Alexis Brodie talks about her involvement with Sylva Pride, her role as president of Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA), and her role in the Preferred Name Policy on campus. Brodie shares her journey of learning about her own sexuality as an…
Alexis Brodie talks about growing up in the military and moving often. Brodie talks about coming to Western Carolina University and joining the Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA) as an ally. She learned through SAGA about her sexuality and shares…
Aria Ashburn calls herself a gender queer trans-woman with non-binary aspects of her identity, but also discusses the importance of not worrying too much about labels. She talks about being bullied and suppressing her feelings as a child and about…
Beulah Land shares her thoughts on gender identity and fluidity. She discusses the attitudes toward queer culture in Asheville as opposed to the rest of western North Carolina and her work to provide safe spaces for people across the region. Land…
Caiden Costantino, a pansexual trans man, explains the evolution of understanding his gender and sexuality from a very early age and throughout college. He talks about the acceptance of his mother throughout his middle and high school years, finding…
Sierra Jo Kimberlin, stage name Channing Taint, is interviewed by Sarah Steiner as a part of the Gender and Sexuality Oral History project. Taint identifies as a female lesbian and uses drag as an artistic outlet, performing gender fuck drag and as a…
Chris Dahlquist talks about moving to western North Carolina and finding the LGBTQ community. He got involved with Out in the Mountains, Safe Zone, and became an advisor for BGLAD, a student LGBTQ group. He talks about teaching Safe Zone years later…
Daisy Anderson was born and raised in Wilson, North Carolina. Helen Tugwell was born and raised in Stantonsburg, North Carolina. Anderson and Tugwell have been together over twenty-eight years. In their interview, they discuss their community and…
Dawn Neatherly talks about growing up in a liberal family and not being aware of issues surrounding sexuality. She attended Western Carolina University from 1980 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1988 and talks about the lesbian and gay culture during…
Dean Paulk talks about Safe Zone, an LGBTQ awareness and ally training, at Western Carolina University. He shares the many ways he is involved with the LGBTQ community and programming on campus. Paulk is a pansexual trans man who is homo-romantic and…