Our Collections

At the heart of our archive lies a treasure trove of over 15,000 items and 250 hours of recorded interviews, spanning two centuries of Kentucky's LGBTQ history. From individuals to events, and from institutions to activism, our collections reflect the rich diversity of Kentucky's LGBTQ community, serving as a vital resource for activists, scholars, artists, and museums alike.

The collections of the Faulkner Morgan Archive are unique in two ways.

We only collect material with a direct relationship to Kentucky's LGBTQ community and LGBTQ Kentuckians.
We have developed an oral-history-based methodology of collecting, wherein donors are recorded describing their collection and the stories their collection holds. In effect, artifacts become tied to the oral histories of their donors, creating a rich resource for activists, scholars, artists, and museums.

Our collections represent numerous individuals, events, and institutions from across Kentucky, and help emphasize Kentucky's important role within the broader national narrative of LGBTQ history.

Featured Collections

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Our Collections

Henry Faulkner

Sweet Evening Breeze

Robert (Bob) Morgan

Cherie “C.D.” Collins

Jill Raymond

Lexington Fairness Ordinance

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Bill Chandler and Terry Mullins

Terry Mullins and Bill Chandler are a couple who live in Lexington, Kentucky. Terry Mullins is director of Moveable Feast—a non-profit that delivers meals to people in Lexington with AIDS. Terry was also a bartender at Crossings when it first opened in 1989. They were heavily involved in many gay organizations, including the Tri-State Gay Rodeo Association, the Lexington congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, and a gay acting group called Act Out. The pair has been together over twenty years.

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Bill Goodman

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Bill Loggins

Material was gifted by Dr. William Loggins and Mr. Anthony Burgett and documents the Lexington Men’s Chorus, a gay choir group based in Lexington that operated from 1991 to 2003.

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Blythe Jameson

In this recording, photographer Blythe (Peggy) Jameson, describes her two projects and gives over prints and negatives.

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Charles Dansby (Miss Joyce)

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Cherie “C.D.” Collins

Cherie Collins, originally from Mt. Sterling, now in Boston, talks about her life in Mt. Sterling, coming to terms with her lesbianism, alongside her experiences at Morehead State University and the University of Kentucky. Cherie was one of the original members of the Women’s Commune on West Second Street, Lexington, in the early 1970s.

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Crystal Blue

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Danny Matherly

Danny Matherly talks about his collection of Sweet Evening Breeze items, and then goes into his life as a gay man from Harrodsburg, then a student at Georgetown, and later his life in the gay circles of Lexington.

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Dee Dee

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Edward Melcarth

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Edwin Hackney

Edwin Hackney was a social worker and lifelong gay activist. In the early 1980s, he implemented the Gay Services Organization Gay Line which later became GLSO Pride Center. He was a founding member of AVOL Kentucky, which in the early days was a volunteer mobilization effort to do whatever it took to care for those suffering from HIV disease when resources were scarce. He gave mental health help to the volunteers who were aiding the sick. He also served as an officer for NALGAP (National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and their allies).

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Ellen Stewart

This interview features Ellen Stewart, a lesbian woman born and raised in Lexington. She was born around 1942, and came out as a lesbian woman at the age of 25, after having been married with one son, Greg Stewart, a gay man who is interviewed in Day 64. Ellen Stewart co-opened the first lesbian club in Lexington, The Country, in 1978. It was located at 849 Lane Allen Road. In the interview Ellen talks a lot about the club, why she opened it, and her relationship to softball, as well as The Living Room, Leigh Angelique, and Sweet Evening Breeze.

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Frank Close

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Freddy Mills

Freddy Mills has worked for the Kentucky Theatre since 1963. He relates his early years in Lexington, coming to know the gay scene in Lexington, and especially the gay scene of the Kentucky Theatre. Mills talks about his three arrests for obscenity from the soft-core pornographic movies shown at the Kentucky Theatre.

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Greg Stewart

This interview features Greg Stewart, a gay man born and raised in Lexington to a lesbian woman, Ellen, who is interviewed in Day 63. Greg was born around 1963, attending the Millersburg Military Institute and the New Mexico Military Institute. Greg discusses his sexual abuse as a child, his early sexual activities, and affairs at the military schools, including with teachers. He discusses gay life in Lexington in the early 1980s, his relationship with Louis Bickett, and his struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. He also talks about his mother’s bar, the troubled relationship he had with some of his mother’s lovers and his mother, herself. He also talks about contracting and living with HIV in Lexington in the 1990s.

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Henry Faulkner

Henry is represented throughout many collections in our archive.

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Herald-Leader Articles

The materials gifted in this collection come from Daniel Desrochers, a reporter at the time at the Herald Leader, and consist of clippings of articles about Henry Faulkner and the topic of homosexuality.

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Jill Raymond

Jill Raymond delivered this material during her visit to the Faulkner Morgan Archive on January 15, 2019. It includes material from her time imprisoned for refusing to cooperate into the investigation of Susan Saxe and Kathy Power.

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John Hockensmith

Hockensmith brokered the large sale of Faulkner paintings between Greene Settle’s estate and the Carrols of First Southern National Bank. Hockensmith talks about how he met Henry Faulkner, what work he did for Henry, how Henry taught him to “see” his art, exhibits and displays, and Henry’s house on Third Street.

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JP Johnson

JP Johnson is a librarian at the Lexington Public Library Kentucky Room, and has shared information about Lexington’s gay history from materials in the library.

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Kay Hambrick

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The collections of the Faulkner Morgan Archive are unique in two ways.

Our collections represent numerous individuals, events, and institutions from across Kentucky, and help emphasize Kentucky's important role within the broader national narrative of LGBTQ history.

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