Duncan E. Teague Papers

Collection

Identifier: aarl-009-002

Scope and Contents

Rev. Teague’s papers include organizational materials, correspondence, education materials, photographs, and printed materials. The collection also includes ephemera and artifacts such as commemorative shirts, pins, and magnets.

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Dates

c. 1970s-2020s

Biographical / Historical

Reverend Duncan E. Teague (1961-) is an HIV/AIDS educator, activist, poet, writer, performance artist, and Reverend in the Unitarian Universalist church. Rev. Teague is also the senior member of the performance poets, The ADODI Muse; A Gay Negro Ensemble.

Rev. Teague was born on January 8, 1961 in Missouri at the Queen of the World Hospital, which was the first integrated hospital in the state. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri with his parents, Alyce and Russell Teague, and younger brother, Phillip. His father, Reverend Russell Teague, was the leader of their home church, Westminster Baptist Church.

Rev. Teague attended Ottawa University in Ottawa, KS and later graduated from Benedictine College in Atchinson, KS. He came to Atlanta on a trip to visit some family members and never left.

After moving to Atlanta in the 1984, Rev. Teague became involved with many LGBTQ+ social support and HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations, including AID Atlanta, 2nd Sunday, the Atlanta Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee, In the Life Atlanta, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many others. He was the 1993 Pride Grand Marshal, served on the Fulton County Commission Chairman's Human Rights Advisory Committee for LGBT Life, and the Metropolitan Atlanta HIV Health Services Planning Council. Rev. Teague continued his advocacy work as a research coordinator in the Psychology department at Georgia State University.

Reverend Teague has been a member of multiple religious groups during his time in Atlanta, namely the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta. Rev. Teague later received his Masters of Divinity from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in 2011. Rev. Teague was ordained and credentialed in 2014. He then started the Abundant Love Unitarian Universalist (LUUv) Congregation in 2018 in the historic West End of Atlanta where he continues to lead worship.

Extent

41.2 Linear feet

Language

English

Spanish; Castilian

Tagalog

Chinese

Additional Description

Other Archival Collections

There are materials in this collection that reference other archival collections and oral histories that are currently housed at other repositories, including the Atlanta History Center and Georgia State University's Special Collections.

Processing Information

The Duncan E. Teague papers were processed by Isabelle Kozubowski from 2025 to 2026. Additional processing assitance was completed by Kya Wright in 2025.