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Interview no. | W-0002 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | W.1. LGBTQ Life in the South: LGBTQ Activism in the North Carolina Triangle Area |
Project description | A collection of oral history interviews on the topic of local queer life, community, and activism from 1969 to the present. Aaron Lovett, an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducted these interviews as part of his independent research project in the History department in summer 2014. The study was advised by Dr. Rachel Seidman, Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Program. This study traces the development of queer activism from social organizing in the early 1970s, to the beginning of statewide lobbying and political activism in the early ‘90s, and to recent developments in North Carolina regarding pro-LGBTQ laws such as the NC School Violence Prevention Act and anti-LGBTQ legislation such as Amendment One. LGBTQ activists interviewed include feminist theorist Alexis Pauline Gumbs, HIV/AIDS advocate Carolyn McAllaster, and LGBTQ lobbyist Ian Palmquist. This study connects local and statewide LGBTQ events with regional and national trends, analyzes the nature of the Triangle area’s LGBTQ community in relation to rest of the South, and documents changes and continuities in local LGBTQ life and culture. |
Date | 19 July 2014 |
Interviewee | Glaser, Amy. |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Lovett, Aaron. |
Abstract | Amy Glaser is the Co-Founder of iNSIDEoUT, a youth-run Triangle area organization for the empowerment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer youth and their allies. Originally from Huntington, West Virginia, she teaches Philosophy at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. This interview centers on Glaser’s role in founding iNSIDEoUT, a Raleigh-based LGBTQ youth advocacy organization which connects high school Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and offers support to LGBTQ youth. Glaser discusses an event in high school where she was voted “most like the opposite sex,” and how that form of ridicule affected her. She discusses her interests in philosophy, and how her work with LGBTQ youth influenced her decision to change her dissertation research to focus on societal oppression of children and youths. Glaser discusses iNSIDEoUT, its events and programs, and the main purpose of the organization as a support network for LGBTQ youth and a connective system for Gay-Straight Alliances in the Triangle area. She elaborates upon how the organization begun as organized youth rallies at the NC State Capital to support the NC School Violence Prevention Act, which ultimately passed the state legislature and became law in 2009. Glaser also explains the role of Outside in 180, the affiliated adult-run organization meant to offer financial backing to iNSIDEoUT. Toward the end of the interview, she discusses the dynamic of the Triangle area regarding LGBTQ visibility, specifically how it is more accepting than many rural areas in the state, but still not free of bigotry. Specifically, she notes a hate-crime that occurred a few years prior to the interview, where an LGBTQ person was assaulted. This interview was conducted as part of the interviewer’s oral history research project on LGBTQ activism in the NC Triangle area since 1969. |
Citation | Interview with Amy Glaser by Aaron Lovett, 19 July 2014 W-0002, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | W0002_Audio |