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Charles Stevens papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1147
Scope and Content
This collection consists of documents pertaining to the Apollo Room, interior decoration, and LGBT activism. These documents include Apollo Room travel brochures; an issue of House and Garden; and records documenting Stevens’s donations to Jerusalem House, a non-profit that housed low-income individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. Of particular note is correspondence between Stevens and the Jerusalem House about building an HIV/AIDS clinic in Midtown.
Dates:
1963-2007, undated
Leander Newton Trammell interview recording and transcript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS808f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of an audio recording containing an interview between Trammell and his friend, Van Hall, as well as the interview transcript. In the interview, Trammell recounts his personal experiences as a gay man in Atlanta during the 1950s and 60s. Trammell talks substantially about his life as a closeted gay man and the measures that he and his partner, Bill Camp, took to conceal their sexual orientation. Trammell also discusses his aversion to gay activism, saying that he...
Dates:
2007
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- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Care -- United States -- Cost control 1
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- Classism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- Cruising (Sexual behavior) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Episcopalians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gay activists 1
- Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions 1
- Gays -- Employment -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Interior decoration -- Georgia 1
- International travel 1
- Men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 1
- Racism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- Apollo Social Club, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Camp, William O. 1
- Hall, Van 1
- Mastin, Holton 1
- Stevens, Charles H. 1
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