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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: D Evans oral history interview, 2018 May 7
Creator: Evans, D
Date Created: 2018-05-07
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Closeted LGBTQ+ people, Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, Homophobia, Racism
Description: In this interview, D. Evans, a founding member of One Voice Chorus, an LGBTQ choir in Charlotte North Carolina, shares her experience being a gay, biracial woman in North Carolina. Ms. Evans discusses her difficult childhood and the move from Long...

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: Keith Gaston Bernard oral history interview 1, 2017 June 24
Creator: Bernard, Keith, 1956-
Date Created: 2017-06-24
Subjects--Topical: Catholics--Religion, Gay relationships, Homophobia, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay bars, Gay identity
Description: In this first of two interviews, Keith Barnard, long-time gay-rights activist in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls his life experiences as a gay man in the American South. He reflects on his upbringing in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and his experi...

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 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: Robert L. Barret oral history interview 3, 2015 February 24
Creator: Barret, Robert L.
Date Created: 2015-02-24
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay men--Family relationships, Lesbians, Homophobia, Gay men--Religion
Description: In this third of three interviews, Dr. Robert L. Barret, professor emeritus in counseling at UNC Charlotte, practicing psychotherapist, and LGBTQ activist, discusses at length the reactions and ramifications of coming out to his family as a gay ma...

Title: Tom Warshauer oral history interview 1, 2017 January 22
Creator: Warshauer, Tom, 1956-
Date Created: 2017-01-22
Subjects--Topical: Jews--Social life and customs, Young gay men, Parents of queer people, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Discrimination, LGBTQ+ culture, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, City planning
Description: Tom Warshauer discusses his life as an openly gay man and his forty year career as an architect and city planner. Mr. Warshauer describes his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Wilmington, North Carolina during the 1960s, the discriminat...

Title: Tonda Anne Taylor oral history interview 3, 2015 September 15
Creator: Taylor, Tonda, 1940-
Date Created: 2015-09-15
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), Coming out (Sexual orientation), Lesbian community, Gestalt therapy
Description: In this third of four interviews, Tonda Taylor, long-time activist for LGBTQ rights and founder of Time Out Youth in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her fraught relationship with her parents, her time spent living in New York City, and the trag...

Title: Tonda Anne Taylor oral history interview 4, 2015 October 5
Creator: Taylor, Tonda, 1940-
Date Created: 2015-10-05
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Gay youth, Gay youth--Services for, Homophobia, Nonprofit organizations
Description: In this fourth of four interviews, Tonda Taylor, long-time activist for LGBTQ+ rights and founder of Time Out Youth (TOY) in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls the beginning stages of TOY. Ms. Taylor discusses her previous psychiatric work with Ch...