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Title: Brad Keistler oral history interview 1, 2017 October 25
Creator: Keistler, Brad
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Homophobia, Communal living, Gay liberation movement
Description: In this first of two interviews, Brad Keistler, the co-founder of the Charlotte chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 70s, describes his childhood in Mecklenburg County, his college experience at UNC Charlotte and UNC Chapel Hill,...

Title: Brad Keistler oral history interview 2, 2018 March 30
Creator: Keistler, Brad
Date Created: 3/30/2018
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, Gay liberation movement, Youth protest movements, Anti-war demonstrations
Description: In this second of two interviews Brad Keistler, the co-founder of the Charlotte chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 70s, discusses the background to various documents that he donated to the J. Murrey Atkins Library archive. [All...

Title: Dona H. Haney oral history interview, 2017 May 24
Creator: Haney, Dona Harton
Date Created: 2017-05-24
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), Gay men, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Patients, Infection--Control, AIDS phobia
Description: UNC Charlotte School of Nursing alumna, Dona Haney, describes her experiences at Mercy Hospital where she was the infection control nurse during the HIV AIDS epidemic. Topics discussed include the lack of anticipation of the disease by the local m...

Title: Ed DePasquale oral history interview, 2016 October 19
Creator: DePasquale, Ed, 1933-2019
Date Created: 2016-10-19
Subjects--Topical: Italian Americans, Stores, Retail--Management, Gay men, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Racism, Gay men--Family relationships, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects, Christianity, Gay relationships
Description: WARNING: This interview includes language that many may find offensive, including racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic statements. Ed DePasquale discusses his life as a gay man in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past sixty y...

Title: Gene A. Sloan and Robert M. Schmiel oral history interview, 2015 November 5
Creator: Sloan, Gene Anderson
Date Created: 2015-11-05
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay men, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay bars, Gay men--Religion, Gay relationships
Description: In this interview, Gene Sloan and Robert (Bobby) Schmiel juxtapose their life as a married couple in 2015 with their young adult lives in the 1970s. Mr. Sloan was raised in Aberdeen, Mississippi and after the age of ten, Mr. Schmiel was raised in ...

Title: Gregg Brafford oral history interview 1, 2023 April 6
Creator: Brafford, Gregg
Date Created: 2023-04-06
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, Gay bars, Lesbian bars, Drag queens, Drag shows, Drag performance, Gay rights, Witches, LGBTQ+ bars
Description: Gregg Brafford, who managed and owned several LGBTQ+ bars in Charlotte, North Carolina, including Oleens, the New Brass Rail, Central Station, and the Woodshed, discusses his formative years in Mint Hill, his college experiences at UNC Charlotte, ...

Title: Gregg Brafford oral history interview 2, 2023 May 3
Creator: Brafford, Gregg
Date Created: 2023-05-03
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, Gay bars, LGBTQ+ bars, Bartenders
Description: In his second interview, Gregg Brafford, who managed and owned several LGBTQ+ bars in Charlotte, North Carolina, including Oleens, the New Brass Rail, Central Station, and the Woodshed, continues to discuss LGBTQ+ bars and restaurants in Charlotte...

Title: Gregg Brafford oral history interview 3, 2023 July 6
Creator: Brafford, Gregg
Date Created: 2023-07-06
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, Gay bars, LGBTQ+ bars, AIDS (Disease), AIDS organizations, Fund raising
Description: In this third of three interviews, Gregg Brafford, who managed and owned several LGBTQ+ bars in Charlotte, North Carolina, including Oleens, the New Brass Rail, Central Station, and the Woodshed, discusses the impact of the HIV AIDS virus on the l...

Title: James Horton oral history interview, 2016, December 22
Creator: Horton, James M. (James Marvin)
Date Created: 2016-12-22
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay men, Homophobia, Drugs--Testing, Sex instruction
Description: Dr. James M. Horton, former Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses his career, and in particular his work and long association with treating HIV/AIDS in the Charlotte region. Dr. Horton ...

Title: John C. Quillin oral history interview 1, 2017 March 14
Creator: Quillin, John C. (John Clark), 1959-
Date Created: 2017-03-14
Subjects--Topical: Gay liberation movement, Gay men, Gay rights, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Social networks, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay choirs, LGBTQ+ culture
Description: In this first of two interviews, John Quillin, founder and managing artistic director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte, discusses his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian social and cultural organizations in Charlotte, and his role as...

Title: John C. Quillin oral history interview 2, 2017 March 28
Creator: Quillin, John C. (John Clark), 1959-
Date Created: 2017-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Gay liberation movement, Gay men, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay choirs
Description: In this second of two interviews John Quillin, founder and managing artistic director of the Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte, discusses the challenges he faced as an activist for LGBTQ rights locally and state wide. He specifically describes th...

Title: Joseph G. Jemsek oral history interview, 2017 January 25
Creator: Jemsek, Joseph, 1949-
Date Created: 2017-01-25
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), Gay men, Homophobia, Drugs--Testing, AIDS (Disease)--Patients, AIDS (Disease)--Treatment, Lyme disease
Description: Dr. Joseph Jemsek, infectious disease specialist in private practice in Washington DC and former infectious disease specialist with the Nalle Clinic in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses his experiences treating HIV/AIDS patients in the Charlotte...

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: Ken Schell oral history interview 2, 2017 August 15
Creator: Schell, Ken, 1944-
Date Created: 2017-08-15
Subjects--Topical: Victims of hate crimes, Gay men, Homophobia, Attempted murder
Description: In this second of two interviews, Ken Schell, a gay man who was the victim of a brutal attack and robbery in his home in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1987, discusses his reaction to the attack and how it has affected his life. [For details of the ...

Title: Leslie E. Kooyman oral history interview, 2015 September 19
Creator: Kooyman, Leslie E.
Date Created: 2015-09-19
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, Homophobia, Safe sex in AIDS prevention, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Gay relationships
Description: Leslie Kooyman, founder and two time executive director (1985-1990 and 1997-2004) of the Metrolina AIDS Project (MAP) the major AIDS service organization (ASO) in Mecklenburg County in operation between 1985 and 2009, discusses the history of the ...

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 L. Barret oral history interview 1, 2014 October 1
Creator: Barret, Robert L.
Date Created: 2014-10-01
Subjects--Topical: Race discrimination, Homophobia, Segregation, Civil rights, Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects
Description: In this first of three interviews, Dr. Robert L. Barret, professor emeritus in counseling at UNC Charlotte, practicing psychotherapist, and LGBTQ activist, discusses his life and career changes that led up to his involvement as an advocate for LGB...

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...