Interview with Chris Dahlquist

Interview with Chris Dahlquist

College campuses

Community organizations

Employees -- Training of

LGBTQ+ communities

LGBTQ+ people

Western Carolina University -- Employees

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 and its changes from earlier years. He discusses the challenges of representing Western Carolina University administration as a state employee and his experience teaching Equal Employment Opportunity Deployment Fundamentals. Dahlquist talks about his involvement with the LGBTQ working group which looks at the climate on campus and makes recommendations on issues such as the need for gender neutral bathrooms. Dahlquist recalls when Cleve Jones, a close friend of Harvey Milk and the founder of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, came to campus and he drove him around for a few days. He also remembers when author Leslea Newman of the groundbreaking book, “Heather has Two Mommies” came to campus to speak to the BGLAD group.

Dahlquist, Chris

WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project

2022-05-23

Steiner, Sarah

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

mp3

interviews

sound recordings

eng

Sound

71248

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/71248

Jackson County (N.C.)

0:30:37(duration)

LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County