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Alan Sims: Urban Guy Exposed, VOL: III

While Alan was still employed at Jefferson Middle School and living in West Knoxville, he and his wife started coming downtown more frequently. “We just loved it,” explained Alan. Alan and his wife would often discuss moving downtown after Alan retired, and at that...

Alan Sims: Urban Guy Exposed, VOL: II

Alan’s first job in Knoxville was with Lakeshore Mental Hospital, from there he went to Tennessee School for the Deaf. Alan realized pretty quickly that he did not want to do therapy for the rest of his life. Soon, and to his relief, Alan was hired to do social work...
Alan Sims: Urban Guy Exposed, VOL: I

Alan Sims: Urban Guy Exposed, VOL: I

About 502 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee in Citronelle, Alabama a baby boy was born in a doctor’s office into a conservative southern family of a teenage mother and hard-working father. This baby boy would grow up to be to Knoxville what Armistead Maupin was to San...