LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012

“LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012” is a project produced by thirty-three students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of their requirements for the advanced undergraduate seminar U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories. The project was developed with the intent of enriching popular understandings of modern American LGBTQ histories through the lens a state that has been underrepresented in the historical records. Entries are grouped topically. For more information about the collection or individual entries, please contact the course instructor David Palmer at palm@email.unc.edu.

Bars and Commerce

Lesbian Culture in the Triangle Bar Scene, SC Borden

Raleigh Warehouse District: Development of a “Gayborhood,” 1970-present, Roy Ellis

Campus Activism

Carolina Gay Association, 1974 to 1989, Cammie Bellamy

UNC Queer Student Organization, 1974 to the Present, Drew Pierce

Health Care

The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project and Healthline, Kyle Flannelly

North Carolina Lesbian Health Care, Emily Cid

HIV/AIDS

AIDS Service Agency of Orange County and the Orange Community Residence (AIDS House), 1990-1995, Brittany Spruill

AIDS and Prisons in North Carolina, 1985-1991, Cassie McMillan

Political Responses to AIDS and Bowers v. Hardwick in North Carolina in the 1980s, Dan Woods

Party Politics

Representation of Gay Politics in the 1990s North Carolina Senate Elections, Kathleen Janes

Mandy Carter: Activism during the 1990 and 1996 Helms-Gantt Campaigns, Ramya Ramaswamy

• Also see entry on Joe Herzenberg below

Periodicals Feminary: A Feminist Journal for the South Emphasizing the Lesbian Vision, Elizabeth Atwell LGBT Publications: How Editorial Content and Circulation Cater to the Community, Dustin McManus Out in Black (Entry 1 of 2), Zina Scott-Payne Out in Black (Entry 2 of 2), Adryen Proctor Sinister Wisdom: Promoting a Lesbian Feminist Culture, Amelia Parsons

Pride and Visibility Black and White Men Together in North Carolina, Kristen Maye Winston-Salem Pride, Charles Czysz

• Also see entries on Mandy Carter and Pam Spaulding below*

Queer North Carolinians Minnie Bruce-Pratt, Kate Jones Mandy Carter, Josette Ferguson Joe Herzenberg, Laura Dunn Julian Mixon “Jerry” Hayes, Gene Melton Pam Spaulding, Kat Gipson

Queer Youth ASPYN (A Safer Place Youth Network), Mary Koenig The Effects of Sex Education on Queer Youth in North Carolina, Allison Davis Exodus International, Jay Chakraborty Gay and Lesbian Student Experiences in North Carolina, Jesse Hollars

Religion Christian Action League of North Carolina, Si Carpenter Homosexuality and the Episcopalian Church, Stephanie Nieves-Rios Pullen Memorial Baptist Church of Raleigh, Ryan Lovingood

Subcultural Identities and Communities The “B” in the LGBT: Bisexuality as an Identity, Taylor Haag Older Gay Men: Intersectionality of Age, Race and Sexuality, Laura Page Running Water Farm, Rachel Olsen