Mead Overbeck

Title

Mead Overbeck

Description

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.

Subject

Closeted gays.

Coming out (Sexual orientation)

Homosexuality--Social aspects.

Lesbianism.

Lesbians

Lesbians--Identity.

Lesbians--Family relationships.

Lesbians--United States--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities' families.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Identity.

Sexual orientation.

Universities and colleges.

Marriage

Wayne County (Ky.)

Child rearing

Lexington (Ky.).

Format

video

Identifier

2018oh532_lgbtq035

Interviewer

Adriana Sisko

Interviewee

Mead Overbeck

Interview Keyword

Childhood

Families.

Miami (Fla.)

Homesteaders

Arts camps

Hippies

Teachers

Teaching

Lesbian youth.

Lesbian teenagers

Lesbian teachers

Sexual minority youth

College students--Social conditions

Homophobia.

Files

Citation

“Mead Overbeck,” OutSouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, accessed November 7, 2026, https://nunncenter.net/outsouth/items/show/52.