Oral history interview with Bill Lippert

Oral history interview with Bill Lippert

Bill Lippert speaks of growing up in rural Pennsylvania, the gay son of an Evangelical United Brethren minister; of the influence of his aunt, Mary Alice Lippert, a teacher in Sierra Leone, and of his college years at Earlham College, a Quaker college in Indiana. He describes working with the Friends Peace Committee and his training in non-violence techniques to be used in anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D. C., filing for conscientious objector status in rural Pennsylvania, attending the Gay Pride March in Philadelphia in June, 1972, and moving to Vermont in August, 1972. The bulk of the interview revolves around Lippert's life in Vermont as a gay activist, the difficulties of being gay in Vermont in the 1970s, and the slow cultural shift to a more open society in Vermont.

28 September 2015

AudioFile1970s-7

MP3

Audio Files

Hinesburg (Vt.)

Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Blofson, Kate

Lippert, William J., 1950-

Hinesbury (Vt.)

2 hr., 19 min.,12 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4209