A project to document the lives of LGBTQ people in Western North Carolina is expanding. The LGBTQ Oral History Archive was founded at UNC Asheville in 2019 in partnership with the Blue Ridge Pride Center. Now the project is expanding to Western Carolina University , says Travis Rountree. "I think it's really important to show, to demonstrate that there is indeed a history here and has been, for a long time," said Rountree, a WCU assistant professor of English. For Rountree, this project is