota Daily (April 21, 2015)
Pritzker's Foundation Funds Trans Oral History Project Windy City Times (February 22, 2015)
Transgender History Project at the U of M Access Minnesota Radio (February 2015)
Grant Will Help Gather Transgender Experiences Minnesota Daily (October 15, 2014)
U Libraries Receives Major Multi-Year Grant For Transgender Oral History Project Continuum, October 9, 2014