Agreeing to an interview with me after an archivist put us in touch, Weathers and I spent a temperate, sunny southern California day together, lunching at a local café, walking the nearby boardwalk, and sitting down in her living room for a two-hour recorded interview.
GAY BARS SAN ANTONIO TX ARCHIVE
But as seasoned researchers already know and novices quickly learn, the archive is full of such surprises. I never expected to come across photos of gay bars in pre-Stonewall San Antonio or a short story Weathers had written about her time in them.
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I had spent the past few weeks perusing her papers at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles mostly on a whim: she was one of the few individuals in the archive who hailed from the US South-Texas specifically-and as a queer southerner from Texas myself, I wondered what insights her collection might offer about LGBTQ+ experience in our home state. In October of 2015, I met with Carolyn Weathers in her condo in Long Beach, California. I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1960s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to be historic.
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From a variety of perspectives, and with an emphasis upon the US South, this series, edited by Eric Solomon, offers critical analysis of LGBTQ+ people, practices, spaces, and places. Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications that explore, trouble, and traverse intersections of queer experiences, past, present, and future.