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Title: Ed DePasquale oral history interview, 2016 October 19
Creator: DePasquale, Ed, 1933-2019
Date Created: 2016-10-19
Subjects--Topical: Italian Americans, Stores, Retail--Management, Gay men, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Racism, Gay men--Family relationships, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects, Christianity, Gay relationships
Description: WARNING: This interview includes language that many may find offensive, including racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic statements. Ed DePasquale discusses his life as a gay man in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past sixty y...

Title: Gene A. Sloan and Robert M. Schmiel oral history interview, 2015 November 5
Creator: Sloan, Gene Anderson
Date Created: 2015-11-05
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay men, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay bars, Gay men--Religion, Gay relationships
Description: 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 ...

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: Keith Gaston Bernard oral history interview 2, 2017 September 9
Creator: Bernard, Keith, 1956-
Date Created: 2017-09-09
Subjects--Topical: Gay relationships, Homophobia, Gay identity, Gay bars
Description: 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;...

Title: Ken Schell oral history interview 1, 2017 February 8
Creator: Schell, Ken, 1944-
Date Created: 2017-02-08
Subjects--Topical: Gay men--Suicidal behavior, Gay couples, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Same-sex partner abuse, Gay relationships
Description: WARNING: This interview contains discussion of rape beginning at 25:13 and ending at 25:27 and discussion of a drug overdose beginning at 35:35 and ending at 36:04. In this vivid interview, Ken Schell describes his life as a gay man working and li...

Title: Leslie E. Kooyman oral history interview, 2015 September 19
Creator: Kooyman, Leslie E.
Date Created: 2015-09-19
Subjects--Topical: 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
Description: 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 ...

Title: Robert Hampton Williams oral history interview 1, 2017 January 24
Creator: Williams, Rob, 1939-
Date Created: 2017-01-24
Subjects--Topical: Gay community, Gay men, Gay men--Intellectual life, Gay men--Sexual behavior, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay teachers, Homophobia, Gay relationships
Description: 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...