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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: Gelisa Stitt oral history interview, 2021 May 4
Creator: Stitt, Gelisa
Date Created: 2021-05-04
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities, Black LGBTQ+ people
Description: Ms. Gelisa Stitt discusses her experiences as treasurer of the board for Black Pride in Charlotte, North Carolina. Topics discussed include Ms. Stitt's first Black Pride experience in Charlotte in 2005; her initial involvement with the Black ...

Title: James Kellogg oral history interview, 2021 February 23
Creator: Kellogg, James
Date Created: 2021-02-23
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities
Description: Mr. James Kellogg discusses his experiences and role in the organization of Pride events in Gaston County (Gastonia), North Carolina in 2014 and 2015. Topics include Mr. Kellogg's initial involvement with Pride in Gastonia as an organizer wit...

Title: Mark Smith oral history interview, 2021 March 21
Creator: Smith, Mark
Date Created: 2021-03-21
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ Buddhists
Description: Mr. Mark Smith discusses his experiences in organizing Pride events in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and how the HIV/AIDs crisis inspired him to get more involved with the LGBTQ+ community as a result of his background in social work. Topics discu...

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: Rex Welton oral history interview 2021 March 1
Creator: Welton, Rex
Date Created: 2021-03-01
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Gay bars, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-)
Description: Mr. Rex Welton discusses his experiences organizing Pride events in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and his reflections on Pride before the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include Mr. Welton's first Pride experiences in Myrtle Beach, South ...

Title: Robert Kellogg oral history interview, 2021 March 4
Creator: Kellogg, Robert
Date Created: 2021-03-04
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities, Local government
Description: Mr. Robert Kellogg discusses his experiences and role in the organization of Pride events in Gaston County (Gastonia), North Carolina beginning in 2014. Topics discussed include the changes in Gastonia, namely the formations of the first PFLAG cha...

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: Tyrell Lowry oral history interview, 2021 April 28
Creator: Lowry, Tyrell
Date Created: 2021-04-28
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Transgender people, Black transgender people, Transgender community, Black LGBTQ+ people
Description: Mr. Tyrell Lowry discusses his experience participating in and organizing Black Pride events in Charlotte, North Carolina. Topics discussed include Mr. Lowry's first experience attending a Black Pride event that led him to get involved with t...