The bulk of this material relates to Womin Energy, a Lexington-based lesbian newsletter published from April 1977 to June 1979. There are also materials from other local lesbian groups, like Amber Moon Productions, as well as national lesbian groups and publications.

This interview features Ellen Stewart, a lesbian woman born and raised in Lexington. She was born around 1942, and came out as a lesbian woman at the age of 25, after having been married with one son, Greg Stewart, a gay man who is interviewed in Day 64. Ellen Stewart co-opened the first lesbian club in Lexington, The Country, in 1978. It was located at 849 Lane Allen Road. In the interview Ellen talks a lot about the club, why she opened it, and her relationship to softball, as well as The Living Room, Leigh Angelique, and Sweet Evening Breeze.

Cherie Collins, originally from Mt. Sterling, now in Boston, talks about her life in Mt. Sterling, coming to terms with her lesbianism, alongside her experiences at Morehead State University and the University of Kentucky. Cherie was one of the original members of the Women’s Commune on West Second Street, Lexington, in the early 1970s.

Jill Raymond delivered this material during her visit to the Faulkner Morgan Archive on January 15, 2019. It includes material from her time imprisoned for refusing to cooperate into the investigation of Susan Saxe and Kathy Power.

This interview features Sydney and Bobbi Smith, lesbians who moved to Lexington, KY in 1977 and 1978. In the interview they talk about the Saxe-Powers scandal, women’s and lesbian movements in Lexington, including off-hand manor (where Jill Raymond lived) and other women’s collectives, early activism in the Gay Services Organization and the Lesbian and Gay Pac. They also talk about lesbian meeting places, discussion groups, and publications.

The material included here were gifted by Laura Kaplan, and consist primarily of photo of queer life in Lexington, Kentucky in the 1990s and assorted copies of the Central Kentuckty Pink Pages.