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Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks about the expansion of a Western North Carolina LGBTQ+ oral history archive to Western Carolina University with Assistant Professor of English Travis Rountree and Head of Research and Instruction Services at Hunter Library Sarah Steiner.
A project to document the lives of LGBTQ+ people in Western North Carolina is expanding.
“I think it's really important to show, to demonstrate that there is indeed a history here and has been, for a long time,” said Rountree, a WCU assistant professor of English.
For Rountree, this project is about making the queer community in rural Western North Carolina more visible.