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Title: Connie Vetter oral history interview, 2018 July 24
Creator: Vetter, Connie J. (Connie June)
Date Created: 2018-07-24
Subjects--Topical: Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation, Gay activists, Gay community, Lesbians--Societies and clubs, Lesbians
Description: 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. ...

Title: Debbie Warren oral history interview 1, 2016 June 21
Creator: Warren, Debbie (Debbie Carol)
Date Created: 2016-06-21
Subjects--Topical: 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
Description: 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...

Title: Debbie Warren oral history interview 2, 2016 July 13
Creator: Warren, Debbie (Debbie Carol)
Date Created: 2016-07-13
Subjects--Topical: Faith, AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Care, Gay activists, Gay men--Relations with lesbians, Lesbian clergy, LGBTQ+ religious people, Marginality, Social, Bingo
Description: In this second of three interviews, Rev. Debbie Warren begins by illustrating Charlotte in 1992--the year she founded the Regional Aids Interfaith Network (RAIN). Rev. Warren witnessed a great deal of social stratification between faith leaders an...

Title: Debbie Warren oral history interview 3, 2016 September 26
Creator: Warren, Debbie (Debbie Carol)
Date Created: 2016-09-26
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Care, Faith, Gay activists, Hospitals--Case management services, Nonprofit organizations--Finance
Description: In this third interview, Reverend Debbie Warren, founder and CEO of the Regional Interfaith AIDS Network (RAIN) in Charlotte, North Carolina, focuses on the importance of care team work conducted by RAIN. For many years, RAIN's core care team...

Title: James Green oral history interview 1, 2015 September 29
Creator: Green, James M., 1952-
Date Created: 2015-09-29
Subjects--Topical: Christian gay men, Jesuits, Faith, Gay activists, Pastoral counseling, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Counseling of, Indians of North America
Description: In this first of two interviews, psychotherapist James Green, who settled in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1988, discusses his life, his work, and his activities with various LGBT organizations in Charlotte. As a boy, Mr. Green was one of seven chi...

Title: James Green oral history interview 2, 2016 April 23
Creator: Green, James M., 1952-
Date Created: 2016-04-23
Subjects--Topical: Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects, Gay activists, Gay youth--Suicidal behavior, Parents of transgender children, Transphobia
Description: In this second of two interviews, psychotherapist James Green discusses his nearly thirty year involvement with the Charlotte, North Carolina chapter of Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Mr. Green discusses the nascent Charlotte chap...

Title: Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 2, 2016 March 13
Creator: Burford, Joshua D., 1974-
Date Created: 2016-03-13
Subjects--Topical: Archivists, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay activists, Gay community, Gay men, Gay liberation movement, Gay youth--Suicidal behavior, LGBTQ+ people
Description: Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, recalls his life growing up in Alabama and his passion for collecting queer history. He discusses the reasons for and proces...

Title: Logsdon, Darryl oral history interview, 2015 September 25
Creator: Logsdon, Darryl
Date Created: 2015-09-25
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), Coming out (Sexual orientation), Discrimination, Diversity in the workplace, Gay activists, Gay community, Gay men--Political activity, Homophobia
Description: In this interview, Darryl Logsdon recounts his social and professional work as an LGBTQ+ activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Logsdon describes being drawn to Charlotte during the early 1980s both on a visceral level that he decribes as "goo...

Title: Lynnsy Logue oral history interview 1, 2017 December 28
Creator: Logue, Lynnsy, 1939-
Date Created: 2017-12-28
Subjects--Topical: LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, Television--Production and direction, Gay activists, Gay rights, LGBTQ+ culture
Description: 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...

Title: Lynnsy Logue oral history interview 2, 2018 January 11
Creator: Logue, Lynnsy, 1939-
Date Created: 2018-01-11
Subjects--Topical: LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay activists, Gay rights, LGBTQ+ culture
Description: 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...

Title: Robert L. Barret oral history interview 2, 2014 November 11
Creator: Barret, Robert L.
Date Created: 2014-11-11
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Counseling of, Gay activists, Safe sex in AIDS prevention, AIDS (Disease)--Education, Gay community, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Death, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Homophobia, Discrimination
Description: In this second of three interviews, Dr. Robert L. Barret, professor emeritus in counseling at UNC Charlotte, practicing psychotherapist, and LGBTQ activist, discusses his experiences and perceptions as a gay man in Charlotte, North Carolina during...

Title: Shane L. Windmeyer oral history interview 1, 2021 May 12
Creator: Windmeyer, Shane L.
Date Created: 2021-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Greek letter societies, Intersectionality (Sociology), College students, LGBTQ+ people, Gay activists, NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Indigenous peoples
Description: Shane L. Windmeyer, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, founder and executive director of Campus Pride (a leading national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment fo...

Title: Shane L. Windmeyer oral history interview 3, 2022 February 1
Creator: Windmeyer, Shane L.
Date Created: 2022-02-01
Subjects--Topical: Gay activists, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay men--Crimes against, Homophobia, Greek letter societies
Description: In this third interview, Shane L. Windmeyer, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, founder and executive director of Campus Pride (a leading national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a saf...

Title: Shane L. Windmeyer oral history interview 4, 2022 June 2
Creator: Windmeyer, Shane L.
Date Created: 2022-06-02
Subjects--Topical: Gay activists, LGBTQ+ people, College students, Universities and colleges--Ratings and rankings
Description: In this fourth interview, Shane L. Windmeyer, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, LGBTQ+ campus pioneer and civil rights champion, author and editor of numerous LGBTQ+ college related books, founder and executive director of Campus ...

Title: Shane L. Windmeyer oral history interview 5, 2022 August 30
Date Created: 2022-08-30
Subjects--Topical: Two-spirit people, Gay activists, LGBTQ+ people, Indigenous peoples, COVID-19 (Disease), College students
Description: In this fifth interview, Shane L. Windmeyer, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, LGBTQ+ campus pioneer and civil rights champion, author and editor of numerous LGBTQ+ college related books, founder and executive director of Campus P...

Title: Sue Henry oral history interview 1, 2016 July 30
Creator: Henry, Sue L.
Date Created: 2018-02-14
Subjects--Topical: Feminism, Gay activists, Gay liberation movement, Gay pride celebrations, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Women in community organization, Political campaigns
Description: In this interview Sue Henry, owner of Rising Moon Books & Beyond bookstore in Charlotte between 1991 to 1997, the first out lesbian to run for Mayor of Charlotte in 1995, and an active member of several political and social LGBTQ organizations, di...

Title: Sue Henry oral history interview 2, 2016 August 19
Creator: Henry, Sue L.
Date Created: 2016-08-16
Subjects--Topical: Feminism, Gay activists, Gay liberation movement, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Women's bookstores, Women in community organization
Description: In this second interview Sue Henry, the owner of the Rising Moon Books & Beyond bookstore in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1991 to 1997, and the first out lesbian to run for Mayor of Charlotte in 1995, discusses the process of opening and operati...

Title: Tom Warshauer oral history interview 2, 2017 February 19
Creator: Warshauer, Tom, 1956-
Date Created: 2017-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Gay community, City planning, Cities and towns--Growth, Gay activists, LGBTQ+ culture, Sexual orientation--Political aspects, Gay and lesbian film festivals, Fund raising, AIDS (Disease), Discrimination--Law and legislation, Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc.
Description: In this second interview, Tom Warshauer discusses his arrival in Charlotte in 1990 to work with the city's planning department. He explains that he was initially apprehensive of Charlotte's conservative culture and planned to stay in the...