Wallace, Carla

Date:
2011-02-09
Length:
60 minutes
Interviewer:
Fosl, Cate
Transcription available:
yes
Series:
Louisville's LGBTQ Movement
Series ID:
2015_076
Interview Number(s):
2015_76_1
Summary:
Interview regarding the history of Louisville's LGBTQ movement with Carla Wallace, a Fairness Campaign co-founder and “idea person.” Wallace is a native Louisvillian, educated at Tufts University, returned to Louisville a few years after college, and became active in the Kentucky Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, and in the Greater Louisville Human Rights Coalition, a 1980s organization dedicated to ending discrimination against gays and lesbians. Wallace was instrumental in early March for Justice that led to Fairness Campaign and in joining LGBT and anti-racism campaigns and leaders.
Topic(s):
Gay rights--Kentucky--Louisville, History of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Fairness Campaign (Louisville, Ky.), Kentucky Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, Metro Louisville Human Rights Commission