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Alphabetical listing of ideas and resources for research in the history of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, queer people, and heterosexuals in North Carolina.
 
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==North Carolina LGBTQ and Heterosexual History Reseach Ideas and Resources==
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[[AIDS in Watauga County, North Carolina, 1985-2009]]
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See also: [[Condom Dispensers at ASU, 1988-1989]]
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:"the UNC system’s awareness of HIV/AIDS heightened. The state of North Carolina ranked twenty-first in the nation for reported AIDS cases, with 193 diagnoses."
  
  
 
Campus organizing.
 
Campus organizing.
  
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[[Buggery law: North and South Carolina, March, 1663]]
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D'Emilio, John. Historian specializing in LGBT history. Taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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:"Whisper Their Love, [Valerie] Taylor's first novel with lesbian content, was published in 1957. It tells the story of Joyce, a working-class girl from small-town Illinois who has just arrived at a college for white women in North Carolina. Family dysfunction trails her: Joyce was illegitimate, never knew her father, and was raised by a puritanical aunt while her mother, Mimi, was a traveling sales woman." Cited from: [[John D'Emilio, "Pulp Madness," 1950 - 1970]]
 
   
 
   
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Duke Human Rights Center. Barbara Lau, Director.
 
Duke Human Rights Center. Barbara Lau, Director.
 
:Lau also manages a website on the black lesbian evangelical preacher Pauli Murray. The site is called http://paulimurrayproject.org/
 
:Lau also manages a website on the black lesbian evangelical preacher Pauli Murray. The site is called http://paulimurrayproject.org/
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Images, historical.
 
Images, historical.
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[[E. Patrick Johnson: "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South," September 2008| Johnson, E. Patrick: "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South," September 2008]]
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:University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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[[John Lawson: 1709| Lawson, John: 1709]]
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:earliest-known mention of Native American sodomy by an Englishman. Source: John Lawson, ''History of North Carolina'', edited by Frances Latham Harris (Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie, 1937)
  
  
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Local LGBTQ histories. Examples on OutHistory.org See "Since Stonewall Local Histories"
 
Local LGBTQ histories. Examples on OutHistory.org See "Since Stonewall Local Histories"
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[[Loskiel's "Unnatural sins", 1750]]
  
  
 
Lutz, Dee. Masters essay, written under direction of John D'Emilio.
 
Lutz, Dee. Masters essay, written under direction of John D'Emilio.
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[[Mitchell Gold, Mindy Drucker: "Crisis," September 1, 2008]]
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:"In 1989, Mitchell Gold and his business partner created a residential furniture manufacturing company called Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Just nine years later, ''Inc.'' magazine positioned the company at number 57 on its list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies. Gold has a long history of supporting grassroots and national nonprofits including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Leukemia Society, Human Rights Campaign, Empire State Pride Agenda, Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, Friend in Deed, and AIDS Leadership Foothills-Area Alliance. In April 2005, Inc. magazine named him one of the twenty-six "Entrepreneurs We Love." Today the company is a $100M home-furnishings brand known for comfort; it employs more than 750 people and features its own on-site education-based daycare center. Gold is also the founder of nonprofit group Faith in America.
  
  
 
Murray, Pauli. Barbara Lau manages a website on the black lesbian evangelical preacher Pauli Murray. The site is called http://paulimurrayproject.org/
 
Murray, Pauli. Barbara Lau manages a website on the black lesbian evangelical preacher Pauli Murray. The site is called http://paulimurrayproject.org/
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North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
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[[Chronology for Out and Elected in the USA| Out and Elected in the USA, Chronology]]
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[[Index by state for Out and Elected in the USA| Out and Elected in the USA, Index by State]]
  
  
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Southern Oral History Project.
 
Southern Oral History Project.
 
:Has recently digitized over nearly two dozen oral interviews of sexual minorities who came of age in the late 20th century. More oral interviews being digitized thanks to a Mellon grant.
 
:Has recently digitized over nearly two dozen oral interviews of sexual minorities who came of age in the late 20th century. More oral interviews being digitized thanks to a Mellon grant.
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State v. Gray, 1860
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:See: [[Timeline: 19th Century]]. Source: State v. Gray, 8 Jones (N.C.) 170 (1860, Dec) (reference to "buggery," unspecified, in case of "carnally knowing and abusing an infant female under the age of ten years"). North Carolina.
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[[Stephen Hunt: My glimpse of Eartha Kitt, 1950s]]
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:citing "my captious girl friend from junior high school days in western North Carolina, novelist-to-be Annie Proulx."
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Taylor, Valerie. ''Whisper Their Love''
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:"Taylor's first novel with lesbian content, was published in 1957. It tells the story of Joyce, a working-class girl from small-town Illinois who has just arrived at a college for white women in North Carolina. Family dysfunction trails her: Joyce was illegitimate, never knew her father, and was raised by a puritanical aunt while her mother, Mimi, was a traveling sales woman." Cited from: [[John D'Emilio, "Pulp Madness," 1950 - 1970]]
  
  
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Collection at UNC
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Collection.
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University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill.
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:publications on LGBTQ history and studies? See:
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::[[Allan Bérubé: December 3, 1946-December 11, 2007]],
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::[[Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury (1661-1723)]],
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::[[E. Patrick Johnson: "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South," September 2008]]
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::Estelle Freedman, "The Historical Construction of Homosexuality," in Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

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Alphabetical listing of ideas and resources for research in the history of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, queer people, and heterosexuals in North Carolina.


