Dr. Joseph Plaster and his students have recorded and transcribed oral histories. These represent the life stories with members of Baltimore’s ballroom community.

This collection includes recordings of oral history interviews conducted by Johns Hopkins University alum Michal Makarovich with members of Baltimore’s gay community about the evolution of Baltimore gay bars. Participants interviewed are Bob Eckert, Reg Diffenderfer, Duane Schline, Thayne Williams, David Lehman, and members of the band the Rock-a-Jets. The interviews primarily discuss gay culture and community in Baltimore City between the 1940s and 1970s. The collection also includes black and white photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera collected during Makarovich's research.

The oral histories in this collection were recorded as part of Vintage T, a public humanities project led by Monica Stevens, Jamie Grace Alexander, and Rahne Alexander and sponsored by Sistas of the “T” and the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center. Vintage T was launched in 2023 to document and archive the perspectives, strategies, and personal histories of trans individuals in Baltimore, thereby preserving valuable traditions within trans communities.