Whitlock, Joshua

Authors

Joshua Whitlock
Maddie Shappley, University of Mississippi

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

11-17-2019

City

Eupora (Miss.)

Abstract

In this interview, Joshua Whitlock discusses his life as a gay man and relator living in Mississippi. Whitlock talks about his childhood in Corning, California, his love and history with equestrian sport, and his thirteen-year long relationship with a man named Tommy. He later discusses his experience with drag in California and his life as a restaurant manager in Alabama. In the last part of the interview, Whitlock talks about his marriage to Hays Burchfield, his experience with Starkville Pride, and being a sperm donor for his lesbian friends. This interview was conducted as a part of the Queer Mississippi Oral History Project through a grant from the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, in partnership with the Invisible Histories Project, in 2019.

Relational Format

audio recording

Extent

1:44:38

Comments

Additional files include: abstract, data sheet, field notes, photo, audio file. Transcript is available on request.

Rights

In copyright. For permission to duplicate, repost, or otherwise re-use these images, please contact the Invisible Histories Project: Mississippi.

Recommended Citation

Whitlock, Joshua and Shappley, Maddie, "Whitlock, Joshua" (2019). Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection). 1.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/queerms/1