Paul Michael Brown is a young artist from Owensboro, Kentucky, who moved to Lexington in 2007 to attend Transylvania University. After living in New York for a few years, he has now returned to Lexington to be the new director of Institute 193. In Part two, Brown talks about his experience of growing up gay.

Tom Brown was the partner of William (Bill) Petrie. They lived on the farm in Grant Co. Kentucky. Bill died in 1995 and Tom continued to live on the farm until he passed away in 2021. Tom is from Louisville, Kentucky and went to Western Kentucky University to study theatre. He worked from 1969 to 1974 in New York (where he went on a date with Harvey Milk). He moved onto the farm in 1974.

William (Bill) Petrie with his partner, actor Tom Brown Petrie, on their Grant County farm. The farm became a rural oasis for many gay men throughout the United States, drawn there by the beauty of Kentucky and Tom and Bill's hospitality. Bill was a prolific painter, tobacco farmer, political activist and passionate gay man living in the rural bluegrass of Kentucky. Bill passed away in 1995. This large collection of artworks and photographs were gifted to FMA after Tom's death in 2021.

Varble was born in Owensboro Kentucky in 1948, studied at the University of Kentucky, then became a famous performance artist in New York in the 1970s. He died of AIDS in 1984. David Getsy, art historian and curator, is writing a biography of Varble.

Louis Bickett, is a well-known Lexington artist and gay man. In this interview he talks about his childhood in Winchester, moving to Lexington at the age of 32, and the gay scene here. He also talks about the way it has influenced his art, and the distance he often felt with the gay community of Lexington. He talks about AIDS and his career at the Lexington restaurant of note, A La Lucie’s.