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The Lost Tribalism Of Years Gone By: Function & Variation In Gay Folklore In Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City Novels, Jimmy Browning May 1992

The Lost Tribalism Of Years Gone By: Function & Variation In Gay Folklore In Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City Novels, Jimmy Browning

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis intends to demonstrate that, because of the unusual circumstances of its writing - a semi-journalistic piece produced during a period of crisis in the real-life community fictionally depicted - Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series stands as an unusually accurate and reliable ethnographic source for information concerning the gay male subculture of San Francisco in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, not only the practice and behavior themselves, but also reflecting their personal and communal function. The methodology employed in demonstrating this thesis is necessarily subjective. Like gay folklore scholar Joseph P. Goodwin in More Man Than …


Ua68/6/1 Broomsedge Chronicles: Farm Living In South Central Kentucky, Wku English, Wku Glasgow Apr 1992

Ua68/6/1 Broomsedge Chronicles: Farm Living In South Central Kentucky, Wku English, Wku Glasgow

WKU Archives Records

A collection of essays written by English 100 Freshman Composition and English 200 Introduction to Literature students attending WKU Glasgow from 1983 through 1992 taught by Loretta Murrey. Student authors are: Joyce Alford, Joyce Amer, Jeff Ballard, Sandie Barrick, Jerry Bean, Shela Bingham, Brent Bledsoe, Steven Bunch, Billy Carver, Angela Cowan, Karen Decker, Betty Dillahay, Dibbie Dilley, Amy Doyel, Jeff Duncan, Craig Emmitt, Barbara England, Kathy Fancher, Amanda Gillon, Michelle Glover, Jeanelle Gooch, Faye Johnson, Celena Martin, Sonia Martin, Tracy Mathews, Ila Moody, Angela Morris, William Myatt, Judy Parker, Dorothean Powell, Maria Pulanco, Diane Rather, Jennifer Reneau, LaDarra Rich, Pam …


Ua12/2 Fifteenth Annual Greek Academic Awards Banquet, Wku Interfraternity Council, Wku Panhellenic Council Mar 1992

Ua12/2 Fifteenth Annual Greek Academic Awards Banquet, Wku Interfraternity Council, Wku Panhellenic Council

Student Organizations

Greek academic awards banquet program.


General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iii, Marion B. Lucas Jan 1992

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iii, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

  • Camp Nelson
  • Slavery
  • Slave Hiring
  • Free Blacks
  • Underground Railroad - Fugitives
  • Post-Civil War Living Conditions
  • Society & Culture - Medical Care
  • Professions - Employment
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Civil Rights
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Population
  • Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
  • Civil War
  • Education
  • Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …


General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iv, Marion B. Lucas Jan 1992

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iv, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

  • Camp Nelson
  • Slavery
  • Slave Hiring
  • Free Blacks
  • Underground Railroad - Fugitives
  • Post-Civil War Living Conditions
  • Society & Culture - Medical Care
  • Professions - Employment
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Civil Rights
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Population
  • Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
  • Civil War
  • Education
  • Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …


General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part I, Marion B. Lucas Jan 1992

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part I, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

  • Camp Nelson
  • Slavery
  • Slave Hiring
  • Free Blacks
  • Underground Railroad - Fugitives
  • Post-Civil War Living Conditions
  • Society & Culture - Medical Care
  • Professions - Employment
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Civil Rights
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Population
  • Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
  • Civil War
  • Education
  • Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …


Ua12/2/7 Scrapbook, Wku Panhellenic Council Jan 1992

Ua12/2/7 Scrapbook, Wku Panhellenic Council

Student Organizations

Scrapbook created by and about the Panhellenic Council. Includes information about Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Theta, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu, Sigma Kappa and Zeta Phi Beta.


Ua12/2/16 Scrapbook, Wku Spirit Masters Jan 1992

Ua12/2/16 Scrapbook, Wku Spirit Masters

Student Organizations

Scrapbook created by and about WKU Spirit Masters for the 1991-1992 school year. Includes:

  • Carl Kell
  • Jason Embry
  • Donna Starks
  • Roxana Crowe
  • Eric McWilliams
  • Jennifer Mize
  • Mark Miller
  • Brunessa Beckles
  • Mia Hazelwood
  • Devin Delano
  • Rachel Hibbs
  • Darla Roof
  • Hagan Rose
  • Julie Wedge
  • Staci Kitchens
  • Donald Smith
  • Neely Sheucraft
  • Deanna Mills
  • Gretchen Ploch
  • Patrick Monohan
  • Juli Carter
  • Julie Hannah
  • Neil Johnson (f)