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Interview no. | K-0839 |
Restrictions | See the DCR for online interview materials: https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/. Permission from interviewee required for quotation. |
Project | K.2.7. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: History of Gay Men and Transgender People in the South |
Project description | Interviews, 2000-2002, conducted by Chris McGinnis, an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discussing gay life in the South with particular emphasis on North Carolina in the 1960s through the 1980s. Topics include the development of the gay community, gay bars, social events and festivals, organizations and activism, and places where gay men met and engaged in public sex. Interviewees include Chapel Hill, N.C., town council member Joseph A. Herzenberg, writer Perry Deane Young, and several transgendered individuals. |
Date | 21 September 2001 |
Interviewee | Baskin, William, 1925- |
Interviewee occupation |
School administrators Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1925 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | McGinnis, Chris. |
Abstract | The interview gives a perspective of gay life in Chapel Hill, N.C., before women attended the university in great numbers. This offers an insight into how gay men functioned and interacted in this type of environment. Also, the interview documents the social lives of gay men in Chapel Hill in the latter part of the first half of the twentieth century. |
Subject Topical |
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Gay college students--North Carolina. Gay men--North Carolina--Chapel Hill. Gay men--North Carolina. |
Subject Name | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students. |
Citation | Interview with William Baskin by Chris McGinnis, 21 September 2001 K-0839, 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. | K0839_Audio_1 |