{"id":826,"date":"2026-02-27T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/?p=826"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:00:54","slug":"mark-carmien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/mark-carmien\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carmien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark Carmien was interviewed by Aaron Hulsey on March 19th &amp; 31st, 2020 via Zoom Platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narrator:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark discusses his involvement with Pride starting in the late 1980s, his work on the Northampton Domestic Partners Ordinance, his ownership of Pride and Joy, as well as his work as a real estate agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note: this interview mentions homophobia and queer elder abuse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Northampton Pride &amp; Liberation: Mark Carmien Interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k0iTLqlUv_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfjsblock-pdfjs-embed pdfjs-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carmien was interviewed by Aaron Hulsey on March 19th &amp; 31st, 2020 via Zoom Platform. Narrator: Mark discusses his involvement with Pride starting in the late 1980s, his work on the Northampton Domestic Partners Ordinance, his ownership of Pride and Joy, as well as his work as a real estate agent. Please note: this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"noho-pride","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[59,30],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northampton-pride","tag-northampton-domestic-partners-ordinance","tag-pride-joybusiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/queernorthampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}