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[Wesley Phelps interview with Todd Camp, September 23, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 23rd, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Todd Camp over his efforts to document gay history in Fort Worth. Camp speaks on his involvement with the QCinema Film Festival and covers the history of gay and lesbian bars in Dallas and Fort Worth, specifically covering the affects sodomy laws had on such establishments. Camp discusses police behavior which led to court cases like Cyr v. Walls, a civil suit made… more
Date: September 23, 2022
Duration: 53 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Tammye Nash, October 28, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 28th, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Tammye Nash on her experiences as a journalist working for The Dallas Voice. Nash speaks on her involvement with the court case of Mica England, a lesbian woman denied a position with the Dallas Police Department due to her sexuality. Nash speaks in depth on the state of Oak Lawn and Dallas gay and lesbian bars during the 1980s and 1990s. Nash and Phelps close by dis… more
Date: October 28, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Dale Carpenter, August 11, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 11th, 2022 in Denton, Texas. In this interview, Phelps and Professor of Law Dale Carpenter discuss the history of the supreme court case Lawrence v. Texas. Carpenter discusses the events in the case which led to the end of sodomy laws in Texas. He covers the incidents which occurred prior to the case, leading to the arrests of John Lawrence and his partner Tyron Garner. Carpenter, additionally, discusses the ro… more
Date: August 11, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Kevin Bailey, October 6, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 6th, 2022 in Denton, Texas. Phelps interviews Kevin Bailey on his experiences with the federal court case Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M, a lawsuit filed against Texas A&M University by the school's Gay Student Services group. The lawsuit, filed in August of 1984, led to Texas A&M recognizing Gay Student Services as an official student organization. Bailey, former vice-president of the organization, speaks … more
Date: October 6, 2022
Duration: 50 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Dick Peeples, September 8, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 8th, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Dick Peeples on his involvement with gay activism in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s. Peeples speaks his involvement with the Dallas Gay Political Caucus alongside Steve Wilkins, Louise Young, and Don Baker. He then covers the trial of Baker v. Wade, explaining his efforts to challenge penal code 21.06, a discriminatory code which criminalized homosexual acts, alongsi… more
Date: September 8, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Karen Wisley, August 12, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 12th, 2022 in Denton, Texas. Phelps interviews Associate Professor Karen Wisley, a historian researching the LGBT rights movement in Denton, Dallas, and Fort Worth. Wisley covers major figures in Texas LGBT history such as Henry McCluskey, Alvin Leon Buchanan, Mica England, and Richard Longstaff, discussing the rolls they played in arguing against Texas sodomy laws. The court cases of Buchanan v. Bachelor, Bake… more
Date: August 12, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Maggie Watt, October 27, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 27th, 2022 in Denton, Texas. Phelps interviews Maggie Watt over her childhood and adulthood experiences growing up with her brother Don Baker, plaintiff in the federal suit Baker v. Wade. Watts discusses Baker's life with the Christian church, the Navy, and the Dallas gay community. Watts and Phelps cover the impact Baker v. Wade would have on Don Baker's life as well as it's impact on Texas sodomy laws.
Date: October 27, 2022
Duration: 53 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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