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Title: Beth Meadows oral history interview, 2021 February 19
Creator: Meadows, Beth
Date Created: 2021-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Lesbians, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities
Description: 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...

Title: Brianna McGruder oral history interview, 2018 January 23
Creator: McGruder, Brianna Monet
Date Created: 2018-01-23
Subjects--Topical: Feminism, Community organization, LGBTQ+ people, Lesbians, Women's studies
Description: 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...

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: 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: Kimberly Melton oral history interview, 2017 February 9
Creator: Melton, Kimberly A., (Kimberly Ann)
Date Created: 2017-02-09
Subjects--Topical: Women--Religious life, Bisexual women, Lesbian community, AIDS (Disease), Lesbians, Women--Political activity
Description: 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...

Title: Linda Lawyer oral history interview 1, 2018 April 6
Creator: Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
Date Created: 2018-04-06
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Gay Community, Lesbians' writings
Description: 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...

Title: Linda Lawyer oral history interview 2, 2019 January 24
Creator: Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
Date Created: 2019-01-02
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Computer Programming, Gay Community, Lesbians' writings, Sex discrimination in employment, Sex discrimination against women, Women in computer science
Description: 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...

Title: Linda Lawyer oral history interview 3, 2019 April 9
Creator: Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
Date Created: 2019-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Gay Activists, Gay Community, Lesbians, Lesbians' writings, Marginality, Social
Description: 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...

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: Mary Jamis oral history interview 2021 March 18
Creator: Jamis, Mary
Date Created: 2021-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ nonviolent resistance, Lesbian-gay relations
Description: 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...

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: Samis Rose oral history interview, 2018 April 10
Creator: Rose, Samis, 1953-
Date Created: 2018-04-10
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Gay choirs, Women’s Music Festivals, Handicraft
Description: North Carolina native Samis Rose discusses her life as a lesbian artist living in the South. Born in Mooresville, North Carolina to an Eastern band Cherokee family, Ms. Rose talks about her intersectional identity as a self-described tomboy who al...

Title: Sandra G. Bailey oral history interview 1, 2017 November 10
Creator: Bailey, Sandra, 1940-
Date Created: 2017-11-10
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians
Description: In this interview, Sandra Bailey, who has been active in the LGBTQ community in Charlotte North Carolina since the early 1970s, briefly discusses her childhood in Alabama, and her parents, Nila and Stokley Bailey, who were founding members of the ...

Title: Sandra G. Bailey oral history interview 2, 2018 January 22
Creator: Bailey, Sandra, 1940-
Date Created: 2018-01-22
Subjects--Topical: LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ culture
Description: In this second of three interviews, Sandra Bailey discusses her childhood and college years in Jackson Mississippi and Memphis Tennessee, her adjustment to her sexual orientation during her adolescence, her experiences living as a lesbian in Las V...

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...