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Brad Keistler oral history interview 1, 2017 October 25
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Creator
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Keistler, Brad
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay men, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Homophobia, Communal living, Gay liberation movement
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Description
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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,...
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D Evans oral history interview, 2018 May 7
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Creator
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Evans, D
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Date Created
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2018-05-07
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Subjects--Topical
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Coming out (Sexual orientation), Closeted LGBTQ+ people, Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, Homophobia, Racism
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Description
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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...
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Diana Travis oral history interview, 2017 February 27
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Creator
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Travis, Diana, 1947-
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Date Created
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2017-02-27
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Subjects--Topical
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Discrimination, Feminism, Gay community, Gay pride parades, LGBTQ+ culture, Homophobia, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Segregation
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Description
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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...
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Dona H. Haney oral history interview, 2017 May 24
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Creator
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Haney, Dona Harton
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Date Created
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2017-05-24
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Subjects--Topical
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AIDS (Disease), Gay men, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Patients, Infection--Control, AIDS phobia
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Description
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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...
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Frances Curry Kerr oral history interview, 2016 December 16
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Creator
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Kerr, Frances C. (Frances Curry), 1928-
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Date Created
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2016-12-16
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbians, Gay community, Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Baptists
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Description
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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...
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Gene A. Sloan and Robert M. Schmiel oral history interview, 2015 November 5
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Creator
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Sloan, Gene Anderson
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Date Created
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2015-11-05
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Subjects--Topical
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AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay men, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay bars, Gay men--Religion, Gay relationships
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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 ...
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James Green oral history interview 2, 2016 April 23
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Creator
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Green, James M., 1952-
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Date Created
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2016-04-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects, Gay activists, Gay youth--Suicidal behavior, Parents of transgender children, Transphobia
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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...
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James Horton oral history interview, 2016, December 22
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Creator
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Horton, James M. (James Marvin)
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Date Created
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2016-12-22
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Subjects--Topical
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AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay men, Homophobia, Drugs--Testing, Sex instruction
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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 ...
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John C. Quillin oral history interview 1, 2017 March 14
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Creator
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Quillin, John C. (John Clark), 1959-
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Date Created
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2017-03-14
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay liberation movement, Gay men, Gay rights, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Social networks, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay choirs, LGBTQ+ culture
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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...
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John C. Quillin oral history interview 2, 2017 March 28
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Creator
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Quillin, John C. (John Clark), 1959-
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Date Created
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2017-03-28
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay liberation movement, Gay men, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay choirs
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Description
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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...
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Joseph G. Jemsek oral history interview, 2017 January 25
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Creator
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Jemsek, Joseph, 1949-
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Date Created
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2017-01-25
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Subjects--Topical
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AIDS (Disease), Gay men, Homophobia, Drugs--Testing, AIDS (Disease)--Patients, AIDS (Disease)--Treatment, Lyme disease
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Description
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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...
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Keith Gaston Bernard oral history interview 1, 2017 June 24
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Creator
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Bernard, Keith, 1956-
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Date Created
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2017-06-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Catholics--Religion, Gay relationships, Homophobia, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay bars, Gay identity
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Description
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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...
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Keith Gaston Bernard oral history interview 2, 2017 September 9
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Creator
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Bernard, Keith, 1956-
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Date Created
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2017-09-09
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay relationships, Homophobia, Gay identity, Gay bars
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Description
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In this second of two interviews, long-time gay-rights activist Keith Bernard recalls his experience in Charlotte, North Carolina as a gay man. Topics discussed include the rivalries between LGBTQ groups in the Triad, Triangle, and Charlotte area;...
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Ken Schell oral history interview 2, 2017 August 15
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Creator
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Schell, Ken, 1944-
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Date Created
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2017-08-15
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Subjects--Topical
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Victims of hate crimes, Gay men, Homophobia, Attempted murder
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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 ...
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Leslie E. Kooyman oral history interview, 2015 September 19
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Creator
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Kooyman, Leslie E.
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Date Created
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2015-09-19
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Subjects--Topical
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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
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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 ...
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Logsdon, Darryl oral history interview, 2015 September 25
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Creator
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Logsdon, Darryl
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Date Created
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2015-09-25
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Subjects--Topical
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AIDS (Disease), Coming out (Sexual orientation), Discrimination, Diversity in the workplace, Gay activists, Gay community, Gay men--Political activity, Homophobia
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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...
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Ricky Carter oral history interview, 2015 November 6
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Creator
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Carter, Ricky C. (Ricky Carl), 1953-2016
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Date Created
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2015-11-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Comedians, LGBTQ+ culture, Female impersonators, Drag shows, Gay men--Family relationships, Homophobia, Gay bars, Transgender people, Transphobia
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Ricky Carter illuminates his life as a gay man and as a prominent drag queen known as Boom Boom Latour. As a young Charlotte North Carolina native Mr. Carter worked alongside his family in their barbecue restaurant, Hickory House, studied design a...
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Robert Hampton Williams oral history interview 1, 2017 January 24
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Creator
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Williams, Rob, 1939-
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Date Created
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2017-01-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Gay community, Gay men, Gay men--Intellectual life, Gay men--Sexual behavior, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay teachers, Homophobia, Gay relationships
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Description
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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...
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Robert Hampton Williams oral history interview 2, 2017 February 6
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Creator
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Williams, Rob, 1939-
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Date Created
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2017-02-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Homophobia, Gay community, Art museums, Art, Japanese
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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 ...
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Robert L. Barret oral history interview 1, 2014 October 1
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Creator
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Barret, Robert L.
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Date Created
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2014-10-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Race discrimination, Homophobia, Segregation, Civil rights, Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects
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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...