In this section, you will find information concerning the Keep Winston Queer project, including what this project endeavors to do, how it began, and why we think this work is meaningful and important.
This Site Overview page will help guide you through our project website, giving overviews of the tabs and sections to better direct you through our project.
The Our Project page explains what Keep Winston Queer is, how this project came to be, and the details of our work. Included is information about our research constraints, intellectual pursuits within the project, and some of the major projects that have influenced this one.
The Who We Are page provides a brief introduction to our collaborative team. You will find, among other things, information about which institutions we represent, our majors and minors, and our personal interests in the project.
In this section, we present information about the myriad locales that were or are meaningful for Winston-Salem's queer communities. These locations are far from exhaustive, but rather are those spots which had particular significance for our narrators.
The Winston-Salem page focuses on locales within the city of Winston-Salem.
Here, we present stories and information from our narrators across three major thematic groups that emerged in our project.
In Events, we present information about particular events in the life of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the United States, or the world which carried major significance for our narrators.
In Organizations, we discuss groups, organizations, teams, and projects which focused on or were heavily influential for Winston-Salem's queer communities or which provided significant support for our individual narrators.
In Religion, we discuss religion in the lives of our narrators, covering a range of experiences from trauma and suffering to apathy to affirmation and celebration.
In this final section, we introduce you to the true stars of this project, our narrators. Here, you will learn a little bit about the people who lived and reported the histories we present in Keep Winston Queer.