Interview with Michael Aldridge, June 20, 2018
Project: Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
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Michael Aldridge shares his extensive experience in working with LGBTQ rights as the Director of the Kentucky ACLU. Aldridge also shares his life journey as a gay man, from realizing his attraction, to coming out, to eventually marrying his husband.Interview Accession
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American Civil Liberties Union Centre College (Danville, Ky.) Childhood Civil rights--Law and legislation Coming out (Sexual orientation) Education Education, Higher Gay men. Gay men--Family relationships--United States. Gay men--Identity. Gay men--United States--Social conditions. Gays--Family relationships. Gays--Identity. Gays--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States. Homosexuality. Homosexuality--Law and legislation. Kentucky--Politics and government Louisville (Ky.) Marriage Parents of gays. Religion Sexual minorities--Identity. Sexual orientation. Shelby County (Ky.) Shelbyville (Ky.) Social justice. Families DiscriminationInterview Rights
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Aldridge, Michael Interview by Adriana Sisko. 20 Jun. 2018. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Aldridge, M. (2018, June 20). Interview by A. Sisko. Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Aldridge, Michael, interview by Adriana Sisko. June 20, 2018, Outsouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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