Georgia King · Voices of Illinois · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Title: Georgia King
Date(s): 04/10/2026
Interviewee(s): Georgia King See all items with this value
Interviewer(s): Brendan Burke See all items with this value
Interviewer Position: Student in GWS 467: Locating Queer Culture
Summary: Georgia King, President of the Greater Community AIDS Project and a GCAP volunteer for almost 40 years, chronicles the organization’s founding—when it was still known as the Gay Community AIDS Project—and provides insight into the sort of urgency and stigma that resulted in GCAP’s founding during the 1980s. From there, King centers GCAP’s narrative in the realm of local AIDS activism through her discussion of their collaboration with organizations like the Prairie AIDS Foundation and the support of local volunteers to construct the GCAP boarding house. This boarding house, which has been in use for over 30 years, provides housing and food assistance to those living with AIDS.
Language: English
Subject(s): aids activism See all items with this value; aids quilt See all items with this value; greater community aids project See all items with this value; spurlock museum See all items with this value
Related Resources: Beth Watkins Oral History; Greater Community AIDS Project of East Central Illinois Website; Social Movements at Illinois: LGBTQ+ Rights; "The Greater Community AIDS Project Impacts Lives for the Better," The Daily Illini