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1990 Asheville Pride Festival design contest winner, Rosie Coates

Physical Artifacts

T-shirts, buttons, organizational newsletters, personal correspondence, Pride Festival ephemera, faith group workshops, and more. Over 1,000 physical artifacts, not all of which are available online yet.

  • Jim Cavener Collection

  • Mary Griggs Collection

  • Michael Harney Collection

  • Jim Stanley and Hans Wisman Scrapbook Collection

  • Asheville (Blue Ridge) Pride Festival Collection

Anna Marie Smith and Giannina Callejas Torres.
Portrait by Starr Sariego, 2021

Oral Histories

From 20 to 91 years of age at the time of interview, our oral history collection gathers a diverse range of voices representing equal parts gay, transgender, lesbian and the remaining 17% nonbinary or queer. Over 80% of our oral historians have lived 23+ years in Western North Carolina. U.S. Census reports our region is 84% white, and our archive represents 11% Black, 10% Latin, 3% Indigenous, 5% unknown, and 71% white identified historians.