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Beth Meadows oral history interview, 2021 February 19
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Creator
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Meadows, Beth
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Date Created
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2021-02-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Lesbians, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities
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Description
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Ms. Beth Meadows discusses her experiences as a lesbian woman and her role in organizing Salisbury Pride in Salisbury, North Carolina. Topics discussed include Ms. Meadows' first attendance at Pride in Charlotte; her experience being fired fr...
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Brianna McGruder oral history interview, 2018 January 23
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Creator
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McGruder, Brianna Monet
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Date Created
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2018-01-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Feminism, Community organization, LGBTQ+ people, Lesbians, Women's studies
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Description
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Junior student Brianna McGruder charts her life path to Charlotte, North Carolina, and UNC Charlotte, and anticipates her upcoming venture into documenting local LGBTQ+ history through oral history interviewing. Ms. McGruder reflects on her experi...
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Catherine Hopkins Letters (Part I)
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Date Created
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1970, 1974
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbian couples, Lesbians, Interpersonal relations, LGBTQ+ culture, Long-distance relationships, Publishers and publishing--Employees, College students, Amusements
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Catherine Hopkins Letters (Part I)
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Date Created
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1970, 1974
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbian couples, Lesbians, Interpersonal relations, Lesbians--Social life and customs, Long-distance relationships, Publishers and publishing--Employees, College students, Amusements
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Catherine Hopkins Letters (Part II)
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Date Created
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1970, 1974
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbian couples, Lesbians, Interpersonal relations, LGBTQ+ culture, Long-distance relationships, Publishers and publishing--Employees, College students, Amusements
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Catherine Hopkins Letters (Part III)
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Date Created
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1970, 1974
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbian couples, Lesbians, Interpersonal relations, LGBTQ+ culture, Long-distance relationships, Publishers and publishing--Employees, College students, Amusements
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Catherine Hopkins Letters (Part IV)
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Date Created
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1970, 1974
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbian couples, Lesbians, Interpersonal relations, LGBTQ+ culture, Long-distance relationships, Publishers and publishing--Employees, College students, Amusements
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Connie Vetter oral history interview, 2018 July 24
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Creator
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Vetter, Connie J. (Connie June)
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Date Created
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2018-07-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation, Gay activists, Gay community, Lesbians--Societies and clubs, Lesbians
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Description
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Connie Vetter arrived in Charlotte in 1993 as a young graduate from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. In this interview, Ms. Vetter shares her experiences in Charlotte as a young lesbian in pursuit of law work and female community. ...
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Debbie Warren oral history interview 1, 2016 June 21
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Creator
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Warren, Debbie (Debbie Carol)
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Date Created
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2016-06-21
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Subjects--Topical
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Faith, Baptists, Sex role, AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Care, Gay activists, Gay men--Relations with lesbians, Lesbians, Sex discrimination against women, Lesbian clergy
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Description
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Prior to the 1992 founding of Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) in Charlotte, North Carolina, Rev. Debbie Warren dedicated her life to service within the Baptist Church. In this first of three interviews, Rev. Warren discusses her early year...
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Diana Travis oral history interview, 2017 February 27
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Creator
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Travis, Diana, 1947-
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Date Created
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2017-02-27
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Subjects--Topical
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Discrimination, Feminism, Gay community, Gay pride parades, LGBTQ+ culture, Homophobia, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Segregation
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Description
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Diana Travis discusses her life and activism as a lesbian living in Boston, Massachusetts and Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes her formative years in Charlotte, where her father, Gus Travis, was a popular columnist for the Charlotte Observ...
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Frances Curry Kerr oral history interview, 2016 December 16
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Creator
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Kerr, Frances C. (Frances Curry), 1928-
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Date Created
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2016-12-16
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbians, Gay community, Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Baptists
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Description
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In this interview, Frances C. Kerr recounts her involvement in the process by which Myers Park Baptist Church adopted an LGBTQ affirming policy in 2002, her reasons for wanting to make this policy happen, and how this has changed her life as a chu...
