This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the June 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village. As well we should! Those few nights were the birth of the modern gay liberation movement which has brought us to where we are today. But it wasn’t the first gay riot. Three years earlier, in August 1966, a riot broke out at Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin District … Continue reading The Riot Before Stonewall
Last week I talked about Cleveland’s first annual Gay Pride celebration, Pride ’89. It was such a different world back then! This week I present a series of videos with interviews from YouTube describing gay life over the four decades leading up to Cleveland’s 1989 celebration. The interviews are conducted by high school and college students. The people interviewed include activists of their era like … Continue reading Coming Out in the 50s thru 80s
Last week I posted Mormon Valedictorian Comes Out reporting on Matt Easton’s gutsy announcement during commencement at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. Visit that post to see his speech and related features including a TV interview with Charlie Bird who had been BYU’s mascot “Cosmo the Cougar” from 2015 to 2018 — and is gay also. This week I have additional coverage of … Continue reading Gay, Transgender & Mormon
