North Carolina LGBTQ History Research
Alphabetical listing of ideas and resources for research in the history of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, queer people, and heterosexuals in North Carolina.
Campus organizing.
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.
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"
Lutz, Dee. Masters essay, written under direction of John D'Emilio.
Murray, Pauli. Barbara Lau manages a website on the black lesbian evangelical preacher Pauli Murray. The site is called http://paulimurrayproject.org/
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.
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 at UNC
