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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: Diana Travis oral history interview, 2017 February 27
Creator: Travis, Diana, 1947-
Date Created: 2017-02-27
Subjects--Topical: Discrimination, Feminism, Gay community, Gay pride parades, LGBTQ+ culture, Homophobia, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Segregation
Description: 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...

Title: Frances Curry Kerr oral history interview, 2016 December 16
Creator: Kerr, Frances C. (Frances Curry), 1928-
Date Created: 2016-12-16
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Gay community, Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Baptists
Description: 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...

Title: Joan Tillotson oral history interview, 2016 June 19
Creator: Tillotson, Joan, 1927-
Date Created: 2016-06-19
Subjects--Topical: Physical education teachers, Women physical education teachers, Lesbians, Lesbian college students, Gay community, Lesbian relationships, Aging
Description: 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...

Title: Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 1, 2014 October 2
Creator: Burford, Joshua D., 1974-
Date Created: 2014-10-02
Subjects--Topical: Archives, LGBTQ+ archives, Gay rights, Gay liberation movement, Gay community, LGBTQ+ people
Description: Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, describes his work and efforts in collecting local LGBTQ history and the process of initiating the King Henry Brockington LG...

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: Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 3, 2016 May 26
Creator: Burford, Joshua D., 1974-
Date Created: 2016-05-26
Subjects--Topical: Archives, LGBTQ+ archives, Gay rights, Gay liberation movement, Gay community, Oral history, LGBTQ+ people
Description: As a sequel to a previous interview, Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses the progress, success and new efforts in collecting local LGBTQ history for d...

Title: Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 4, 2017 December 28
Creator: Burford, Joshua D.,1974-
Date Created: 2017-12-28
Subjects--Topical: Archives, LGBTQ+ archives, Gay rights, Sexual orientation--Social aspects, Gay liberation movement, Gay community, Oral history, LGBTQ+ people, Civil rights movement
Description: In this fourth of four interviews, Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses his experience as a queer man living in Charlotte, North Carolina as well as hi...

Title: Keith Gaston Bernard oral history interview 3, 2023 March 6
Creator: Bernard, Keith Gaston, 1956-
Date Created: 2023-03-06
Subjects--Topical: LGBT community centers, Gay community, Gay culture, Gay men--Identity, Social participation, Fund raising, LGBTQ+ communities
Description: Keith Gaston Bernard discusses in-depth his experiences working on the first board of the Lesbian and Gay Community Center Project in Charlotte, North Carolina when it came into being in the early 2000s. Topics discussed include the early days of ...

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: Quin Williams oral history interview 2021 June 28
Creator: Williams, Quin, 1983-
Date Created: 2021-06-28
Subjects--Topical: Same-sex partner abuse, Gay community, Gay pride celebrations, Nonprofit organizations--Management
Description: WARNING: This interview contains detailed examples of domestic abuse, listener discretion advised. In this interview, Quin Williams discusses her work as the founder, owner, and CEO of the LGBTQIA+ organization QuinKnows, a non-profit geared towar...

Title: Robert Hampton Williams oral history interview 1, 2017 January 24
Creator: Williams, Rob, 1939-
Date Created: 2017-01-24
Subjects--Topical: Gay community, Gay men, Gay men--Intellectual life, Gay men--Sexual behavior, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay teachers, Homophobia, Gay relationships
Description: WARNING: This interview contains discussion of suicide, domestic violence, and rape beginning at 42:00 and ending at 47:00. In this first of two interviews, Rob Williams discusses his early life as a young gay man living in Chapel Hill and Charlot...

Title: Robert Hampton Williams oral history interview 2, 2017 February 6
Creator: Williams, Rob, 1939-
Date Created: 2017-02-06
Subjects--Topical: Homophobia, Gay community, Art museums, Art, Japanese
Description: In this second interview, Robert Hampton Williams discusses his life's achievements and his future as an aging gay man living in Charlotte, North Carolina. After retiring from his teaching career at Charlotte Country Day School, Mr. Williams ...

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: Shelley Earnhardt and Sheryl Manning oral history interview, 2021 February 8
Creator: Earnhardt, Shelley
Date Created: 2021-02-08
Subjects--Topical: Choirs (Music), Gay community, Lesbians--Relations with heterosexuals, COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects
Description: In this interview, Sheryl Manning and Shelley Burton Earnhardt discuss their participation in the Charlotte LGBTQ+ chorus One-Voice. Ms. Manning and Ms. Earnhardt discuss the large impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on vocal practice, performanc...

Title: Steve del Vecchio oral history interview, 2023 March 27
Creator: Del Vecchio, Steve
Date Created: 2023-03-27
Subjects--Topical: Gardening, Gay men--Identity, AIDS (Disease), Gay community, Drag, Gay press publications, LGBTQ+ press
Description: Steve del Vecchio discusses his lifelong career as a gardener in the Charlotte area and his identity as a gay man since his family moved to the city in the 1950s. Topics discussed include the different clients Mr. del Vecchio worked for including ...

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...