Interview with Dean Paulk

Interview with Dean Paulk

Coming out (Sexual orientation)

Cultural awareness

Gender identity

Gender transition

Gender-nonconforming people

Group relations training

LGBTQ+ people -- Family relationships

Pansexual people

Paulk, Dean

Transgender people

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 non-binary. He shares his thoughts and feelings growing up and through college and beyond and how he was able to put the pieces together to find his true identity. He shares about coming out to his family and about his support system. He talks about transitioning to a man around the age of 30.
The following link leads to a post on Facebook from September 25, 2019, Pride Week at WCU https://www.facebook.com/WesternCarolinaUniversity/posts/10156258444455689 and serves as an expression of the various attitudes regarding the LGBTQ community.

Paulk, Dean

WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project

2022-27-01

Costantino, Caiden

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Jackson County (N.C.)

0:42:42(duration)

11(pages)

LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County