The materials gifted in this collection come from Daniel Desrochers, a reporter at the time at the Herald Leader, and consist of clippings of articles about Henry Faulkner and the topic of homosexuality.

In this recording, photographer Blythe (Peggy) Jameson, describes her two projects and gives over prints and negatives.

Skylar Davis is the education director at the Headley-Whitney Museum and the cousin of Shea Metcalf. She discusses her interest in queer life, and learning about her cousin, Shea, and her family’s response to her interest in him.

This interview features Greg Stewart, a gay man born and raised in Lexington to a lesbian woman, Ellen, who is interviewed in Day 63. Greg was born around 1963, attending the Millersburg Military Institute and the New Mexico Military Institute. Greg discusses his sexual abuse as a child, his early sexual activities, and affairs at the military schools, including with teachers. He discusses gay life in Lexington in the early 1980s, his relationship with Louis Bickett, and his struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. He also talks about his mother’s bar, the troubled relationship he had with some of his mother’s lovers and his mother, herself. He also talks about contracting and living with HIV in Lexington in the 1990s.

Terry Mullins and Bill Chandler are a couple who live in Lexington, Kentucky. Terry Mullins is director of Moveable Feast—a non-profit that delivers meals to people in Lexington with AIDS. Terry was also a bartender at Crossings when it first opened in 1989. They were heavily involved in many gay organizations, including the Tri-State Gay Rodeo Association, the Lexington congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, and a gay acting group called Act Out. The pair has been together over twenty years.

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.

Edwin Hackney was a social worker and lifelong gay activist. In the early 1980s, he implemented the Gay Services Organization Gay Line which later became GLSO Pride Center. He was a founding member of AVOL Kentucky, which in the early days was a volunteer mobilization effort to do whatever it took to care for those suffering from HIV disease when resources were scarce. He gave mental health help to the volunteers who were aiding the sick. He also served as an officer for NALGAP (National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and their allies).

Kevin Bell, raised in Lexington, began his career as a hustler at the age of 12, after having been molested by a restaurant owner who afterwards gave him cash and drugs. By 14 he was working the Wall in Lexington, and was kept by several wealthy men who took him around the country. Kevin talks about Johnny Angels, Bill Sheehan, Mike McCormick, the Wall, downtown Lexington. He just turned 57, is still a drug user, and has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer. He is a long-term AIDS survivor. He currently lives on East Main Street at the Barclay East Apartments. After filming he mentioned he has a 24 year old son in Richmond, Kentucky. He identifies as trysexual, although his primary attraction is to women. He told me “if I like you, I’ll have sex with you.” He is a sweet man, asking constantly if he was “okay” and with a real desire to please and help.