The King-Henry-Brockington LGBTQ Archive of Charlotte

04/25/2022

Sid Stroupe donated these amazing membership cards from Charlotte area q***r bars and clubs. They all date from around 1978-1982 - the period that Sid was an undergrad in the area.

The materials were originally sent to who graciously passed them along to us.

Image description: 8 wallet-sized membership cards with various bar and club names printed on them are strewn against a faux wood background

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12/01/2021

When the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed on the National Mall in 1987, it contained 1,920 panels commemorating people who had died of the disease. Most of the quilt’s blocks are rectangles measuring 6 feet by 3 feet, or roughly the size of a grave. Many were individually crafted by people whose friends and family members succumbed to AIDS. Today, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is a 54-ton tapestry that includes nearly 50,000 panels dedicated to more than 105,000 individuals.

Photograph from the RAIN Records of the AIDS Memorial Quilt block in memory of Christopher Gerhardt, 1968-1997, of Raleigh, NC. The women in the photograph are unidentified. This block is currently part of Block #5369 of the interactive quilt maintained by

03/29/2019

Kicking off day 2 of Q***r History South with a great presentation with Lo**ta Rowe and Dawn Betts-Green about the challenges to finding q***r collections in library catalogs ***rsouth ***rlibraries ***rhistory

11/16/2018

Presenting on the collections and related oral history project this morning at the North Carolina Preservation Consortium Annual Conference highlighting some of our work with Time Out Youth and Charlotte Pride

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11/09/2018

The return of Ephemera Fridays

11/02/2018

More amazing anti-Helms materials from the Sue Henry Papers - this time a roll of toilet paper. It's not everyday that archives get to preserve toilet paper!

Apologies for not providing prior context regarding the Jesse Helms protest materials. They are present in our LGBTQ+ collections because folks have myriad political interests, but also because Helms' response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic was notoriously homophobic. He made numerous statements regarding his belief that HIV was punishment for gay individuals, including the following:

"The government should spend less money on people with AIDS because they got sick as a result of deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct."

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11/01/2018

The Sue Henry Papers are a small, but mighty, collection documenting much of the Charlotte LGBTQ+ community's activism from the 1990s.
The t-shirt pictured is opposition to Jesse Helms and his political impact on the state of North Carolina.
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10/30/2018

The first attempt to establish a space for LGBTQ+ students on the UNC Charlotte campus took place close to 40 years ago when the Gay Student Union was formed. Congratulations to Nikolai and to all the students working on the UNCC LGBTQ Center!

Congrats to Nikolai Mather, who won this year's Champions of Pride Young Catalyst Award, for being honored in Creative Loafing's "Best of Charlotte" issue! Nikolai has been working (successfully!) to establish an LGBTQ student center at UNC-Charlotte! Pick up a print edition or read it online to learn more about Nikolai's work!
Online Edition: https://issuu.com/creativeloafingcharlotte/docs/_2018_36_final_low

10/27/2018

The Matthew Shepard Foundation along with Matthew's childhood friend Timothy Galles, published a children's book of Matthew's story - Small Bear, Big Dreams.

10/26/2018

His life had meaning and impact.

Matthew Shepard Foundation publication from Campus Pride Records