Interviewee: Steve Warren
Interviewer: Hillery Rink
Date of interview: July 15, 2021
Biography:
Steve Warren was born in Philadelphia, PA as Stephen Craig Monheimer. After decades of work as an entertainment journalist, he took up acting as a "midlife crisis career." He is known for his work in Scarce (2008) and The Walking Dead (2010-2011). He acquired the nickname "thinhead" as a college D.J. after actress Sylvia Sydney, at a party during her tour in The Matchmaker told him, "You have the thinnest head I have ever seen."
Interviewee: Jeff Willard
Interviewer: Hillery Rink
Date of Interview: March 18, 2014
Biography:
Social Activist Jeff Willard was born in St. Louis, MO. A volunteer for the ACLU of Georgia and Georgia Equality, he also serves on the board of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta, and is Co-Chair of the Social Action Committee for Temple Beth Tikvah. He was the Regional Co-Chair of the Social Action Committee for the New Jersey West Hudson Valley Council of the Union for Reform Judaism. He also served on the Union for Reform Judaism's National Commission for Social Action. He lives in Alpharetta, GA with his partner.
Abstract:
Willard begins by discussing his Jewish heritage, and conflict that arose with his parents when he began to distance himself from his family's Orthodox Jewish identity towards Reform Judaism. He describes his early interest in social justice and attending the March on Washington in 1963. Willard reflects on coming out to his parents in 1960 at age 16, his first sexual encounter at a gay bar in Kansas City at age 22, and life as a gay corporate businessman pre-Stonewall. He recalls initially negative memories of the gay scene in Memphis, where he moved for work in 1975, but he also fondly remembers meeting Steve, his partner of 37 years, whilst there. The two moved together to the New York area, where Willard describes keeping his personal life and his career entirely separate. Willard discusses his involvement with a social services organization for people with HIV/AIDS for over ten years. Willard then recalls moving back to the Atlanta suburbs and his involvement with Georgia Equality and the ACLU. He concludes by mentioning his recent marriage to Steve and plans for the future.
Interviewee: Roddy Williams
Interviewer: Morna Gerrard
Date of interview:
Extent: 1 audio file; 1 video file
Interviewee: Andrew P. Wood
Interviewer: Andy Reisinger
Date of Interview: June 24, 2014
Interviewee: Andrew P. Wood
Interviewer: Andy Reisinger
Date of Interview: August 19, 2014
Extent: 97 pages
Biography:
Born in Atlanta in 1962, Andrew Wood is a graphic designer and gay activist. The son of two doctors, Wood attended public schools in Dekalb County and worked in public radio. When he moved to San Francisco to attend art school in 1980, he joined the thriving organization, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - a charitable group of gay activists who dressed in nuns habits and performed street theater. While in San Francisco, Wood experienced the AIDS epidemic which caused him to return to Atlanta. After the Democratic National Convention in 1988, he and a handful of fellow protesters started an Atlanta Chapter of ACT/UP, in an effort to bring attention to the plight of AIDS sufferers. Wood moved to New Orleans in 1990 and stayed there until 2004 when he returned to Atlanta.
Interviewee: Cathy Woolard
Interviewer: Susan Wells
Date of interview: September 26, 2018
Extent: 1 audio file; 1 video file
Interviewee: Terri Wilder
Interviewer: Morna Gerrard
Date of interview: August 25, 2020
Interviewee: Terri Wilder
Interviewer: Morna Gerrard
Date of interview: September 1, 2020
Interviewee: Terri Wilder
Interviewer: Morna Gerrard
Date of interview: September 21, 2020
Interviewee: Terri Wilder
Interviewer: Morna Gerrard
Date of interview: October 27, 2020
Interviewee: Terri Wilder
Interviewer: Morna Gerrard
Date of interview: March 5, 2021
Biography:
Terri L. Wilder is a social worker and advocate for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, the LGBT community, and people with myalgic encephalomyelitis. She has worked in HIV and LGBT health since 1989 providing HIV social services, coordinating education for clients and medical providers, and advocating for policy change. She has presented at local, national, and international conferences on a variety of topics. Many of her articles on HIV can be found in AIDS Survival Project’s Survival News, The Body’s Web site, POZ Web site, as well as Project Inform’s Web site. She served on the New York Governor’s Task Force to End AIDS (EtE) as well as his Hepatitis C Elimination Task Force, and is currently a member of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Advisory Council EtE Subcommittee. She is an expert in HIV and LGBT health and was recognized in The POZ 100: Celebrating Women edition of POZ magazine (2017). Wilder is a 1992 graduate of the University of Georgia (UGA) School of Social Work where she earned her MSW. She graduated from UGA with a Bachelor in Social Work in 1989.
Abstract, August 25, 2020
In her first interview, she talks about he childhood, youth, education, and choice of profession. She also describes her early volunteer work for AID Atlanta.
Abstract, September 1, 2020
In this interview, Wilder talks about her volunteer work at the Grady clinic (1990-1991), educating newly diagnosed AIDS patients. She also describes her move to Minnesota, where she was a part-time AIDS case manager, and her return to Atlanta. She talks about joining the AIDS Survival Project, where she took over the organization's Operation Survive.
Abstract, September 21, 2020
In this interview, Wilder talks about attending meetings of ACT UP New York. She also describes her health issues.
Abstract, October 27, 2020
In this interview, Wilder talks about the influence of her great grandmothers and her aunt. She also describes her work with children and families affected by HIV/AIDS, the AIDS Survival Project, and the Campaign for Microbicides.
Abstract, March 5, 2021
In this interview, Wilder talks about her work with the New York Department of Health and Mount Sinai Hospital. She also describes the consulting work that she has done since 2019. She ends the interview by reflecting on the politics of the Trump administration.
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