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- 225 years of Tar Heels: Dan Leonard
As a graduate student in 1974, Dan Leonard began the process of establishing the Carolina Gay Association. The organization, now known as the Sexuality and Gender Alliance, strives to connect LGBTIQ-individuals and their allies.
By University Communications, Monday, May 6th, 2019
- Interview with Corinne White for the Southern Oral History Program
Interview N-0020, Sept. 27, 2013 (includes transcript), as part of N.3. Undergraduate Internship Program 2013-2014: The Sexual Revolution at UNC (see http://www.epidemiolog.net/video/sohp2013/).
- The Fall 2013 SOHP Interns present a project on the sexual revolution of the 1970s at UNC-CH
Program, photos, videos, and links to interviews from the UNC Southern Oral History Program performance.
- UNC Queer Student Organizations from 1974 to Present
Drew Pierce. In: LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012
The Carolina Gay Association was founded in 1974 by Dan Leonard. The group sought mostly to provide a social atmosphere and an arena for gay people to interact with one another. One of the major contributions that CGA gave to the student body was Lambda, a queer student newsletter, with more recent editions being more of a magazine format. Started in 1976, Lambda is the oldest queer student publication in the country. In the first issue of Lambda it outlines it’s “Gay Orientation Week”, a program put together by the CGA in order to introduce incoming students to CGA and let them experience what CGA has to offer . The CGA frequently put on dances and picnics in order to give gay students a safe, non-oppressive place to socialize[1].
- Wikipedia entry on the Carolina Gay Association
- “I found that indeed there was a homosexual behind every tree…”: Dan Leonard and the CGA
By Corinne White for the SOHP Field Notes Blog
Layla Quran on October 16, 2013
He still has a bright blue Vote Against Amendment 1 yard sign on the front porch of his crumbling split level, and a tiny rainbow pinwheel flag adorns the top of his driveway.
Inside, from where I sat on the leather La-Z-Boy couch, I could see a bookshelf full of psychological and medical literature about homosexuality, embroidered Bible verses on the walls and a kitschy collection of mugs.
A few sunny Fridays ago, I interviewed Dan Leonard, founder of the Carolina Gay Association, Carrboro resident and registered nurse. During his time at UNC-Chapel Hill, Leonard also worked as a counselor in the Human Sexuality Information and Counseling Services.