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Atlanta's Unspoken Past Oral History Project
Atlanta’s Unspoken Past Oral History collection, 2004, (VIS 178)
This collection includes oral history interviews surrounding lesbian and gay history and culture in Atlanta prior to the explosion of gay rights movements that occurred in cities across the United States in the early 1970s. Gay women and men were asked to share their backgrounds; coming out experiences; reasons for staying in, moving to, or away from Atlanta; recollections of same-sex relationships and local gay life; and ideas about community, race, gender, and religion, region, and sexuality. The collection documents the specific features of Atlanta that facilitated and structured social interactions; the institutions of everyday life (church, school, clubs, sports, etc.) that figured into participants’ identities; how work and leisure activities limited or facilitated same-sex friendships and relationships; and how race and gender shaped the everyday lives and experiences of participants.
The Atlanta’s Unspoken Past Oral History Project is comprised of eleven interviews. Each interview is approximately sixty to ninety minutes in length. A clip, two to five minutes in length, of each interview is available on this database.
The Kenan Research Center is located at 130 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. Our hours of operation are 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Wednesday – Saturday. You may contact us by calling 404.814.4040 or emailing at reference@atlantahistorycenter.com.
Digitization of this collection is made possible in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.