Date of Award
1-1-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in Southern Studies
First Advisor
David Wharton
Second Advisor
Jessica Wilkerson
Third Advisor
Brooke White
School
University of Mississippi
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
This project expands upon the historical work done in the master’s thesis “The Carolina Gay Association, The Southeastern Gay Conferences, and Gay Liberation in the 1970s South,” and builds on its work through an examination of public history’s impact for LGBTQ+ southerners. The audiovisual exhibit, both physically and online, investigates queer southern activism within the context of the Carolina Gay Association and its subsequent conferences, the Southeastern Gay Conferences. The public history work uncovers how activists remember their own involvement within the organization and how they were connected to national conversations surrounding gay liberation. The photography portion of the project represents the activists as they are today, some 50 years after the founding of the CGA, and places them within the present-day conversation on queer activism in the South, as well as the blurred line between public activism and domestic space. The paper stimulates conversation on how documentary processes can assist in historiography and archiving.
Recommended Citation
Schultz, David Hooper, "The Southern Front: Gay Liberation Activists In The U.S. South And Public History Through Audiovisual Exhibition" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1884.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1884