{"id":4,"date":"2026-02-17T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/?p=4"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:33:45","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/2026\/02\/17\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am Jake La Fronz, a second-year PhD student in history at Temple University and my research focuses on twentieth-century queer and trans history, specifically topics such as bar raids, drag, and the broader social and cultural shifts within LGBTQ+ communities. Geographically, my work engages with archives from San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Long Island, London, and Italy, which reflects my wide-ranging interest at the intersections of place, identity, and resistance in the United States but also the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find my <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.temple.edu\/directory\/jake-la-fronz\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.temple.edu\/directory\/jake-la-fronz\">Temple Student profile here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And my <a href=\"https:\/\/jakesarchivesandmanuscripts.wordpress.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jakesarchivesandmanuscripts.wordpress.com\/\">personal blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact me at <a href=\"mailto:jake.la.fronz@temple.edu\">jake.la.fronz@temple.edu<\/a> if you are interested in this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I am Jake La Fronz, a second-year PhD student in history at Temple University and my research focuses on twentieth-century queer and trans history,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/2026\/02\/17\/about-me\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/southernnewjerseylgbtoralhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}