Bristow, Moe Kirk

Authors

Moe Kirk Bristow
David Hooper Schultz, University of Mississippi

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

7-27-2019

City

Tupelo (Miss.)

Abstract

In this interview, Moe Kirk Bristow discusses her early life in Tupelo, including meeting Mike Birchfield, a gay man and drag queen in the 1970s who introduced her to gay life and bars in Tupelo, Mississippi. She describes the climate for LGBT people in Tupelo in the 1970s and 80s, reflecting on the AIDS crisis and her work, with her then-husband William Bristow, providing care to gay men that they knew. Moe goes on to talk about her coming out as a lesbian, and her relationship with her wife, Peggy Hurley, who later died of stomach cancer. Finally, Moe talks about her grandchild’s journey as a questioning trans person and their search for more information through informal networks in Mississippi. 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 the summer of 2019.

Relational Format

audio recording

Extent

1:41:09

Comments

Additional files include: abstract, data sheet, field notes, photo, audio file, research, tape log. 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

Bristow, Moe Kirk and Schultz, David Hooper, "Bristow, Moe Kirk" (2019). Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection). 6.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/queerms/6