Interview with Mead Overbeck, August 30, 2018
Project: Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
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Mead Overbeck shares her journey as a lesbian. Overbeck discusses her passion for teaching, the environment, and women-identified spaces and groups. Overbeck details her path to identifying as a lesbian over the course of marriage and parenthood.Interview Accession
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Arts camps Childhood Children College students--Social conditions Community Families. Hippies Homesteaders Homophobia. Lesbian teachers Lesbian teenagers Lesbian youth. Miami (Fla.) Schools Sexual minority youth Special education Spirituality Substitute teaching Teachers Teaching University of Kentucky Woman-identified womenInterview LC Subject
Child rearing Closeted gays. Coming out (Sexual orientation) Homosexuality--Social aspects. Lesbianism. Lesbians Lesbians--Family relationships. Lesbians--Identity. Lesbians--United States--Social conditions. Lexington (Ky.). Marriage Sexual minorities. Sexual minorities' families. Sexual minorities--Identity. Sexual orientation. Universities and colleges. Wayne County (Ky.)Interview Rights
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Overbeck, Mead Interview by Adriana Sisko. 30 Aug. 2018. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Overbeck, M. (2018, August 30). Interview by A. Sisko. Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Overbeck, Mead, interview by Adriana Sisko. August 30, 2018, Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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