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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: 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: 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: 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...

Title: Tonda Anne Taylor oral history interview 2, 2015 July 9
Creator: Taylor, Tonda, 1940-
Date Created: 2015-07-09
Subjects--Topical: Homophobia, Gay liberation movement, Lesbians, Lesbianism--Psychological aspects, Nonprofit organizations—Management, Outing (Sexual orientation)
Description: In this second of four interviews, Tonda Taylor, long-time activist for LGBTQ rights and founder of Time Our Youth in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her early adult life. She briefly describes her time at Charlotte College and Queens College,...