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North Carolina LGBTQ and Heterosexual History Reseach Ideas and Resources

AIDS in Watauga County, North Carolina, 1985-2009 See also: Condom Dispensers at ASU, 1988-1989

"the UNC system’s awareness of HIV/AIDS heightened. The state of North Carolina ranked twenty-first in the nation for reported AIDS cases, with 193 diagnoses."


Campus organizing.


Buggery law: North and South Carolina, March, 1663


D'Emilio, John. Historian specializing in LGBT history. Taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

"Whisper Their Love, [Valerie] Taylor's first novel with lesbian content, was published in 1957. It tells the story of Joyce, a working-class girl from small-town Illinois who has just arrived at a college for white women in North Carolina. Family dysfunction trails her: Joyce was illegitimate, never knew her father, and was raised by a puritanical aunt while her mother, Mimi, was a traveling sales woman." Cited from: John D'Emilio, "Pulp Madness," 1950 - 1970


Duke Human Rights Center. Barbara Lau, Director.

Lau also manages a website on the black lesbian evangelical preacher Pauli Murray. The site is called http://paulimurrayproject.org/


Durham, N.C.


Herzenberg, Joe. Campaign for office in Chapel Hill,


Holloway, Pippa. Masters essay, written under direction of John D'Emilio.


Howard, John. Carryin' On anthology. N.C.?


Images, historical.


Johnson, E. Patrick: "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South," September 2008

University of North Carolina Press, 2008.


Lawson, John: 1709

earliest-known mention of Native American sodomy by an Englishman. Source: John Lawson, History of North Carolina, edited by Frances Latham Harris (Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie, 1937)


Lekus, Ian. Chapter on AIDS organizing in Durham in the Allida Black anthology,


Lesbian/feminist organizing in Durham


Local LGBTQ histories. Examples on OutHistory.org See "Since Stonewall Local Histories"


Loskiel's "Unnatural sins", 1750


Lutz, Dee. Masters essay, written under direction of John D'Emilio.


Mitchell Gold, Mindy Drucker: "Crisis," September 1, 2008

"In 1989, Mitchell Gold and his business partner created a residential furniture manufacturing company called Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Just nine years later, Inc. magazine positioned the company at number 57 on its list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies. Gold has a long history of supporting grassroots and national nonprofits including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Leukemia Society, Human Rights Campaign, Empire State Pride Agenda, Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, Friend in Deed, and AIDS Leadership Foothills-Area Alliance. In April 2005, Inc. magazine named him one of the twenty-six "Entrepreneurs We Love." Today the company is a $100M home-furnishings brand known for comfort; it employs more than 750 people and features its own on-site education-based daycare center. Gold is also the founder of nonprofit group Faith in America.


Murray, Pauli. Barbara Lau manages a website on the black lesbian evangelical preacher Pauli Murray. The site is called http://paulimurrayproject.org/


North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.


Out and Elected in the USA, Chronology


Out and Elected in the USA, Index by State


Oral history interviews.


OutHistory.org. Search for "North Carolina"

for example see:
AIDS in Watauga County, North Carolina, 1985-2009
Buggery law: North and South Carolina, March, 1663
Comprehensive Timeline for Watauga County, North Carolina LGBT Life, 1970-2009
Joe Herzenberg
Legal case: Clark v. Winn; North Carolina, March 1718
LGBT Life in Watauga County, North Carolina, 1990-2009
Michael Nelson
Older Women in Watauga County, North Carolina, c. 1950-2010
Sources for LGBTQ Life in Watauga County, North Carolina


Periodicals

Feminary
Front Page
The Newsletter
Lambda (campus publication, digitized)
Q-Notes (Charlotte)
RFD (was temporally located in Bakersville, NC)


Pride marches, N.C.


Sodomy law reform, repeal efforts.


Southern Oral History Project.

Has recently digitized over nearly two dozen oral interviews of sexual minorities who came of age in the late 20th century. More oral interviews being digitized thanks to a Mellon grant.


State v. Gray, 1860

See: Timeline: 19th Century. Source: State v. Gray, 8 Jones (N.C.) 170 (1860, Dec) (reference to "buggery," unspecified, in case of "carnally knowing and abusing an infant female under the age of ten years"). North Carolina.


Stephen Hunt: My glimpse of Eartha Kitt, 1950s

citing "my captious girl friend from junior high school days in western North Carolina, novelist-to-be Annie Proulx."


Taylor, Valerie. Whisper Their Love

"Taylor's first novel with lesbian content, was published in 1957. It tells the story of Joyce, a working-class girl from small-town Illinois who has just arrived at a college for white women in North Carolina. Family dysfunction trails her: Joyce was illegitimate, never knew her father, and was raised by a puritanical aunt while her mother, Mimi, was a traveling sales woman." Cited from: John D'Emilio, "Pulp Madness," 1950 - 1970


Triangle area. Center of LGBTQ organizing in the 70s and 80s and maybe into the 90s.


University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Collection.


University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill.

publications on LGBTQ history and studies? See:
Allan Bérubé: December 3, 1946-December 11, 2007,
Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury (1661-1723),
E. Patrick Johnson: "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South," September 2008
Estelle Freedman, "The Historical Construction of Homosexuality," in Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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