Press
2024
“Save The Seeds, Children!”
By Ben Durham, Anarchist Review of Books, Issue 7, Winter/Spring 2024
2023
The Lasting Legacy of the House of Sweet Evening Breeze
By Josh Porter, Queer Kentucky, Issue 3
Time Out, “The best LGBTQ+ friendly small towns in the USA,” May 16, 2023
Keeneland Magazine, “The Faulkner Mystique,” Fall 2023
2022
“With abortion in limbo, what about other rights in Kentucky? Here’s what experts say”
By Austin Horn, Lexington Herald Leader – July 14
3-part interview on the intersectionality of LGBTQ History
By Mark Royse, The Deep End, RadioLex – June 27
Long before Pride, Lexington icon Sweet Evening Breeze ‘beat the system’
By Linda Blackford, Herald Leader – June 17
The Bee Charmer: A case for re-queering the Fried Green Tomatoes franchise
By Austyn Gaffney, Oxford American – May 4
2021
Lexington LGBTQ icon appears in downtown mural
By WDKY, Fox News Lexington – December 7
“SWEET EVENING BREEZE” BLOWS THROUGH LEXINGTON WITH GAIA, PERSECUTION IN THE SHADOWS
By Brooklyn Street Art – November 13
“Mother of Us All” Mural and the Life of Sweet Evening Breeze
By WRFL’s Trivial Thursday – October 28
Richard Taddei on His Mentor, Edward Melcarth
By Taylor Lewandowski, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide – September-October Issue
It Was Home: Celebrations, Oral Histories to Remember Lexington’s First Lesbian Bar
By Linda Blackford, Herald Leader – June 16
Local Luminaries: Bob Morgan
By Celeste Lewis with photos by Mick Jeffries, Chevy Chaser Magazine – June Issue
Out of the Closets, Into the Streets: Lexington’s LGBTQ Places
By Jonathan Coleman, Preservation Matters, Volume 40, Issue 1 – Spring/Summer Issue
The Legacy of Lige: Kentucky-Born Gay Rights Activist Elijah Clarke
By Tom Martin, UnderMain – January 14
Jonathan Coleman on Lige Clarke: New Research published by The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
By WEKU, Eastern Standard – January 7
2020
The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2021
By Travel + Leisure – December 18
Special issue of the Register just released
By KHS Insider, monthly newsletter of the Kentucky Historical Society – November Issue
How One Organization Is Celebrating Pride During the Pandemic
By Amber Smith, Spectrum One News, Louisville – July 5
Pride of Place LGBTQ History Tour Launches in Lexington
By Al Greenfield, WTVQ – June 25
Organization holds Pride of Place Walking Tour in downtown Lexington
By WKYT – June 25.
COVID may have postponed Pridefest, but this event celebrates Lexington’s LGBTQ history
By Kevin Nance, Herald Leader – June 24
2019
Celebrate fairness this month. And thank Joan Callahan, the ‘wolf mama’ of a movement
By Linda Blackford, Herald Leader – June 24
Henry’s Albums, Essay 18
by Dr. Barry Reay in Chris Brickell and Judith Collard, ed., Queer Objects (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019).
2018
Rediscovering Edward Melcarth, a Gay, Communist Visionary
By Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic – February 10
Heroic Rough Trade in the Mid-Century (Art)
By Christopher Harrity, The Advocate – February Issue