JM: Well I had a mother and a father and seven brothers and sisters. MS: And I just thought I would start by asking you to say something about your childhood years, your family, just the basic sort of information about how you grew up. JM: Right in the middle of the Swish Alps. MS: This is Marc Stein and I'm interviewing Joseph McGrory at his home in Center City on October 19th, 1993. Marc Stein Interview with Joseph McGrory, 19 October 1993. Transcribed by Lisa Williams and Marc Stein. 11 th Street, Center City, Philadelphiaġ954-59: Lab Technician, Franklin Instituteġ959-60: Trainee, Monastery, Springfield, Illinoisġ960: Biological Lab Technician, Smith, Kline, and Frenchġ963-64: Graduate Assistant, Temple Universityġ968-69: Assistant Professr of Psychology, Atlantic Community Collegeġ969-74: Dean of Instruction (Liberal Arts), Spring Garden Collegeġ973-91: Professor of Psychology, Spring Garden College 21 st St., Center City, Philadelphiaġ968-72: Logan Street, Woddbury, New Jerseyġ972-76: 2738 Island Avenue, Eastwick, Philadelphiaġ976-93: 506 S.
Religious Background: Christian (Raised Catholic, Became Episcopalian)ġ937-40: Water and Tasker Streets, South Philadelphiaġ940-43: 1624 Bailey Street, South Philadelphiaġ943-60: 1602 Bailey Street, South Philadelphiaġ960-63: Girard College, North Philadelphiaġ963-64: 1602 Bailey Street, South Philadelphiaġ964-68: 111 S. Mother's Occupation: Clerical Worker, Hospital Administrative Staff It also might explain why McGrory’s was one of only two interviews from which I used no quotations in my book City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves.Īccording to an online obituary, McGrory died after a brief illness on. This is why the transcript below contains various gaps. The sound quality of the tape was poor McGrory may have been too far away from the microphone and he mumbled.
This was perhaps the most difficult of my interviews to transcribe.
student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Woods was the author of the 1994 book The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America. I do not recall the circumstances that led me to interview him, but the transcript suggests that we may have met at a public lecture given by James Woods, whom I had known when he was a Ph.D.
I interviewed Joseph McGrory in his home in Center City, Philadelphia, in October 1993.