Adams - Day · Appalachian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Oral History Project

Adams - Day

Name of interviewee: Craig Adams
Name of interviewer: Kathy Staley
Date of interview: 2010 May 1
Location of interview: Hendersonville Public Library
Topics include growing up and coming out in East Tennessee, theatre, New York City, Charlotte, Asheville, and social life in Asheville and Charlotte.

Name of interviewee: A.B.
Name of interviewer: Kathy Staley
Date of interview: 2010 May 1
Location of interview: Hendersonville Public Library
Topics include growing up in Southwestern Virginia, seminary, coming out and relationships, being a social worker, moving to Asheville, North Carolina, fostering children, parenting, and adopting in North Carolina
Interviewees A.B. and J.B. are connected

Name of interviewee: J.B.
Name of interviewer: Mike Howell
Date of interview: 2010 May 1
Location of interview: Hendersonville Public Library
Topics include seminary, coming out and relationships, moving to Asheville, North Carolina, fostering children, parenting, and adopting in North Carolina.
Interviewees J.B. and A.B. are connected

Name of interviewee: James Carp
Name of interviewer: Kathy Staley
Date of interview: Interview conducted through e-mail
Location of interview: N/A
Topics include Watauga High School, youth and school bullying, National Day of Silence, and Diversity Club.

Name of interviewee: Leslie Cothren
Name of interviewer: Michael Howell
Date of interview: 2010 June 28
Location of interview: Morganton, North Carolina
Topics include growing up in Taylorsville, North Carolina, high school, Catawba Valley Community College, dating and marriage to a woman, having children, coming out, family reactions, adjustment period to living openly in Taylorsville, Hickory, and Morganton, and internet dating.
Leslie Cothren and Mark Patrick are connected.

Name of interviewee: Linda Coutant
Name of interviewer: Kathy Staley
Date of interview: 2010 February 3
Location of interview: Office of Kathy Staley
Topics include growing up as a lesbian in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, growing up with lesbian media models, college life, internalizing homophobia, coming out in Johnson City, Tennessee, LGBT life in Johnson City, Tennessee, including bars, cross-dressing, gay pride events, LGBT life in Boone, North Carolina including administrative and reader responses to LGBT issues in Appalachian Today, ASU's LGBT faculty/staff group, Women's Chat group, and the dating scene for lesbians.

Name of interviewee: Day
Name of interviewer: Kathy Staley
Date of interview: 2010 March 10
Location of interview: Day's home
Topics include working at Asheville newspapers, Asheville's negative LBGT political climate, Asheville's transgender community, responses of neighbors, the discomfort of being out to service people, and showing public displays of affection, as well as a comparison to Massachusetts
Interviewees Day and Pat Spaulding are connected

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