Jean-Nickolaus Tretter
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter (1946 – December 9, 2022) was an American activist and LGBT archivist who created the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, housed by the University of Minnesota. Tretter was also the host of KFAI radio show ''Night Rivers'', and the co-chair of the Minnesota Gay and Lesbian Olympic Committee. He co-organised the first Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities commemoration of the Stonewall riots, Stonewall Riots in 1972. Early life, education and military service Tretter grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota and studied initially linguistics. His family had arrived in Morrison County, Minnesota, Morrison County in 1848. After graduating, Tretter served with the U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War. From 1973, he studied cultural anthropology at the University of Minnesota, although faculty prevented him from focusing his studies on Queer studies, lesbian and gay anthropology. Tretter dropped out of university in 1976. ...
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University Of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, Minnesota, Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately apart. The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the List of United States university campuses by enrollment, ninth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,376 students at the start of the 2021–22 academic year. It is the Flagship#Colleges and universities in the United States, flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System, and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units. The Minnesota Territorial Legislature drafted a ...
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