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Joan Tillotson oral history interview, 2016 June 19
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Creator
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Tillotson, Joan, 1927-
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Date Created
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2016-06-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Physical education teachers, Women physical education teachers, Lesbians, Lesbian college students, Gay community, Lesbian relationships, Aging
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Description
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Joan Tillotson recounts her life as a lesbian, her experiences with relationships, and her career as physical education teacher in New York and as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She discusses her formative years in N...
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Kimberly Melton oral history interview, 2017 February 9
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Creator
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Melton, Kimberly A., (Kimberly Ann)
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Date Created
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2017-02-09
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Subjects--Topical
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Women--Religious life, Bisexual women, Lesbian community, AIDS (Disease), Lesbians, Women--Political activity
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Description
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Kimberly Melton discusses her thirty years as an LGBTQ activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Melton was raised under Catholicism until the age of thirteen--a year in her life she attributes with great importance. While attending junior high s...
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Linda Lawyer oral history interview 1, 2018 April 6
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Creator
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Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
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Date Created
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2018-04-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbians, Gay Community, Lesbians' writings
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Description
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In this interview, Charlotte LGBTQ activist Linda Lawyer discusses the history of Queen City Friends (QCF), the lesbian organization that she founded in 1986. Mrs. Lawyer explains how her prior work with Charlotte's Gay and Lesbian Switchboar...
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Linda Lawyer oral history interview 2, 2019 January 24
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Creator
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Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
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Date Created
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2019-01-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbians, Computer Programming, Gay Community, Lesbians' writings, Sex discrimination in employment, Sex discrimination against women, Women in computer science
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Description
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As a lesbian coming of age in the late 1960s and 1970s, Linda Lawyer shares her early experiences with socialization and marginalization in this second of a series of interviews. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she discusses her Catholic u...
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Linda Lawyer oral history interview 3, 2019 April 9
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Creator
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Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
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Date Created
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2019-04-09
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay Activists, Gay Community, Lesbians, Lesbians' writings, Marginality, Social
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In 1982, Linda Lawyer and her partner moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. In this third of several interviews, Mrs. Lawyer speaks in-depth about her LGBTQ community activism in Charlotte that began in the 1980s and continued in 2019. As a prominen...
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Lynnsy Logue Papers
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Creator
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Logue, Lynnsy Lee, 1939-
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Date Created
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1970, 1974
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbian couples, Lesbians, Interpersonal relations
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Description
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The Lynnsy Logue papers includes periodicals, audiovisual materials, photographs from Logue's travels around the world, correspondence with friends and family and many of Logue's personal writings and short stories. Digitized content only includes...
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Lynnsy Logue oral history interview 1, 2017 December 28
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Creator
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Logue, Lynnsy, 1939-
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Date Created
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2017-12-28
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Subjects--Topical
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LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, Television--Production and direction, Gay activists, Gay rights, LGBTQ+ culture
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Description
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In this interview, Lynnsy Logue discusses her experience living in New York City and Charlotte North Carolina as a lesbian woman, her fourteen year career with the Charlotte Observer, and her involvement in various social and political organizatio...
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Lynnsy Logue oral history interview 2, 2018 January 11
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Creator
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Logue, Lynnsy, 1939-
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Date Created
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2018-01-11
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Subjects--Topical
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LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay activists, Gay rights, LGBTQ+ culture
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In this second interview with Lynnsy Logue, she discusses her experience living in both Charlotte and New York City as a lesbian and reflects on the LGBTQ community as a whole. She relates what the gay bar scene was like in Charlotte around the 19...
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Mary Jamis oral history interview 2021 March 18
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Creator
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Jamis, Mary
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Date Created
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2021-03-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ nonviolent resistance, Lesbian-gay relations
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Description
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Ms. Mary Jamis discusses her re-connection with the LGBTQ+ community through her experiences in organizing Winston-Salem Pride in 2011. Topics discussed include Ms. Jamis' participation in a non-violent protest against the YMCA in Winston-Sal...